https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/discover-the-best-audio-stories-in-mystery-thriller-horror-psychological--6579506https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/107/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for a treasure trove of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks? We are proud to introduce diverse categories such as Business & Career Development, Communication Skills, and Health & Fitness. Especially, you will receive 3 free audiobooks to experience. You can listen to books anytime, anywhere on devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, and more. Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your knowledge and entertainment with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enFictionCopyright Rhiannon Hacketthttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/74f34f8b983112a1199c47ee2b5a2243.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/discover-the-best-audio-stories-in-mystery-thriller-horror-psychological--6579506Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:37:56 +0000Rhiannon HackettRhiannon Hackettfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/107/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for a treasure trove of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks? We are proud to introduce diverse...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/107/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for a treasure trove of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks? We are proud to introduce diverse categories such as Business & Career Development, Communication Skills, and Health & Fitness. Especially, you will receive 3 free audiobooks to experience. You can listen to books anytime, anywhere on devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, and more. Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your knowledge and entertainment with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fear-by-l-ron-hubbard--65280824https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Roddy Mcdowall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn't believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing — slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: If you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die.... A classic tale of creeping, surreal menace and horror... one of the really, really good ones. — Stephen King]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136063Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Roddy Mcdowall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Roddy Mcdowall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn't believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing — slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: If you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die.... A classic tale of creeping, surreal menace and horror... one of the really, really good ones. — Stephen King]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/distant-shores-by-kristin-hannah--65280802https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Distant Shores Author: Kristin Hannah Narrator: Bernadette Quigley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 128 Ratings of Narrator: 3.72 of Total 39 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job, Elizabeth puts her own needs aside to follow him across the country. Then tragedy turns Elizabeth’s world upside down. In the aftermath, she questions everything about her life—her choices, her marriage, even her long-forgotten dreams. In a daring move that shocks her husband, friends, and daughters, she lets go of the woman she has become—and reaches out for the woman she wants to be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142346Tue, 16 May 2017 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Distant Shores Author: Kristin Hannah Narrator: Bernadette Quigley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Distant Shores Author: Kristin Hannah Narrator: Bernadette Quigley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 128 Ratings of Narrator: 3.72 of Total 39 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job, Elizabeth puts her own needs aside to follow him across the country. Then tragedy turns Elizabeth’s world upside down. In the aftermath, she questions everything about her life—her choices, her marriage, even her long-forgotten dreams. In a daring move that shocks her husband, friends, and daughters, she lets go of the woman she has become—and reaches out for the woman she wants to be.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/song-of-the-exile-by-kiana-davenport--65280815https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of the Exile Author: Kiana Davenport Narrator: Cristine Mcmurdo-Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich with sensuous detail.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93054Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of the Exile Author: Kiana Davenport Narrator: Cristine Mcmurdo-Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of the Exile Author: Kiana Davenport Narrator: Cristine Mcmurdo-Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich with sensuous detail.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/memnoch-the-devil-by-anne-rice--65280860https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/210020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memnoch the Devil Series: #5 of Vampire Chronicles Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 18, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: "STARTLING. . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING." --New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife. --Rolling Stone "SHOCKING. . . A BRILLIANT BOOK." --St. Louis Post Dispatch "Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series, as well as a classy exit for a classic horror character. . Fans will no doubt devour this last visit with Lestat." --The Washington Post Book World "MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE." --Playboy "[Memnoch] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form." --The Seattle Times "RICHLY DESCRIPTIVE. . . A HORRIFIC TOUR OF HELL." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB AND THE QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/210020Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/210020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memnoch the Devil Series: #5 of Vampire Chronicles Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/210020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memnoch the Devil Series: #5 of Vampire Chronicles Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 18, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: "STARTLING. . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING." --New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife. --Rolling Stone "SHOCKING. . . A BRILLIANT BOOK." --St. Louis Post Dispatch "Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series, as well as a classy exit for a classic horror character. . Fans will no doubt devour this last visit with Lestat." --The Washington Post Book World "MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE." --Playboy "[Memnoch] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form." --The Seattle Times "RICHLY DESCRIPTIVE. . . A HORRIFIC TOUR OF HELL." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB AND THE QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-weight-of-blood-a-novel-by-laura-mchugh--65280796https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Weight of Blood: A Novel Author: Laura McHugh Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Sofia Willingham, Shannon McManus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 11, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: For fans of Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, and Daniel Woodrell comes a gripping, suspenseful novel about two mysterious disappearances a generation apart. INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD WINNER AND BARRY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE   The town of Henbane sits deep in the Ozark Mountains. Folks there still whisper about Lucy Dane’s mother, a bewitching stranger who appeared long enough to marry Carl Dane and then vanished when Lucy was just a child. Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences another loss when her friend Cheri disappears and is then found murdered, her body placed on display for all to see. Lucy’s family has deep roots in the Ozarks, part of a community that is fiercely protective of its own. Yet despite her close ties to the land, and despite her family’s influence, Lucy—darkly beautiful as her mother was—is always thought of by those around her as her mother’s daughter. When Cheri disappears, Lucy is haunted by the two lost girls—the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn’t save—and sets out with the help of a local boy, Daniel, to uncover the mystery behind Cheri’s death.   What Lucy discovers is a secret that pervades the secluded Missouri hills, and beyond that horrific revelation is a more personal one concerning what happened to her mother more than a decade earlier.   The Weight of Blood is an urgent look at the dark side of a bucolic landscape beyond the arm of the law, where a person can easily disappear without a trace. Laura McHugh proves herself a masterly storyteller who has created a harsh and tangled terrain as alive and unforgettable as the characters who inhabit it. Her mesmerizing debut is a compelling exploration of the meaning of family: the sacrifices we make, the secrets we keep, and the lengths to which we will go to protect the ones we love.   Praise for The Weight of Blood   “[An] expertly crafted thriller.”—Entertainment Weekly, “The Must List”   “Haunting . . . [a] riveting debut.”—Los Angeles Times   “Laura McHugh’s atmospheric debut . . . conjures a menacingly beautiful Ozark setting and a nest of poisonous family secrets reminiscent of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone.”—Vogue   “Fantastic . . . a mile-a-minute thriller.”—The Dallas Morning News   “Gripping . . . Her prose will not only keep readers turning the pages but also paints a real and believable portrait of the connections, alliances, and sacrifices that underpin rural, small-town life. . . . Strongly recommended for readers who enjoy thrillers by authors such as Laura Lippman and Tana French.”—Library Journal (starred review)   “The sinister tone builds relentlessly.”—The Plain Dealer   “Rich in character and atmosphere . . . This is one you won’t want to miss.”—Karin Slaughter   “Daniel Woodrell better watch his back. . . . Weight of Blood is a tense, taut novel and a truly remarkable debut. . . . A suspenseful thrill ride that satisfies in all the right ways.”—BookPage]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209829Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Weight of Blood: A Novel Author: Laura McHugh Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Sofia Willingham, Shannon McManus Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Weight of Blood: A Novel Author: Laura McHugh Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Sofia Willingham, Shannon McManus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 11, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: For fans of Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, and Daniel Woodrell comes a gripping, suspenseful novel about two mysterious disappearances a generation apart. INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD WINNER AND BARRY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE   The town of Henbane sits deep in the Ozark Mountains. Folks there still whisper about Lucy Dane’s mother, a bewitching stranger who appeared long enough to marry Carl Dane and then vanished when Lucy was just a child. Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences another loss when her friend Cheri disappears and is then found murdered, her body placed on display for all to see. Lucy’s family has deep roots in the Ozarks, part of a community that is fiercely protective of its own. Yet despite her close ties to the land, and despite her family’s influence, Lucy—darkly beautiful as her mother was—is always thought of by those around her as her mother’s daughter. When Cheri disappears, Lucy is haunted by the two lost girls—the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn’t save—and sets out with the help of a local boy, Daniel, to uncover the mystery behind Cheri’s death.   What Lucy discovers is a secret that pervades the secluded Missouri hills, and beyond that horrific revelation is a more personal one concerning what happened to her mother more than a decade earlier.   The Weight of Blood is an urgent look at the dark side of a bucolic landscape beyond the arm of the law, where a person can easily disappear without a trace. Laura McHugh proves herself a masterly storyteller who has created a harsh and tangled terrain as alive and unforgettable as the characters who inhabit it. Her mesmerizing debut is a compelling exploration of the meaning of family: the sacrifices we make, the secrets we keep, and the lengths to which we will go to protect the ones we love.   Praise for The Weight of Blood   “[An] expertly crafted thriller.”—Entertainment Weekly, “The Must List”   “Haunting . . . [a] riveting debut.”—Los Angeles Times   “Laura McHugh’s atmospheric debut . . . conjures a menacingly beautiful Ozark setting and a nest of poisonous family secrets reminiscent of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone.”—Vogue   “Fantastic . . . a mile-a-minute thriller.”—The Dallas Morning News   “Gripping . . . Her prose will not only keep readers turning the pages but also paints a real and believable portrait of the connections, alliances, and sacrifices that underpin rural, small-town life. . . . Strongly recommended for readers who enjoy thrillers by authors such as Laura Lippman and Tana French.”—Library Journal (starred review)   “The sinister tone builds relentlessly.”—The Plain Dealer   “Rich in character and atmosphere . . . This is one you won’t want to miss.”—Karin Slaughter   “Daniel Woodrell better watch his back. . . . Weight of Blood is a tense, taut novel and a truly remarkable debut. . . . A suspenseful thrill ride that satisfies in all the right ways.”—BookPage]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/world-s-fair-a-novel-by-e-l-doctorow--65280889https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World's Fair: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: "Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205203Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World's Fair: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World's Fair: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: "Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair . . .]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-enchanted-a-novel-by-rene-denfeld--65280737https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/207711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Enchanted: A Novel Author: Rene Denfeld Narrator: Jim Frangione Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King. "This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do." The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs with the devastating violence of prison life. Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest and the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners’ pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honesty and corruption—ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own. Beautiful and transcendent, The Enchanted reminds us of how our humanity connects us all, and how beauty and love exist even amidst the most nightmarish reality.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/207711Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/207711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Enchanted: A Novel Author: Rene Denfeld Narrator: Jim Frangione Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 4, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/207711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Enchanted: A Novel Author: Rene Denfeld Narrator: Jim Frangione Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King. "This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do." The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs with the devastating violence of prison life. Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest and the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners’ pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honesty and corruption—ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own. Beautiful and transcendent, The Enchanted reminds us of how our humanity connects us all, and how beauty and love exist even amidst the most nightmarish reality.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ten-women-by-marcela-serrano--65280743https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Women Author: Marcela Serrano Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldn’t be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A celebrity television personality. A woman confronting the loneliness of old age. Of disparate ages and races, these women represent the variety of cultural and social groups that Chile comprises. On the surface, they seem to have nothing in common…except for their beloved therapist, who brings them together. Yet as different as they all are, each woman has a story to share. As the women tell their stories, unlikely common threads are discovered, bonds are formed, and lives are transformed. Their stories form an intricate tale of triumph, heartache, and healing that will resonate with women from all walks of life. An International DUBLIN Literary Award Nominee.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206929Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Women Author: Marcela Serrano Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 25, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Women Author: Marcela Serrano Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldn’t be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A celebrity television personality. A woman confronting the loneliness of old age. Of disparate ages and races, these women represent the variety of cultural and social groups that Chile comprises. On the surface, they seem to have nothing in common…except for their beloved therapist, who brings them together. Yet as different as they all are, each woman has a story to share. As the women tell their stories, unlikely common threads are discovered, bonds are formed, and lives are transformed. Their stories form an intricate tale of triumph, heartache, and healing that will resonate with women from all walks of life. An International DUBLIN Literary Award Nominee.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lives-of-the-poets-a-novella-and-six-stories-by-e-l-doctorow--65280745https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Jesse Bernstein, John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 18, 2014 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is destroyed by infidelity. In “The Foreign Legation,” a girl and an act of political anarchy collide with devastating results. These and other stories flow into the novella “Lives of the Poets,” in which the images and themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator’s unsparing confessions about his own mind, offering a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206261Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Jesse Bernstein, John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Jesse Bernstein, John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 18, 2014 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is destroyed by infidelity. In “The Foreign Legation,” a girl and an act of political anarchy collide with devastating results. These and other stories flow into the novella “Lives of the Poets,” in which the images and themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator’s unsparing confessions about his own mind, offering a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-magpies-by-mark-edwards--65280747https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Magpies Series: #1 of The Magpies Author: Mark Edwards Narrator: Elliot Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Meet the neighbors from hell, in the gripping thriller that reviewers and readers describe as 'fast-paced,' 'chilling,' and 'impossible to put down.” When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. The future, in which they plan to get married and start a family, is bright. The other residents of their building seem friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome them to the building with open arms. But then strange things start to happen. Dead rats are left on their doorstep. They hear disturbing noises, and much worse, in the night. After Jamie's best friend is injured in a horrific accident, Jamie and Kirsty find themselves targeted by a campaign of terror. As they are driven to the edge of despair, Jamie vows to fight back—but he has no idea what he is really up against . . . The Magpies is a gripping psychological thriller in which the monsters are not vampires or demons but the people who live next door. It is a nightmare that could happen to anyone.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205047Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Magpies Series: #1 of The Magpies Author: Mark Edwards Narrator: Elliot Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Magpies Series: #1 of The Magpies Author: Mark Edwards Narrator: Elliot Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Meet the neighbors from hell, in the gripping thriller that reviewers and readers describe as 'fast-paced,' 'chilling,' and 'impossible to put down.” When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. The future, in which they plan to get married and start a family, is bright. The other residents of their building seem friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome them to the building with open arms. But then strange things start to happen. Dead rats are left on their doorstep. They hear disturbing noises, and much worse, in the night. After Jamie's best friend is injured in a horrific accident, Jamie and Kirsty find themselves targeted by a campaign of terror. As they are driven to the edge of despair, Jamie vows to fight back—but he has no idea what he is really up against . . . The Magpies is a gripping psychological thriller in which the monsters are not vampires or demons but the people who live next door. It is a nightmare that could happen to anyone.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/andrew-s-brain-a-novel-by-e-l-doctorow--65280738https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Andrew's Brain: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: E.L. Doctorow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SLATE, AND THE TELEGRAPH Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times—funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew’s Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.” Praise for Andrew’s Brain   “Too compelling to put down . . . fascinating, sometimes funny, often profound . . . Andrew is a provocatively interesting and even sympathetic character. . . . The novel seamlessly combines Doctorow’s remarkable prowess as a literary stylist with deep psychological storytelling pitting truth against delusion, memory and perception, consciousness and craziness. . . . [Doctorow] takes huge creative risks—the best kind.”—USA Today “Cunning [and] sly . . . This babbling Andrew is a casualty of his times, binding his wounds with thick wrappings of words, ideas, bits of story, whatever his spinning mind can unspool for him. One of the things that makes [Andrew] such a terrific comic creation is that he’s both maddeningly self-delusive and scarily self-aware: He’s a fool, but he’s no innocent.”—The New York Times Book Review   “A tantalising tour de force . . . a journey worth taking . . . With exhilarating brio, the book plays off . . . two contrasting takes on mind and brain. . . . [Andrew’s Brain encompasses] an astonishing range of modes: vaudeville humour, tragic romance, philosophical speculation. . . . It fizzes with intellectual energy, verbal pyrotechnics and satiric flair.”—The Sunday Times (London)   “Dramatic . . . cunning and beautiful . . . strange and oddly fascinating, this book: a musing, a conjecture, a frivolity, a deep interrogatory, a hymn.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative . . . a story aswirl in a whirlpool of neuroscience, human relations, loss, guilt and recent American history . . . Doctorow reveals his mastery in the sheen of a text that is both window and mirror. Reading his work is akin to soaring in a glider. Buoyed by invisible breath, readers encounter stunning vistas stretching to horizons they’ve never imagined.”—The Plain Dealer “Andrew’s ruminations can be funny, and his descriptions gorgeous.”—Associated Press “[An] evocative, suspenseful novel about the deceptive nature of human consciousness.”—More   “A quick and acutely intelligent read.”—Entertainment Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204437Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Andrew's Brain: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: E.L. Doctorow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 14,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Andrew's Brain: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: E.L. Doctorow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SLATE, AND THE TELEGRAPH Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times—funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew’s Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.” Praise for Andrew’s Brain   “Too compelling to put down . . . fascinating, sometimes funny, often profound . . . Andrew is a provocatively interesting and even sympathetic character. . . . The novel seamlessly combines Doctorow’s remarkable prowess as a literary stylist with deep psychological storytelling pitting truth against delusion, memory and perception, consciousness and craziness. . . . [Doctorow] takes huge creative risks—the best kind.”—USA Today “Cunning [and] sly . . . This babbling Andrew is a casualty of his times, binding his wounds with thick wrappings of words, ideas, bits of story, whatever his spinning mind can unspool for him. One of the things that makes [Andrew] such a terrific comic creation is that he’s both maddeningly self-delusive and scarily self-aware: He’s a fool, but he’s no innocent.”—The New York Times Book Review   “A tantalising tour de force . . . a journey worth taking . . . With exhilarating brio, the book plays off . . . two contrasting takes on mind and brain. . . . [Andrew’s Brain encompasses] an astonishing range of modes: vaudeville humour, tragic romance, philosophical speculation. . . . It fizzes with intellectual energy, verbal pyrotechnics and satiric flair.”—The Sunday Times (London)   “Dramatic . . . cunning and beautiful . . . strange and oddly fascinating, this book: a musing, a conjecture, a frivolity, a deep interrogatory, a hymn.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative . . . a story aswirl in a whirlpool of neuroscience, human relations, loss, guilt and recent American history . . . Doctorow reveals his mastery in the sheen of a text that is both window and mirror. Reading his work is akin to soaring in a glider. Buoyed by invisible breath, readers encounter stunning vistas stretching to horizons they’ve never imagined.”—The Plain Dealer “Andrew’s ruminations can be funny, and his descriptions gorgeous.”—Associated Press “[An] evocative, suspenseful novel about the deceptive nature of human consciousness.”—More   “A quick and acutely intelligent read.”—Entertainment Weekly]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deep-water-by-patricia-highsmith--65280746https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deep Water Author: Patricia Highsmith Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder—one that soon comes true.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204676Tue, 07 Jan 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deep Water Author: Patricia Highsmith Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deep Water Author: Patricia Highsmith Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder—one that soon comes true.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-the-blood-a-novel-by-lisa-unger--65280736https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Blood: A Novel Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Gretchen Mol, Candace Thaxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author and International Thriller Writers “Best Novel” finalist Lisa Unger returns to the dark psychological suspense that made Beautiful Lies a bestseller around the world. Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can’t quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana’s closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways—to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her where­abouts the night Beck disappeared doesn’t jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: someone else knows about Lana’s lies. And he’s dying to tell. Lisa Unger’s writing has been hailed as “sensational” (Publishers Weekly) and “sophisticated” (New York Daily News), with “gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose” (Associated Press). Masterfully suspenseful, finely crafted, and written with a no-holds-barred raw power, In the Blood is Unger at her best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205007Tue, 07 Jan 2014 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Blood: A Novel Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Gretchen Mol, Candace Thaxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Blood: A Novel Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Gretchen Mol, Candace Thaxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author and International Thriller Writers “Best Novel” finalist Lisa Unger returns to the dark psychological suspense that made Beautiful Lies a bestseller around the world. Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can’t quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana’s closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways—to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her where­abouts the night Beck disappeared doesn’t jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: someone else knows about Lana’s lies. And he’s dying to tell. Lisa Unger’s writing has been hailed as “sensational” (Publishers Weekly) and “sophisticated” (New York Daily News), with “gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose” (Associated Press). Masterfully suspenseful, finely crafted, and written with a no-holds-barred raw power, In the Blood is Unger at her best.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-book-of-daniel-a-novel-by-e-l-doctorow--65280798https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Daniel: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 17, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel. Cover art: Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55. Art ( c ) Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203673Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Daniel: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Daniel: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 17, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel. Cover art: Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55. Art ( c ) Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-sky-in-morning-a-novel-by-paul-lynch--65280740https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Sky in Morning: A Novel Author: Paul Lynch Narrator: John Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from 'a writer to watch out for' (Colum McCann). It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States. Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. With lyrical prose balancing the stark realities of the hunter and the hunted, Red Sky in Morning is a visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209865Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Sky in Morning: A Novel Author: Paul Lynch Narrator: John Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 17,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Sky in Morning: A Novel Author: Paul Lynch Narrator: John Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from 'a writer to watch out for' (Colum McCann). It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States. Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. With lyrical prose balancing the stark realities of the hunter and the hunted, Red Sky in Morning is a visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-relation-of-my-imprisonment-a-fiction-by-russell-banks--65280763https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction Author: Russell Banks Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American—a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.” — Washington Post ''A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple. Well worth reading more than once.'' — New York Times Book Review From acclaimed author Russell Banks comes a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatizations of the tests of faith all true believers must endure. These “relations,” framed by scripture and by a sermon explicating the text, were usually read aloud in weekly or monthly installments during religious services. Utterly sincere and detailed recountings of suffering, they were nonetheless highly artificial. To use the form self-consciously, as Banks has done, is not to parody it so much as to argue good-humoredly with the mind it embodies, to explore and, if possible, to map the limits of that mind, the more intelligently to love it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200916Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction Author: Russell Banks Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction Author: Russell Banks Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American—a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.” — Washington Post ''A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple. Well worth reading more than once.'' — New York Times Book Review From acclaimed author Russell Banks comes a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatizations of the tests of faith all true believers must endure. These “relations,” framed by scripture and by a sermon explicating the text, were usually read aloud in weekly or monthly installments during religious services. Utterly sincere and detailed recountings of suffering, they were nonetheless highly artificial. To use the form self-consciously, as Banks has done, is not to parody it so much as to argue good-humoredly with the mind it embodies, to explore and, if possible, to map the limits of that mind, the more intelligently to love it.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-hear-them-cry-by-shiho-kishimoto--65280764https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hear Them Cry Author: Shiho Kishimoto Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Toyo Shuppan Literary Award. Within the peaceful walls of an old French church, Mayu, a young Japanese artist, finds inspiration. She befriends the local priest and gets involved with community outreach, discovering a rough world of drugs, prostitution, and marginalized youth. Through this work, she learns the value of human life. Even young Pierre, who gets arrested for attacking his mother with a knife, deserves compassion. This delinquent has a seven-year-old sister named Anna and, as Mayu gets to know the family, she uncovers a disturbing history of abuse. Her wild attempt to save the girl from her twisted mother calls upon a brutal courage she didn’t know she had.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hear Them Cry Author: Shiho Kishimoto Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hear Them Cry Author: Shiho Kishimoto Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Toyo Shuppan Literary Award. Within the peaceful walls of an old French church, Mayu, a young Japanese artist, finds inspiration. She befriends the local priest and gets involved with community outreach, discovering a rough world of drugs, prostitution, and marginalized youth. Through this work, she learns the value of human life. Even young Pierre, who gets arrested for attacking his mother with a knife, deserves compassion. This delinquent has a seven-year-old sister named Anna and, as Mayu gets to know the family, she uncovers a disturbing history of abuse. Her wild attempt to save the girl from her twisted mother calls upon a brutal courage she didn’t know she had.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/true-blue-by-luanne-rice--65280799https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Blue Series: #3 of Hubbard's Point/Black Hall Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The story of two sisters and the boy next door... The acclaimed author of Firefly Beach and other New York Times bestsellers, Luanne Rice explores the powerful bonds that connect old friends, and the joy of life's unexpected second chances. Now, returning once more to the Connecticut beach town at the center of many of her most beloved novels, she touches our hearts with a spellbinding story of a love lost—and saved—by the power of what was always meant to be . . . Schoolteacher Rumer Larkin never felt the need to stray from Hubbard's Point. Rich with legends of seafaring spirits and lost treasures, the rustic village still echoes with the memories of Rumer's past—even after those she loved have left. But now, so many summers after Zeb Mayhew broke her heart, he has returned with his teenage son, and Rumer knows her quiet life will never be the same again. Zeb has come back to hoping to reconnect with his son, with the past and all its mistakes. Suddenly facing Rumer again, Zeb discovers where he belongs. He could never forget the girl who used to climb onto his roof with him to watch the stars. But neither Zeb nor Rumer knows if it's too late to do more than regret the path not taken—or if every path leads us back to the one true love of our life . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199237Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Blue Series: #3 of Hubbard's Point/Black Hall Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Blue Series: #3 of Hubbard's Point/Black Hall Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The story of two sisters and the boy next door... The acclaimed author of Firefly Beach and other New York Times bestsellers, Luanne Rice explores the powerful bonds that connect old friends, and the joy of life's unexpected second chances. Now, returning once more to the Connecticut beach town at the center of many of her most beloved novels, she touches our hearts with a spellbinding story of a love lost—and saved—by the power of what was always meant to be . . . Schoolteacher Rumer Larkin never felt the need to stray from Hubbard's Point. Rich with legends of seafaring spirits and lost treasures, the rustic village still echoes with the memories of Rumer's past—even after those she loved have left. But now, so many summers after Zeb Mayhew broke her heart, he has returned with his teenage son, and Rumer knows her quiet life will never be the same again. Zeb has come back to hoping to reconnect with his son, with the past and all its mistakes. Suddenly facing Rumer again, Zeb discovers where he belongs. He could never forget the girl who used to climb onto his roof with him to watch the stars. But neither Zeb nor Rumer knows if it's too late to do more than regret the path not taken—or if every path leads us back to the one true love of our life . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-time-to-mourn-by-tim-wohlforth--65280744https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Time to Mourn Series: #1 of The Jim Wolf Trilogy Author: Tim Wohlforth Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A shape bends over a drink at the end of the bar in Big Emma's on Oakland's Jack London Square, looking like a bundle of black clothes someone has left on the barstool. Full red lips that match brightly dyed hair are the only source of color, as if an artist had begun to colorize her just before she walked out of frame in a '40s noir movie. Her name is Susan, and she is there to hire PI Jim Wolf to find her husband's killer—and to protect her from a man called Red. Wolf takes her case, but Susan is soon murdered. Then an attempt is made on Wolf's life … and the hunter becomes the hunted. With the help of two very different but important women in his life, Lori Mazzetti, his former lover whom he can no longer live with but can't seem to survive without, and Connie Hernandez, an investigative reporter for the Oakland Tribune, Wolf sets out to track Red down. Now it's personal. The bullets fly and the blood flows, but Wolf is just getting started. Like the alpha predator of his namesake, private investigator Jim Wolf is the last guy you'd ever want to see behind you, following in your tracks—or at your door.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200873Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Time to Mourn Series: #1 of The Jim Wolf Trilogy Author: Tim Wohlforth Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Time to Mourn Series: #1 of The Jim Wolf Trilogy Author: Tim Wohlforth Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A shape bends over a drink at the end of the bar in Big Emma's on Oakland's Jack London Square, looking like a bundle of black clothes someone has left on the barstool. Full red lips that match brightly dyed hair are the only source of color, as if an artist had begun to colorize her just before she walked out of frame in a '40s noir movie. Her name is Susan, and she is there to hire PI Jim Wolf to find her husband's killer—and to protect her from a man called Red. Wolf takes her case, but Susan is soon murdered. Then an attempt is made on Wolf's life … and the hunter becomes the hunted. With the help of two very different but important women in his life, Lori Mazzetti, his former lover whom he can no longer live with but can't seem to survive without, and Connie Hernandez, an investigative reporter for the Oakland Tribune, Wolf sets out to track Red down. Now it's personal. The bullets fly and the blood flows, but Wolf is just getting started. Like the alpha predator of his namesake, private investigator Jim Wolf is the last guy you'd ever want to see behind you, following in your tracks—or at your door.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/darkness-shadows-by-andrew-e-kaufman--65280795https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Darkness & Shadows Series: #2 of A Patrick Bannister Psychological Thriller Author: Andrew E. Kaufman Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted, Andrew E. Kaufman thrilled readers with a bestseller of psychological suspense. In the follow-up, Darkness & Shadows, he ratchets up the tension, weaving a masterful web of intrigue. The only woman Patrick Bannister ever loved has died…again. Struggling professionally and reeling from the psychological wounds left by a horribly abusive mother, Patrick is driven over the edge by a news report. A wealthy socialite couple has been murdered, and while the wife’s name isn’t familiar, her face certainly is. It’s his first and only love, Marybeth, the woman he lost to a horrific fire years ago. Is he losing his mind? Patrick’s obsession to find the truth sends him scouring records and documents that lead him to a shocking discovery: there’s no evidence Marybeth ever lived or, for that matter, ever died. Was the love of Patrick’s life just a product of his abused psyche? The truth may kill him. His quest for answers takes him on a twisted mental odyssey that forces him to question his own reality. He might not be able to trust his memories and perceptions of the past, but the answers may still lie in the darkest recesses of his mind. But Patrick will soon find out that by stoking the flames from that long ago fire, he’s blazing a path straight into danger. And this time, not only is he about to get burned—he could also end up losing his life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199332Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Darkness & Shadows Series: #2 of A Patrick Bannister Psychological Thriller Author: Andrew E. Kaufman Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Darkness & Shadows Series: #2 of A Patrick Bannister Psychological Thriller Author: Andrew E. Kaufman Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted, Andrew E. Kaufman thrilled readers with a bestseller of psychological suspense. In the follow-up, Darkness & Shadows, he ratchets up the tension, weaving a masterful web of intrigue. The only woman Patrick Bannister ever loved has died…again. Struggling professionally and reeling from the psychological wounds left by a horribly abusive mother, Patrick is driven over the edge by a news report. A wealthy socialite couple has been murdered, and while the wife’s name isn’t familiar, her face certainly is. It’s his first and only love, Marybeth, the woman he lost to a horrific fire years ago. Is he losing his mind? Patrick’s obsession to find the truth sends him scouring records and documents that lead him to a shocking discovery: there’s no evidence Marybeth ever lived or, for that matter, ever died. Was the love of Patrick’s life just a product of his abused psyche? The truth may kill him. His quest for answers takes him on a twisted mental odyssey that forces him to question his own reality. He might not be able to trust his memories and perceptions of the past, but the answers may still lie in the darkest recesses of his mind. But Patrick will soon find out that by stoking the flames from that long ago fire, he’s blazing a path straight into danger. And this time, not only is he about to get burned—he could also end up losing his life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sputnik-sweetheart-by-haruki-murakami--65280817https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sputnik Sweetheart Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Adam Sims Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200325Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sputnik Sweetheart Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Adam Sims Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sputnik Sweetheart Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Adam Sims Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/south-of-the-border-west-of-the-sun-a-novel-by-haruki-murakami--65280779https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198959 to listen full audiobooks. Title: South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Eric Loren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198959Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198959 to listen full audiobooks. Title: South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Eric Loren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198959 to listen full audiobooks. Title: South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Eric Loren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane-by-henry-farrell--65280751https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Author: Henry Farrell Narrator: Peter Ganim, Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The chilling novel that inspired the iconic film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. As seen on the FX series Feud: Bette and Joan, which chronicles the rivalry between the Hollywood stars during their filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The neighbors all whisper about the two sisters who live on the hill: It's Blanche Hudson who lives in that house, you know. The Blanche Hudson, who starred in big Hollywood films all those years ago. Such a shame her career ended so early, all because of that accident. They say it was her sister, Jane, who did it--that she crashed the car because she was drunk. They say that's why she looks after Blanche now, because of the guilt. That's what they say, at least. Nobody remembers that Jane was once a star herself. A fixture of early vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed her song and dance routines for adoring crowds until a move to Hollywood thrust her sister into the spotlight. Even now, years later, Jane dreams of reviving her act. But as the lines begin to blur between fantasy and reality, past resentments become dangerous--and the sisters' long-kept secrets threaten to destroy them. Now with three short stories available for the first time in print, including What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte, the basis for the film Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200771Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Author: Henry Farrell Narrator: Peter Ganim, Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Author: Henry Farrell Narrator: Peter Ganim, Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The chilling novel that inspired the iconic film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. As seen on the FX series Feud: Bette and Joan, which chronicles the rivalry between the Hollywood stars during their filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The neighbors all whisper about the two sisters who live on the hill: It's Blanche Hudson who lives in that house, you know. The Blanche Hudson, who starred in big Hollywood films all those years ago. Such a shame her career ended so early, all because of that accident. They say it was her sister, Jane, who did it--that she crashed the car because she was drunk. They say that's why she looks after Blanche now, because of the guilt. That's what they say, at least. Nobody remembers that Jane was once a star herself. A fixture of early vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed her song and dance routines for adoring crowds until a move to Hollywood thrust her sister into the spotlight. Even now, years later, Jane dreams of reviving her act. But as the lines begin to blur between fantasy and reality, past resentments become dangerous--and the sisters' long-kept secrets threaten to destroy them. Now with three short stories available for the first time in print, including What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte, the basis for the film Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/video-kill-by-joanne-fluke--65280757https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Video Kill Author: Joanne Fluke Narrator: Tony Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A former actress, Allison Rocca knows her husband, Tony, a screenwriter, has been extra busy lately. And news reporter Katy knows her ex, Chief Detective Sam Ladera, is desperately hunting the Video Killer. Still, each woman senses something unusual about the men's behaviour. But as they attempt to find the truth, they unwittingly draw closer to the lens of a calculating madman searching for his next leading lady.