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If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enFictionCopyright Gunner Koepphttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a4168e97bd5511ee6e35af7358032d5b.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/get-top-full-audiobooks-in-fiction-contemporary-women--6580191Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:04:48 +0000Gunner KoeppGunner Koeppfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/625/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/625/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, to Mystery and Romance. You'll get 3 free audiobooks to start your journey. Whether you use an iPhone, iPad, Android, or any other device, you can conveniently enjoy audiobooks. Let captivating stories accompany you every moment! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kissing-games-of-the-world-by-sandi-kahn-shelton--65295283https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54150 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kissing Games Of The World Author: Sandi Kahn Shelton Narrator: Myra Platt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What if the one person you can’t bear to be with is also the one person you can’t bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly, her idyllic country life comes to a halt, as the old man's estranged son, Nate, return's to claim the house and his child. Jamie can't stand Nate's sick, arrogant, salesman-like approach to parenthood, and Nate is irritated by her laid-back, earth mother view of life, not to mention her fondness for artsy knitted vests. This is definitely not love at first sight. But as they try to work out the logistics of raising their two little boys-reluctantly enduring everything from games of hide-and-seek with Daddy’s BlackBerry to breakfast of headless teddy bear pancakes-their lives become hopelessly intertwined. It's not until they've gone their separate ways that they both realize that sometimes love sneaks through the door you were sure you'd slammed long ago, and that rescue from the past can come from unlikeliest places.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54150Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54150 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kissing Games Of The World Author: Sandi Kahn Shelton Narrator: Myra Platt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54150 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kissing Games Of The World Author: Sandi Kahn Shelton Narrator: Myra Platt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What if the one person you can’t bear to be with is also the one person you can’t bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly, her idyllic country life comes to a halt, as the old man's estranged son, Nate, return's to claim the house and his child. Jamie can't stand Nate's sick, arrogant, salesman-like approach to parenthood, and Nate is irritated by her laid-back, earth mother view of life, not to mention her fondness for artsy knitted vests. This is definitely not love at first sight. But as they try to work out the logistics of raising their two little boys-reluctantly enduring everything from games of hide-and-seek with Daddy’s BlackBerry to breakfast of headless teddy bear pancakes-their lives become hopelessly intertwined. It's not until they've gone their separate ways that they both realize that sometimes love sneaks through the door you were sure you'd slammed long ago, and that rescue from the past can come from unlikeliest places.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/barefoot-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65295387https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/132033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barefoot: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Rachael Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness—three women seek peace and comfort in Nantucket as they cope with life's challenges. Three women—burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues—tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Brenda, has just left her job after being caught in an affair with a student. And their friend Melanie, after seven failed in vitro attempts, is pregnant at last—but only after learning that her husband is having an affair. They have come to escape, enjoy the sun, and relax in Nantucket's calming air. But into the house, into their world, steps twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn. Barefoot weaves these four lives together in a story with enthralling sweep and scope—a novel that is as fun and memorable and bittersweet as that one perfect day of summer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/132033Tue, 08 May 2012 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/132033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barefoot: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Rachael Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/132033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barefoot: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Rachael Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness—three women seek peace and comfort in Nantucket as they cope with life's challenges. Three women—burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues—tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Brenda, has just left her job after being caught in an affair with a student. And their friend Melanie, after seven failed in vitro attempts, is pregnant at last—but only after learning that her husband is having an affair. They have come to escape, enjoy the sun, and relax in Nantucket's calming air. But into the house, into their world, steps twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn. Barefoot weaves these four lives together in a story with enthralling sweep and scope—a novel that is as fun and memorable and bittersweet as that one perfect day of summer.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deep-waters-by-jayne-ann-krentz--65295240https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deep Waters Author: Jayne Ann Krentz Narrator: Stephanie Diaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 21, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Charity Truitt and Elias Winter, two of the Pacific Northwest’s most powerful corporate figures, are both facing crises of career and the heart. Fate has brought them together in Washington’s tiny Whispering Waters Cove, each eager to downsize and simplify. They’re both determined to avoid mergers of any kind—but when they meet, the attraction is nothing short of blue-chip. And they definitely have at least one thing in common: A martial arts master, Elias is a novice at relationships; a formidable former CEO, Charity is starting in the mail room when it comes to love. But when the town is rocked by two shocking murders, Charity and Elias realize that they must join forces to catch a killer. Because behind the town’s sleepy façade run currents fed by treacherous secrets and Deep Waters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150483Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deep