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198014Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Video Kill Author: Joanne Fluke Narrator: Tony Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 27, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Video Kill Author: Joanne Fluke Narrator: Tony Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A former actress, Allison Rocca knows her husband, Tony, a screenwriter, has been extra busy lately. And news reporter Katy knows her ex, Chief Detective Sam Ladera, is desperately hunting the Video Killer. Still, each woman senses something unusual about the men's behaviour. But as they attempt to find the truth, they unwittingly draw closer to the lens of a calculating madman searching for his next leading lady.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cartwheel-a-novel-by-jennifer-dubois--65280793https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cartwheel: A Novel Author: Jennifer DuBois Narrator: Emily Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Slate • Cosmopolitan • Salon • BuzzFeed • BookPage Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together.   When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food, the handsome, elusive man next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn’t come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans.   Five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime suspect. But who is Lily Hayes? It depends on who’s asking. As the case takes shape—revealing deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA—Lily appears alternately sinister and guileless through the eyes of those around her: the media, her family, the man who loves her and the man who seeks her conviction. With mordant wit and keen emotional insight, Cartwheel offers a prismatic investigation of the ways we decide what to see—and to believe—in one another and ourselves.   In Cartwheel, duBois delivers a novel of propulsive psychological suspense and rare moral nuance. No two readers will agree who Lily is and what happened to her roommate. Cartwheel will keep you guessing until the final page, and its questions about how well we really know ourselves will linger well beyond.   WINNER OF THE HOUSATONIC BOOK AWARD “A smart, literary thriller [for] fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.”—The Huffington Post   “Psychologically astute . . . DuBois hits [the] larger sadness just right and dispenses with all the salacious details you can readily find elsewhere. . . . The writing in Cartwheel is a pleasure—electric, fine-tuned, intelligent, conflicted. The novel is engrossing, and its portraiture hits delightfully and necessarily close to home.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)   “Marvelous . . . a gripping tale . . . Every sentence crackles with wit and vision. Every page casts a spell.”—Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements “[You’ll] break your own record of pages read per minute as you tear through this book.”—Marie Claire   “Jennifer duBois is destined for great things.”—Cosmopolitan “A convincing, compelling tale . . . The story plays out in all its well-told complexity.”—New York Daily News “[A] gripping, gorgeously written novel . . . The emotional intelligence in Cartwheel is so sharp it’s almost ruthless—a tabloid tragedy elevated to high art. [Grade:] A-”—Entertainment Weekly   “Sure-footed and psychologically calibrated . . . As the pages fly, the reader hardly notices that duBois has stretched the genre of the criminal procedural.”—Newsday “Provocative, meaningful and suspenseful.”—Chicago Tribune “[Jennifer duBois is] heir to some of the great novelists of the past, writers who caught the inner lives of their characters and rendered them on the page in beautiful, studied prose.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196775Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cartwheel: A Novel Author: Jennifer DuBois Narrator: Emily Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 24,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cartwheel: A Novel Author: Jennifer DuBois Narrator: Emily Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Slate • Cosmopolitan • Salon • BuzzFeed • BookPage Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together.   When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food, the handsome, elusive man next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn’t come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans.   Five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime suspect. But who is Lily Hayes? It depends on who’s asking. As the case takes shape—revealing deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA—Lily appears alternately sinister and guileless through the eyes of those around her: the media, her family, the man who loves her and the man who seeks her conviction. With mordant wit and keen emotional insight, Cartwheel offers a prismatic investigation of the ways we decide what to see—and to believe—in one another and ourselves.   In Cartwheel, duBois delivers a novel of propulsive psychological suspense and rare moral nuance. No two readers will agree who Lily is and what happened to her roommate. Cartwheel will keep you guessing until the final page, and its questions about how well we really know ourselves will linger well beyond.   WINNER OF THE HOUSATONIC BOOK AWARD “A smart, literary thriller [for] fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.”—The Huffington Post   “Psychologically astute . . . DuBois hits [the] larger sadness just right and dispenses with all the salacious details you can readily find elsewhere. . . . The writing in Cartwheel is a pleasure—electric, fine-tuned, intelligent, conflicted. The novel is engrossing, and its portraiture hits delightfully and necessarily close to home.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)   “Marvelous . . . a gripping tale . . . Every sentence crackles with wit and vision. Every page casts a spell.”—Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements “[You’ll] break your own record of pages read per minute as you tear through this book.”—Marie Claire   “Jennifer duBois is destined for great things.”—Cosmopolitan “A convincing, compelling tale . . . The story plays out in all its well-told complexity.”—New York Daily News “[A] gripping, gorgeously written novel . . . The emotional intelligence in Cartwheel is so sharp it’s almost ruthless—a tabloid tragedy elevated to high art. [Grade:] A-”—Entertainment Weekly   “Sure-footed and psychologically calibrated . . . As the pages fly, the reader hardly notices that duBois has stretched the genre of the criminal procedural.”—Newsday “Provocative, meaningful and suspenseful.”—Chicago Tribune “[Jennifer duBois is] heir to some of the great novelists of the past, writers who caught the inner lives of their characters and rendered them on the page in beautiful, studied prose.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mother-mother-a-novel-by-koren-zailckas--65280785https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother, Mother: A Novel Author: Koren Zailckas Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most   Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home, her life is picture perfect. She has everything she wants; all she has to do is keep it that way. But living in this matriarch’s determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn’t been easy for her family, and when her oldest daughter, Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her flawless home into a darker sort of prison. Resentful of her sister’s newfound freedom, Violet turns to eastern philosophy, hallucinogenic drugs, and extreme fasting, eventually landing herself in the psych ward. Meanwhile, her brother Will shrinks further into a world of self-doubt. Recently diagnosed with Aspergers and epilepsy, he’s separated from the other kids around town and is homeschooled to ensure his safety. Their father, Douglas, finds resolve in the bottom of the bottle—an addict craving his own chance to escape. Josephine struggles to maintain the family’s impeccable façade, but when a violent incident leads to a visit from child protective services, the truth about the Hursts might finally be revealed.   Written with the style, dark wit and shrewd psychological insight that made SMASHED a bestseller, Zailckas’s first novel is unforgettable. In the spirit of classic suspense novels by Shirley Jackson and Daphne DuMaurier, MOTHER, MOTHER is the terrifying and page-turning story of a mother’s love gone too far, and the introduction of a commanding new voice in fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197148Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother, Mother: A Novel Author: Koren Zailckas Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother, Mother: A Novel Author: Koren Zailckas Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most   Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home, her life is picture perfect. She has everything she wants; all she has to do is keep it that way. But living in this matriarch’s determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn’t been easy for her family, and when her oldest daughter, Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her flawless home into a darker sort of prison. Resentful of her sister’s newfound freedom, Violet turns to eastern philosophy, hallucinogenic drugs, and extreme fasting, eventually landing herself in the psych ward. Meanwhile, her brother Will shrinks further into a world of self-doubt. Recently diagnosed with Aspergers and epilepsy, he’s separated from the other kids around town and is homeschooled to ensure his safety. Their father, Douglas, finds resolve in the bottom of the bottle—an addict craving his own chance to escape. Josephine struggles to maintain the family’s impeccable façade, but when a violent incident leads to a visit from child protective services, the truth about the Hursts might finally be revealed.   Written with the style, dark wit and shrewd psychological insight that made SMASHED a bestseller, Zailckas’s first novel is unforgettable. In the spirit of classic suspense novels by Shirley Jackson and Daphne DuMaurier, MOTHER, MOTHER is the terrifying and page-turning story of a mother’s love gone too far, and the introduction of a commanding new voice in fiction.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eloise-by-judy-finnigan--65280769https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eloise Author: Judy Finnigan Narrator: Anna Bentinck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: She was a daughter, a wife, a mother. She was my friend. But what secrets did Eloise take to her grave? After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise's death was not all it seems. With a history of depression, Cathy is only just recovering from a nervous breakdown and her husband Chris, a psychiatrist, is acutely aware of his wife's mental frailty. When Cathy tells Chris of her suspicions about Eloise's death, as well as her ability to sense Eloise's spirit, Chris thinks she is losing her grip on reality once again. Stung by her husband's scepticism, Cathy decides to explore Eloise's mysterious past, putting herself in danger as she finds herself drawn ever deeper into her friend's great -- and tragic -- secret. Compulsively-readable and incredibly haunting, this is the debut novel from broadcaster, journalist and Book Club champion, Judy Finnigan -- Britain's Oprah. 'THE INCREDIBLY HAUNTING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING DEBUT NOVEL]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196390Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eloise Author: Judy Finnigan Narrator: Anna Bentinck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eloise Author: Judy Finnigan Narrator: Anna Bentinck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: She was a daughter, a wife, a mother. She was my friend. But what secrets did Eloise take to her grave? After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise's death was not all it seems. With a history of depression, Cathy is only just recovering from a nervous breakdown and her husband Chris, a psychiatrist, is acutely aware of his wife's mental frailty. When Cathy tells Chris of her suspicions about Eloise's death, as well as her ability to sense Eloise's spirit, Chris thinks she is losing her grip on reality once again. Stung by her husband's scepticism, Cathy decides to explore Eloise's mysterious past, putting herself in danger as she finds herself drawn ever deeper into her friend's great -- and tragic -- secret. Compulsively-readable and incredibly haunting, this is the debut novel from broadcaster, journalist and Book Club champion, Judy Finnigan -- Britain's Oprah. 'THE INCREDIBLY HAUNTING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING DEBUT NOVEL]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/norwegian-wood-by-haruki-murakami--65280830https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norwegian Wood Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.46 of Total 13 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. Now with a new introduction by the author. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196605Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norwegian Wood Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norwegian Wood Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.46 of Total 13 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. Now with a new introduction by the author. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blind-willow-sleeping-woman-by-haruki-murakami--65280759https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Ellen Archer, Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).  'A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever.' —San Francisco Chronicle Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196604Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Ellen Archer, Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Ellen Archer, Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).  'A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever.' —San Francisco Chronicle Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/out-of-the-black-by-john-rector--65280761https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Black Author: John Rector Narrator: Todd Haberkorn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: To keep the light of his life, he’ll have to do some dark things. After Matt Caine loses his wife in a car accident, all he has left is his daughter, Anna. But just as the little girl—who survived the accident—finally starts thriving, Matt’s former in-laws threaten to take her away via a bitter custody battle. Desperate to keep Anna and in debt to some dangerous local thugs, Matt has no good options. But he does have Jay, one very bad friend. Just out of jail and plagued by drug addiction, Jay tempts Matt with a foolproof kidnapping scheme. But what sounds like the perfect solution to all his problems eventually leads Matt through a nightmarish maze of betrayals and reversals, pushing him to his breaking point—and beyond. Now, with his entire life hanging in the balance, Matt makes a pledge of brutal payback.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178568Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Black Author: John Rector Narrator: Todd Haberkorn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Black Author: John Rector Narrator: Todd Haberkorn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: To keep the light of his life, he’ll have to do some dark things. After Matt Caine loses his wife in a car accident, all he has left is his daughter, Anna. But just as the little girl—who survived the accident—finally starts thriving, Matt’s former in-laws threaten to take her away via a bitter custody battle. Desperate to keep Anna and in debt to some dangerous local thugs, Matt has no good options. But he does have Jay, one very bad friend. Just out of jail and plagued by drug addiction, Jay tempts Matt with a foolproof kidnapping scheme. But what sounds like the perfect solution to all his problems eventually leads Matt through a nightmarish maze of betrayals and reversals, pushing him to his breaking point—and beyond. Now, with his entire life hanging in the balance, Matt makes a pledge of brutal payback.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/night-film-a-novel-by-marisha-pessl--65280783https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Film: A Novel Author: Marisha Pessl Narrator: Jake Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars) “Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights on.”—The Washington Post   A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage   On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.   For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.   The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time, he might lose even more. *Includes a downloadable PDF of interactive images from the book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194094Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Film: A Novel Author: Marisha Pessl Narrator: Jake Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Film: A Novel Author: Marisha Pessl Narrator: Jake Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars) “Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights on.”—The Washington Post   A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage   On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.   For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.   The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time, he might lose even more. *Includes a downloadable PDF of interactive images from the book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/human-remains-a-novel-by-elizabeth-haynes--65280768https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Human Remains: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Haynes Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Human Remains is a chilling, masterful thriller by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Haynes that explores our darkest fears, showing how vulnerable we are—and how easily ordinary lives can fall apart when no one is watching. Annabel, a police analyst, is shocked when she discovers her neighbor’s decomposing body in the house next door. And she’s appalled to think that no one noticed her absence. Back at work, she sets out on her own to investigate, and finds that such cases are frighteningly common in her hometown. A hymn to all the lonely and compelling characters that haunt our lives, Human Remains is a deeply disturbing and powerful novel of suspense from Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194574Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Human Remains: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Haynes Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Human Remains: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Haynes Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Human Remains is a chilling, masterful thriller by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Haynes that explores our darkest fears, showing how vulnerable we are—and how easily ordinary lives can fall apart when no one is watching. Annabel, a police analyst, is shocked when she discovers her neighbor’s decomposing body in the house next door. And she’s appalled to think that no one noticed her absence. Back at work, she sets out on her own to investigate, and finds that such cases are frighteningly common in her hometown. A hymn to all the lonely and compelling characters that haunt our lives, Human Remains is a deeply disturbing and powerful novel of suspense from Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pull-of-the-moon-by-elizabeth-berg--65280772https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pull of the Moon Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 6, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Reading The Pull of the Moon is like sitting down for a long, satisfying chat with a best girlfriend…. [It] pleasantly encourages readers to recover a little life-embracing enthusiasm themselves.” —Orlando SentinelIn the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness—and the allure—of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters with strangers, including a handsome man appearing out of the woods and a lonely housewife sitting on her front porch steps. Most of all, Nan writes about the need for the self to stay alive. In this luminous and exquisitely written novel, Elizabeth Berg shows how sometimes you have to leave your life behind in order to find it.“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home but rather about a human being finding her way back.” —Chicago Tribune“When was the last time you thought about running away?…. In The Pull of the Moon, Berg shares her strength, the wonderful widening of her soul so that we, too, can take the journey in the ease of our chair.” —Greensboro News & Record“Berg’s gift as a storyteller lies most powerfully in her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the remarkable in the everyday.” —The Boston Globe]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187677Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pull of the Moon Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 6,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pull of the Moon Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 6, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Reading The Pull of the Moon is like sitting down for a long, satisfying chat with a best girlfriend…. [It] pleasantly encourages readers to recover a little life-embracing enthusiasm themselves.” —Orlando SentinelIn the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness—and the allure—of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters with strangers, including a handsome man appearing out of the woods and a lonely housewife sitting on her front porch steps. Most of all, Nan writes about the need for the self to stay alive. In this luminous and exquisitely written novel, Elizabeth Berg shows how sometimes you have to leave your life behind in order to find it.“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home but rather about a human being finding her way back.” —Chicago Tribune“When was the last time you thought about running away?…. In The Pull of the Moon, Berg shares her strength, the wonderful widening of her soul so that we, too, can take the journey in the ease of our chair.” —Greensboro News & Record“Berg’s gift as a storyteller lies most powerfully in her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the remarkable in the everyday.” —The Boston Globe]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-marker-to-measure-drift-by-alexander-maksik--65280878https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Marker to Measure Drift Author: Alexander Maksik Narrator: Angelle Haney Gullett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Now The Major Motion Picture DRIFT Starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat • A New York Times Notable Book •  Hypnotic in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, this is a novel about ruin, faith, and the devastating memories that can destroy and redeem us.  “Immensely powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . Jacqueline is a mesmerizing heroine.” —The Boston Globe In the aftermath of Charles Taylor’s fallen regime, a young Liberian woman named Jacqueline has fled to the Aegean island of Santorini. She lives in a cave accessible only at low tide. During the day, she offers massages to tourists, battling her hunger one or two euros at a time. Her pressing physical needs provide a deeper relief, obliterating her memories of unspeakable violence. But slowly, the specters of her former life resurface: her adoring younger sister; her unshakably proper mother; her father, who believed in his president; her journalist lover, who knew that Taylor would be overthrown. Now Jacqueline must face the ghosts that haunt her—or tip into full-blown madness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192455Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Marker to Measure Drift Author: Alexander Maksik Narrator: Angelle Haney Gullett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Marker to Measure Drift Author: Alexander Maksik Narrator: Angelle Haney Gullett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Now The Major Motion Picture DRIFT Starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat • A New York Times Notable Book •  Hypnotic in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, this is a novel about ruin, faith, and the devastating memories that can destroy and redeem us.  “Immensely powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . Jacqueline is a mesmerizing heroine.” —The Boston Globe In the aftermath of Charles Taylor’s fallen regime, a young Liberian woman named Jacqueline has fled to the Aegean island of Santorini. She lives in a cave accessible only at low tide. During the day, she offers massages to tourists, battling her hunger one or two euros at a time. Her pressing physical needs provide a deeper relief, obliterating her memories of unspeakable violence. But slowly, the specters of her former life resurface: her adoring younger sister; her unshakably proper mother; her father, who believed in his president; her journalist lover, who knew that Taylor would be overthrown. Now Jacqueline must face the ghosts that haunt her—or tip into full-blown madness.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-husband-s-secret-by-liane-moriarty--65280777https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Husband's Secret Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 1027 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 129 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other.Three women. One secret. And a letter that will change everything—forever. Tess. Rachel. Cecilia. Three women living three very different lives. But when Cecilia opens up a Pandora’s box, their lives will intersect in ways none of them could foresee. Cecilia is the woman who seems to have it all: a successful career, a gorgeous husband, and three wonderful daughters. One day she finds an old tattered letter in the attic that’s addressed to her, to be opened only in the event of her husband’s death. But he’s still very much alive. When Cecilia casually mentions it to him on the phone, he laughs it off, telling her to put the letter away. Yet when he flies home early from an overseas business trip, and then frantically searches for the letter, Cecilia realizes there’s something important in it, something she needs to know. Yet even Pandora herself could not prepare Cecilia for what the letter reveals.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198627Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Husband's Secret Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Husband's Secret Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 1027 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 129 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other.Three women. One secret. And a letter that will change everything—forever. Tess. Rachel. Cecilia. Three women living three very different lives. But when Cecilia opens up a Pandora’s box, their lives will intersect in ways none of them could foresee. Cecilia is the woman who seems to have it all: a successful career, a gorgeous husband, and three wonderful daughters. One day she finds an old tattered letter in the attic that’s addressed to her, to be opened only in the event of her husband’s death. But he’s still very much alive. When Cecilia casually mentions it to him on the phone, he laughs it off, telling her to put the letter away. Yet when he flies home early from an overseas business trip, and then frantically searches for the letter, Cecilia realizes there’s something important in it, something she needs to know. Yet even Pandora herself could not prepare Cecilia for what the letter reveals.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-never-list-by-koethi-zan--65280778https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Never List Author: Koethi Zan Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It’s that kind of book.” —Jeffery Deaver For years, Sarah Farber and her best friend, Jennifer, kept what they called the Never List: a list of actions to be avoided at all costs, for safety’s sake. But one night, against their best instincts, they accept a cab ride—one with grave, everlasting consequences. For the next three years, they are held captive with two other girls in a dungeon-like cellar by a connoisseur of sadism. Ten years later, Sarah’s abductor is up for parole and she can no longer ignore the twisted letters he sends to her from prison. But when Sarah decides to confront her phobias and reconnect with the other survivors she begins unraveling a mystery more horrifying than even she could have imagined. A blazingly fast read with eerie similarities to the recent kidnapping case in Cleveland, The Never List is a smart, riveting, and bold pageturner that will leave readers awake all night with the lights on.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200805Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Never List Author: Koethi Zan Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 16, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Never List Author: Koethi Zan Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It’s that kind of book.” —Jeffery Deaver For years, Sarah Farber and her best friend, Jennifer, kept what they called the Never List: a list of actions to be avoided at all costs, for safety’s sake. But one night, against their best instincts, they accept a cab ride—one with grave, everlasting consequences. For the next three years, they are held captive with two other girls in a dungeon-like cellar by a connoisseur of sadism. Ten years later, Sarah’s abductor is up for parole and she can no longer ignore the twisted letters he sends to her from prison. But when Sarah decides to confront her phobias and reconnect with the other survivors she begins unraveling a mystery more horrifying than even she could have imagined. A blazingly fast read with eerie similarities to the recent kidnapping case in Cleveland, The Never List is a smart, riveting, and bold pageturner that will leave readers awake all night with the lights on.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tampa-by-alissa-nutting--65280784https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tampa Author: Alissa Nutting Narrator: Kathleen McInerney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession—fourteen-year-old boys. Celeste pursues her craving with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought; her sole purpose in becoming a teacher is to fulfill her passion and provide her access to her compulsion. As the novel opens, fall semester at Jefferson Jr. High is beginning. In mere weeks, Celeste has chosen and lured the lusciously naive Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his teacher, and, most important, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship—car rides after school; rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works late; body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods. Ever mindful of the danger—the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind—the hyperbolically insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination, even when the solutions involve greater misdeeds than the affair itself. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180126Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tampa Author: Alissa Nutting Narrator: Kathleen McInerney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 2, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tampa Author: Alissa Nutting Narrator: Kathleen McInerney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession—fourteen-year-old boys. Celeste pursues her craving with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought; her sole purpose in becoming a teacher is to fulfill her passion and provide her access to her compulsion. As the novel opens, fall semester at Jefferson Jr. High is beginning. In mere weeks, Celeste has chosen and lured the lusciously naive Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his teacher, and, most important, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship—car rides after school; rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works late; body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods. Ever mindful of the danger—the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind—the hyperbolically insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination, even when the solutions involve greater misdeeds than the affair itself. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-impossible-lives-of-greta-wells-by-andrew-sean-greer--65280781https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Author: Andrew Sean Greer Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 25, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras. During the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and alternate lives in 1918, where she is a bohemian adulteress, and 1941, which transforms her into a devoted mother and wife. Separated by time and social mores, Greta's three lives are remarkably similar, fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices. Each reality has its own losses, its own rewards, and each extracts a different price. And the modern Greta learns that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs. As her final treatment looms, questions arise: What will happen once each Greta learns how to remain in one of the other worlds? Who will choose to stay in which life? Magically atmospheric, achingly romantic, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells beautifully imagines ''what if'' and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179699Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Author: Andrew Sean Greer Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Author: Andrew Sean Greer Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 25, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras. During the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and alternate lives in 1918, where she is a bohemian adulteress, and 1941, which transforms her into a devoted mother and wife. Separated by time and social mores, Greta's three lives are remarkably similar, fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices. Each reality has its own losses, its own rewards, and each extracts a different price. And the modern Greta learns that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs. As her final treatment looms, questions arise: What will happen once each Greta learns how to remain in one of the other worlds? Who will choose to stay in which life? Magically atmospheric, achingly romantic, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells beautifully imagines ''what if'' and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-execution-of-noa-p-singleton-a-novel-by-elizabeth-l-silver--65280788https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel Author: Elizabeth L. Silver Narrator: Amanda Carlin, Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive         Noa P. Singleton never spoke a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ended with a jury finding her guilty of first-degree murder. Ten years later, having accepted her fate, she sits on death row in a maximum-security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. Seemingly out of the blue, she is visited by Marlene Dixon, a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is also the mother of the woman Noa was imprisoned for killing. Marlene tells Noa that she has changed her mind about the death penalty and Noa’s sentence, and will do everything in her considerable power to convince the governor to commute the sentence to life in prison, in return for the one thing Noa is unwilling to trade: her story.       Marlene desperately wants Noa to reveal the events that led to her daughter’s death – events that Noa has never shared with a soul. With death looming, Marlene believes that Noa may finally give her the answers she needs, though Noa is far from convinced that Marlene deserves the salvation she alone can deliver. Inextricably linked by murder but with very different goals, Noa and Marlene wrestle with the sentences life itself can impose while they confront the best and worst of what makes us human in this haunting tale of love, anguish, and deception.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177316Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel Author: Elizabeth L. Silver Narrator: Amanda Carlin, Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel Author: Elizabeth L. Silver Narrator: Amanda Carlin, Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive         Noa P. Singleton never spoke a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ended with a jury finding her guilty of first-degree murder. Ten years later, having accepted her fate, she sits on death row in a maximum-security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. Seemingly out of the blue, she is visited by Marlene Dixon, a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is also the mother of the woman Noa was imprisoned for killing. Marlene tells Noa that she has changed her mind about the death penalty and Noa’s sentence, and will do everything in her considerable power to convince the governor to commute the sentence to life in prison, in return for the one thing Noa is unwilling to trade: her story.       Marlene desperately wants Noa to reveal the events that led to her daughter’s death – events that Noa has never shared with a soul. With death looming, Marlene believes that Noa may finally give her the answers she needs, though Noa is far from convinced that Marlene deserves the salvation she alone can deliver. Inextricably linked by murder but with very different goals, Noa and Marlene wrestle with the sentences life itself can impose while they confront the best and worst of what makes us human in this haunting tale of love, anguish, and deception.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-conduct-of-saints-by-christopher-davis--65280823https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conduct of Saints Author: Christopher Davis Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Conduct of Saints portrays a battleground on which power, God, sex, and the devil collide in the impoverished city of Rome during May and June of 1945. The German occupation of the Eternal City has ended, the war in Europe is over, the atomic bomb has yet to fall on Japan, and Rome is under the jurisdiction of the victors: the American, British, and French Allied Control Commission. An American Vatican prelate and lawyer, Brendan Doherty, is involved in two crusades. Abhorring capital punishment, he means to avert the execution of the Nazi collaborator Pietro Koch. Also, as devil's advocate, Doherty intends to prove the hypocrisy of Alessandro Serenelli, the man who forty years before murdered Maria Goretti. Converted by a vision, Serenelli has spent his life, in prison and out, promoting the beatification of his victim. Doherty—memory tormented, hard drinking, both angry and compassionate, a moral street fighter for what he is sure is right—feels guilty for having done too little to save the city's Jews from Auschwitz. He engages in his causes and quarrels with Rome's pre–dolce vita, postwar society—people both fictional and historical, like Alessandro Serenelli, Maria Goretti, Pietro Koch, Pope Pius XII, and film director Luchino Visconti—until he comes to a reckoning with himself and with the serene, unshakable saint-maker Serenelli.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177031Wed, 15 May 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conduct of Saints Author: Christopher Davis Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 15,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conduct of Saints Author: Christopher Davis Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Conduct of Saints portrays a battleground on which power, God, sex, and the devil collide in the impoverished city of Rome during May and June of 1945. The German occupation of the Eternal City has ended, the war in Europe is over, the atomic bomb has yet to fall on Japan, and Rome is under the jurisdiction of the victors: the American, British, and French Allied Control Commission. An American Vatican prelate and lawyer, Brendan Doherty, is involved in two crusades. Abhorring capital punishment, he means to avert the execution of the Nazi collaborator Pietro Koch. Also, as devil's advocate, Doherty intends to prove the hypocrisy of Alessandro Serenelli, the man who forty years before murdered Maria Goretti. Converted by a vision, Serenelli has spent his life, in prison and out, promoting the beatification of his victim. Doherty—memory tormented, hard drinking, both angry and compassionate, a moral street fighter for what he is sure is right—feels guilty for having done too little to save the city's Jews from Auschwitz. He engages in his causes and quarrels with Rome's pre–dolce vita, postwar society—people both fictional and historical, like Alessandro Serenelli, Maria Goretti, Pietro Koch, Pope Pius XII, and film director Luchino Visconti—until he comes to a reckoning with himself and with the serene, unshakable saint-maker Serenelli.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-dual-inheritance-a-novel-by-joanna-hershon--65280797https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dual Inheritance: A Novel Author: Joanna Hershon Narrator: Joanna Hershon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations.   Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh’s privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hugh’s ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths diverge—one rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarian—but their friendship ends abruptly, with only one of them understanding why.   Can a friendship define your view of the world? Spanning from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the present-day stock market collapse, with locations as diverse as Dar es Salaam, Boston, Shenzhen, and Fishers Island, A Dual Inheritance asks this question, as it follows not only these two men, but the complicated women in their vastly different lives. And as Ed and Hugh grow farther and farther apart, they remain uniquely—even surprisingly—connected.   Praise for A Dual Inheritance   “A big, captivating sweep of a romance . . . a searching exploration of class and destiny in late-twentieth-century America.”—Jennifer Egan “The best book about male friendship written this young century.”—Details   “[A] warm, smart, enjoyably complex novel . . . Both Hugh and Ed are lonely searchers . . . and [Hershon’s] skill in rendering each of them as flawed individuals is what makes the novel so readable and so rich. . . . A Dual Inheritance is an old-fashioned social novel that feels fresh because of its deft, clear-eyed approach to still-unspoken rules about ethnicity, money and identity.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “An absorbing, fully-realized novel . . . [Hershon] renders the book’s many locales with a nuanced appreciation for the way environment emerges out of the confluence of physical detail and social experience. . . . A Dual Inheritance never lets its readers forget they are reading a well-crafted novel, and as a well-crafted novel, it fully satisfies.”—The Boston Globe “This marvelous novel is a mix of heartache and history. . . . Think of Anne Tyler and Tom Wolfe, both.”—Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver “[An] engrossing saga.”—Vogue   “Hershon artfully guides us through the lives of Ed and Hugh, college buddies who meet at Harvard in the ’60s, shifting between their perspectives through adulthood to detail their lingering impact on one another’s lives in such a way that it’ll make you take a second look at all of your relationships.”—GQ   “Let this story of two Harvard men’s unexpected friendship and its sudden end transport you through time (beginning on Harvard’s campus in 1962) and place.”—The Huffington Post   “A richly composed . . . portrait of familial gravity and the wobbly orbits that bring us together again and again.”—Kirkus Reviews   “This thought-provoking generational tale is a heartfelt and beautiful story of an unlikely friendship that fades at times, but never seems to go away.”—Long Island Press]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174862Tue, 07 May 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dual Inheritance: A Novel Author: Joanna Hershon Narrator: Joanna Hershon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 5 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dual Inheritance: A Novel Author: Joanna Hershon Narrator: Joanna Hershon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations.   Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh’s privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hugh’s ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths diverge—one rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarian—but their friendship ends abruptly, with only one of them understanding why.   Can a friendship define your view of the world? Spanning from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the present-day stock market collapse, with locations as diverse as Dar es Salaam, Boston, Shenzhen, and Fishers Island, A Dual Inheritance asks this question, as it follows not only these two men, but the complicated women in their vastly different lives. And as Ed and Hugh grow farther and farther apart, they remain uniquely—even surprisingly—connected.   Praise for A Dual Inheritance   “A big, captivating sweep of a romance . . . a searching exploration of class and destiny in late-twentieth-century America.”—Jennifer Egan “The best book about male friendship written this young century.”—Details   “[A] warm, smart, enjoyably complex novel . . . Both Hugh and Ed are lonely searchers . . . and [Hershon’s] skill in rendering each of them as flawed individuals is what makes the novel so readable and so rich. . . . A Dual Inheritance is an old-fashioned social novel that feels fresh because of its deft, clear-eyed approach to still-unspoken rules about ethnicity, money and identity.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “An absorbing, fully-realized novel . . . [Hershon] renders the book’s many locales with a nuanced appreciation for the way environment emerges out of the confluence of physical detail and social experience. . . . A Dual Inheritance never lets its readers forget they are reading a well-crafted novel, and as a well-crafted novel, it fully satisfies.”—The Boston Globe “This marvelous novel is a mix of heartache and history. . . . Think of Anne Tyler and Tom Wolfe, both.”—Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver “[An] engrossing saga.”—Vogue   “Hershon artfully guides us through the lives of Ed and Hugh, college buddies who meet at Harvard in the ’60s, shifting between their perspectives through adulthood to detail their lingering impact on one another’s lives in such a way that it’ll make you take a second look at all of your relationships.”—GQ   “Let this story of two Harvard men’s unexpected friendship and its sudden end transport you through time (beginning on Harvard’s campus in 1962) and place.”—The Huffington Post   “A richly composed . . . portrait of familial gravity and the wobbly orbits that bring us together again and again.”—Kirkus Reviews   “This thought-provoking generational tale is a heartfelt and beautiful story of an unlikely friendship that fades at times, but never seems to go away.”—Long Island Press]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-clairvoyant-countess-by-dorothy-gilman--65280792https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Clairvoyant Countess Series: #1 of Madame Karitska Author: Dorothy Gilman Narrator: Ruth Ann Phimister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling author of the famous Mrs. Pollifax series comes another delightfully eccentric and sage female sleuth-the exotic Madame Karitska. Although she is a genuine countess, Marina Elena Provovnitchek Gaylord Von Domm Karitska is foremost a psychic. When one of her clients turns up dead, Madame Karitska makes the acquaintance of Detective-Lieutenant Pruden, and an uncanny partnership is born. Madame Karitska forms images with the psychic vibrations she picks up from personal objects. Her shocking visions are at odds with outward appearances and Detective Pruden finds it difficult to believe in them. But as Madame Karitska uses her amazing powers to help him solve case after dangerous case, even the skeptic becomes convinced. With The Clairvoyant Countess, Dorothy Gilman has used her own amazing powers to create a character who is both awe-inspiring and lovable. Ruth Ann Phimister's keen sense of timing and characterization let you too believe in the wonder that is Madame Karitska.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174780Fri, 03 May 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Clairvoyant Countess Series: #1 of Madame Karitska Author: Dorothy Gilman Narrator: Ruth Ann Phimister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Clairvoyant Countess Series: #1 of Madame Karitska Author: Dorothy Gilman Narrator: Ruth Ann Phimister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling author of the famous Mrs. Pollifax series comes another delightfully eccentric and sage female sleuth-the exotic Madame Karitska. Although she is a genuine countess, Marina Elena Provovnitchek Gaylord Von Domm Karitska is foremost a psychic. When one of her clients turns up dead, Madame Karitska makes the acquaintance of Detective-Lieutenant Pruden, and an uncanny partnership is born. Madame Karitska forms images with the psychic vibrations she picks up from personal objects. Her shocking visions are at odds with outward appearances and Detective Pruden finds it difficult to believe in them. But as Madame Karitska uses her amazing powers to help him solve case after dangerous case, even the skeptic becomes convinced. With The Clairvoyant Countess, Dorothy Gilman has used her own amazing powers to create a character who is both awe-inspiring and lovable. Ruth Ann Phimister's keen sense of timing and characterization let you too believe in the wonder that is Madame Karitska.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lion-the-lamb-the-hunted-by-andrew-e-kaufman--65280787https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted Series: #1 of A Patrick Bannister Psychological Thriller Author: Andrew E. Kaufman Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 23, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: SHE ONLY STEPPED OUTSIDE FOR A MINUTE... But a minute was all it took to turn Jean Kingsley’s world upside down—a minute she’d regret for the rest of her life. STEPPING INTO HER WORST NIGHTMARE... Because when she returned, she found an open bedroom window and her three-year-old son, Nathan, gone. The boy would never be seen again. A NIGHTMARE THAT ONLY BECAME WORSE. A tip leads detectives to the killer, a repeat sex offender, and inside his apartment, a gruesome discovery. A slam-dunk trial sends him off to death row, then several years later, to the electric chair. CASE CLOSED. JUSTICE SERVED...OR WAS IT? Now, more than thirty years later, Patrick Bannister unwittingly stumbles across evidence among his dead mother’s belongings—it paints her as the killer and her brother, a wealthy and powerful senator, as the one pulling the strings. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO NATHAN KINGSLEY? There’s a hole in the case a mile wide, and Patrick is determined to close it. But what he doesn’t know is that the closer he moves toward the truth, the more he’s putting his life on the line, that he’s become the hunted. Someone’s hiding a dark secret and will stop at nothing to keep it that way. The clock is ticking, the walls are closing, and the stakes are getting higher as he races to find a killer—one who’s hot on his trail. One who’s out for his blood. This is a new release of a previously published edition.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171217Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted Series: #1 of A Patrick Bannister Psychological Thriller Author: Andrew E. Kaufman Narrator: Luke Daniels Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted Series: #1 of A Patrick Bannister Psychological Thriller Author: Andrew E. Kaufman Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 23, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: SHE ONLY STEPPED OUTSIDE FOR A MINUTE... But a minute was all it took to turn Jean Kingsley’s world upside down—a minute she’d regret for the rest of her life. STEPPING INTO HER WORST NIGHTMARE... Because when she returned, she found an open bedroom window and her three-year-old son, Nathan, gone. The boy would never be seen again. A NIGHTMARE THAT ONLY BECAME WORSE. A tip leads detectives to the killer, a repeat sex offender, and inside his apartment, a gruesome discovery. A slam-dunk trial sends him off to death row, then several years later, to the electric chair. CASE CLOSED. JUSTICE SERVED...OR WAS IT? Now, more than thirty years later, Patrick Bannister unwittingly stumbles across evidence among his dead mother’s belongings—it paints her as the killer and her brother, a wealthy and powerful senator, as the one pulling the strings. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO NATHAN KINGSLEY? There’s a hole in the case a mile wide, and Patrick is determined to close it. But what he doesn’t know is that the closer he moves toward the truth, the more he’s putting his life on the line, that he’s become the hunted. Someone’s hiding a dark secret and will stop at nothing to keep it that way. The clock is ticking, the walls are closing, and the stakes are getting higher as he races to find a killer—one who’s hot on his trail. One who’s out for his blood. This is a new release of a previously published edition.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bay-of-fires-a-novel-by-poppy-gee--65280807https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bay of Fires: A Novel Author: Poppy Gee Narrator: Cynthia Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her a job, her boyfriend, and the independence she desperately craves. Reluctantly home for the holidays in the Bay of Fires, a tiny seaside town on the Tasmanian coast, she hopes for a calm, quiet visit, with time to reflect on all that's gone wrong. Those hopes are crushed when, early one morning, she discovers the body of a young female backpacker washed up on the shore. A year earlier, another woman went missing and hasn't been seen since. Now everyone wonders: is there a killer in the brush? Or were these women victims of Tasmania itself? The island is place of savage beauty: pristine sand beneath orange-lichen covered granite boulders; heaving shadowy kelp fields; sweeping cold currents; crackling bush beyond the seashore. It's also a landscape as flawed, vulnerable and vengeful as any human. Once its fragile peace is shattered, the locals' anxiety fuels a string of speculations about happened to the women - and who might be the next victim. When journalist Hall Flynn arrives to investigate, haunted by recent failures and yearning for a fresh start, he's determined to do whatever it takes to break the story, and Sarah is his best source of local information. But Sarah - like everyone else in this close-knit town - has secrets she's desperate to keep hidden. And one of those secrets leads straight to a killer's door. Haunting, evocative, as wildly atmospheric as the remote island where it takes place, Bay of Fires is a startling and wholly original debut.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171472Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bay of Fires: A Novel Author: Poppy Gee Narrator: Cynthia Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bay of Fires: A Novel Author: Poppy Gee Narrator: Cynthia Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her a job, her boyfriend, and the independence she desperately craves. Reluctantly home for the holidays in the Bay of Fires, a tiny seaside town on the Tasmanian coast, she hopes for a calm, quiet visit, with time to reflect on all that's gone wrong. Those hopes are crushed when, early one morning, she discovers the body of a young female backpacker washed up on the shore. A year earlier, another woman went missing and hasn't been seen since. Now everyone wonders: is there a killer in the brush? Or were these women victims of Tasmania itself? The island is place of savage beauty: pristine sand beneath orange-lichen covered granite boulders; heaving shadowy kelp fields; sweeping cold currents; crackling bush beyond the seashore. It's also a landscape as flawed, vulnerable and vengeful as any human. Once its fragile peace is shattered, the locals' anxiety fuels a string of speculations about happened to the women - and who might be the next victim. When journalist Hall Flynn arrives to investigate, haunted by recent failures and yearning for a fresh start, he's determined to do whatever it takes to break the story, and Sarah is his best source of local information. But Sarah - like everyone else in this close-knit town - has secrets she's desperate to keep hidden. And one of those secrets leads straight to a killer's door. Haunting, evocative, as wildly atmospheric as the remote island where it takes place, Bay of Fires is a startling and wholly original debut.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/solo-pass-by-ronald-de-feo--65280753https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo Pass Author: Ronald De Feo Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: This is a dark yet often funny novel told from the point of view of a man who for the past two months has been a patient at a New York City mental ward. Having suffered a breakdown—due to his shattered marriage and an irrational fear of fading away as a human—he now finds himself caught between two worlds, neither of which is a place of comfort or fulfillment: the world of the ward, where abnormality and an odd sort of freedom reign, and the outside world, where convention and restrictive behavior rule. Finally on his way to becoming reasonably 'normal' again, he requests and is granted a 'solo pass,' which allows him to leave the locked ward for several hours and visit the city, with the promise that he will return to the hospital by evening. As he prepares for his excursion, we get a picture of the ward he will temporarily leave behind—the staff and the patients, notably Mandy Reed, a schizophrenic and nymphomaniac who has become his closest friend there. Solo Pass is an unsettling satire that depicts, with inverted logic, the difficulties of madness and normalcy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166643Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo Pass Author: Ronald De Feo Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo Pass Author: Ronald De Feo Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: This is a dark yet often funny novel told from the point of view of a man who for the past two months has been a patient at a New York City mental ward. Having suffered a breakdown—due to his shattered marriage and an irrational fear of fading away as a human—he now finds himself caught between two worlds, neither of which is a place of comfort or fulfillment: the world of the ward, where abnormality and an odd sort of freedom reign, and the outside world, where convention and restrictive behavior rule. Finally on his way to becoming reasonably 'normal' again, he requests and is granted a 'solo pass,' which allows him to leave the locked ward for several hours and visit the city, with the promise that he will return to the hospital by evening. As he prepares for his excursion, we get a picture of the ward he will temporarily leave behind—the staff and the patients, notably Mandy Reed, a schizophrenic and nymphomaniac who has become his closest friend there. Solo Pass is an unsettling satire that depicts, with inverted logic, the difficulties of madness and normalcy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-storyteller-by-jodi-picoult--65280789https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storyteller Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Mozhan Marno, Edoardo Ballerini, Jennifer Ikeda, Fred Berman, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 529 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 157 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Jodi Picoult's poignant #1 New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163378Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storyteller Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Mozhan Marno, Edoardo Ballerini, Jennifer Ikeda, Fred Berman, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storyteller Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Mozhan Marno, Edoardo Ballerini, Jennifer Ikeda, Fred Berman, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 529 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 157 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Jodi Picoult's poignant #1 New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-stone-lion-by-william-eisner--65280794https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone Lion Author: William Eisner Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 15, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: After twenty-two years with the same company, George Breal is out of work for the first time in his life. He must confront the unpleasant task of reinventing his career at an age when many are winding down their ambitions and looking forward to retirement. A skilled manager, he finally finds work at the slowly failing Electronic Technologies (ETI), which has come face-to-face with a modern German competitor. ETI is owned by the cantankerous, obsessive, and dictatorial entrepreneur John Lowell, who is starting to realize, as he closes out his seventies, that his shortcomings are a direct result of his misguided actions from the past. George Breal, Edna Graham, and Catherine Lowell are three people who had never met but have one thing in common: they are key components in Lowell's life. Edna is his lover, Catherine his estranged daughter, and George the man who is trying to save his company. Telling the story through the eyes of Edna, George, Lowell, and Catherine, Eisner transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary in this riveting and winning tale, filled with surprises and diverse, intriguing characters, all showcased by a writer who combines a touch of the poet with a dispassionate view of corporate America at its worst and best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163556Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone Lion Author: William Eisner Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 15, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone Lion Author: William Eisner Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 15, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: After twenty-two years with the same company, George Breal is out of work for the first time in his life. He must confront the unpleasant task of reinventing his career at an age when many are winding down their ambitions and looking forward to retirement. A skilled manager, he finally finds work at the slowly failing Electronic Technologies (ETI), which has come face-to-face with a modern German competitor. ETI is owned by the cantankerous, obsessive, and dictatorial entrepreneur John Lowell, who is starting to realize, as he closes out his seventies, that his shortcomings are a direct result of his misguided actions from the past. George Breal, Edna Graham, and Catherine Lowell are three people who had never met but have one thing in common: they are key components in Lowell's life. Edna is his lover, Catherine his estranged daughter, and George the man who is trying to save his company. Telling the story through the eyes of Edna, George, Lowell, and Catherine, Eisner transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary in this riveting and winning tale, filled with surprises and diverse, intriguing characters, all showcased by a writer who combines a touch of the poet with a dispassionate view of corporate America at its worst and best.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reunion-at-red-paint-bay-by-george-harrar--65280774https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reunion at Red Paint Bay Author: George Harrar Narrator: Richard Waterhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Nothing much happens in the small town of Red Paint, the 'Friendliest Town in Maine.' It's the kind of place where everyone knows your name, a romantic night out might include meatloaf, and carnivals still hold a kind of magical wonder. Simon Howe, once a promising reporter in Portland, Maine, is the last person anyone would have expected to move back to his childhood home to raise a family. He's owner and editor of the local paper, husband to a hard wife who can't help but play therapist to the family's problems, and father to a son who seems to be growing up far too quickly. Yet, Simon's quiet existence dramatically changes when he starts receiving threatening messages from an anonymous sender. As Simon tries to identify his stalker, he must also struggle to keep his life and family together as secrets from his past threaten to destroy everything he has built.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200215Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reunion at Red Paint Bay Author: George Harrar Narrator: Richard Waterhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reunion at Red Paint Bay Author: George Harrar Narrator: Richard Waterhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Nothing much happens in the small town of Red Paint, the 'Friendliest Town in Maine.' It's the kind of place where everyone knows your name, a romantic night out might include meatloaf, and carnivals still hold a kind of magical wonder. Simon Howe, once a promising reporter in Portland, Maine, is the last person anyone would have expected to move back to his childhood home to raise a family. He's owner and editor of the local paper, husband to a hard wife who can't help but play therapist to the family's problems, and father to a son who seems to be growing up far too quickly. Yet, Simon's quiet existence dramatically changes when he starts receiving threatening messages from an anonymous sender. As Simon tries to identify his stalker, he must also struggle to keep his life and family together as secrets from his past threaten to destroy everything he has built.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rough-men-by-aric-davis--65280754https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rough Men Author: Aric Davis Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 22, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Will Daniels has fought hard to keep his demons at bay; he’s exchanged a shady past for the love of a woman he doesn’t deserve and the dream of becoming an author, all while trying to save his wayward son, Alex, from the same destructive impulses that nearly doomed him. But the demons come cackling back in the form of a detective on Will’s doorstep, bearing the news that Alex has been killed in a botched bank robbery. Worse, Alex wasn’t an innocent bystander but part of the gang that raided the vault and left behind numerous bodies. Simmering with rage over his loss, Will tries to let the police handle the matter. But as Alex’s killers remain at large, Will decides that it’s up to him—and a few old friends—to enact revenge in a most brutal manner. Now he’s calling on dangerous connections that have been buried for years—and should’ve stayed that way. But Will vows to do whatever it takes to see Alex’s killers repay their sins in blood, even if it means his own damnation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158016Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rough Men Author: Aric Davis Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 22, 2013 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rough Men Author: Aric Davis Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 22, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Will Daniels has fought hard to keep his demons at bay; he’s exchanged a shady past for the love of a woman he doesn’t deserve and the dream of becoming an author, all while trying to save his wayward son, Alex, from the same destructive impulses that nearly doomed him. But the demons come cackling back in the form of a detective on Will’s doorstep, bearing the news that Alex has been killed in a botched bank robbery. Worse, Alex wasn’t an innocent bystander but part of the gang that raided the vault and left behind numerous bodies. Simmering with rage over his loss, Will tries to let the police handle the matter. But as Alex’s killers remain at large, Will decides that it’s up to him—and a few old friends—to enact revenge in a most brutal manner. Now he’s calling on dangerous connections that have been buried for years—and should’ve stayed that way. But Will vows to do whatever it takes to see Alex’s killers repay their sins in blood, even if it means his own damnation.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cover-of-snow-a-novel-by-jenny-milchman--65280814https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cover of Snow: A Novel Author: Jenny Milchman Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD Jenny Milchman’s Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard. Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong. When her fog of sleep clears, she finds her world is suddenly, irretrievably shattered: Her husband, Brendan, has committed suicide. The first few hours following Nora’s devastating discovery pass for her in a blur of numbness and disbelief. Then, a disturbing awareness slowly settles in: Brendan left no note and gave no indication that he was contemplating taking his own life. Why would a rock-solid police officer with unwavering affection for his wife, job, and quaint hometown suddenly choose to end it all? Having spent a lifetime avoiding hard truths, Nora must now start facing them. Unraveling her late husband’s final days, Nora searches for an explanation—but finds a bewildering resistance from Brendan’s best friend and partner, his fellow police officers, and his brittle mother. It quickly becomes clear to Nora that she is asking questions no one wants to answer. For beneath the soft cover of snow lies a powerful conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep its presence unknown . . . and its darkest secrets hidden. Praise for Cover of Snow   “Well-defined characters take us on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the darkest night, with blinding twists and occasionally fatal turns. This is a richly woven story that not only looks at the devastating effects of suicide but also examines life in a small town and explores the complexity of marriage. Fans of Nancy Pickard, Margaret Maron, and C. J. Box will be delighted to find this new author.”—Booklist (starred review)   “Milchman reveals an intimate knowledge of the psychology of grief, along with a painterly gift for converting frozen feelings into scenes of a forbidding winter landscape.”—The New York Times   “Milchman makes [readers] feel the chill right down to their bones and casts a particularly effective mood in this stylish thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews   “Milchman tackles small-town angst where evil can simmer under the surface with a breathless energy and a feel for realistic characters.”—The Seattle Times   “The plot unfolds at an excellent clip . . . ultimately rushing headlong to a series of startling revelations.”—San Francisco Journal of Books   “Milchman expertly conveys Nora’s grief in a way that will warm hearts even in the dead of a Wedeskyull winter.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161861Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cover of Snow: A Novel Author: Jenny Milchman Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cover of Snow: A Novel Author: Jenny Milchman Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD Jenny Milchman’s Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard. Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong. When her fog of sleep clears, she finds her world is suddenly, irretrievably shattered: Her husband, Brendan, has committed suicide. The first few hours following Nora’s devastating discovery pass for her in a blur of numbness and disbelief. Then, a disturbing awareness slowly settles in: Brendan left no note and gave no indication that he was contemplating taking his own life. Why would a rock-solid police officer with unwavering affection for his wife, job, and quaint hometown suddenly choose to end it all? Having spent a lifetime avoiding hard truths, Nora must now start facing them. Unraveling her late husband’s final days, Nora searches for an explanation—but finds a bewildering resistance from Brendan’s best friend and partner, his fellow police officers, and his brittle mother. It quickly becomes clear to Nora that she is asking questions no one wants to answer. For beneath the soft cover of snow lies a powerful conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep its presence unknown . . . and its darkest secrets hidden. Praise for Cover of Snow   “Well-defined characters take us on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the darkest night, with blinding twists and occasionally fatal turns. This is a richly woven story that not only looks at the devastating effects of suicide but also examines life in a small town and explores the complexity of marriage. Fans of Nancy Pickard, Margaret Maron, and C. J. Box will be delighted to find this new author.”—Booklist (starred review)   “Milchman reveals an intimate knowledge of the psychology of grief, along with a painterly gift for converting frozen feelings into scenes of a forbidding winter landscape.”—The New York Times   “Milchman makes [readers] feel the chill right down to their bones and casts a particularly effective mood in this stylish thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews   “Milchman tackles small-town angst where evil can simmer under the surface with a breathless energy and a feel for realistic characters.”—The Seattle Times   “The plot unfolds at an excellent clip . . . ultimately rushing headlong to a series of startling revelations.”—San Francisco Journal of Books   “Milchman expertly conveys Nora’s grief in a way that will warm hearts even in the dead of a Wedeskyull winter.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hikikomori-and-the-rental-sister-by-jeff-backhaus--65280766https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hikikomori and the Rental Sister Author: Jeff Backhaus Narrator: Stephen Bowlby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 8, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Thomas Tessler, devastated by a tragedy, has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives in the next room, but Thomas no longer shares his life with her, leaving his hideout only in the wee hours of the night to buy food at the store around the corner from their Manhattan apartment. Isolated, withdrawn, damaged, Thomas is hikikomori.    Desperate to salvage their life together, Silke hires Megumi, a young Japanese woman attuned to the hikikomori phenomenon, to lure Thomas back into the world. In Japan Megumi is called a “rental sister,” though her job may involve much more than familial comforts. As Thomas grows to trust Megumi, a deepening and sensual relationship unfolds. But what are the risks of such intimacy? And what must these three broken people surrender in order to find hope?    Revelatory and provocative, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister tears through the emotional walls of grief and delves into the power of human connection to break through to the waiting world outside.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197971Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hikikomori and the Rental Sister Author: Jeff Backhaus Narrator: Stephen Bowlby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hikikomori and the Rental Sister Author: Jeff Backhaus Narrator: Stephen Bowlby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 8, 2013 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Thomas Tessler, devastated by a tragedy, has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives in the next room, but Thomas no longer shares his life with her, leaving his hideout only in the wee hours of the night to buy food at the store around the corner from their Manhattan apartment. Isolated, withdrawn, damaged, Thomas is hikikomori.    Desperate to salvage their life together, Silke hires Megumi, a young Japanese woman attuned to the hikikomori phenomenon, to lure Thomas back into the world. In Japan Megumi is called a “rental sister,” though her job may involve much more than familial comforts. As Thomas grows to trust Megumi, a deepening and sensual relationship unfolds. But what are the risks of such intimacy? And what must these three broken people surrender in order to find hope?    Revelatory and provocative, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister tears through the emotional walls of grief and delves into the power of human connection to break through to the waiting world outside.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/too-bright-to-hear-too-loud-to-see-by-juliann-garey--65280776https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See Author: Juliann Garey Narrator: Dan Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In her tour de force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greyson's travels (Rome, Israel, Santiago, Thailand, Uganda), the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greyson's eyes as a child, and the intimacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him to undergo twelve thirty-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward. This is a literary page-turner of the first order, and a brilliant inside look at mental illness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196869Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See Author: Juliann Garey Narrator: Dan Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See Author: Juliann Garey Narrator: Dan Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In her tour de force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greyson's travels (Rome, Israel, Santiago, Thailand, Uganda), the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greyson's eyes as a child, and the intimacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him to undergo twelve thirty-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward. This is a literary page-turner of the first order, and a brilliant inside look at mental illness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/me-and-the-devil-a-novel-by-nick-tosches--65280762https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Me and the Devil: A Novel Author: Nick Tosches Narrator: Rick Zieff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 4, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets a tantalizing young woman who agrees to come back to his apartment. Their encounter is the most strangely extraordinary of his life. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he enters a new and unimagined dimension of the forbidden and is filled with a sexual and spiritual ecstasy that is as intense as it is unholy. Suddenly Nick's senses are alive. He feels strong, unconquerable, beyond all inhibition and earthly morality. He indulges in life's pleasures, pure and perverse, sublime and dangerous, from the delicate flavors of the perfect tomato to the fleshy beauty of a woman's thigh. But Nick's desire to sustain his rapture leads him to a madness and a darkness far greater and dreadful than have ever ridden the demon mares of night. Writing in a lineage that includes Dante, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Hubert Selby, Jr., and Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches may be America's last real literary outlaw -- a fearless, uncensorable seeker of our deepest secret truths and desires, from the basest to the most beautiful. Me and the Devil is outrageous, disturbing, and brilliant, a raw and blazing novel truly unlike any other. Like the man said: Read him at your peril. 'A raw and blazing novel by 'the single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril.' -- Anthony Bourdain]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154139Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Me and the Devil: A Novel Author: Nick Tosches Narrator: Rick Zieff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Me and the Devil: A Novel Author: Nick Tosches Narrator: Rick Zieff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 4, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets a tantalizing young woman who agrees to come back to his apartment. Their encounter is the most strangely extraordinary of his life. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he enters a new and unimagined dimension of the forbidden and is filled with a sexual and spiritual ecstasy that is as intense as it is unholy. Suddenly Nick's senses are alive. He feels strong, unconquerable, beyond all inhibition and earthly morality. He indulges in life's pleasures, pure and perverse, sublime and dangerous, from the delicate flavors of the perfect tomato to the fleshy beauty of a woman's thigh. But Nick's desire to sustain his rapture leads him to a madness and a darkness far greater and dreadful than have ever ridden the demon mares of night. Writing in a lineage that includes Dante, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Hubert Selby, Jr., and Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches may be America's last real literary outlaw -- a fearless, uncensorable seeker of our deepest secret truths and desires, from the basest to the most beautiful. Me and the Devil is outrageous, disturbing, and brilliant, a raw and blazing novel truly unlike any other. Like the man said: Read him at your peril. 'A raw and blazing novel by 'the single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril.' -- Anthony Bourdain]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-double-a-petersburg-poem-by-fyodor-dostoevsky--65280800https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Double: A Petersburg Poem Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Narrator: Nick Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: First published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella The Double is a classic doppelganger and the second major work published by the author. It is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring about his ruin. Considered the most Gogolesque of Dostoyevsky's works, the novella brilliantly depicts Golyadkin's descent into madness in a way that is hauntingly poetic. The Double illustrates Dostoyevsky's uncanny ability at capturing the complexity of human emotion, especially the darker side of the human psyche.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153770Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Double: A Petersburg Poem Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Narrator: Nick Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Double: A Petersburg Poem Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Narrator: Nick Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: First published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella The Double is a classic doppelganger and the second major work published by the author. It is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring about his ruin. Considered the most Gogolesque of Dostoyevsky's works, the novella brilliantly depicts Golyadkin's descent into madness in a way that is hauntingly poetic. The Double illustrates Dostoyevsky's uncanny ability at capturing the complexity of human emotion, especially the darker side of the human psyche.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ancient-light-by-john-banville--65280831https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ancient Light Author: John Banville Narrator: Robin Sachs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives. Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism and the sly humor that have marked all of John Banville’s extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave, an actor in the twilight of his career and of his life, as he plumbs the memories of his first—and perhaps only—love (he, fifteen years old, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring and finally devastating) . . . and of his daughter, lost to a kind of madness of mind and heart that Cleave can only fail to understand. When his dormant acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role portraying a man who may not be who he says he is, his young leading lady—famous and fragile—unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see with aching clarity the “chasm that yawns between the doing of a thing and the recollection of what was done.” Ancient Light is a profoundly moving meditation on love and loss, on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives, on how invention shapes memory and memory shapes the man. It is a book of spellbinding power and pathos from one of the greatest masters of prose at work today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142294Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ancient Light Author: John Banville Narrator: Robin Sachs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 2, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ancient Light Author: John Banville Narrator: Robin Sachs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives. Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism and the sly humor that have marked all of John Banville’s extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave, an actor in the twilight of his career and of his life, as he plumbs the memories of his first—and perhaps only—love (he, fifteen years old, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring and finally devastating) . . . and of his daughter, lost to a kind of madness of mind and heart that Cleave can only fail to understand. When his dormant acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role portraying a man who may not be who he says he is, his young leading lady—famous and fragile—unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see with aching clarity the “chasm that yawns between the doing of a thing and the recollection of what was done.” Ancient Light is a profoundly moving meditation on love and loss, on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives, on how invention shapes memory and memory shapes the man. It is a book of spellbinding power and pathos from one of the greatest masters of prose at work today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gabriel-s-rapture-by-sylvain-reynard--65280739https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gabriel's Rapture Series: #2 of Gabriel's Inferno Author: Sylvain Reynard Narrator: John Michael Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 19 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: National bestselling author Sylvain Reynard continues the story of Gabriel and Julia, two lovers bound together by their darkest desires. But those very desires may destroy them . . . Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante’s fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever?   In Gabriel’s Rapture, the brilliant sequel to the wildly successful debut novel, Gabriel’s Inferno, Sylvain Reynard weaves an exquisite love story that will touch the reader’s mind, body, and soul, forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202991Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gabriel's Rapture Series: #2 of Gabriel's Inferno Author: Sylvain Reynard Narrator: John Michael Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gabriel's Rapture Series: #2 of Gabriel's Inferno Author: Sylvain Reynard Narrator: John Michael Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 19 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: National bestselling author Sylvain Reynard continues the story of Gabriel and Julia, two lovers bound together by their darkest desires. But those very desires may destroy them . . . Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante’s fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever?   In Gabriel’s Rapture, the brilliant sequel to the wildly successful debut novel, Gabriel’s Inferno, Sylvain Reynard weaves an exquisite love story that will touch the reader’s mind, body, and soul, forever.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-yellow-birds-a-novel-by-kevin-powers--65280816https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/137320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Yellow Birds: A Novel Author: Kevin Powers Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 11, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. 'The war tried to kill us in the spring.' So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/137320Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/137320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Yellow Birds: A Novel Author: Kevin Powers Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/137320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Yellow Birds: A Novel Author: Kevin Powers Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 11, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. 'The war tried to kill us in the spring.' So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/escape-by-perihan-magden--65280805https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape Author: Perihan Magden Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 11, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “There are questions like that. Questions that must never be asked. Subjects that must never be brought up.” Time passes slowly in the hotel rooms. This is what the daughter thinks. They’ve been moving since the beginning, in and out of hotels, sometimes staying for months, sometimes for a mere hour, but never with luggage, heavy things weighing them down. The mother and daughter are singular, a “Moon Unit,” revolving so far away that no one can touch them. They form attachments to no one, not the pool boy who watches the daughter swim for hours, nor the girl at the front desk who counts the moments she sees the daughter as little good luck charms for her day. They are bound together with a secret language, the beautiful girl loved solely by her mother, who will never ever ever leave her side. Prize-winning Turkish novelist and journalist Perihan Magden delivers a heartbreaking meditation on the intense and sometimes isolated love between a mother and daughter against the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142801Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape Author: Perihan Magden Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 11, 2012 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape Author: Perihan Magden Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 11, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “There are questions like that. Questions that must never be asked. Subjects that must never be brought up.” Time passes slowly in the hotel rooms. This is what the daughter thinks. They’ve been moving since the beginning, in and out of hotels, sometimes staying for months, sometimes for a mere hour, but never with luggage, heavy things weighing them down. The mother and daughter are singular, a “Moon Unit,” revolving so far away that no one can touch them. They form attachments to no one, not the pool boy who watches the daughter swim for hours, nor the girl at the front desk who counts the moments she sees the daughter as little good luck charms for her day. They are bound together with a secret language, the beautiful girl loved solely by her mother, who will never ever ever leave her side. Prize-winning Turkish novelist and journalist Perihan Magden delivers a heartbreaking meditation on the intense and sometimes isolated love between a mother and daughter against the world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-evidence-by-ken-goddard--65280828https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/138566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Evidence Series: #1 of The First Evidence Series Author: Ken Goddard Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 8, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A down-to-earth forensics expert has just discovered a crime scene that is out of this world. In criminal forensics they train you to uncover evidence, no matter how brutal or bizarre the murder. But what if one night you encounter a crime scene so terrifying that no one on earth can explain it? It begins deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, at the site of a reported shoot-out. Investigator Colin Cellars cannot find a trace of perpetrator or victim—or even confirm that anyone has been killed. As he doggedly pursues the case, he realizes there is far more at stake here than murder. Someone—or something—will stop at nothing to prevent him from discovering the truth. For the truth is not 'out there;' it is locked away in Cellars' own evidence file. And the evidence points to a killer far outside Cellars' experience—far outside any earthly experience. But who will believe one maverick cop? From the New York Times bestselling author of Balefire comes a chilling tale of murder, forensic detection, and vivid speculation that pits a unique crime scene investigator against a culprit who may be unlike any this world ever spawned.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/138566Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/138566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Evidence Series: #1 of The First Evidence Series Author: Ken Goddard Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/138566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Evidence Series: #1 of The First Evidence Series Author: Ken Goddard Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 8, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A down-to-earth forensics expert has just discovered a crime scene that is out of this world. In criminal forensics they train you to uncover evidence, no matter how brutal or bizarre the murder. But what if one night you encounter a crime scene so terrifying that no one on earth can explain it? It begins deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, at the site of a reported shoot-out. Investigator Colin Cellars cannot find a trace of perpetrator or victim—or even confirm that anyone has been killed. As he doggedly pursues the case, he realizes there is far more at stake here than murder. Someone—or something—will stop at nothing to prevent him from discovering the truth. For the truth is not 'out there;' it is locked away in Cellars' own evidence file. And the evidence points to a killer far outside Cellars' experience—far outside any earthly experience. But who will believe one maverick cop? From the New York Times bestselling author of Balefire comes a chilling tale of murder, forensic detection, and vivid speculation that pits a unique crime scene investigator against a culprit who may be unlike any this world ever spawned.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/salem-s-lot-movie-tie-in-by-stephen-king--65280812https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Salem's Lot (Movie Tie-in) Author: Stephen King Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 526 Ratings of Narrator: 4.51 of Total 98 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: #1 BESTSELLER • Soon to be a new major motion picture • Writer Ben Mears has returned to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.     Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.   In time, he comes to understand that his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his wildest imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is tearing the town apart. Motion Picture Artwork © 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136189Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Salem's Lot (Movie Tie-in) Author: Stephen King Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 35 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Salem's Lot (Movie Tie-in) Author: Stephen King Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 526 Ratings of Narrator: 4.51 of Total 98 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: #1 BESTSELLER • Soon to be a new major motion picture • Writer Ben Mears has returned to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.     Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.   In time, he comes to understand that his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his wildest imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is tearing the town apart. Motion Picture Artwork © 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hector-and-the-search-for-lost-time-a-novel-by-francois-lelord--65280765https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hector and the Search for Lost Time: A Novel Author: Francois Lelord Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 31, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling seriesFirst he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent march of time. His patients lament that there is not enough time in the day. Or they feel that life is passing them by. And in one case, a young boy turns the problem on its head: he's impatient to grow up! Hector himself is increasingly aware of time: he doesn't feel quite so young anymore, and the clock is ticking on his relationship with his beloved Clara. So as time flies, so does Hector in his latest adventure, traveling around the world and charming us with his inimitable blend of open-minded inquiry and subtle wit as he journeys to understand the past, the future, and how best to enjoy the present.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202650Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hector and the Search for Lost Time: A Novel Author: Francois Lelord Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hector and the Search for Lost Time: A Novel Author: Francois Lelord Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 31, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling seriesFirst he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent march of time. His patients lament that there is not enough time in the day. Or they feel that life is passing them by. And in one case, a young boy turns the problem on its head: he's impatient to grow up! Hector himself is increasingly aware of time: he doesn't feel quite so young anymore, and the clock is ticking on his relationship with his beloved Clara. So as time flies, so does Hector in his latest adventure, traveling around the world and charming us with his inimitable blend of open-minded inquiry and subtle wit as he journeys to understand the past, the future, and how best to enjoy the present.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hypnotist-s-love-story-by-liane-moriarty--65280749https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hypnotist's Love Story Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 14, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 147 Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 40 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES AND HERE ONE MOMENT A “sharp and funny romantic tale.”—O, the Oprah Magazine Ellen O’Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist who works out of the eccentric beachfront home she inherited from her grandparents. It’s a nice life, except for her tumultuous relationship history. She’s stoic about it, but at this point, Ellen wouldn’t mind a lasting one. When she meets Patrick, she’s optimistic. He’s attractive, single, employed, and best of all, he seems to like her back. Then comes that dreaded moment: He thinks they should have a talk. Braced for the worst, Ellen is pleasantly surprised. It turns out that Patrick’s ex-girlfriend is stalking him. Ellen thinks, Actually, that’s kind of interesting. She’s dating someone worth stalking. She’s intrigued by the woman’s motives. In fact, she’d even love to meet her. Ellen doesn’t know it, but she already has.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202919Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hypnotist's Love Story Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hypnotist's Love Story Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 14, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 147 Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 40 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES AND HERE ONE MOMENT A “sharp and funny romantic tale.”—O, the Oprah Magazine Ellen O’Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist who works out of the eccentric beachfront home she inherited from her grandparents. It’s a nice life, except for her tumultuous relationship history. She’s stoic about it, but at this point, Ellen wouldn’t mind a lasting one. When she meets Patrick, she’s optimistic. He’s attractive, single, employed, and best of all, he seems to like her back. Then comes that dreaded moment: He thinks they should have a talk. Braced for the worst, Ellen is pleasantly surprised. It turns out that Patrick’s ex-girlfriend is stalking him. Ellen thinks, Actually, that’s kind of interesting. She’s dating someone worth stalking. She’s intrigued by the woman’s motives. In fact, she’d even love to meet her. Ellen doesn’t know it, but she already has.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-kind-words-a-novel-by-tom-piccirilli--65280851https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kind Words: A Novel Series: #1 of Terrier Rand Author: Tom Piccirilli Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 12, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their bonds frayed by betrayals and guilt, their loyalty to each other their last salvation. Raised to pick a pocket before he could walk, Terry Rand cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree that left eight dead. Five years later, only days before his scheduled execution, Collie contacts Terry and asks him to return home. Collie claims he wasn’t responsible for one of the murders—and insists that the real killer is still on the loose. Dogged by his own demons, Terry is swept back into the schemes and scams of his family: His father, Pinsch, a retired cat burglar, brokenhearted because of his two sons. His card-sharp uncles, Mal and Grey, who’ve incurred the anger of the local mob. His grandfather, Shep, whose mind is failing but whose fingers can still slip out a wallet  from across the room. His teenage sister, Dale, who’s flirting dangerously with the lure of the family business. And Kimmie, the woman Terry abandoned, who’s now raising a child with Terry’s former best friend.   Terry pieces together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his ancestors buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface. A meditation on how love can confine a person just as easily as it can free him, juxtaposing shocking violence and sly humor, The Last Kind Words is the brilliantly inventive family saga that only a singular talent like Tom Piccirilli could conjure. Praise for The Last Kind Words   “A crime noir mystery as hard-boiled as any in recent memory, recalling the work of Chandler, Pelecanos and Connelly . . . Readers literally will be pinned to their seats until the last page is turned.”—Bookreporter   “At once a dark and brooding page-turner and a heartfelt tale about the ties that bind.”—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Heartbroken   “[A] caustic thriller . . . The characters have strong voices and bristle with funny quirks.”—The New York Times Book Review   “[Piccirilli] deserves a breakout novel, and this just might be it.”—Booklist (starred review)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127513Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kind Words: A Novel Series: #1 of Terrier Rand Author: Tom Piccirilli Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kind Words: A Novel Series: #1 of Terrier Rand Author: Tom Piccirilli Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 12, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their bonds frayed by betrayals and guilt, their loyalty to each other their last salvation. Raised to pick a pocket before he could walk, Terry Rand cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree that left eight dead. Five years later, only days before his scheduled execution, Collie contacts Terry and asks him to return home. Collie claims he wasn’t responsible for one of the murders—and insists that the real killer is still on the loose. Dogged by his own demons, Terry is swept back into the schemes and scams of his family: His father, Pinsch, a retired cat burglar, brokenhearted because of his two sons. His card-sharp uncles, Mal and Grey, who’ve incurred the anger of the local mob. His grandfather, Shep, whose mind is failing but whose fingers can still slip out a wallet  from across the room. His teenage sister, Dale, who’s flirting dangerously with the lure of the family business. And Kimmie, the woman Terry abandoned, who’s now raising a child with Terry’s former best friend.   Terry pieces together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his ancestors buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface. A meditation on how love can confine a person just as easily as it can free him, juxtaposing shocking violence and sly humor, The Last Kind Words is the brilliantly inventive family saga that only a singular talent like Tom Piccirilli could conjure. Praise for The Last Kind Words   “A crime noir mystery as hard-boiled as any in recent memory, recalling the work of Chandler, Pelecanos and Connelly . . . Readers literally will be pinned to their seats until the last page is turned.”—Bookreporter   “At once a dark and brooding page-turner and a heartfelt tale about the ties that bind.”—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Heartbroken   “[A] caustic thriller . . . The characters have strong voices and bristle with funny quirks.”—The New York Times Book Review   “[Piccirilli] deserves a breakout novel, and this just might be it.”—Booklist (starred review)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-500-a-novel-by-matthew-quirk--65280836https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The 500: A Novel Series: #1 of Mike Ford Author: Matthew Quirk Narrator: Jay Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 5, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A gripping thriller debut, set deep in the heart of the world's most powerful political arena. A year ago, fresh out of Harvard Law School, Mike Ford landed his dream job at the Davies Group, Washington's most powerful consulting firm. Now, he's staring down the barrel of a gun, pursued by two of the world's most dangerous men. To get out, he'll have to do all the things he thought he'd never do again: lie, cheat, steal -- and this time, maybe even kill. Mike grew up in a world of small-stakes con men, learning lessons at his father's knee. His hard-won success in college and law school was his ticket out. As the Davies Group's rising star, he rubs shoulders with 'The 500,' the elite men and women who really run Washington -- and the world. But peddling influence, he soon learns, is familiar work: even with a pedigree, a con is still a con. Combining the best elements of political intrigue and heart-stopping action, The 500 is an explosive debut, one that calls to mind classic thrillers like The Firm and Presumed Innocent. In Mike Ford, readers will discover a new hero who learns that the higher the climb, the harder -- and deadlier -- the fall.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127546Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The 500: A Novel Series: #1 of Mike Ford Author: Matthew Quirk Narrator: Jay Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The 500: A Novel Series: #1 of Mike Ford Author: Matthew Quirk Narrator: Jay Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 5, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A gripping thriller debut, set deep in the heart of the world's most powerful political arena. A year ago, fresh out of Harvard Law School, Mike Ford landed his dream job at the Davies Group, Washington's most powerful consulting firm. Now, he's staring down the barrel of a gun, pursued by two of the world's most dangerous men. To get out, he'll have to do all the things he thought he'd never do again: lie, cheat, steal -- and this time, maybe even kill. Mike grew up in a world of small-stakes con men, learning lessons at his father's knee. His hard-won success in college and law school was his ticket out. As the Davies Group's rising star, he rubs shoulders with 'The 500,' the elite men and women who really run Washington -- and the world. But peddling influence, he soon learns, is familiar work: even with a pedigree, a con is still a con. Combining the best elements of political intrigue and heart-stopping action, The 500 is an explosive debut, one that calls to mind classic thrillers like The Firm and Presumed Innocent. In Mike Ford, readers will discover a new hero who learns that the higher the climb, the harder -- and deadlier -- the fall.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-comes-next-by-john-katzenbach--65280756https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Comes Next Author: John Katzenbach Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 5, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 102 Ratings of Narrator: 3.88 of Total 48 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A retired university professor is diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease that will lead him to lose his memory and die within a few years. On his way home from the doctor's office, he witnesses a pretty young girl being kidnapped right off the street. As the police drag their heels, he realizes that if he doesn't act the girl may never be found alive. Jennifer Riggins, the kidnapped girl, is being held prisoner by a perverted couple who run an exclusive website called 'What Comes Next,' on which viewers can watch, in real time, the horrors inflicted on their victims. Given the moniker 'Number Four,' Jennifer is at the mercy of the depraved pair, with thousands tuning in for every episode of her ongoing nightmare. What Comes Next is a bold and timely thriller about what lurks within the depths of society's most depraved minds, and how the only hope for a girl whose life is just beginning is a man whose life is nearing its end.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198318Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Comes Next Author: John Katzenbach Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 5, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Comes Next Author: John Katzenbach Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 5, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 102 Ratings of Narrator: 3.88 of Total 48 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A retired university professor is diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease that will lead him to lose his memory and die within a few years. On his way home from the doctor's office, he witnesses a pretty young girl being kidnapped right off the street. As the police drag their heels, he realizes that if he doesn't act the girl may never be found alive. Jennifer Riggins, the kidnapped girl, is being held prisoner by a perverted couple who run an exclusive website called 'What Comes Next,' on which viewers can watch, in real time, the horrors inflicted on their victims. Given the moniker 'Number Four,' Jennifer is at the mercy of the depraved pair, with thousands tuning in for every episode of her ongoing nightmare. What Comes Next is a bold and timely thriller about what lurks within the depths of society's most depraved minds, and how the only hope for a girl whose life is just beginning is a man whose life is nearing its end.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/playing-dead-a-novel-of-suspense-by-julia-heaberlin--65280808https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/133433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Dead: A Novel of Suspense Author: Julia Heaberlin Narrator: Madeleine Lambert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” The perfume-scented letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly the girl who grew up on a Texas ranch finds herself inextricably linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping of a little girl named Adriana. Tommie races along a twisting, nightmarish path while an unseen stalker is determined to keep old secrets locked inside the dementia-battered brain of the woman who Tommie always thought was her real mother. With everything she has ever believed in question, and no one she can trust, Tommie must discover the truth about the girl who vanished—and the very real threats that still remain.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/133433Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/133433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Dead: A Novel of Suspense Author: Julia Heaberlin Narrator: Madeleine Lambert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/133433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Dead: A Novel of Suspense Author: Julia Heaberlin Narrator: Madeleine Lambert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” The perfume-scented letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly the girl who grew up on a Texas ranch finds herself inextricably linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping of a little girl named Adriana. Tommie races along a twisting, nightmarish path while an unseen stalker is determined to keep old secrets locked inside the dementia-battered brain of the woman who Tommie always thought was her real mother. With everything she has ever believed in question, and no one she can trust, Tommie must discover the truth about the girl who vanished—and the very real threats that still remain.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cranes-dance-by-meg-howrey--65280822https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cranes Dance Author: Meg Howrey Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake tonight. So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can't help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-doubt to maintain her place within it. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate's but who has recently suffered a breakdown and returned home to Michigan. Alone for the first time in her life, Kate is anxious and full of guilt about the role she played in her sister's collapse. As we follow her on an insider tour of rehearsals, performances, and partners onstage and off, she confronts the tangle of love, jealousy, pride, and obsession that are beginning to fracture her own sanity. Funny, dark, intimate, and unflinchingly honest, The Cranes Dance is a book that pulls back the curtains to reveal the private lives of dancers and explores the complicated bond between sisters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127180Tue, 15 May 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cranes Dance Author: Meg Howrey Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cranes Dance Author: Meg Howrey Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake tonight. So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can't help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-doubt to maintain her place within it. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate's but who has recently suffered a breakdown and returned home to Michigan. Alone for the first time in her life, Kate is anxious and full of guilt about the role she played in her sister's collapse. As we follow her on an insider tour of rehearsals, performances, and partners onstage and off, she confronts the tangle of love, jealousy, pride, and obsession that are beginning to fracture her own sanity. Funny, dark, intimate, and unflinchingly honest, The Cranes Dance is a book that pulls back the curtains to reveal the private lives of dancers and explores the complicated bond between sisters.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/admission-by-jean-hanff-korelitz--65280803https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Admission Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Narrator: Colleen Werthmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission. Admission is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past shake a woman's life to its core.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125097Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Admission Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Narrator: Colleen Werthmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Admission Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Narrator: Colleen Werthmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission. Admission is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past shake a woman's life to its core.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sugar-frosted-nutsack-a-novel-by-mark-leyner--65280849https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124414 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel Author: Mark Leyner Narrator: Mark Leyner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals. High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14 billion years ago from a bus blaring a tune remarkably similar to the Mister Softee jingle, they've wreaked mischief and havoc on mankind. Unable to control their jealousies, the gods have splintered into several factions, led by the immortal enemies XOXO, Shanice, La Felina, Fast-Cooking Ali, and Mogul Magoo. Ike Karton, an unemployed butcher from New Jersey, is their current obsession. Ritualistically recited by a cast of drug-addled bards, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is Ike's epic story. A raucous tale of gods and men confronting lust, ambition, death, and the eternal verities, it is a wildly fun, wickedly fast gambol through the unmapped corridors of the imagination.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124414Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124414 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel Author: Mark Leyner Narrator: Mark Leyner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124414 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel Author: Mark Leyner Narrator: Mark Leyner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals. High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14 billion years ago from a bus blaring a tune remarkably similar to the Mister Softee jingle, they've wreaked mischief and havoc on mankind. Unable to control their jealousies, the gods have splintered into several factions, led by the immortal enemies XOXO, Shanice, La Felina, Fast-Cooking Ali, and Mogul Magoo. Ike Karton, an unemployed butcher from New Jersey, is their current obsession. Ritualistically recited by a cast of drug-addled bards, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is Ike's epic story. A raucous tale of gods and men confronting lust, ambition, death, and the eternal verities, it is a wildly fun, wickedly fast gambol through the unmapped corridors of the imagination.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-good-father-by-noah-hawley--65280847https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Father Author: Noah Hawley Narrator: Ryan Gesell, Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo and author of the bestseller Before the Fall, an intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.   As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.       Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.      Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities—and limitations—of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122316Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Father Author: Noah Hawley Narrator: Ryan Gesell, Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Father Author: Noah Hawley Narrator: Ryan Gesell, Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo and author of the bestseller Before the Fall, an intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.   As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.       Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.      Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities—and limitations—of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mortal-memory-by-thomas-h-cook--65280773https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mortal Memory Series: Part of Mysterious Press-Highbridge Audio Classics Author: Thomas H. Cook Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 28, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A chilling psychological thriller: Questions from a reporter trigger memories of a heinous family crime, the ramifications of which are perhaps not as far in the past nor as far removed as originally assumed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198339Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mortal Memory Series: Part of Mysterious Press-Highbridge Audio Classics Author: Thomas H. Cook Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mortal Memory Series: Part of Mysterious Press-Highbridge Audio Classics Author: Thomas H. Cook Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 28, 2012 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A chilling psychological thriller: Questions from a reporter trigger memories of a heinous family crime, the ramifications of which are perhaps not as far in the past nor as far removed as originally assumed.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thirst-by-andrei-gelasimov--65280826https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirst Author: Andrei Gelasimov Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 15, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Masterfully translated from the original Russian by award-winning translator Marian Schwartz, Thirst tells the story of 20-year-old Chechen War veteran Kostya. Maimed beyond recognition by a tank explosion, he spends weeks on end locked inside his apartment, his sole companions the vodka bottles spilling from the refrigerator. But soon Kostya’s comfortable if dysfunctional cocoon is torn open when he receives a visit from his army buddies who are mobilized to locate a missing comrade. Through this search for his missing friend, Kostya is able to find himself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129729Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirst Author: Andrei Gelasimov Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 15, 2012 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirst Author: Andrei Gelasimov Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 15, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Masterfully translated from the original Russian by award-winning translator Marian Schwartz, Thirst tells the story of 20-year-old Chechen War veteran Kostya. Maimed beyond recognition by a tank explosion, he spends weeks on end locked inside his apartment, his sole companions the vodka bottles spilling from the refrigerator. But soon Kostya’s comfortable if dysfunctional cocoon is torn open when he receives a visit from his army buddies who are mobilized to locate a missing comrade. Through this search for his missing friend, Kostya is able to find himself.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/down-the-darkest-road-by-tami-hoag--65280880https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down the Darkest Road Series: #3 of Oak Knoll Series Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 27, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with the latest entry in her riveting Oak Knoll series. Deeper Than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed as idyllic as any . . . until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called 'profiling' to put an end to the trauma. Secrets to the Grave brought Leone's teacher-turned-child- advocate wife, Anne, into a central role. Together with Vince and local sheriff 's deputy Tony Mendez, she solved an Oak Knoll murder with a particularly challenging mystery: The victim never existed. And now Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this bestselling series. Through Leone's pioneering, science-based investigatory skills, Hoag explores the early days of forensic police work. And through the chilling case at the heart of Down the Darkest Road, she hooks ever more readers into the meticulously crafted, all-too-terrifying world of Oak Knoll, where the scariest secrets of all can be found . . . Down the Darkest Road.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117093Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down the Darkest Road Series: #3 of Oak Knoll Series Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down the Darkest Road Series: #3 of Oak Knoll Series Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 27, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with the latest entry in her riveting Oak Knoll series. Deeper Than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed as idyllic as any . . . until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called 'profiling' to put an end to the trauma. Secrets to the Grave brought Leone's teacher-turned-child- advocate wife, Anne, into a central role. Together with Vince and local sheriff 's deputy Tony Mendez, she solved an Oak Knoll murder with a particularly challenging mystery: The victim never existed. And now Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this bestselling series. Through Leone's pioneering, science-based investigatory skills, Hoag explores the early days of forensic police work. And through the chilling case at the heart of Down the Darkest Road, she hooks ever more readers into the meticulously crafted, all-too-terrifying world of Oak Knoll, where the scariest secrets of all can be found . . . Down the Darkest Road.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daughter-of-the-stars-by-phyllis-a-whitney--65280844https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of the Stars Author: Phyllis A. Whitney Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 14, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Lacey Elliot has been a woman without a past since the day her mother whisked her off to Charlottesville, refusing for thirty years to speak of her father, her family or her history. But when Lacey intercepts a desperate letter from an aunt in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, she sees her chance to confront the past that has terrified her mother and to fill in the gaps in her own life. Against the charm and the colorful, turbulent history of the picturesque town, the violent history of Lacey’s own heritage is about to repeat itself. As she finds herself drawn to a man intrigued by the town for reasons of his own, old ghosts reappear and danger returns, as a killer walks among them once more.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58221Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of the Stars Author: Phyllis A. Whitney Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 14,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of the Stars Author: Phyllis A. Whitney Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 14, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Lacey Elliot has been a woman without a past since the day her mother whisked her off to Charlottesville, refusing for thirty years to speak of her father, her family or her history. But when Lacey intercepts a desperate letter from an aunt in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, she sees her chance to confront the past that has terrified her mother and to fill in the gaps in her own life. Against the charm and the colorful, turbulent history of the picturesque town, the violent history of Lacey’s own heritage is about to repeat itself. As she finds herself drawn to a man intrigued by the town for reasons of his own, old ghosts reappear and danger returns, as a killer walks among them once more.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/triangles-a-novel-by-ellen-hopkins--65280859https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Triangles: A Novel Author: Ellen Hopkins Narrator: January LaVoy, Michele Pawk, Jan Maxwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 18, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath, three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life. Holly, filled with regret for being a stay-at-home mom, sheds sixty pounds and loses herself in the world of extramarital sex. But will it truly bring the fulfillment she is searching for? Andrea, a single mom and avowed celibate, watches her friend Holly’s meltdown with a mixture of concern and contempt. Holly is throwing away what Andrea has spent her whole life searching for—a committed relationship with a decent guy. So would it be such a bad thing if Andrea picks up Holly’s castaway husband? Marissa has more than her fair share of challenges—a rebellious teenage son, a terminally ill daughter, and a husband who buries himself in his work rather than face the facts. As one woman’s marriage unravels, another’s rekindles. As one woman’s family comes apart at the seams, another’s reconfigures into something bigger and better. In this story of connections and disconnections, one woman’s up is another one’s down, and all of them will learn the meaning of friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness. Unflinchingly honest, emotionally powerful, surprisingly erotic, Triangles is the ultimate page-turner. Hopkins’s gorgeous, expertly honed poetic verse perfectly captures the inner lives of her characters: Sometimes it happens like that. Sometimes you just get lost. Get lost in the world of Triangles, where the lives of three unforgettable women intersect, and where there are no easy answers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102467Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Triangles: A Novel Author: Ellen Hopkins Narrator: January LaVoy, Michele Pawk, Jan Maxwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Triangles: A Novel Author: Ellen Hopkins Narrator: January LaVoy, Michele Pawk, Jan Maxwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 18, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath, three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life. Holly, filled with regret for being a stay-at-home mom, sheds sixty pounds and loses herself in the world of extramarital sex. But will it truly bring the fulfillment she is searching for? Andrea, a single mom and avowed celibate, watches her friend Holly’s meltdown with a mixture of concern and contempt. Holly is throwing away what Andrea has spent her whole life searching for—a committed relationship with a decent guy. So would it be such a bad thing if Andrea picks up Holly’s castaway husband? Marissa has more than her fair share of challenges—a rebellious teenage son, a terminally ill daughter, and a husband who buries himself in his work rather than face the facts. As one woman’s marriage unravels, another’s rekindles. As one woman’s family comes apart at the seams, another’s reconfigures into something bigger and better. In this story of connections and disconnections, one woman’s up is another one’s down, and all of them will learn the meaning of friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness. Unflinchingly honest, emotionally powerful, surprisingly erotic, Triangles is the ultimate page-turner. Hopkins’s gorgeous, expertly honed poetic verse perfectly captures the inner lives of her characters: Sometimes it happens like that. Sometimes you just get lost. Get lost in the world of Triangles, where the lives of three unforgettable women intersect, and where there are no easy answers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-outlaw-album-stories-by-daniel-woodrell--65280858https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outlaw Album: Stories Author: Daniel Woodrell Narrator: Leslie Bellair, Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a 'stunningly original' American master (Associated Press). Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbor. There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories -- between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, 'the music coming from Woodrell's banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer'-Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution 'Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a 'stunningly original'-Associated Press, American master.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101370Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outlaw Album: Stories Author: Daniel Woodrell Narrator: Leslie Bellair, Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outlaw Album: Stories Author: Daniel Woodrell Narrator: Leslie Bellair, Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a 'stunningly original' American master (Associated Press). Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbor. There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories -- between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, 'the music coming from Woodrell's banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer'-Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution 'Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a 'stunningly original'-Associated Press, American master.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-alice-forgot-by-liane-moriarty--65280758https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Alice Forgot Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 20, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 647 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 156 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HUSBAND'S SECRET AND BIG LITTLE LIES. A “cheerfully engaging”(Kirkus Reviews) novel for anyone who’s ever asked herself, “How did I get here?” Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over—she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202920Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Alice Forgot Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Alice Forgot Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 20, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 647 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 156 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HUSBAND'S SECRET AND BIG LITTLE LIES. A “cheerfully engaging”(Kirkus Reviews) novel for anyone who’s ever asked herself, “How did I get here?” Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over—she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-queen-by-steven-james--65280904https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen Series: #5 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With this fifth pulse-pounding entry in his Christy Award-winning series, best-selling author Steven James explores the rippling effects of life's everyday choices. While investigating a double homicide in an isolated Wisconsin town, Special Agent Patrick Bowers uncovers a high-tech conspiracy that twists through long-buried Cold War secrets and targets present-day tensions in the Middle East.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119490Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen Series: #5 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen Series: #5 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With this fifth pulse-pounding entry in his Christy Award-winning series, best-selling author Steven James explores the rippling effects of life's everyday choices. While investigating a double homicide in an isolated Wisconsin town, Special Agent Patrick Bowers uncovers a high-tech conspiracy that twists through long-buried Cold War secrets and targets present-day tensions in the Middle East.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-language-of-flowers-a-novel-by-vanessa-diffenbaugh--65280837https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Flowers: A Novel Author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh Narrator: Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 54 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But a mysterious vendor at the flower market has her questioning what’s been missing in her life, and when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness. Praise for The Language of Flowers 'Instantly enchanting . . . [Diffenbaugh] is the best new writer of the year.'—Elle “I would like to hand Vanessa Diffenbaugh a bouquet of bouvardia (enthusiasm), gladiolus (you pierce my heart) and lisianthus (appreciation).  In this original and brilliant first novel, Diffenbaugh has united her fascination with the language of flowers—a long-forgotten and mysterious way of communication—with her firsthand knowledge of the travails of the foster-care system. . . . This novel is both enchanting and cruel, full of beauty and anger. Diffenbaugh is a talented writer and a mesmerizing storyteller.  She includes a flower dictionary in case we want to use the language ourselves.  And there is one more sprig I should add to her bouquet: a single pink carnation (I will never forget you).”—Washington Post 'A fascinating debut . . . Diffenbaugh clearly knows both the human heart and her plants, and she keeps us rooting for the damaged Victoria.'—O Magazine 'Diffenbaugh effortlessly spins this enchanting tale, making even her prickly protagonist impossible not to love.'—Entertainment Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99025Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Flowers: A Novel Author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh Narrator: Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Flowers: A Novel Author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh Narrator: Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 54 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But a mysterious vendor at the flower market has her questioning what’s been missing in her life, and when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness. Praise for The Language of Flowers 'Instantly enchanting . . . [Diffenbaugh] is the best new writer of the year.'—Elle “I would like to hand Vanessa Diffenbaugh a bouquet of bouvardia (enthusiasm), gladiolus (you pierce my heart) and lisianthus (appreciation).  In this original and brilliant first novel, Diffenbaugh has united her fascination with the language of flowers—a long-forgotten and mysterious way of communication—with her firsthand knowledge of the travails of the foster-care system. . . . This novel is both enchanting and cruel, full of beauty and anger. Diffenbaugh is a talented writer and a mesmerizing storyteller.  She includes a flower dictionary in case we want to use the language ourselves.  And there is one more sprig I should add to her bouquet: a single pink carnation (I will never forget you).”—Washington Post 'A fascinating debut . . . Diffenbaugh clearly knows both the human heart and her plants, and she keeps us rooting for the damaged Victoria.'—O Magazine 'Diffenbaugh effortlessly spins this enchanting tale, making even her prickly protagonist impossible not to love.'—Entertainment Weekly]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-end-of-everything-a-novel-by-megan-abbott--65280854https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Everything: A Novel Author: Megan Abbott Narrator: Emily Bauer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 7, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.23 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom—presumably—there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger? Compelled by curiosity, Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power at the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secret after secret and begins to wonder if she knew anything at all about her best friend.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98851Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Everything: A Novel Author: Megan Abbott Narrator: Emily Bauer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Everything: A Novel Author: Megan Abbott Narrator: Emily Bauer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 7, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.23 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom—presumably—there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger? Compelled by curiosity, Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power at the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secret after secret and begins to wonder if she knew anything at all about her best friend.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-in-the-garden-by-kamala-nair--65280875https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Garden Author: Kamala Nair Narrator: Anitha Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97012Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Garden Author: Kamala Nair Narrator: Anitha Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 15, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Garden Author: Kamala Nair Narrator: Anitha Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ridge-by-michael-koryta--65280841https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ridge Author: Michael Koryta Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Discover a brilliant thriller set in a remote big-cat sanctuary: 'one of the scariest and most touching horror tales in years' (James Patterson). In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. For years the lighthouse has been considered no more than an eccentric local landmark -- until its builder is found dead at the top of the light, and his belongings reveal a troubling local history. For deputy sheriff Kevin Kimble, the lighthouse-keeper's death is disturbing and personal. Years ago, Kimble was shot while on duty. Somehow the death suggests a connection between the lighthouse and the most terrifying moment of his life. Audrey Clark is in the midst of moving her large-cat sanctuary onto land adjacent to the lighthouse. Sixty-seven tigers, lions, leopards, and one legendary black panther are about to have a new home there. Her husband, the sanctuary's founder, died scouting the new property, and Audrey is determined to see his vision through. As strange occurrences multiply at the Ridge, the animals grow ever more restless, and Kimble and Audrey try to understand what evil forces are moving through this ancient landscape, just past the divide between dark and light. The Ridge is a brilliant thriller from international bestseller Michael Koryta, further evidence of why Dean Koontz has said 'Michael Koryta's work resonates into deeper strata than does most of what I read' and why Michael Connelly has named him 'one of the best of the best.' 'The Ridge is a classic ghost story, penned by a master. I couldn't put it down, even though I almost screamed when the wind blew a branch against the tree outside my study. Yes, it's that scary.' --Stephen King]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97057Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ridge Author: Michael Koryta Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 8, 2011 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ridge Author: Michael Koryta Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Discover a brilliant thriller set in a remote big-cat sanctuary: 'one of the scariest and most touching horror tales in years' (James Patterson). In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. For years the lighthouse has been considered no more than an eccentric local landmark -- until its builder is found dead at the top of the light, and his belongings reveal a troubling local history. For deputy sheriff Kevin Kimble, the lighthouse-keeper's death is disturbing and personal. Years ago, Kimble was shot while on duty. Somehow the death suggests a connection between the lighthouse and the most terrifying moment of his life. Audrey Clark is in the midst of moving her large-cat sanctuary onto land adjacent to the lighthouse. Sixty-seven tigers, lions, leopards, and one legendary black panther are about to have a new home there. Her husband, the sanctuary's founder, died scouting the new property, and Audrey is determined to see his vision through. As strange occurrences multiply at the Ridge, the animals grow ever more restless, and Kimble and Audrey try to understand what evil forces are moving through this ancient landscape, just past the divide between dark and light. The Ridge is a brilliant thriller from international bestseller Michael Koryta, further evidence of why Dean Koontz has said 'Michael Koryta's work resonates into deeper strata than does most of what I read' and why Michael Connelly has named him 'one of the best of the best.' 'The Ridge is a classic ghost story, penned by a master. I couldn't put it down, even though I almost screamed when the wind blew a branch against the tree outside my study. Yes, it's that scary.' --Stephen King]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-queen-of-the-damned-by-anne-rice--65280864https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen of the Damned Series: #3 of Vampire Chronicles Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 31, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.76 of Total 37 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.   Praise for The Queen of the Damned   “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times   “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today   “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121213Tue, 31 May 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen of the Damned Series: #3 of Vampire Chronicles Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen of the Damned Series: #3 of Vampire Chronicles Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 31, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.76 of Total 37 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.   Praise for The Queen of the Damned   “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times   “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today   “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-the-river-runs-by-patti-callahan-henry--65280811https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the River Runs Author: Patti Callahan Henry Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: May 30, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry delivers an engaging novel about a South Carolina woman who goes back home to face the past—and discovers herself. Meridy Dresden was once a free-spirited, fun-loving girl. All that changed when the boy she loved was killed in a tragic fire. Since then, she alone has carried the burden of a terrible secret. Now, years later, married to a wonderful man and mother of a teenage son, she is shocked to learn that a childhood friend is being blamed for that long-ago fire. Fearful but determined, Meridy returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry and summons the courage to make a decision that may destroy her well-ordered life, her family's reputation, her contented marriage, and everything she's worked so hard to protect...including her heart. 'Brilliant. Powerful. Magical. Do not miss this book.'—New York Times bestselling authorHaywood Smith]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163780Mon, 30 May 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the River Runs Author: Patti Callahan Henry Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: May 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the River Runs Author: Patti Callahan Henry Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: May 30, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry delivers an engaging novel about a South Carolina woman who goes back home to face the past—and discovers herself. Meridy Dresden was once a free-spirited, fun-loving girl. All that changed when the boy she loved was killed in a tragic fire. Since then, she alone has carried the burden of a terrible secret. Now, years later, married to a wonderful man and mother of a teenage son, she is shocked to learn that a childhood friend is being blamed for that long-ago fire. Fearful but determined, Meridy returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry and summons the courage to make a decision that may destroy her well-ordered life, her family's reputation, her contented marriage, and everything she's worked so hard to protect...including her heart. 'Brilliant. Powerful. Magical. Do not miss this book.'—New York Times bestselling authorHaywood Smith]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pale-king-by-david-foster-wallace--65280861https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pale King Author: David Foster Wallace Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote.  The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions -- questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time. "The Pale King is by turns funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying, and rousing." --Laura Miller, Salon]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93045Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pale King Author: David Foster Wallace Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 15, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pale King Author: David Foster Wallace Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote.  The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions -- questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time. "The Pale King is by turns funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying, and rousing." --Laura Miller, Salon]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bishop-by-steven-james--65280900https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bishop Series: #4 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 25, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Gold Medallion and Christy Award nominee Steven James crafts pulse-pounding psychological thrillers that hold listeners spellbound. This fourth in his CBA bestselling series pushes FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers' cutting-edge skills to the limit when a woman is found brutally murdered near Washington, D.C. While her killers continue a spree of perfect crimes, Bowers struggles to discover a pattern and crack his most difficult case yet.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99244Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bishop Series: #4 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 53 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bishop Series: #4 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 25, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Gold Medallion and Christy Award nominee Steven James crafts pulse-pounding psychological thrillers that hold listeners spellbound. This fourth in his CBA bestselling series pushes FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers' cutting-edge skills to the limit when a woman is found brutally murdered near Washington, D.C. While her killers continue a spree of perfect crimes, Bowers struggles to discover a pattern and crack his most difficult case yet.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-by-david-fulmer--65280827https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall Author: David Fulmer Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 25, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A fascinating and character-driven thriller, this novel delves into the deepest bonds of friendship, all accompanied by a rock 'n' roll beat. After Richard Zale receives news of the death of a childhood friend, he returns to their hometown to pay his respects. It isn't long, however, before old frictions and a new puzzle emerge, drawing him deeper into the mystery of his friend's demise.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136185Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall Author: David Fulmer Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 25, 2011 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall Author: David Fulmer Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 25, 2011 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A fascinating and character-driven thriller, this novel delves into the deepest bonds of friendship, all accompanied by a rock 'n' roll beat. After Richard Zale receives news of the death of a childhood friend, he returns to their hometown to pay his respects. It isn't long, however, before old frictions and a new puzzle emerge, drawing him deeper into the mystery of his friend's demise.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-simple-plan-by-scott-smith--65280892https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Simple Plan Author: Scott Smith Narrator: Peter Bradbury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150277Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Simple Plan Author: Scott Smith Narrator: Peter Bradbury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Simple Plan Author: Scott Smith Narrator: Peter Bradbury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bloodstream-by-tess-gerritsen--65280780https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloodstream Author: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practice on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town's teenagers. As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century, the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence. Claire suspects that there is a biological cause for the epidemic, and she fears that the placid Locust Lake may conceal an insidious danger. As she races to save Tranquility—and her son—from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature and cause innocents to slaughter.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150307Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloodstream Author: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloodstream Author: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practice on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town's teenagers. As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century, the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence. Claire suspects that there is a biological cause for the epidemic, and she fears that the placid Locust Lake may conceal an insidious danger. As she races to save Tranquility—and her son—from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature and cause innocents to slaughter.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-badge-of-courage-by-stephen-crane--65280909https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford- able hardbound editions of impor- tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy- fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch- bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89463Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford- able hardbound editions of impor- tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy- fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch- bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-days-of-ptolemy-grey-by-walter-mosley--65280767https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 11, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the literary icons of our time. Coming in March 2022 from Apple Plus , a six-part series starring Samuel L. Jackson Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently killed in a drive-by shooting, and Ptolemy is too suspicious of anyone else to allow them into his life. until he meets Robyn, his niece's seventeen-year-old lodger and the only one willing to take care of an old man at his grandnephew's funeral. But Robyn will not tolerate Ptolemy's hermitlike existence. She challenges him to interact more with the world around him, and he grasps more firmly onto his disappearing consciousness. However, this new activity pushes Ptolemy into the fold of a doctor touting an experimental drug that guarantees Ptolemy won't live to see age ninety- two but that he'll spend his last days in feverish vigor and clarity. With his mind clear, what Ptolemy finds-in his own past, in his own apartment, and in the circumstances surrounding his grand-nephew's death-is shocking enough to spur an old man to action, and to ensure a legacy that no one will forget. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Mosley captures the compromised state of his protagonist's mind with profound sensitivity and insight, and creates an unforgettable pair of characters at the center of a novel that is sure to become a true contemporary classic.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202925Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 11, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the literary icons of our time. Coming in March 2022 from Apple Plus , a six-part series starring Samuel L. Jackson Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently killed in a drive-by shooting, and Ptolemy is too suspicious of anyone else to allow them into his life. until he meets Robyn, his niece's seventeen-year-old lodger and the only one willing to take care of an old man at his grandnephew's funeral. But Robyn will not tolerate Ptolemy's hermitlike existence. She challenges him to interact more with the world around him, and he grasps more firmly onto his disappearing consciousness. However, this new activity pushes Ptolemy into the fold of a doctor touting an experimental drug that guarantees Ptolemy won't live to see age ninety- two but that he'll spend his last days in feverish vigor and clarity. With his mind clear, what Ptolemy finds-in his own past, in his own apartment, and in the circumstances surrounding his grand-nephew's death-is shocking enough to spur an old man to action, and to ensure a legacy that no one will forget. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Mosley captures the compromised state of his protagonist's mind with profound sensitivity and insight, and creates an unforgettable pair of characters at the center of a novel that is sure to become a true contemporary classic.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-still-dream-about-you-a-novel-by-fannie-flagg--65280891https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Still Dream About You: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Fannie Flagg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future. Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful real estate agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up in her present condition. She had been on her hopeful way to becoming Miss America and realizing her childhood dream of someday living in one of the elegant old homes on top of Red Mountain, with the adoring husband and the 2.5 children, but then something unexpected happened and changed everything. Maggie graduated at the top of her class at charm school, can fold a napkin in more than forty-eight different ways, and can enter and exit a car gracefully, but all the finesse in the world cannot help her now. Since the legendary real estate dynamo Hazel Whisenknott, beloved founder of Red Mountain Realty, died five years ago, business has gone from bad to worse—and the future isn’t looking much better. But just when things seem completely hopeless, Maggie suddenly comes up with the perfect plan to solve it all. As Maggie prepares to put her plan into action, we meet the cast of high-spirited characters around her. To Brenda Peoples, Maggie’s best friend and real estate partner, Maggie’s life seems easy as pie. Slender Maggie doesn’t have to worry about her figure, or about her Weight Watchers sponsor catching her at the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. And Ethel Clipp, Red Mountain’s ancient and grumpy office manager with the bright purple hair, thinks the world of Maggie but has absolutely nothing nice to say about their rival Babs “The Beast of Birmingham” Bingington, the unscrupulous estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business. Maggie has heartbreaking secrets in her past, but through a strange turn of events, she soon discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems—dead or alive—has at least one little secret. I Still Dream About You is a wonderful novel that is equal parts Southern charm, murder mystery, and that perfect combination of comedy and old-fashioned wisdom that can be served up only by America’s own remarkable Fannie Flagg.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83764Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Still Dream About You: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Fannie Flagg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Still Dream About You: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Fannie Flagg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future. Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful real estate agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up in her present condition. She had been on her hopeful way to becoming Miss America and realizing her childhood dream of someday living in one of the elegant old homes on top of Red Mountain, with the adoring husband and the 2.5 children, but then something unexpected happened and changed everything. Maggie graduated at the top of her class at charm school, can fold a napkin in more than forty-eight different ways, and can enter and exit a car gracefully, but all the finesse in the world cannot help her now. Since the legendary real estate dynamo Hazel Whisenknott, beloved founder of Red Mountain Realty, died five years ago, business has gone from bad to worse—and the future isn’t looking much better. But just when things seem completely hopeless, Maggie suddenly comes up with the perfect plan to solve it all. As Maggie prepares to put her plan into action, we meet the cast of high-spirited characters around her. To Brenda Peoples, Maggie’s best friend and real estate partner, Maggie’s life seems easy as pie. Slender Maggie doesn’t have to worry about her figure, or about her Weight Watchers sponsor catching her at the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. And Ethel Clipp, Red Mountain’s ancient and grumpy office manager with the bright purple hair, thinks the world of Maggie but has absolutely nothing nice to say about their rival Babs “The Beast of Birmingham” Bingington, the unscrupulous estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business. Maggie has heartbreaking secrets in her past, but through a strange turn of events, she soon discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems—dead or alive—has at least one little secret. I Still Dream About You is a wonderful novel that is equal parts Southern charm, murder mystery, and that perfect combination of comedy and old-fashioned wisdom that can be served up only by America’s own remarkable Fannie Flagg.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-midnight-road-by-tom-piccirilli--65280870https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Midnight Road Author: Tom Piccirilli Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the moment he saw the girl in the snowstorm, Flynn had less than an hour to live. But he'll remember his last fifty minutes long after he's dead. As an investigator for Suffolk County Child Protective Services, Flynn has seen more than his share of misery, but nothing could prepare him for the nightmare inside the Shepards' million-dollar Long Island home. In less than an hour, that nightmare will send him plunging into a frozen harbor—and awaken him to a reality even more terrifying. They've nicknamed Flynn 'The Miracle Man' because few have ever been resuscitated after being dead so long. But a determined homicide detective and a beautiful, inquisitive reporter have questions about what really happened at the Shepard house—and why the people around Flynn are suddenly being murdered. Flynn has questions of his own, especially when one of the victims dies while handing him a note: 'This is all your fault.' Flynn has returned from the Midnight Road—and someone wants to send him back.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88331Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Midnight Road Author: Tom Piccirilli Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 20, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Midnight Road Author: Tom Piccirilli Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the moment he saw the girl in the snowstorm, Flynn had less than an hour to live. But he'll remember his last fifty minutes long after he's dead. As an investigator for Suffolk County Child Protective Services, Flynn has seen more than his share of misery, but nothing could prepare him for the nightmare inside the Shepards' million-dollar Long Island home. In less than an hour, that nightmare will send him plunging into a frozen harbor—and awaken him to a reality even more terrifying. They've nicknamed Flynn 'The Miracle Man' because few have ever been resuscitated after being dead so long. But a determined homicide detective and a beautiful, inquisitive reporter have questions about what really happened at the Shepard house—and why the people around Flynn are suddenly being murdered. Flynn has questions of his own, especially when one of the victims dies while handing him a note: 'This is all your fault.' Flynn has returned from the Midnight Road—and someone wants to send him back.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/snakewoman-of-little-egypt-a-novel-by-robert-hellenga--65280853https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snakewoman of Little Egypt: A Novel Author: Robert Hellenga Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 14, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: On the morning of his fortieth birthday, anthropology professor Jackson Jones contemplates his future: Should he go back to Africa, where he did his fieldwork, and live with the Mbuti, or should he marry and settle down in the Midwest, where he now teaches? On the morning of her release from prison, Sunny, who grew up in a snake-handling church in the Little Egypt region of Southern Illinois, rents a garage apartment from Jackson. She's been serving a five-year sentence for shooting, but not killing, her husband, the pastor of the Church of the Burning Bush with Signs Following after he forced her at gunpoint to put her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. Sunny and Jackson become lovers, but they're pulled in different directions. Sunny, drawn to science and eager to put her snake-handling past behind her, enrolls at the university. Jackson, however, takes a professional interest in the religious ecstasy exhibited by the snake handlers. Push comes to shove in a novel packed with wit, substance, and emotional depth. Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117444Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snakewoman of Little Egypt: A Novel Author: Robert Hellenga Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snakewoman of Little Egypt: A Novel Author: Robert Hellenga Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 14, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: On the morning of his fortieth birthday, anthropology professor Jackson Jones contemplates his future: Should he go back to Africa, where he did his fieldwork, and live with the Mbuti, or should he marry and settle down in the Midwest, where he now teaches? On the morning of her release from prison, Sunny, who grew up in a snake-handling church in the Little Egypt region of Southern Illinois, rents a garage apartment from Jackson. She's been serving a five-year sentence for shooting, but not killing, her husband, the pastor of the Church of the Burning Bush with Signs Following after he forced her at gunpoint to put her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. Sunny and Jackson become lovers, but they're pulled in different directions. Sunny, drawn to science and eager to put her snake-handling past behind her, enrolls at the university. Jackson, however, takes a professional interest in the religious ecstasy exhibited by the snake handlers. Push comes to shove in a novel packed with wit, substance, and emotional depth. Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unknown-a-special-edition-of-out-of-my-head-by-didier-van-cauwelaert--65280908https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unknown: A Special Edition of Out of My Head Author: Didier Van Cauwelaert Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 23, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn’t know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he’s a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person—family, colleague, or doctor—can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin’s memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself. Is it a conspiracy? Amnesia? Is Martin the victim of an elaborate hoax or of his own paranoid delusion? In this high-powered novel, Didier van Cauwelaert, the award-winning author of One-Way, explores the illusory nature of identity and the instability of the things we take for granted. Dispossessed of his job, his family, his name, and his very past, Martin Harris is an Everyman caught in an absurd and yet disturbingly convincing nightmare, one that seems to have no exit and that resists every explanation. Part moral fable, part Robert Ludlum-style thriller, Unknown is a fast-paced tale of one man’s desperate attempt to reclaim his existence—even at the cost of his own life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83301Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unknown: A Special Edition of Out of My Head Author: Didier Van Cauwelaert Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unknown: A Special Edition of Out of My Head Author: Didier Van Cauwelaert Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 23, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn’t know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he’s a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person—family, colleague, or doctor—can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin’s memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself. Is it a conspiracy? Amnesia? Is Martin the victim of an elaborate hoax or of his own paranoid delusion? In this high-powered novel, Didier van Cauwelaert, the award-winning author of One-Way, explores the illusory nature of identity and the instability of the things we take for granted. Dispossessed of his job, his family, his name, and his very past, Martin Harris is an Everyman caught in an absurd and yet disturbingly convincing nightmare, one that seems to have no exit and that resists every explanation. Part moral fable, part Robert Ludlum-style thriller, Unknown is a fast-paced tale of one man’s desperate attempt to reclaim his existence—even at the cost of his own life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-in-the-gray-flannel-suit-by-sloan-wilson--65280834https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Author: Sloan Wilson Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 17, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. It was a national bestseller that was made into an award-winning film, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our cultural vocabulary. Today, it is more relevant than ever. Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race—what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out. At once a searing indictment of corporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a deeply rewarding novel about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196885Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Author: Sloan Wilson Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Author: Sloan Wilson Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 17, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. It was a national bestseller that was made into an award-winning film, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our cultural vocabulary. Today, it is more relevant than ever. Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race—what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out. At once a searing indictment of corporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a deeply rewarding novel about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-american-previously-published-as-a-very-private-gentleman-by-martin-booth--65280832https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American: Previously published as A Very Private Gentleman Author: Martin Booth Narrator: Geoffrey Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: August 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly—for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous—mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evenings talking with his friend, the town priest, over a glass of brandy. Yet there are other sides to this gentleman’s life: Clara, the young student who moonlights in the town bordello, and another woman, who arrives with one hundred thousand dollars and a commission—but not for a painting of butterflies. With this assignment returns the dark fear that has dogged Signor Farfalla’s mysterious life. Almost instantly, he senses a deadly circle closing in on him, one which he may or may not elude. Part thriller, part character study, part drama of deceit and self-betrayal, The American shows Martin Booth at the very height of his powers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83255Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American: Previously published as A Very Private Gentleman Author: Martin Booth Narrator: Geoffrey Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American: Previously published as A Very Private Gentleman Author: Martin Booth Narrator: Geoffrey Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: August 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly—for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous—mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evenings talking with his friend, the town priest, over a glass of brandy. Yet there are other sides to this gentleman’s life: Clara, the young student who moonlights in the town bordello, and another woman, who arrives with one hundred thousand dollars and a commission—but not for a painting of butterflies. With this assignment returns the dark fear that has dogged Signor Farfalla’s mysterious life. Almost instantly, he senses a deadly circle closing in on him, one which he may or may not elude. Part thriller, part character study, part drama of deceit and self-betrayal, The American shows Martin Booth at the very height of his powers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fragile-a-novel-by-lisa-unger--65280865https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fragile: A Novel Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Nancy Linari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 3, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one community’s intricate yet fragile bonds. “[A] nail-biting nuanced whodunit.”—People Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It’s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another’s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollows’s insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients’ lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggie’s intuitive gift proves useful to the case—and also dangerous.  Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charlene’s disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father.   As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene’s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret—one that could destroy everything she holds dear.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83083Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fragile: A Novel Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Nancy Linari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 3, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fragile: A Novel Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Nancy Linari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 3, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one community’s intricate yet fragile bonds. “[A] nail-biting nuanced whodunit.”—People Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It’s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another’s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollows’s insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients’ lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggie’s intuitive gift proves useful to the case—and also dangerous.  Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charlene’s disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father.   As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene’s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret—one that could destroy everything she holds dear.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/notes-from-the-underground-by-fyodor-dostoevsky--65280848https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes from the Underground Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A predecessor to such monumental works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground represents a turning point in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writing toward the more political side. In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground. This 'Underground Man' is one of the first genuine antiheroes in European literature. The first part of this unusual work is often treated as a philosophical text in its own right; the second part illustrates the theory of the first by means of its own fictional practice. A dark and politically charged novel, Notes from the Underground shows Dostoevsky at his best. This version of Notes from the Underground is the translation by Constance Garnett.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119843Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes from the Underground Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes from the Underground Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A predecessor to such monumental works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground represents a turning point in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writing toward the more political side. In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground. This 'Underground Man' is one of the first genuine antiheroes in European literature. The first part of this unusual work is often treated as a philosophical text in its own right; the second part illustrates the theory of the first by means of its own fictional practice. A dark and politically charged novel, Notes from the Underground shows Dostoevsky at his best. This version of Notes from the Underground is the translation by Constance Garnett.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nobodies-album-by-carolyn-parkhurst--65280874https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nobodies Album Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past. Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book—a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, especially a horrific tragedy that befell her family years ago. On her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia reads a news crawl in Times Square and learns that her rock-star son, Milo, has been arrested for murder. Though she and Milo haven’t spoken in years—an estrangement stemming from that tragic day—she drops everything to go to him. The “last chapters” of Octavia’s novel are layered throughout The Nobodies  Album—the scattered puzzle pieces to her and Milo’s dark and troubled past. Did she drive her son to murder? Did Milo murder anyone at all? And what exactly happened all those years ago? As the novel builds to a stunning reveal, Octavia must consider how this story will come to a close. Universally praised for her candid explorations of the human psyche, Parkhurst delivers an emotionally gripping and resonant mystery about a mother and her son, and about the possibility that one can never truly know another person.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61964Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nobodies Album Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 15,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nobodies Album Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past. Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book—a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, especially a horrific tragedy that befell her family years ago. On her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia reads a news crawl in Times Square and learns that her rock-star son, Milo, has been arrested for murder. Though she and Milo haven’t spoken in years—an estrangement stemming from that tragic day—she drops everything to go to him. The “last chapters” of Octavia’s novel are layered throughout The Nobodies  Album—the scattered puzzle pieces to her and Milo’s dark and troubled past. Did she drive her son to murder? Did Milo murder anyone at all? And what exactly happened all those years ago? As the novel builds to a stunning reveal, Octavia must consider how this story will come to a close. Universally praised for her candid explorations of the human psyche, Parkhurst delivers an emotionally gripping and resonant mystery about a mother and her son, and about the possibility that one can never truly know another person.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/men-and-dogs-a-novel-by-katie-crouch--65280838https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men and Dogs: A Novel Author: Katie Crouch Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return. Twenty years later Hannah's new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her business is bankrupt. After a disastrous attempt to win back her husband, she ends up back at her mother's home to 'rest up', where she is once again sucked into the mystery of her missing father. Suspecting that those closest are keeping secrets -- including Palmer, her emotionally closed, well-mannered brother and Warren, the beautiful boyfriend she left behind -- Hannah sets out on an uproarious, dangerous quest that will test the whole family's concepts of loyalty and faith.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men and Dogs: A Novel Author: Katie Crouch Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 12, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men and Dogs: A Novel Author: Katie Crouch Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return. Twenty years later Hannah's new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her business is bankrupt. After a disastrous attempt to win back her husband, she ends up back at her mother's home to 'rest up', where she is once again sucked into the mystery of her missing father. Suspecting that those closest are keeping secrets -- including Palmer, her emotionally closed, well-mannered brother and Warren, the beautiful boyfriend she left behind -- Hannah sets out on an uproarious, dangerous quest that will test the whole family's concepts of loyalty and faith.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-knight-by-steven-james--65280866https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Knight Series: #3 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 26, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Gold Medallion and Christy Award nominee Steven James writes pulse-pounding psychological thrillers that hold listeners spellbound. In The Knight, FBI agent Patrick Bowers matches wits with a psychopathic genius who relishes leading his pursuers on a bloody trail of torture and dismemberment. Although Bowers can predict how the next victims will die, he's not yet sure of the who and the when. But if he can't stop these murders soon, he fears he or a loved one may be next.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82884Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Knight Series: #3 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Knight Series: #3 of Bowers Files Author: Steven James Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 26, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Gold Medallion and Christy Award nominee Steven James writes pulse-pounding psychological thrillers that hold listeners spellbound. In The Knight, FBI agent Patrick Bowers matches wits with a psychopathic genius who relishes leading his pursuers on a bloody trail of torture and dismemberment. Although Bowers can predict how the next victims will die, he's not yet sure of the who and the when. But if he can't stop these murders soon, he fears he or a loved one may be next.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-well-mannered-assassin-by-aline-countess-of-romanones--65280839https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Well-Mannered Assassin Author: Aline Countess Of Romanones Narrator: Susan O’malley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the hand of a real-life model-turned-spy comes this thrilling novel of suspense based on the true intrigues of Carlos the Jackal. One of the most infamous names in the history of espionage, the former model Carlos eluded his enemies for decades—until his recent arrest made headlines across the world. This exciting fictional account reveals the insidious methods and brilliant genius behind his international maneuvers. It is the story of a man whose smooth, cultured charm hides a secret identity and a shattering plot … and the one woman who discovers he is actually the notorious Carlos the Jackal. The inspiration for the Countess of Romanones’ novel was her own actual meeting with Carlos the Jackal in 1977, as well as her experience as a consultant with a wide variety of world specialists on international terrorism.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61731Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Well-Mannered Assassin Author: Aline Countess Of Romanones Narrator: Susan O’malley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Well-Mannered Assassin Author: Aline Countess Of Romanones Narrator: Susan O’malley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the hand of a real-life model-turned-spy comes this thrilling novel of suspense based on the true intrigues of Carlos the Jackal. One of the most infamous names in the history of espionage, the former model Carlos eluded his enemies for decades—until his recent arrest made headlines across the world. This exciting fictional account reveals the insidious methods and brilliant genius behind his international maneuvers. It is the story of a man whose smooth, cultured charm hides a secret identity and a shattering plot … and the one woman who discovers he is actually the notorious Carlos the Jackal. The inspiration for the Countess of Romanones’ novel was her own actual meeting with Carlos the Jackal in 1977, as well as her experience as a consultant with a wide variety of world specialists on international terrorism.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-listener-by-shira-nayman--65280820https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Listener Author: Shira Nayman Narrator: Jefferson Mays Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 26, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Critically acclaimed author Shira Nayman has been praised by School Library Journal for her 'breathtaking storytelling' and her ability to write with 'stunning clarity.' Nayman's debut novel, The Listener is a tale of madness and passion set in a psychiatric hospital just after the end of WWII.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98235Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Listener Author: Shira Nayman Narrator: Jefferson Mays Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 26, 2010 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Listener Author: Shira Nayman Narrator: Jefferson Mays Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 26, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Critically acclaimed author Shira Nayman has been praised by School Library Journal for her 'breathtaking storytelling' and her ability to write with 'stunning clarity.' Nayman's debut novel, The Listener is a tale of madness and passion set in a psychiatric hospital just after the end of WWII.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lord-jim-by-joseph-conrad--65280840https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lord Jim Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 22, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman—'as unflinching as a hero in a book'—who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying proportions. But then he is befriended by an older man named Marlow who helps to establish him in exotic Patusan, a remote Malay settlement where his courage is put to the test once more. Lord Jim is about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth. It is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English. Set in the context of social change and colonial expansion in late Victorian England, it embodies in Jim the values and turmoil of a fading empire.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117787Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lord Jim Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 22, 2010 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lord Jim Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 22, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman—'as unflinching as a hero in a book'—who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying proportions. But then he is befriended by an older man named Marlow who helps to establish him in exotic Patusan, a remote Malay settlement where his courage is put to the test once more. Lord Jim is about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth. It is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English. Set in the context of social change and colonial expansion in late Victorian England, it embodies in Jim the values and turmoil of a fading empire.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-things-that-keep-us-here-a-novel-by-carla-buckley--65280869https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That Keep Us Here: A Novel Author: Carla Buckley Narrator: Abby Craden, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: How far would you go to protect your family? Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight. A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland. And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches. As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark. Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear. Carla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That Keep Us Here: A Novel Author: Carla Buckley Narrator: Abby Craden, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That Keep Us Here: A Novel Author: Carla Buckley Narrator: Abby Craden, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: How far would you go to protect your family? Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight. A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland. And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches. As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark. Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear. Carla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/point-omega-a-novel-by-don-delillo--65280873https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Point Omega: A Novel Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 2, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it. In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls “prophetic about twenty-first-century America” looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. We see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster’s daughter Jessica—an “otherworldly” woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60971Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Point Omega: A Novel Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Point Omega: A Novel Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 2, 2010 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it. In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls “prophetic about twenty-first-century America” looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. We see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster’s daughter Jessica—an “otherworldly” woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unnamed-by-joshua-ferris--65280881https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unnamed Author: Joshua Ferris Narrator: Joshua Ferris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 18, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.28 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday. Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking. The Unnamed is a heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted -- and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60326Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unnamed Author: Joshua Ferris Narrator: Joshua Ferris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 18, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unnamed Author: Joshua Ferris Narrator: Joshua Ferris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 18, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.28 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday. Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking. The Unnamed is a heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted -- and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-swan-thieves-by-elizabeth-kostova--65280897https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swan Thieves Author: Elizabeth Kostova Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman, Erin Cottrell, Treat Williams, John Lee, Anne Heche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 68 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Theives is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60330Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swan Thieves Author: Elizabeth Kostova Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman, Erin Cottrell, Treat Williams, John Lee, Anne Heche Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swan Thieves Author: Elizabeth Kostova Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman, Erin Cottrell, Treat Williams, John Lee, Anne Heche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 68 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Theives is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dermaphoria-by-craig-clevenger--65280887https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dermaphoria Author: Craig Clevenger Narrator: Craig Clevenger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth has only the memory of a woman’s name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Ashworth finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present, his distinction between truth and fantasy begins to crumble, creating a world where divisions between love and loss, violence and tenderness, and fact and fiction are less discernible than they ought to be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60673Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dermaphoria Author: Craig Clevenger Narrator: Craig Clevenger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 8, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dermaphoria Author: Craig Clevenger Narrator: Craig Clevenger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth has only the memory of a woman’s name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Ashworth finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present, his distinction between truth and fantasy begins to crumble, creating a world where divisions between love and loss, violence and tenderness, and fact and fiction are less discernible than they ought to be.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/too-much-money-a-novel-by-dominick-dunne--65280852https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Much Money: A Novel Author: Dominick Dunne Narrator: Nicholas Hormann, Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: My name is Gus Bailey…It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening.   The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble—$11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program. As a result of his flip comments, Gus becomes embroiled in a nasty slander suit brought by Kyle Cramden, the powerful congressman he accuses of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, and he fears it could mean the end of him.   The stress of the lawsuit makes it difficult for Gus to focus on the novel he has been contracted to write, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. It is a story that has dominated the party conversations of Manhattan's chattering classes for more than two years. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, such as why a paranoid man who was usually accompanied by bodyguards was without protection the very night he perished in a tragic fire.   Konstantin's hot-tempered widow, Perla, is obsessed with climbing the social ladder and, as a result, she will do anything to suppress this potentially damaging story. Gus is convinced she is the only thing standing between him and the truth.   Dominick Dunne revives the world he first introduced in his mega-bestselling novel People Like Us, and he brings readers up to date on favorite characters such as Ruby and Elias Renthal, Lil Altemus, and, of course, the beloved Gus Bailey. Once again, he invites us to pull up a seat at the most important tables at Swifty's, get past the doormen at esteemed social clubs like The Butterfield, and venture into the innermost chambers of the Upper East Side's most sumptuous mansions.    Too Much Money is a satisfying, mischievous, and compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn't afraid to share them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Much Money: A Novel Author: Dominick Dunne Narrator: Nicholas Hormann, Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Much Money: A Novel Author: Dominick Dunne Narrator: Nicholas Hormann, Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: My name is Gus Bailey…It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening.   The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble—$11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program. As a result of his flip comments, Gus becomes embroiled in a nasty slander suit brought by Kyle Cramden, the powerful congressman he accuses of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, and he fears it could mean the end of him.   The stress of the lawsuit makes it difficult for Gus to focus on the novel he has been contracted to write, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. It is a story that has dominated the party conversations of Manhattan's chattering classes for more than two years. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, such as why a paranoid man who was usually accompanied by bodyguards was without protection the very night he perished in a tragic fire.   Konstantin's hot-tempered widow, Perla, is obsessed with climbing the social ladder and, as a result, she will do anything to suppress this potentially damaging story. Gus is convinced she is the only thing standing between him and the truth.   Dominick Dunne revives the world he first introduced in his mega-bestselling novel People Like Us, and he brings readers up to date on favorite characters such as Ruby and Elias Renthal, Lil Altemus, and, of course, the beloved Gus Bailey. Once again, he invites us to pull up a seat at the most important tables at Swifty's, get past the doormen at esteemed social clubs like The Butterfield, and venture into the innermost chambers of the Upper East Side's most sumptuous mansions.    Too Much Money is a satisfying, mischievous, and compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn't afraid to share them.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-contortionist-s-handbook-a-novel-by-craig-clevenger--65280877https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Contortionist’s Handbook: A Novel Author: Craig Clevenger Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 7, 2009 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Clevenger has produced an utterly persuasive and compelling novel, combining the zest and enthusiasm of a new voice with the craft and the guile of a veteran. Following a near fatal overdose of painkillers, Daniel Fletcher is resuscitated in a Los Angeles emergency room and detained for psychiatric evaluation. Through a series of questions and tests, the psychiatrist must ascertain whether the patient intended to kill himself or whether he can walk free. What the psychiatrist doesn't know is that Daniel Fletcher is actually John 'Johnny' Dolan Vincent, a brilliant young forger who continually changes his identity to save himself from a lifetime of incarceration. Johnny has done such assessments before—many, many times. As he creates an elaborate bluff for the evaluator, Johnny reveals the true story of his traumatic past: a broken family, descent into the sinister world of forgers and criminals, and his one chance of salvation in the beautiful and elusive Molly. But time is running out; as his underworld clients lose patience and the psychiatrist's net closes around him, Johnny has to negotiate the escape act of his life. Evoking the boulevards and strip bars of 1980s Los Angeles with cinematic intensity, The Contortionist's Handbook is a darkly hypnotic and stunningly original debut.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60247Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Contortionist’s Handbook: A Novel Author: Craig Clevenger Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Contortionist’s Handbook: A Novel Author: Craig Clevenger Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 7, 2009 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Clevenger has produced an utterly persuasive and compelling novel, combining the zest and enthusiasm of a new voice with the craft and the guile of a veteran. Following a near fatal overdose of painkillers, Daniel Fletcher is resuscitated in a Los Angeles emergency room and detained for psychiatric evaluation. Through a series of questions and tests, the psychiatrist must ascertain whether the patient intended to kill himself or whether he can walk free. What the psychiatrist doesn't know is that Daniel Fletcher is actually John 'Johnny' Dolan Vincent, a brilliant young forger who continually changes his identity to save himself from a lifetime of incarceration. Johnny has done such assessments before—many, many times. As he creates an elaborate bluff for the evaluator, Johnny reveals the true story of his traumatic past: a broken family, descent into the sinister world of forgers and criminals, and his one chance of salvation in the beautiful and elusive Molly. But time is running out; as his underworld clients lose patience and the psychiatrist's net closes around him, Johnny has to negotiate the escape act of his life. Evoking the boulevards and strip bars of 1980s Los Angeles with cinematic intensity, The Contortionist's Handbook is a darkly hypnotic and stunningly original debut.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-change-in-altitude-a-novel-by-anita-shreve--65280883https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Change in Altitude: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Anna Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.22 of Total 9 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever. A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Change in Altitude: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Anna Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Change in Altitude: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Anna Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.22 of Total 9 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever. A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/armor-by-john-steakley--65280888https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Armor Author: John Steakley Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 17 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected not only by his custom-fitted body armor, the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft, but also by an odd being which seems to live with him, a cold killing machine he calls “the Engine.” This bestselling science fiction classic is a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat and also of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59596Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Armor Author: John Steakley Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 1, 2009 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Armor Author: John Steakley Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 17 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected not only by his custom-fitted body armor, the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft, but also by an odd being which seems to live with him, a cold killing machine he calls “the Engine.” This bestselling science fiction classic is a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat and also of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rules-of-vengeance-by-christopher-reich--65280884https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rules of Vengeance Series: #2 of Jonathon Ransom Series Author: Christopher Reich Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Rules of Deception that confirms Christopher Reich as the master of the espionage thriller. Months after foiling an attack on a commercial jetliner, Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom is working under an assumed name in a remote corner of Africa while his wife, Emma, desperate to escape the wrath of Division, the secret American intelligence agency she betrayed, has vanished into the netherworld of international espionage. Both look forward to sharing a stolen weekend in London—until an ambush on a convoy of limousines turns their romantic rendezvous into a terrorist bloodbath. In the aftermath, Emma disappears and Jonathan is apprehended by the police and threatened with life imprisonment unless he helps secure his wife’s capture. Faced with an impossible decision, Jonathan makes a daring escape. On the run, herealizes that his only option is to become a spy himself in order to track down Emma and discover the true nature of the conspiracy she appears to be masterminding. In the process, Jonathan begins to realize that all along he’s been a pawn in a high-stakes game of international intrigue and one-upsmanship far beyond his imagining.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58847Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rules of Vengeance Series: #2 of Jonathon Ransom Series Author: Christopher Reich Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rules of Vengeance Series: #2 of Jonathon Ransom Series Author: Christopher Reich Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Rules of Deception that confirms Christopher Reich as the master of the espionage thriller. Months after foiling an attack on a commercial jetliner, Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom is working under an assumed name in a remote corner of Africa while his wife, Emma, desperate to escape the wrath of Division, the secret American intelligence agency she betrayed, has vanished into the netherworld of international espionage. Both look forward to sharing a stolen weekend in London—until an ambush on a convoy of limousines turns their romantic rendezvous into a terrorist bloodbath. In the aftermath, Emma disappears and Jonathan is apprehended by the police and threatened with life imprisonment unless he helps secure his wife’s capture. Faced with an impossible decision, Jonathan makes a daring escape. On the run, herealizes that his only option is to become a spy himself in order to track down Emma and discover the true nature of the conspiracy she appears to be masterminding. In the process, Jonathan begins to realize that all along he’s been a pawn in a high-stakes game of international intrigue and one-upsmanship far beyond his imagining.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-old-cape-magic-a-novel-by-richard-russo--65280863https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Old Cape Magic: A Novel Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth. Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that’s now thirty years old and has largely come true. He’d left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they’d moved into an old house full of character; and they’d started a family. Check, check and check. But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura’s, on the coast of Maine, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened? That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter’s new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Old Cape Magic: A Novel Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Old Cape Magic: A Novel Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth. Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that’s now thirty years old and has largely come true. He’d left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they’d moved into an old house full of character; and they’d started a family. Check, check and check. But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura’s, on the coast of Maine, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened? That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter’s new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon--65280752https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inherent Vice Author: Thomas Pynchon Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy,' except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202983Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inherent Vice Author: Thomas Pynchon Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inherent Vice Author: Thomas Pynchon Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy,' except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-secret-a-novel-by-mary-mcgarry-morris--65280876https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Secret: A Novel Author: Mary McGarry Morris Narrator: Renée Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 16, 2009 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of the most skillful writers at work in America today.' In The Last Secret, she tells the riveting story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career in the family's newspaper business, and an esteemed role in the charity work of her New England town. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's longtime affair—and when the specter of a sordid incident from her youth returns with terrifying force. Confronted by shame and betrayal, Nora suddenly feels dangerously alone. With no one to turn to, she becomes easy prey to a ghost from her past—the cunning, relentless Eddie Hawkins. A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart. The Last Secret burnishes Morris's reputation as one of our most prodigiously gifted writers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119472Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Secret: A Novel Author: Mary McGarry Morris Narrator: Renée Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Secret: A Novel Author: Mary McGarry Morris Narrator: Renée Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 16, 2009 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of the most skillful writers at work in America today.' In The Last Secret, she tells the riveting story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career in the family's newspaper business, and an esteemed role in the charity work of her New England town. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's longtime affair—and when the specter of a sordid incident from her youth returns with terrifying force. Confronted by shame and betrayal, Nora suddenly feels dangerously alone. With no one to turn to, she becomes easy prey to a ghost from her past—the cunning, relentless Eddie Hawkins. A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart. The Last Secret burnishes Morris's reputation as one of our most prodigiously gifted writers.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-evil-genius-by-wilkie-collins--65280842https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Evil Genius Author: Wilkie Collins Narrator: John Bolen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Kitty is the child of Herbert and Catherine Linley, a spoiled, coddled little girl who is at the same time—in the tradition of all Victorian children—adorable. The Evil Genius begins with the story of Kitty's ill-fated governess Sydney Westerfield, a girl thrown aside in the grand tradition of Jane Eyre and David Copperfield. And now an 'evil genius' is threatening to rip apart the fabric of the Linley home. Who is it, and why? Is it the orphaned young governess, Sydney, for whom the father lusts? The brother-in-law who appears to help everyone but often succeeds in making things worse? The meddling mother-in-law whose good-intentioned interferences lead to greater heartache? The disloyal father? Or perhaps it is the unassuming daughter.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119762Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Evil Genius Author: Wilkie Collins Narrator: John Bolen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Evil Genius Author: Wilkie Collins Narrator: John Bolen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Kitty is the child of Herbert and Catherine Linley, a spoiled, coddled little girl who is at the same time—in the tradition of all Victorian children—adorable. The Evil Genius begins with the story of Kitty's ill-fated governess Sydney Westerfield, a girl thrown aside in the grand tradition of Jane Eyre and David Copperfield. And now an 'evil genius' is threatening to rip apart the fabric of the Linley home. Who is it, and why? Is it the orphaned young governess, Sydney, for whom the father lusts? The brother-in-law who appears to help everyone but often succeeds in making things worse? The meddling mother-in-law whose good-intentioned interferences lead to greater heartache? The disloyal father? Or perhaps it is the unassuming daughter.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/double-fault-by-lionel-shriver--65280818https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Fault Author: Lionel Shriver Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Shriver shows in a masterstroke why character is fate and how sport reveals it.” —New York Times Book Review From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a brilliant and unflinching novel about the devastating cost of prizing achievement over love Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at twenty-three, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked, untested Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes Willy's first passion off the court, and eventually they marry. But while wedded life begins well, full-tilt competition soon puts a strain on their relationship—and an unexpected accident sends driven and gifted Willy sliding irrevocably toward resentment, tragedy, and despair.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142428Fri, 01 May 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Fault Author: Lionel Shriver Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 1, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Fault Author: Lionel Shriver Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Shriver shows in a masterstroke why character is fate and how sport reveals it.” —New York Times Book Review From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a brilliant and unflinching novel about the devastating cost of prizing achievement over love Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at twenty-three, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked, untested Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes Willy's first passion off the court, and eventually they marry. But while wedded life begins well, full-tilt competition soon puts a strain on their relationship—and an unexpected accident sends driven and gifted Willy sliding irrevocably toward resentment, tragedy, and despair.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rabbit-at-rest-by-john-updike--65280905https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit At Rest Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live.  “Brilliant...the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.”—The Washington Post Book World Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit At Rest Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit At Rest Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live.  “Brilliant...the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.”—The Washington Post Book World Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mysterious-stranger-and-other-stories-by-mark-twain--65280872https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Jonathan Kent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 16, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain's fantastical last novelette, took him twelve years—and three long drafts—to complete. Based on boyhood memories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the print shops of Hannibal, the story is set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects, in which a penniless printer's apprentice—a youthful, mysterious stranger with the curious name 44—gradually reveals his otherworldly powers and the hidden possibilities of the mind. Ending on a startling note, this surprisingly existential tale reveals a darker side to the author's genius. The Mysterious Stranger is a rarity in the work of Twain—a story in which the author turns his sardonic, free-wheeling wit to the problem of Eternal Evil in a distant time and place. In the other stories presented here, Twain debunks his Gilded Age; he ransacks the backyards of daily life and fable to find his notorious, sometimes preposterous metaphors. He is as apt to deal with the great minds of the law hunting a wayward elephant as with a man who has a bank note no one can cash. In addition to The Mysterious Stranger, this volume includes the stories 'The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg,' 'The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' 'The Story of the Bad Little Boy,' 'The Diary of Adam and Eve,' 'Edward Mills and George Benton,' 'The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune,' and 'A Fable.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118299Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Jonathan Kent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Jonathan Kent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 16, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain's fantastical last novelette, took him twelve years—and three long drafts—to complete. Based on boyhood memories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the print shops of Hannibal, the story is set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects, in which a penniless printer's apprentice—a youthful, mysterious stranger with the curious name 44—gradually reveals his otherworldly powers and the hidden possibilities of the mind. Ending on a startling note, this surprisingly existential tale reveals a darker side to the author's genius. The Mysterious Stranger is a rarity in the work of Twain—a story in which the author turns his sardonic, free-wheeling wit to the problem of Eternal Evil in a distant time and place. In the other stories presented here, Twain debunks his Gilded Age; he ransacks the backyards of daily life and fable to find his notorious, sometimes preposterous metaphors. He is as apt to deal with the great minds of the law hunting a wayward elephant as with a man who has a bank note no one can cash. In addition to The Mysterious Stranger, this volume includes the stories 'The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg,' 'The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' 'The Story of the Bad Little Boy,' 'The Diary of Adam and Eve,' 'Edward Mills and George Benton,' 'The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune,' and 'A Fable.']]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rabbit-is-rich-by-john-updike--65280902https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Is Rich Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.  The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last—until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Is Rich Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 3, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Is Rich Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.  The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last—until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rabbit-redux-by-john-updike--65280893https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Redux Series: #2 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: "A triumph." NEWSDAY The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Redux Series: #2 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Redux Series: #2 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: "A triumph." NEWSDAY The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rabbit-run-by-john-updike--65280850https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit, Run Series: #1 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 23, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—Kansas City Star Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler’s edge.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54267Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit, Run Series: #1 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 6 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit, Run Series: #1 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 23, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—Kansas City Star Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler’s edge.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-mind-to-murder-by-p-d-james--65280890https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mind to Murder Author: P. D. James Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 9, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author P.D. James' second mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD! When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Dalgliesh must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts resulted in murder. Widely acknowledged as "the greatest contemporary writer of classic crime" (The London Sunday Times), P. D. James received the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award for long-term achievement in 1999. “…a superbly satisfying mystery."–Chicago Daily News]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54041Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mind to Murder Author: P. D. James Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 9,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mind to Murder Author: P. D. James Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 9, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author P.D. James' second mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD! When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Dalgliesh must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts resulted in murder. Widely acknowledged as "the greatest contemporary writer of classic crime" (The London Sunday Times), P. D. James received the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award for long-term achievement in 1999. “…a superbly satisfying mystery."–Chicago Daily News]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hour-i-first-believed-by-wally-lamb--65280885https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hour I First Believed Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers five generations' worth of diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in his family's house. As unimaginable secrets emerge, Caelum grapples with the past and struggles to fashion a future from the ashes of tragedy. His quest for meaning is at once mythic and contemporary, personal and quintessentially American.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hour I First Believed Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hour I First Believed Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers five generations' worth of diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in his family's house. As unimaginable secrets emerge, Caelum grapples with the past and struggles to fashion a future from the ashes of tragedy. His quest for meaning is at once mythic and contemporary, personal and quintessentially American.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-witches-of-eastwick-a-novel-by-john-updike--65280898https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel Author: John Updike Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 21, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel Author: John Updike Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel Author: John Updike Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 21, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-next-thing-on-my-list-a-novel-by-jill-smolinski--65280894https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Thing on My List: A Novel Author: Jill Smolinski Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “You’ll be hooked by this charming story. . . . Smolinski gives us a quick-witted heroine . . . with just the right amount of romance and a tad of suspense.”  —Richmond Times-Dispatch Meet June Parker. She works for L.A. Rideshare, adores her rent-stabilized apartment in Santa Monica, and struggles with losing a few pesky pounds. But June’s life is about to change. After a dark turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a chili recipe, and a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, June finds herself in possession of a list Marissa has written, “20 Things to Do By My 25th Birthday.” Even though they barely knew each other, June is compelled by both guilt and a desire to set things right and finish the list for Marissa. The tasks before her range from inspiring (Run a 5K), to daring (Go braless), to near-impossible (Change someone’ s life), and as June races to achieve each goal before the deadline, she learns more about her own life than she ever bargained for. Funny, engaging, and heartwarming, The Next Thing on My List features a loveable, relatable heroine and a story with plenty of humor and heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52977Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Thing on My List: A Novel Author: Jill Smolinski Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Thing on My List: A Novel Author: Jill Smolinski Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “You’ll be hooked by this charming story. . . . Smolinski gives us a quick-witted heroine . . . with just the right amount of romance and a tad of suspense.”  —Richmond Times-Dispatch Meet June Parker. She works for L.A. Rideshare, adores her rent-stabilized apartment in Santa Monica, and struggles with losing a few pesky pounds. But June’s life is about to change. After a dark turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a chili recipe, and a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, June finds herself in possession of a list Marissa has written, “20 Things to Do By My 25th Birthday.” Even though they barely knew each other, June is compelled by both guilt and a desire to set things right and finish the list for Marissa. The tasks before her range from inspiring (Run a 5K), to daring (Go braless), to near-impossible (Change someone’ s life), and as June races to achieve each goal before the deadline, she learns more about her own life than she ever bargained for. Funny, engaging, and heartwarming, The Next Thing on My List features a loveable, relatable heroine and a story with plenty of humor and heart.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hit-and-run-by-lawrence-block--65280886https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit and Run Series: #4 of Keller Series Author: Lawrence Block Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 12, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Keller's a hit man. For years now he's had places to go and people to kill. But enough is enough. He's got money in the bank and just one last job standing between him and retirement. So he carries it out with his usual professionalism, and he heads home, and guess what? One more job. Paid in advance, so what's he going to do? Give the money back?In Des Moines, Keller stalks his designated target and waits for the client to give him the go-ahead. And one fine morning he's picking out stamps for his collection (Sweden 1-5, the official reprints) at a shop in Urbandale when somebody guns down the charismatic governor of Ohio. Back at his motel, Keller's watching TV when they show the killer's face. And there's something all too familiar about that face. . . . Keller calls his associate Dot in White Plains, but there is no answer. He's stranded halfway across the country, every cop in America's just seen his picture, his ID and credit cards are no longer good, and he just spent almost all of his cash on the stamps. Now what?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52999Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit and Run Series: #4 of Keller Series Author: Lawrence Block Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit and Run Series: #4 of Keller Series Author: Lawrence Block Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 12, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Keller's a hit man. For years now he's had places to go and people to kill. But enough is enough. He's got money in the bank and just one last job standing between him and retirement. So he carries it out with his usual professionalism, and he heads home, and guess what? One more job. Paid in advance, so what's he going to do? Give the money back?In Des Moines, Keller stalks his designated target and waits for the client to give him the go-ahead. And one fine morning he's picking out stamps for his collection (Sweden 1-5, the official reprints) at a shop in Urbandale when somebody guns down the charismatic governor of Ohio. Back at his motel, Keller's watching TV when they show the killer's face. And there's something all too familiar about that face. . . . Keller calls his associate Dot in White Plains, but there is no answer. He's stranded halfway across the country, every cop in America's just seen his picture, his ID and credit cards are no longer good, and he just spent almost all of his cash on the stamps. Now what?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-invisible-man-by-h-g-wells--65280846https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Man Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Once a brilliant scientist, Griffin has been gradually consumed by his research. When he finally achieves his goal—becoming completely invisible—the final result is his departure from humanity. He feels no remorse in using his invisibility to gratify his increasing desires. As he gradually loses his mind, it is hard to determine if it is a result of his chemical concoction or a simple continuation of his moral decline. At a time when science fiction was depicting what wonders the future would bring, H. G. Wells was one of the first writers to explore the dark side of science and to portray how easily mortal man can be corrupted when tempted by seemingly unlimited power. First published in 1897, The Invisible Man helped establish Wells as one of the first and best writers of science fiction. Notable for its sheer invention, suspense, and psychological nuance, The Invisible Man continues to enthrall science fiction fans today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118020Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Man Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 11, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Man Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Once a brilliant scientist, Griffin has been gradually consumed by his research. When he finally achieves his goal—becoming completely invisible—the final result is his departure from humanity. He feels no remorse in using his invisibility to gratify his increasing desires. As he gradually loses his mind, it is hard to determine if it is a result of his chemical concoction or a simple continuation of his moral decline. At a time when science fiction was depicting what wonders the future would bring, H. G. Wells was one of the first writers to explore the dark side of science and to portray how easily mortal man can be corrupted when tempted by seemingly unlimited power. First published in 1897, The Invisible Man helped establish Wells as one of the first and best writers of science fiction. Notable for its sheer invention, suspense, and psychological nuance, The Invisible Man continues to enthrall science fiction fans today.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad--65280843https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 28, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Horror awaits Charlie Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat along with one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz, who is stranded deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white traders and then discovers the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz, once a genius and the company's most successful representative, has become a savage; his compound is decorated by a row of human heads mounted on spears. It soon becomes clear that the demonic mastermind, liberated from the conventions of European culture, has traded his soul to become ruler of his own horrific dominion. Acclaimed to be one of the great, albeit disturbing, visionary works of western civilization, Joseph Conrad's haunting tale dramatizes the stark realities of Africa in the colonial period. Heart of Darkness reflects the physical and psychological tragedies that Conrad had experienced while working in the Belgian Congo in 1890. It is also the basis of Francis Ford Coppola's Academy Award—winning film Apocalypse Now.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117898Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 28, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 28, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Horror awaits Charlie Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat along with one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz, who is stranded deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white traders and then discovers the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz, once a genius and the company's most successful representative, has become a savage; his compound is decorated by a row of human heads mounted on spears. It soon becomes clear that the demonic mastermind, liberated from the conventions of European culture, has traded his soul to become ruler of his own horrific dominion. Acclaimed to be one of the great, albeit disturbing, visionary works of western civilization, Joseph Conrad's haunting tale dramatizes the stark realities of Africa in the colonial period. Heart of Darkness reflects the physical and psychological tragedies that Conrad had experienced while working in the Belgian Congo in 1890. It is also the basis of Francis Ford Coppola's Academy Award—winning film Apocalypse Now.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-third-angel-a-novel-by-alice-hoffman--65280903https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Angel: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Nancy Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic   “Headstrong women, reckless love affairs and a liberal dusting of the supernatural are the pleasurable trademarks of an Alice Hoffman novel. . . . [The Third Angel] should bewitch old fans and new readers alike.”—People  Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel–the angel on earth who will renew her faith. Brilliantly evoking London’s King’s Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52469Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Angel: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Nancy Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 8,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Angel: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Nancy Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic   “Headstrong women, reckless love affairs and a liberal dusting of the supernatural are the pleasurable trademarks of an Alice Hoffman novel. . . . [The Third Angel] should bewitch old fans and new readers alike.”—People  Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel–the angel on earth who will renew her faith. Brilliantly evoking London’s King’s Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/diablerie-a-novel-by-walter-mosley--65280855https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diablerie: A Novel Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Richard Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we keep hidden from ourselves. Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together—years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig at a magazine called Diablerie and makes it clear that she remembers something he doesn't. Their encounter sets wheels in motion that will propel Dibbuk toward new knowledge and perhaps the chance to feel again. With the same erotic force as Killing Johnny Fry but grounded in a far darker vision of human nature, Diablerie is a transfixing new novel from one of our most powerful writers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117323Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diablerie: A Novel Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Richard Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 3, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/117323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diablerie: A Novel Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Richard Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we keep hidden from ourselves. Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together—years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig at a magazine called Diablerie and makes it clear that she remembers something he doesn't. Their encounter sets wheels in motion that will propel Dibbuk toward new knowledge and perhaps the chance to feel again. With the same erotic force as Killing Johnny Fry but grounded in a far darker vision of human nature, Diablerie is a transfixing new novel from one of our most powerful writers.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kyra-a-novel-by-carol-gilligan--65280910https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kyra: A Novel Author: Carol Gilligan Narrator: Mark Deakins, Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable novel about love–and the first work of fiction by the author of the groundbreaking nonfiction bestseller In a Different Voice. Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through political upheaval and personal loss. Neither wants to fall in love. Yet when she asks him, “What is the opposite of losing?” and he says, “Finding,” it galvanizes a powerful attraction, and they risk opening themselves to love once again. When their love affair leads to a shocking betrayal, Kyra’s fierce determination to see under the surface, to know what was true and real, brings her to Greta, a remarkable therapist. As the therapy itself repeats the themes of love and loss, Kyra challenges its structure, and the struggle that ensues between the two women opens the way to a larger understanding. Passionate and revolutionary, KYRA is an exquisitely written love story, imbued with gentle humor. This is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the most brilliant writers of our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50374Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kyra: A Novel Author: Carol Gilligan Narrator: Mark Deakins, Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kyra: A Novel Author: Carol Gilligan Narrator: Mark Deakins, Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable novel about love–and the first work of fiction by the author of the groundbreaking nonfiction bestseller In a Different Voice. Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through political upheaval and personal loss. Neither wants to fall in love. Yet when she asks him, “What is the opposite of losing?” and he says, “Finding,” it galvanizes a powerful attraction, and they risk opening themselves to love once again. When their love affair leads to a shocking betrayal, Kyra’s fierce determination to see under the surface, to know what was true and real, brings her to Greta, a remarkable therapist. As the therapy itself repeats the themes of love and loss, Kyra challenges its structure, and the struggle that ensues between the two women opens the way to a larger understanding. Passionate and revolutionary, KYRA is an exquisitely written love story, imbued with gentle humor. This is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the most brilliant writers of our time.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-conductor-by-jerry-kennealy--65280786https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conductor Author: Jerry Kennealy Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 10, 2008 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When Mary Ariza, a beautiful and savvy lawyer, stops to help a man having a heart attack on the street, she unknowingly marks herself for death. And when Police Inspector Jack Kordic, a cop's cop, discovers that the headless, handless corpse floating in the icy Pacific is somehow linked to Mary Ariza, he is thrust into the same nightmare. What neither knows is that they have been pushed into the path of an international assassin they cannot see. Known as the Conductor, his mission is to kidnap a San Francisco billionaire, and to do so, he must commit a crime of unthinkable proportions. Mary Ariza and Jack Kordic are fatally in his way. Author Jerry Kennealy, a licensed private eye, makes use of his experience in this exciting thriller.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135513Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conductor Author: Jerry Kennealy Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 10, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conductor Author: Jerry Kennealy Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 10, 2008 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When Mary Ariza, a beautiful and savvy lawyer, stops to help a man having a heart attack on the street, she unknowingly marks herself for death. And when Police Inspector Jack Kordic, a cop's cop, discovers that the headless, handless corpse floating in the icy Pacific is somehow linked to Mary Ariza, he is thrust into the same nightmare. What neither knows is that they have been pushed into the path of an international assassin they cannot see. Known as the Conductor, his mission is to kidnap a San Francisco billionaire, and to do so, he must commit a crime of unthinkable proportions. Mary Ariza and Jack Kordic are fatally in his way. Author Jerry Kennealy, a licensed private eye, makes use of his experience in this exciting thriller.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-painter-of-battles-a-novel-by-arturo-perez-reverte--65280879https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Painter of Battles: A Novel Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller. Now, he gives us his most accomplished novel to date. Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. He spends his days painting a huge mural that pays homage to history’s classic works of war art and that incorporates a lifetime of disturbing images. One night, an unexpected visitor arrives at Faulques’ door and challenges the painter to remember him. As Faulques struggles to recall the face, the man explains that he was the subject of an iconic photo taken by Faulques in a war zone years ago. “And why have you come looking for me?” asks Faulques. The stranger answers, “Because I’m going to kill you.” This story transports Faulques to the time when he crossed continents to capture conflicts on film with his lover, Olvido, at his side. Until she walked into his life, Faulques muses, he had believed he would survive both war and women. As the tense dialogue between Faulques and his visitor continues, the stakes grow ever higher. What they are grappling with quickly proves to be not just Faulques’ fate but the very nature of human love and cruelty itself, in this stunning composition on morality. Superb and tautly written, The Painter of Battles is a deeply affecting audiobook about life and art.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52338Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Painter of Battles: A Novel Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Painter of Battles: A Novel Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller. Now, he gives us his most accomplished novel to date. Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. He spends his days painting a huge mural that pays homage to history’s classic works of war art and that incorporates a lifetime of disturbing images. One night, an unexpected visitor arrives at Faulques’ door and challenges the painter to remember him. As Faulques struggles to recall the face, the man explains that he was the subject of an iconic photo taken by Faulques in a war zone years ago. “And why have you come looking for me?” asks Faulques. The stranger answers, “Because I’m going to kill you.” This story transports Faulques to the time when he crossed continents to capture conflicts on film with his lover, Olvido, at his side. Until she walked into his life, Faulques muses, he had believed he would survive both war and women. As the tense dialogue between Faulques and his visitor continues, the stakes grow ever higher. What they are grappling with quickly proves to be not just Faulques’ fate but the very nature of human love and cruelty itself, in this stunning composition on morality. Superb and tautly written, The Painter of Battles is a deeply affecting audiobook about life and art.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/songs-without-words-by-ann-packer--65280912https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47614 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songs Without Words Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Ann Packer’s debut novel, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, was a nationwide bestseller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point. Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the suburbs of northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth’s mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the decades that followed–through Liz’s marriage and the birth of her children, through Sarabeth’s attempts to make a happy life for herself despite the shadow cast by her mother’s act–their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz’s adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters that threaten to engulf the family, the fault lines in the women’s friendship are revealed, and both Liz and Sarabeth are forced to reexamine their most deeply held beliefs about their connection. Songs Without Words is about the sometimes confining roles we take on in our closest relationships, about the familial myths that shape us both as children and as parents, and about the limits–and the power–of the friendships we create when we are young.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47614Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47614 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songs Without Words Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47614 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songs Without Words Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Ann Packer’s debut novel, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, was a nationwide bestseller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point. Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the suburbs of northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth’s mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the decades that followed–through Liz’s marriage and the birth of her children, through Sarabeth’s attempts to make a happy life for herself despite the shadow cast by her mother’s act–their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz’s adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters that threaten to engulf the family, the fault lines in the women’s friendship are revealed, and both Liz and Sarabeth are forced to reexamine their most deeply held beliefs about their connection. Songs Without Words is about the sometimes confining roles we take on in our closest relationships, about the familial myths that shape us both as children and as parents, and about the limits–and the power–of the friendships we create when we are young.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-view-from-mount-joy-by-lorna-landvik--65280899https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The View from Mount Joy Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: THE VIEW FROM MOUNT JOY, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about the unexpected pleasures found in living a good life. When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson moves to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader. Joe balances Kristi’s lustful manipulation with the down-to-earth companionship of his smart, platonic girlfriend, Darva. But it is Kristi who will prove to be a temptation throughout Joe’s life. Years later, having once dreamed of a career in pro hockey or as a globetrotting journalist, Joe can’t believe that life has deposited him in the aisles of Haugland Foods. But he soon learns that being a grocer is like being the mayor of a small town. For Joe, everyday life is its own roller-coaster ride, and all he wants to do is hold on tight. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe’s is tame–or at least that’s how it appears. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the view of the world is breathtaking, if only they’ll open their eyes to all there is to see.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The View from Mount Joy Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The View from Mount Joy Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: THE VIEW FROM MOUNT JOY, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about the unexpected pleasures found in living a good life. When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson moves to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader. Joe balances Kristi’s lustful manipulation with the down-to-earth companionship of his smart, platonic girlfriend, Darva. But it is Kristi who will prove to be a temptation throughout Joe’s life. Years later, having once dreamed of a career in pro hockey or as a globetrotting journalist, Joe can’t believe that life has deposited him in the aisles of Haugland Foods. But he soon learns that being a grocer is like being the mayor of a small town. For Joe, everyday life is its own roller-coaster ride, and all he wants to do is hold on tight. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe’s is tame–or at least that’s how it appears. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the view of the world is breathtaking, if only they’ll open their eyes to all there is to see.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/silence-by-thomas-perry--65280813https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silence Author: Thomas Perry Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. And now they must double-cross the man who wants Wendy dead before he can double-cross them—if their jealousy and cold-blooded calculations don't result in a fatal lovers' quarrel first. With masterful plotting and unnerving psychological insight, Thomas Perry delivers another mesmerizing thrill ride.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116156Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silence Author: Thomas Perry Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silence Author: Thomas Perry Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. And now they must double-cross the man who wants Wendy dead before he can double-cross them—if their jealousy and cold-blooded calculations don't result in a fatal lovers' quarrel first. With masterful plotting and unnerving psychological insight, Thomas Perry delivers another mesmerizing thrill ride.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/peony-in-love-a-novel-by-lisa-see--65280868https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peony in Love: A Novel Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 3, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.” For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own. Peony’s mother is against her daughter’s attending the production. But Peony’s father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Yet even hidden from view, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man–and is immediately overcome with emotion. So begins Peony’s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow, as Lisa See’s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes listeners back to seventeenth-century China. Steeped in traditions and ritual, PEONY IN LOVE explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love, and ultimately, addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age-old desire of women to be heard.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52214Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peony in Love: A Novel Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 3, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peony in Love: A Novel Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 3, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.” For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own. Peony’s mother is against her daughter’s attending the production. But Peony’s father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Yet even hidden from view, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man–and is immediately overcome with emotion. So begins Peony’s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow, as Lisa See’s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes listeners back to seventeenth-century China. Steeped in traditions and ritual, PEONY IN LOVE explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love, and ultimately, addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age-old desire of women to be heard.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/after-dark-by-haruki-murakami--65280901https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After Dark Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 8, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters–Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they’ve met before, a burly female “love hotel” manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52772Tue, 08 May 2007 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After Dark Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 8, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After Dark Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 8, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters–Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they’ve met before, a burly female “love hotel” manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reservation-road-by-john-burnham-schwartz--65280806https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reservation Road Author: John Burnham Schwartz Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 27, 2007 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel.”–The New York Times A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz’s riveting novel RESERVATION ROAD. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. As these two men’s lives unravel, RESERVATION ROAD moves to its startling conclusion. This is an astonishing tale of love and loss, rage and redemption, that is as suspenseful as it is emotionally compelling.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157410Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reservation Road Author: John Burnham Schwartz Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 27, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reservation Road Author: John Burnham Schwartz Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 27, 2007 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel.”–The New York Times A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz’s riveting novel RESERVATION ROAD. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. As these two men’s lives unravel, RESERVATION ROAD moves to its startling conclusion. This is an astonishing tale of love and loss, rage and redemption, that is as suspenseful as it is emotionally compelling.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/false-memory-by-dean-koontz--65280896https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: False Memory Author: Dean Koontz Narrator: Stephen Lang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 9, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly. Fear for your mind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52307Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: False Memory Author: Dean Koontz Narrator: Stephen Lang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 9, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: False Memory Author: Dean Koontz Narrator: Stephen Lang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 9, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly. Fear for your mind.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/paint-it-black-a-novel-by-janet-fitch--65280856https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paint It Black: A Novel Author: Janet Fitch Narrator: Jennifer Jason Leigh Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from the coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body, her bright dreams all turn to black. As Josie struggles to understand Michael's death and to hold onto the world they shared, she is both attracted to and repelled by his pianist mother, Meredith, who blames Josie for her son's torment. Soon the two women are drawn into a twisted relationship that reflects equal parts distrust and blind need. With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch weaves a spellbinding tale of love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence. 'A dark, crooked beauty that fulfills all the promise of White Oleander and confirms that Janet Fitch is an artist of the very highest order.'-Los Angeles Times Book Review 'Lushly written, dramatically plotted. . . Fitch's Los Angeles is so real it breathes.'-Atlantic Monthly 'There is nothing less than a stellar sentence in this novel. Fitch's emotional honesty recalls the work of Joyce Carol Oates, her strychnine sentences the prose of Paula Fox.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer 'A page-turning psychodrama. . . . Fitch's prose penetrates the inner lives of [her characters] with immediacy and bite.'-Publishers Weekly 'Fitch wonderfully captures the abrasive appeal of punk music, the bohemian, sometimes squalid lifestyle, the performers, the drugs, the alienation. This is crackling fresh stuff you don't read every day.'-USA Today 'In dysfunctional family narratives, Fitch is to fiction what Eugene O'Neill is to drama.'-Chicago Sun-Times 'Riveting. . . . An uncommonly accomplished page-turner.'-Elle]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143095Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paint It Black: A Novel Author: Janet Fitch Narrator: Jennifer Jason Leigh Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paint It Black: A Novel Author: Janet Fitch Narrator: Jennifer Jason Leigh Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from the coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body, her bright dreams all turn to black. As Josie struggles to understand Michael's death and to hold onto the world they shared, she is both attracted to and repelled by his pianist mother, Meredith, who blames Josie for her son's torment. Soon the two women are drawn into a twisted relationship that reflects equal parts distrust and blind need. With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch weaves a spellbinding tale of love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence. 'A dark, crooked beauty that fulfills all the promise of White Oleander and confirms that Janet Fitch is an artist of the very highest order.'-Los Angeles Times Book Review 'Lushly written, dramatically plotted. . . Fitch's Los Angeles is so real it breathes.'-Atlantic Monthly 'There is nothing less than a stellar sentence in this novel. Fitch's emotional honesty recalls the work of Joyce Carol Oates, her strychnine sentences the prose of Paula Fox.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer 'A page-turning psychodrama. . . . Fitch's prose penetrates the inner lives of [her characters] with immediacy and bite.'-Publishers Weekly 'Fitch wonderfully captures the abrasive appeal of punk music, the bohemian, sometimes squalid lifestyle, the performers, the drugs, the alienation. This is crackling fresh stuff you don't read every day.'-USA Today 'In dysfunctional family narratives, Fitch is to fiction what Eugene O'Neill is to drama.'-Chicago Sun-Times 'Riveting. . . . An uncommonly accomplished page-turner.'-Elle]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beautiful-lies-a-novel-by-lisa-unger--65280829https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Lies: A Novel Series: #1 of Ridley Jones Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door—a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie. Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide—even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own. Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller with one of the freshest voices and heroines to arrive in years. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine . . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160091Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Lies: A Novel Series: #1 of Ridley Jones Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Lies: A Novel Series: #1 of Ridley Jones Author: Lisa Unger Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door—a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie. Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide—even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own. Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller with one of the freshest voices and heroines to arrive in years. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine . . . .]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fortunate-son-a-novel-by-walter-mosley--65280835https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortunate Son: A Novel Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Lorraine Toussaint Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 10, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong.After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys diverge astonishingly: Eric, the golden youth, is given everything but trusts nothing; Tommy, motherless and impoverished, has nothing, but feels lucky every day of his life. In a riveting story of modern-day resilience and redemption, the two confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, they draw on their extraordinary natures to confront a common enemy and, ultimately, save their lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142976Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortunate Son: A Novel Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Lorraine Toussaint Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortunate Son: A Novel Author: Walter Mosley Narrator: Lorraine Toussaint Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 10, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong.After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys diverge astonishingly: Eric, the golden youth, is given everything but trusts nothing; Tommy, motherless and impoverished, has nothing, but feels lucky every day of his life. In a riveting story of modern-day resilience and redemption, the two confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, they draw on their extraordinary natures to confront a common enemy and, ultimately, save their lives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/abide-with-me-a-novel-by-elizabeth-strout--65280821https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abide With Me: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Strout Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 14, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly). “Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160148Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abide With Me: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Strout Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abide With Me: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Strout Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 14, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly). “Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/isolation-ward-by-joshua-spanogle--65280791https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isolation Ward Series: #1 of Nathaniel McCormick Author: Joshua Spanogle Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 31 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too late…. In Baltimore’s St. Raphael’s Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among society’s most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimore’s group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphael’s has ever seen. Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is one of the first on the scene. A young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control, Nate is paid to explore the bizarre, the exotic, and the baffling–from superviruses to bioterrorism. But as soon as Nate begins to investigate the lives and habits of the victims, he knows something is terribly wrong. Using all his skills as a medical detective, Nate soon zeroes in on the “vector”–the one person who had sexual contact with the first victims. And when that suspect is found murdered, Nate fears that the disease he’s chasing may not be an act of nature, but of man. With his brash style angering his superiors and fellow investigators alike, Nate turns to an old colleague and former lover, Dr. Brooke Michaels, for help. Together the two investigators follow a twisting trail of clues to a discovery that is at once groundbreaking and unspeakable. And as a circle of treachery tightens around him, Nate is about to confront the most chilling revelation of all–and a past Nate himself has been trying to escape. At once a taut medical thriller and a riveting psychological portrait of a young doctor on the edge, Isolation Ward is a tale of runaway tension–with a brilliant “what-if” premise that is harrowing…heartbreaking…and impossible to wrench from your imagination.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160169Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isolation Ward Series: #1 of Nathaniel McCormick Author: Joshua Spanogle Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 31 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isolation Ward Series: #1 of Nathaniel McCormick Author: Joshua Spanogle Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 31 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too late…. In Baltimore’s St. Raphael’s Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among society’s most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimore’s group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphael’s has ever seen. Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is one of the first on the scene. A young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control, Nate is paid to explore the bizarre, the exotic, and the baffling–from superviruses to bioterrorism. But as soon as Nate begins to investigate the lives and habits of the victims, he knows something is terribly wrong. Using all his skills as a medical detective, Nate soon zeroes in on the “vector”–the one person who had sexual contact with the first victims. And when that suspect is found murdered, Nate fears that the disease he’s chasing may not be an act of nature, but of man. With his brash style angering his superiors and fellow investigators alike, Nate turns to an old colleague and former lover, Dr. Brooke Michaels, for help. Together the two investigators follow a twisting trail of clues to a discovery that is at once groundbreaking and unspeakable. And as a circle of treachery tightens around him, Nate is about to confront the most chilling revelation of all–and a past Nate himself has been trying to escape. At once a taut medical thriller and a riveting psychological portrait of a young doctor on the edge, Isolation Ward is a tale of runaway tension–with a brilliant “what-if” premise that is harrowing…heartbreaking…and impossible to wrench from your imagination.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-good-life-by-jay-mcinerney--65280833https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Life Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 31, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are thoroughly wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous, even as they contend with the faded promise of a marriage tinged with suspicion and deceit. Meanwhile, several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East Side’s social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause—especially with regard to his teenage daughter, whose wanton extravagance bears a horrifying resemblance to her mother’s. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site, feeling lost anywhere else, yet battered still by memory and regret, by fresh disappointment and unimaginable shock. What happens, or should happen, when life stops us in our tracks, or our own choices do? What if both secrets and secret needs, long guarded steadfastly, are finally revealed? What is the good life? Posed with astonishing understanding and compassion, these questions power a novel rich with characters and events, both comic and harrowing, revelatory about not only New York after the attacks but also the toll taken on those lucky enough to have survived them. Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see–through personal, social, and moral complexity–more clearly into the heart of things.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289601Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Life Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 31, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Life Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 31, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are thoroughly wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous, even as they contend with the faded promise of a marriage tinged with suspicion and deceit. Meanwhile, several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East Side’s social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause—especially with regard to his teenage daughter, whose wanton extravagance bears a horrifying resemblance to her mother’s. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site, feeling lost anywhere else, yet battered still by memory and regret, by fresh disappointment and unimaginable shock. What happens, or should happen, when life stops us in our tracks, or our own choices do? What if both secrets and secret needs, long guarded steadfastly, are finally revealed? What is the good life? Posed with astonishing understanding and compassion, these questions power a novel rich with characters and events, both comic and harrowing, revelatory about not only New York after the attacks but also the toll taken on those lucky enough to have survived them. Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see–through personal, social, and moral complexity–more clearly into the heart of things.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brooklyn-follies-by-paul-auster--65280907https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn Follies Author: Paul Auster Narrator: Paul Auster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 3, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man’s accidental redemption Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore--a far cry from the brilliant academic career he’d begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom’s boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman--aka Harry Dunkel--once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the “ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York.” Through Tom and Harry, Nathan’s world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances--not to mention a stray relative or two--and leads him to a reckoning with his past. With The Brooklyn Follies, the always astonishing Paul Auster has written what is undoubtedly his warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn Follies Author: Paul Auster Narrator: Paul Auster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 3, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn Follies Author: Paul Auster Narrator: Paul Auster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 3, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man’s accidental redemption Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore--a far cry from the brilliant academic career he’d begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom’s boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman--aka Harry Dunkel--once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the “ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York.” Through Tom and Harry, Nathan’s world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances--not to mention a stray relative or two--and leads him to a reckoning with his past. With The Brooklyn Follies, the always astonishing Paul Auster has written what is undoubtedly his warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/truth-and-consequences-a-novel-by-alison-lurie--65280742https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth and Consequences: A Novel Author: Alison Lurie Narrator: Jamie Heinlein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 6, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author dishes up a surprising satire about two couples making mischief on a college campus. Unabridged CDs - 7 CDs, 9 hours]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202868Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth and Consequences: A Novel Author: Alison Lurie Narrator: Jamie Heinlein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth and Consequences: A Novel Author: Alison Lurie Narrator: Jamie Heinlein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 6, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author dishes up a surprising satire about two couples making mischief on a college campus. Unabridged CDs - 7 CDs, 9 hours]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-myth-of-you-and-me-a-novel-by-leah-stewart--65280819https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Myth of You and Me: A Novel Author: Leah Stewart Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 20, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend. When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet. When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half. The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia’s friendship—as intense as any love affair—and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160372Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Myth of You and Me: A Novel Author: Leah Stewart Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Myth of You and Me: A Novel Author: Leah Stewart Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 20, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend. When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet. When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half. The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia’s friendship—as intense as any love affair—and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/indecision-a-novel-by-benjamin-kunkel--65280810https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Indecision: A Novel Author: Benjamin Kunkel Narrator: Patrick Frederic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 30, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive to wisdom. And a few sessions of psychoanalysis conducted by his sister have distinctly failed to help with his biggest problem: a chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental pharmaceutical meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without some meditation on the hazards of jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is “pfired” from Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life. The trouble–well, one of the troubles–is that Dwight can’t decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge.How to affirm happiness without living in constant denial of the ways of the world? How to commit, and to what? At once funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely intelligent and proudly silly, Indecision rings with a voice of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries reflect the concerns and style of a generation."Here’s what Indecision gives you: sustained social and intellectual comedy, possibly the last but certainly the funniest Superfluous Man in modern literature, drive-by satire, plus detailed set-piece send-ups of Young Adult colgrads at work and play. The mockery ishumane. The tale of Dwight Wilmerding is told with style and care. And there’s a surprising ending. Benjamin Kunkel, welcome!"–Norman Rush, author of Mating]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157462Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Indecision: A Novel Author: Benjamin Kunkel Narrator: Patrick Frederic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Indecision: A Novel Author: Benjamin Kunkel Narrator: Patrick Frederic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 30, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive to wisdom. And a few sessions of psychoanalysis conducted by his sister have distinctly failed to help with his biggest problem: a chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental pharmaceutical meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without some meditation on the hazards of jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is “pfired” from Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life. The trouble–well, one of the troubles–is that Dwight can’t decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge.How to affirm happiness without living in constant denial of the ways of the world? How to commit, and to what? At once funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely intelligent and proudly silly, Indecision rings with a voice of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries reflect the concerns and style of a generation."Here’s what Indecision gives you: sustained social and intellectual comedy, possibly the last but certainly the funniest Superfluous Man in modern literature, drive-by satire, plus detailed set-piece send-ups of Young Adult colgrads at work and play. The mockery ishumane. The tale of Dwight Wilmerding is told with style and care. And there’s a surprising ending. Benjamin Kunkel, welcome!"–Norman Rush, author of Mating]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marker-by-robin-cook--65280771https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marker Series: #5 of A Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Novel Author: Robin Cook Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 19, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 57 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With his signature blend of suspense and science, Robin Cook delivers an electrifying page-turner that delves into the murky ethics of developing genomic medicine and modern-day health care.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201296Thu, 19 May 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marker Series: #5 of A Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Novel Author: Robin Cook Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marker Series: #5 of A Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Novel Author: Robin Cook Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 19, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 57 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With his signature blend of suspense and science, Robin Cook delivers an electrifying page-turner that delves into the murky ethics of developing genomic medicine and modern-day health care.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/oh-my-stars-a-novel-by-lorna-landvik--65280871https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oh My Stars: A Novel Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 5, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food. Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates (“Hey, Olive Oyl, where’s Popeye?”), the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. Only when she’s hired by the town’s sole feminist to work the night shift in the local thread factory does Violet come into her name, and bloom. Accepted by her co-workers, the teenager enters the happiest phase of her life, until a terrible accident causes her to retreat once again into her lonely shell. Realizing that she has only one clear choice, Violet boards a bus heading west to California. But when the bus crashes in North Dakota, it seems that Fate is having another cruel laugh at Violet’s expense. This time though, Violet laughs back. She and her fellow passengers are rescued by two men: Austin Sykes, whom Violet is certain is the blackest man to ever set foot on the North Dakota prairie, and Kjel Hedstrom, who inspires feelings Violet never before has felt. Kjel and Austin are musicians whose sound is like no other, and with pluck, verve, and wit, Violet becomes part of their quest to make a new kind of music together. Oh My Stars is Lorna Landvik’s most ambitious novel yet, with a cast of characters whose travails and triumphs you’ll long remember. It is a tale of love and hope, bigotry and betrayal, loss and discovery–as Violet, who’s always considered herself a minor character in her own life story, emerges as a heroine you’ll laugh with, cry with, and, most important, cheer for all the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159561Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oh My Stars: A Novel Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oh My Stars: A Novel Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 5, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food. Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates (“Hey, Olive Oyl, where’s Popeye?”), the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. Only when she’s hired by the town’s sole feminist to work the night shift in the local thread factory does Violet come into her name, and bloom. Accepted by her co-workers, the teenager enters the happiest phase of her life, until a terrible accident causes her to retreat once again into her lonely shell. Realizing that she has only one clear choice, Violet boards a bus heading west to California. But when the bus crashes in North Dakota, it seems that Fate is having another cruel laugh at Violet’s expense. This time though, Violet laughs back. She and her fellow passengers are rescued by two men: Austin Sykes, whom Violet is certain is the blackest man to ever set foot on the North Dakota prairie, and Kjel Hedstrom, who inspires feelings Violet never before has felt. Kjel and Austin are musicians whose sound is like no other, and with pluck, verve, and wit, Violet becomes part of their quest to make a new kind of music together. Oh My Stars is Lorna Landvik’s most ambitious novel yet, with a cast of characters whose travails and triumphs you’ll long remember. It is a tale of love and hope, bigotry and betrayal, loss and discovery–as Violet, who’s always considered herself a minor character in her own life story, emerges as a heroine you’ll laugh with, cry with, and, most important, cheer for all the way.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ha-ha-by-dave-king--65280809https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ha-Ha Author: Dave King Narrator: Terry Kinney Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 1, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Howard Kapostash has not spoken in thirty years. The small repertory of gestures and simple sounds that he uses to communicate lead most people to assume he is disturbed. No one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before his tragic injury. But when he agrees to help an old girlfriend by opening his home to her nine-year-old son, the presence of this nervous, resourceful boy in his life transforms Howard utterly. He is afforded a rare glimpse of life outside his shell? With all its exuberant joys and crushing sorrows.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143285Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ha-Ha Author: Dave King Narrator: Terry Kinney Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 1, 2005 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ha-Ha Author: Dave King Narrator: Terry Kinney Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 1, 2005 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Howard Kapostash has not spoken in thirty years. The small repertory of gestures and simple sounds that he uses to communicate lead most people to assume he is disturbed. No one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before his tragic injury. But when he agrees to help an old girlfriend by opening his home to her nine-year-old son, the presence of this nervous, resourceful boy in his life transforms Howard utterly. He is afforded a rare glimpse of life outside his shell? With all its exuberant joys and crushing sorrows.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/broken-prey-by-john-sandford--65280750https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Prey Author: John Sandford Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 10, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 101 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare, in one of the scariest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author. The 'Big Three' are a trio of inmates locked up in the Minnesota Security Hospital over the years, each a particularly vicious serial killer, each with his own distinct style and propensities. Everybody feels much safer knowing that they're behind bars. Except . . . there's a new killer on the loose. And his handiwork bears a disturbing resemblance to some of the finer points practiced by the Big Three, details that never even made the papers. Davenport and his team quickly home in on a possible suspect, a man named Charlie Pope, who was released from the same hospital prison a few weeks earlier, and who now seems to have cut himself free from his court-imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. But is he really the one? And why do the Big Three look so agitated? Brilliantly suspenseful, consistently surprising-once again, Sandford has outdone himself.'']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198669Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Prey Author: John Sandford Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 10, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Prey Author: John Sandford Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 10, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 101 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare, in one of the scariest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author. The 'Big Three' are a trio of inmates locked up in the Minnesota Security Hospital over the years, each a particularly vicious serial killer, each with his own distinct style and propensities. Everybody feels much safer knowing that they're behind bars. Except . . . there's a new killer on the loose. And his handiwork bears a disturbing resemblance to some of the finer points practiced by the Big Three, details that never even made the papers. Davenport and his team quickly home in on a possible suspect, a man named Charlie Pope, who was released from the same hospital prison a few weeks earlier, and who now seems to have cut himself free from his court-imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. But is he really the one? And why do the Big Three look so agitated? Brilliantly suspenseful, consistently surprising-once again, Sandford has outdone himself.'']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whiteout-by-ken-follett--65280782https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiteout Author: Ken Follett Narrator: Josephine Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 10, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 111 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'Everyone likes a page-turner, and Follett is the best.' —The Philadelphia Inquirer 'A hell of a storyteller' (Entertainment Weekly), #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new novel. But nothing matches the intricate knife-edge drama of Whiteout. . . . A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.   As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks—jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries—crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, Whiteout rockets Follett into a class by himself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198889Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiteout Author: Ken Follett Narrator: Josephine Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 10, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiteout Author: Ken Follett Narrator: Josephine Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 10, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 111 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'Everyone likes a page-turner, and Follett is the best.' —The Philadelphia Inquirer 'A hell of a storyteller' (Entertainment Weekly), #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new novel. But nothing matches the intricate knife-edge drama of Whiteout. . . . A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.   As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks—jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries—crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, Whiteout rockets Follett into a class by himself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-carnivore-s-inquiry-by-sabina-murray--65280755https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Carnivore's Inquiry Author: Sabina Murray Narrator: Wendy Hoopes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 19, 2004 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Katherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201685Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Carnivore's Inquiry Author: Sabina Murray Narrator: Wendy Hoopes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 19, 2004...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Carnivore's Inquiry Author: Sabina Murray Narrator: Wendy Hoopes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 19, 2004 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Katherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coal-run-by-tawni-o-dell--65280741https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coal Run Author: Tawni O'Dell Narrator: Daniel Passer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 17, 2004 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, 'The Great Ivan Z.,' as he prepares for a former teammate's imminent release from prison. As the week unfolds and Ivan struggles to confront his demons, he reveals himself to be a man whose conscience is burdened by a long-held and shocking secret.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202941Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coal Run Author: Tawni O'Dell Narrator: Daniel Passer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 17, 2004 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coal Run Author: Tawni O'Dell Narrator: Daniel Passer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 17, 2004 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, 'The Great Ivan Z.,' as he prepares for a former teammate's imminent release from prison. As the week unfolds and Ivan struggles to confront his demons, he reveals himself to be a man whose conscience is burdened by a long-held and shocking secret.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-know-this-much-is-true-by-wally-lamb--65280882https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know This Much Is True Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Ken Howard Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 10, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.01 of Total 76 Ratings of Narrator: 3.29 of Total 14 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection ''Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget.''  — USA Today Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know This Much Is True Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Ken Howard Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 10, 2004...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know This Much Is True Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Ken Howard Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 10, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.01 of Total 76 Ratings of Narrator: 3.29 of Total 14 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection ''Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget.''  — USA Today Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-present-the-gift-that-makes-you-happy-and-successful-at-work-and-in-life-by-spencer-johnson-m-d--65280906https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Present: The Gift that Makes You Happy and Successful at Work and in Life Author: Spencer Johnson, M.D. Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: September 23, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A Timely Gift From the Author of Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson, M.D. Dr. Spencer Johnson’s stories of timeless, simple truths have changed the work and lives of millions of readers around the world. Now comes an insightful new tale of inspiration and practical guidance for these turbulent times. The Present The Present is the best gift you can receive because it makes you happy and successful! Whether it means … • Having peace of mind and feeling more alive; or • Being more productive and more prosperous; or • Finding whatever is important to you and to those you work and live with. The Present The Gift that Makes You Happy and Successful at Work and in Life For over two decades, Spencer Johnson has been inspiring and entertaining millions with his simple yet insightful stories of work and life that speak directly to the heart and soul. The Present is an engaging story of a young man’s journey to adulthood, and his search for The Present, a mysterious and elusive gift he first hears about from a great old man. This Present, according to the old man, is “the best present a person can receive.” Later, when the young boy becomes a young man, disillusioned with his work and his life, he returns to ask the old man, once again, to help him find The Present. The old man responds, “Only you have the power to find The Present for yourself.” So the young man embarks on a tireless search for this magical gift that holds the secret to his personal happiness and business success. It is only after the young man has searched high and low and given up his relentless pursuit that he relaxes and discovers The Present—and all of the promises it offers. The Present will help you focus on what will make you happy and successful in your work and in your personal life. Like the young man, you may find that it is the best gift you can ever give yourself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42205Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Present: The Gift that Makes You Happy and Successful at Work and in Life Author: Spencer Johnson, M.D. Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Present: The Gift that Makes You Happy and Successful at Work and in Life Author: Spencer Johnson, M.D. Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: September 23, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A Timely Gift From the Author of Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson, M.D. Dr. Spencer Johnson’s stories of timeless, simple truths have changed the work and lives of millions of readers around the world. Now comes an insightful new tale of inspiration and practical guidance for these turbulent times. The Present The Present is the best gift you can receive because it makes you happy and successful! Whether it means … • Having peace of mind and feeling more alive; or • Being more productive and more prosperous; or • Finding whatever is important to you and to those you work and live with. The Present The Gift that Makes You Happy and Successful at Work and in Life For over two decades, Spencer Johnson has been inspiring and entertaining millions with his simple yet insightful stories of work and life that speak directly to the heart and soul. The Present is an engaging story of a young man’s journey to adulthood, and his search for The Present, a mysterious and elusive gift he first hears about from a great old man. This Present, according to the old man, is “the best present a person can receive.” Later, when the young boy becomes a young man, disillusioned with his work and his life, he returns to ask the old man, once again, to help him find The Present. The old man responds, “Only you have the power to find The Present for yourself.” So the young man embarks on a tireless search for this magical gift that holds the secret to his personal happiness and business success. It is only after the young man has searched high and low and given up his relentless pursuit that he relaxes and discovers The Present—and all of the promises it offers. The Present will help you focus on what will make you happy and successful in your work and in your personal life. Like the young man, you may find that it is the best gift you can ever give yourself.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mission-flats-a-novel-by-william-landay--65280825https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mission Flats: A Novel Author: William Landay Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 9, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals. And only a natural storyteller could weave this mesmerizing tale of murder and memory, a story about the hold of time past over time present–and the story of one unforgettable young policeman who ventures into the most dangerous place of all. By a gleaming lake in the forests of western Maine, outside a sleepy town called Versailles, the body of a man lies sprawled in a deserted cabin. The dead man was an elite D.A. from Boston, and his beat was that city’s toughest neighborhood: Mission Flats. Now, for small-town police chief Ben Truman, investigating the murder will mean leaving his quiet, haunted home and journeying to an alien world of hard streets and hard bargains, where the fierce struggle between police and criminals is fought for the ultimate stakes. Ben joins a manhunt through Mission Flats, where cops are scrambling to find their number-one suspect: Harold Braxton, a ruthless predator targeted for prosecution by the murdered D.A. To the Boston police, Braxton is a marked man. But as Ben watches the shadow dance of cops and suspects, he begins to voice doubts about Braxton’s guilt…especially when he uncovers a secret history of murder and retribution stretching back twenty years…back to a brutal killing now nearly forgotten. As past and present collide and a bloody mystery unfolds, only one thing remains certain: the most powerful revelations are yet to come. Mission Flats is at once a relentless page-turning mystery and a vivid portrait of a cop’ s life. Here are the street corners, courtrooms, and stationhouses; the deal makers, thugs, and quiet heroes. An unforgettable world–and the luminous, boundary-breaking debut of a new voice in suspense fiction–Mission Flats will haunt you long after the final pages.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127852Fri, 09 May 2003 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mission Flats: A Novel Author: William Landay Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 9,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mission Flats: A Novel Author: William Landay Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 9, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals. And only a natural storyteller could weave this mesmerizing tale of murder and memory, a story about the hold of time past over time present–and the story of one unforgettable young policeman who ventures into the most dangerous place of all. By a gleaming lake in the forests of western Maine, outside a sleepy town called Versailles, the body of a man lies sprawled in a deserted cabin. The dead man was an elite D.A. from Boston, and his beat was that city’s toughest neighborhood: Mission Flats. Now, for small-town police chief Ben Truman, investigating the murder will mean leaving his quiet, haunted home and journeying to an alien world of hard streets and hard bargains, where the fierce struggle between police and criminals is fought for the ultimate stakes. Ben joins a manhunt through Mission Flats, where cops are scrambling to find their number-one suspect: Harold Braxton, a ruthless predator targeted for prosecution by the murdered D.A. To the Boston police, Braxton is a marked man. But as Ben watches the shadow dance of cops and suspects, he begins to voice doubts about Braxton’s guilt…especially when he uncovers a secret history of murder and retribution stretching back twenty years…back to a brutal killing now nearly forgotten. As past and present collide and a bloody mystery unfolds, only one thing remains certain: the most powerful revelations are yet to come. Mission Flats is at once a relentless page-turning mystery and a vivid portrait of a cop’ s life. Here are the street corners, courtrooms, and stationhouses; the deal makers, thugs, and quiet heroes. An unforgettable world–and the luminous, boundary-breaking debut of a new voice in suspense fiction–Mission Flats will haunt you long after the final pages.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-lightning-by-john-saul--65280775https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Lightning Author: John Saul Narrator: Lee Meriweather Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 29, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death—and hell-bent on revenge. For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer’s bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal—crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she’s dead wrong. . . .  Within days, a similar murder stuns the city. As the butcher stalks his next victims, creeping ever closer to her, Anne is seized by an icy unease, a haunting sense of connection to these unspeakable crimes. And, relentlessly, she hears the eerie echo of the dead man’s last words to her: “Today won’t end it. How will you feel, Anne? When I’m dead, and it all starts again, how will you feel?” In Black Lightning, John Saul strikes with a novel as electrifying as a jagged bolt from a pitch-dark sky, proving once again his inimitable genius for suspense. Praise for Black Lightning “His most effective thriller to date . . . [a] compelling read.”—The Seattle Times “Electrifyingly scary.”—San Jose Mercury News “One of Saul’s best.”—Publishers Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160934Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Lightning Author: John Saul Narrator: Lee Meriweather Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 29, 2003 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Lightning Author: John Saul Narrator: Lee Meriweather Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 29, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death—and hell-bent on revenge. For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer’s bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal—crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she’s dead wrong. . . .  Within days, a similar murder stuns the city. As the butcher stalks his next victims, creeping ever closer to her, Anne is seized by an icy unease, a haunting sense of connection to these unspeakable crimes. And, relentlessly, she hears the eerie echo of the dead man’s last words to her: “Today won’t end it. How will you feel, Anne? When I’m dead, and it all starts again, how will you feel?” In Black Lightning, John Saul strikes with a novel as electrifying as a jagged bolt from a pitch-dark sky, proving once again his inimitable genius for suspense. Praise for Black Lightning “His most effective thriller to date . . . [a] compelling read.”—The Seattle Times “Electrifyingly scary.”—San Jose Mercury News “One of Saul’s best.”—Publishers Weekly]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-little-friend-by-donna-tartt--65280801https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Friend Author: Donna Tartt Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 24, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.74 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. •  “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241623Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Friend Author: Donna Tartt Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 24, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Friend Author: Donna Tartt Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 24, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.74 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. •  “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tepper-isn-t-going-out-by-calvin-trillin--65280804https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tepper Isn't Going Out Author: Calvin Trillin Narrator: Calvin Trillin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 15, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out. Tepper isn’t going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literal: the indisputable fact, for instance, that he has twenty minutes left on the meter. Tepper’s behavior sometimes irritates the people who want his spot. (“Is that where you live? Is that car rent-controlled?”) It also irritates the mayor—Frank Ducavelli, known in tabloid headlines as Il Duce—who sees Murray Tepper as a harbinger of what His Honor always calls “the forces of disorder.” But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don’t know. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out. Tepper Isn’t Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160435Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tepper Isn't Going Out Author: Calvin Trillin Narrator: Calvin Trillin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 15,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tepper Isn't Going Out Author: Calvin Trillin Narrator: Calvin Trillin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 15, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out. Tepper isn’t going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literal: the indisputable fact, for instance, that he has twenty minutes left on the meter. Tepper’s behavior sometimes irritates the people who want his spot. (“Is that where you live? Is that car rent-controlled?”) It also irritates the mayor—Frank Ducavelli, known in tabloid headlines as Il Duce—who sees Murray Tepper as a harbinger of what His Honor always calls “the forces of disorder.” But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don’t know. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out. Tepper Isn’t Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/among-the-missing-a-novel-by-dan-chaon--65280770https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Among the Missing: A Novel Author: Dan Chaon Narrator: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 3, 2001 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion. Among the Missing lingers in the mind through its subtle grace and power of language.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160766Tue, 03 Jul 2001 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Among the Missing: A Novel Author: Dan Chaon Narrator: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Among the Missing: A Novel Author: Dan Chaon Narrator: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 3, 2001 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion. Among the Missing lingers in the mind through its subtle grace and power of language.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-in-holy-orders-an-adam-dalgliesh-mystery-by-p-d-james--65280760https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in Holy Orders: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series: #11 of Adam Dalgliesh Author: P. D. James Narrator: Charles Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and flamboyant businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants—and in this case what he wants is Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son’s death. Although there seems to be little to investigate, Dalgliesh agrees, largely out of nostal-gia for several happy summers he spent at St. Anselm’s as a boy. No sooner does he arrive, however, than the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself ineluctably drawn into the labyrinth of an intricate and violent mystery. Here P. D. James once more demonstrates her unrivalled skill in building a classic detective story into a fully realized novel, gripping as much for its psychological and emotional richness as for the originality and complexity of its plotting—and, of course, for the horror and suspense at its heart. Filled with unforgettable characters, brilliant in its evocation of the East Anglian scene and the religious background against which the action takes place, Death in Holy Orders again offers proof, if proof were needed, that P. D. James is not only the reigning master of the crime novel but also, simply, one of the finest novelists writing today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160784Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in Holy Orders: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series: #11 of Adam Dalgliesh Author: P. D. James Narrator: Charles Keating Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in Holy Orders: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series: #11 of Adam Dalgliesh Author: P. D. James Narrator: Charles Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and flamboyant businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants—and in this case what he wants is Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son’s death. Although there seems to be little to investigate, Dalgliesh agrees, largely out of nostal-gia for several happy summers he spent at St. Anselm’s as a boy. No sooner does he arrive, however, than the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself ineluctably drawn into the labyrinth of an intricate and violent mystery. Here P. D. James once more demonstrates her unrivalled skill in building a classic detective story into a fully realized novel, gripping as much for its psychological and emotional richness as for the originality and complexity of its plotting—and, of course, for the horror and suspense at its heart. Filled with unforgettable characters, brilliant in its evocation of the East Anglian scene and the religious background against which the action takes place, Death in Holy Orders again offers proof, if proof were needed, that P. D. James is not only the reigning master of the crime novel but also, simply, one of the finest novelists writing today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-triumph-of-katie-byrne-a-novel-by-barbara-taylor-bradford--65280845https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Triumph of Katie Byrne: A Novel Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Narrator: Kate Burton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 27, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still haunted by the tragedy.  Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself but also for her two old friends.  Her big chance comes when she is discovered and wins a major role in a Broadway play.  A promising love affair adds to the excitement of working in the theater; but Katie must face the demons of the past before she can embrace the possibilities of the future. In sixteen previous bestselling novels, Barbara Taylor Bradford has enthralled millions of readers with pade-turning plots and characters that linger in the heart and mind long after the book is closed.  The Triumph of Katie Byrne will captivate her devoted fans and win her a whole new audience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122436Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Triumph of Katie Byrne: A Novel Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Narrator: Kate Burton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Triumph of Katie Byrne: A Novel Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Narrator: Kate Burton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 27, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still haunted by the tragedy.  Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself but also for her two old friends.  Her big chance comes when she is discovered and wins a major role in a Broadway play.  A promising love affair adds to the excitement of working in the theater; but Katie must face the demons of the past before she can embrace the possibilities of the future. In sixteen previous bestselling novels, Barbara Taylor Bradford has enthralled millions of readers with pade-turning plots and characters that linger in the heart and mind long after the book is closed.  The Triumph of Katie Byrne will captivate her devoted fans and win her a whole new audience.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/while-i-was-gone-by-sue-miller--65280895https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While I Was Gone Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife. In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.   Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust--if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it--she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves. While I Was Gone is an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563Wed, 05 Jul 2000 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While I Was Gone Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While I Was Gone Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife. In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.   Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust--if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it--she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves. While I Was Gone is an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-horse-whisperer-a-novel-by-nicholas-evans--65280748https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Horse Whisperer: A Novel Author: Nicholas Evans Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.  In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered.  And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain.  It is an odyssey that will bring her to... The Horse Whisperer He is the stuff of legend.  His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits.  For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers.  Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge. Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana.  Annie has risked everything -- her career, her marriage, her comfortable life -- in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them.  The accident has turned Pilgrim savage.  He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed.  But Annie won't give up on him, for she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of her daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence.  Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too. In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives -- including Tom Booker's -- will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold.  At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure, The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption -- a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed.  It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203360Wed, 05 Jul 2000 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Horse Whisperer: A Novel Author: Nicholas Evans Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Horse Whisperer: A Novel Author: Nicholas Evans Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.  In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered.  And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain.  It is an odyssey that will bring her to... The Horse Whisperer He is the stuff of legend.  His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits.  For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers.  Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge. Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana.  Annie has risked everything -- her career, her marriage, her comfortable life -- in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them.  The accident has turned Pilgrim savage.  He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed.  But Annie won't give up on him, for she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of her daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence.  Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too. In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives -- including Tom Booker's -- will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold.  At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure, The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption -- a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed.  It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pandora-by-anne-rice--65280857https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora Series: #1 of New Tales of the Vampires Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Janet McTeer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 4, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together. Look for Anne Rice’s new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, coming November 29, 2016.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237760Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora Series: #1 of New Tales of the Vampires Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Janet McTeer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora Series: #1 of New Tales of the Vampires Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Janet McTeer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 4, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together. Look for Anne Rice’s new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, coming November 29, 2016.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bloodstream-a-novel-of-medical-suspense-by-tess-gerritsen--65280911https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloodstream: A Novel of Medical Suspense Author: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Jan Maxwell Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 1, 1998 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 16 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practice on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town's teenagers. As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century, the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence. Claire suspects that there is a biological cause for the epidemic, and she fears that the placid Locust Lake may conceal an insidious danger. As she races to save Tranquility—and her son—from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature and cause innocents to slaughter.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46415Sat, 01 Aug 1998 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloodstream: A Novel of Medical Suspense Author: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Jan Maxwell Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloodstream: A Novel of Medical Suspense Author: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Jan Maxwell Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 1, 1998 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 16 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practice on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town's teenagers. As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century, the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence. Claire suspects that there is a biological cause for the epidemic, and she fears that the placid Locust Lake may conceal an insidious danger. As she races to save Tranquility—and her son—from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature and cause innocents to slaughter.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/violin-by-anne-rice--65280867https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249757 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Violin Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 7, 1997 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Anne Rice's Violin tells the story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. But Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying supernatural realm. Violin flows abundant with the history, the drama, and the romantic intensity that have become synonymous with Anne Rice at her incomparable best. Anne Rice is the author of eighteen books. She lives in New Orleans. Also available as a Random House AudioBook]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249757Tue, 07 Jan 1997 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249757 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Violin Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 7, 1997 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249757 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Violin Author: Anne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 7, 1997 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Anne Rice's Violin tells the story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. But Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying supernatural realm. Violin flows abundant with the history, the drama, and the romantic intensity that have become synonymous with Anne Rice at her incomparable best. Anne Rice is the author of eighteen books. She lives in New Orleans. Also available as a Random House AudioBook]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/airframe-a-novel-by-michael-crichton--65280862https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Airframe: A Novel Author: Michael Crichton Narrator: Frances Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 2, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 99 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160961Tue, 02 Jan 1996 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Airframe: A Novel Author: Michael Crichton Narrator: Frances Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Airframe: A Novel Author: Michael Crichton Narrator: Frances Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 2, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 99 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-butcher-boy-by-patrick-mccabe--65280790https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butcher Boy Author: Patrick McCabe Narrator: Patrick McCabe Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent. Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to unforgettably vivid life in this tour-de-force performance by author Patrick McCabe. Francie Brady, the 'pig boy,' is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and John Wayne movies. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you? Now a major motion picture from Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game), and read with the bravura performance style that has earned McCabe raves on both sides of the Atlantic, The Butcher Boy is a stunning audio thriller.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554Thu, 01 Sep 1994 08:49:30 +0000Rhiannon HackettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butcher Boy Author: Patrick McCabe Narrator: Patrick McCabe Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 1994...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butcher Boy Author: Patrick McCabe Narrator: Patrick McCabe Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent. Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to unforgettably vivid life in this tour-de-force performance by author Patrick McCabe. Francie Brady, the 'pig boy,' is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and John Wayne movies. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you? Now a major motion picture from Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game), and read with the bravura performance style that has earned McCabe raves on both sides of the Atlantic, The Butcher Boy is a stunning audio thriller.]]>185cleanfull