Waters Author: Jayne Ann Krentz Narrator: Stephanie Diaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 21, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deep Waters Author: Jayne Ann Krentz Narrator: Stephanie Diaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 21, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Charity Truitt and Elias Winter, two of the Pacific Northwest’s most powerful corporate figures, are both facing crises of career and the heart. Fate has brought them together in Washington’s tiny Whispering Waters Cove, each eager to downsize and simplify. They’re both determined to avoid mergers of any kind—but when they meet, the attraction is nothing short of blue-chip. And they definitely have at least one thing in common: A martial arts master, Elias is a novice at relationships; a formidable former CEO, Charity is starting in the mail room when it comes to love. But when the town is rocked by two shocking murders, Charity and Elias realize that they must join forces to catch a killer. Because behind the town’s sleepy façade run currents fed by treacherous secrets and Deep Waters.]]>5cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-lessons-a-novel-by-ellen-sussman--65295229https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Lessons: A Novel Author: Ellen Sussman Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways. Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world. As they meet with their tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris’s grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97702Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Lessons: A Novel Author: Ellen Sussman Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Lessons: A Novel Author: Ellen Sussman Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways. Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world. As they meet with their tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris’s grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heat-wave-a-novel-by-nancy-thayer--65295183https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heat Wave: A Novel Author: Nancy Thayer Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 21, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Unerringly perceptive, superbly written, every page packed with the warmth and compassionate wisdom that have become Nancy Thayer’s trademark, Heat Wave tells the moving story of a woman who, after her seemingly perfect life unravels, must find the strength to live and love again. Making the startling discovery that her family finances are in dire straits is only the latest shock endured by Carley Winsted after her husband’s sudden death from a heart attack. Resisting her in-laws’ well-meaning overtures to take in Carley and her two daughters, the young widow instead devises a plan to keep her family in their beloved home, a grand historic house on the island of Nantucket. The solution is right at Carley’s front door: transforming her expensive, expansive house into a bed-and-breakfast. Not everyone, however, thinks this plan prudent or quite respectable—especially not Carley’s mother-in-law. Further complicating a myriad of challenges, a friend forces Carley to keep a secret that, if revealed, will undo families and friendships.  When her late husband’s former law partner keeps showing up at the most unexpected times, Carley must cope with an array of mixed feelings. And then, during a late-summer heat wave, the lives of Carley and her friends and family will be forever changed in entirely unexpected ways.  Lyrical, emotional, dramatic, and ultimately wonderfully uplifting, Nancy Thayer’s latest novel is compelling from its first page to its last.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97700Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heat Wave: A Novel Author: Nancy Thayer Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 21, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heat Wave: A Novel Author: Nancy Thayer Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 21, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Unerringly perceptive, superbly written, every page packed with the warmth and compassionate wisdom that have become Nancy Thayer’s trademark, Heat Wave tells the moving story of a woman who, after her seemingly perfect life unravels, must find the strength to live and love again. Making the startling discovery that her family finances are in dire straits is only the latest shock endured by Carley Winsted after her husband’s sudden death from a heart attack. Resisting her in-laws’ well-meaning overtures to take in Carley and her two daughters, the young widow instead devises a plan to keep her family in their beloved home, a grand historic house on the island of Nantucket. The solution is right at Carley’s front door: transforming her expensive, expansive house into a bed-and-breakfast. Not everyone, however, thinks this plan prudent or quite respectable—especially not Carley’s mother-in-law. Further complicating a myriad of challenges, a friend forces Carley to keep a secret that, if revealed, will undo families and friendships.  When her late husband’s former law partner keeps showing up at the most unexpected times, Carley must cope with an array of mixed feelings. And then, during a late-summer heat wave, the lives of Carley and her friends and family will be forever changed in entirely unexpected ways.  Lyrical, emotional, dramatic, and ultimately wonderfully uplifting, Nancy Thayer’s latest novel is compelling from its first page to its last.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/silver-girl-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65295102https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silver Girl: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Janet Metzger, Marianne Fraulo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 21, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 11 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing — because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby — Meredith's high school boyfriend — arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had. Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness. “Clearly the Madoff family inspired this plot, but Hilderbrand gives it her own sun-kissed, optimistic spin — which is not to say it’s all Rosa rugosa, just that there’s a silver lining to the ugliest of circumstances.” —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97011Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silver Girl: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Janet Metzger, Marianne Fraulo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silver Girl: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Janet Metzger, Marianne Fraulo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 21, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 11 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing — because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby — Meredith's high school boyfriend — arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had. Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness. “Clearly the Madoff family inspired this plot, but Hilderbrand gives it her own sun-kissed, optimistic spin — which is not to say it’s all Rosa rugosa, just that there’s a silver lining to the ugliest of circumstances.” —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-in-the-garden-by-kamala-nair--65295237https://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: Contemporary Women 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 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease 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: Contemporary Women 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/maine-by-j-courtney-sullivan--65295233https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maine Author: J. Courtney Sullivan Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 14, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common but the fact that, like it or not, they’re family. For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky coast, with one tree bearing the initials “A.H.” At the cottage, built by Kelleher hands, cocktail hour follows morning mass, nosy grandchildren snoop in drawers, and decades-old grudges simmer beneath the surface. As three generations of Kelleher women descend on the property one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush; Kathleen, the black sheep, never wanted to set foot in the cottage again; and Alice, the matriarch at the center of it all, would trade every floorboard for a chance to undo the events of one night, long ago. By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to Maine and to each other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97083Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maine Author: J. Courtney Sullivan Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 14, 2011 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maine Author: J. Courtney Sullivan Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 14, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common but the fact that, like it or not, they’re family. For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky coast, with one tree bearing the initials “A.H.” At the cottage, built by Kelleher hands, cocktail hour follows morning mass, nosy grandchildren snoop in drawers, and decades-old grudges simmer beneath the surface. As three generations of Kelleher women descend on the property one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush; Kathleen, the black sheep, never wanted to set foot in the cottage again; and Alice, the matriarch at the center of it all, would trade every floorboard for a chance to undo the events of one night, long ago. By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to Maine and to each other.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sisterhood-everlasting-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants-a-novel-by-ann-brashares--65295191https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel Series: #5 of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Author: Ann Brashares Narrator: Angela Goethals Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 14, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . ten years later   From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness. Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected. As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96956Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel Series: #5 of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Author: Ann Brashares Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel Series: #5 of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Author: Ann Brashares Narrator: Angela Goethals Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 14, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . ten years later   From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness. Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected. As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-be-sung-underwater-a-novel-by-tom-mcneal--65295101https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Be Sung Underwater: A Novel Author: Tom McNeal Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 2, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that 'picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio.' Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a natural thing to promise. But Willy Blunt was not a person you could pick up in Nebraska and transport to Stanford. When Judith left home, she didn't look back. Twenty years later, Judith's marriage is hazy with secrets. In her hand is what may be the phone number for the man who believed she meant it when she said she loved him. If she called, what would he say? To Be Sung Underwater is the epic love story of a woman trying to remember, and the man who could not even begin to forget.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97061Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Be Sung Underwater: A Novel Author: Tom McNeal Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Be Sung Underwater: A Novel Author: Tom McNeal Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 2, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that 'picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio.' Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a natural thing to promise. But Willy Blunt was not a person you could pick up in Nebraska and transport to Stanford. When Judith left home, she didn't look back. Twenty years later, Judith's marriage is hazy with secrets. In her hand is what may be the phone number for the man who believed she meant it when she said she loved him. If she called, what would he say? To Be Sung Underwater is the epic love story of a woman trying to remember, and the man who could not even begin to forget.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-reluctant-vampire-an-argeneau-novel-by-lynsay-sands--65295111https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reluctant Vampire: An Argeneau Novel Series: #15 of Argeneau Vampire Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Paula Christensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 31, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Lynsay Sands writes books that keep readers coming back for more.” —Katie MacAlister, USA Today bestselling author of A Girl’s Guide to Vampires Readers can’t get enough of Lynsay Sands’ delightfully devilish novels featuring the Argeneau vampire family, and with The Reluctant Vampire, Sands soars to new heights on silken bat wings. The story of a sexy Rogue Hunter forced to babysit a new immortal with a handsome, brooding, millennia-old vampire still devastated over the loss of a lover, The Reluctant Vampire offers heart, humor, and sizzling sensuality in equal measure—hallmarks of the incomparable Lynsay’s bestselling paranormal fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96901Tue, 31 May 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reluctant Vampire: An Argeneau Novel Series: #15 of Argeneau Vampire Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Paula Christensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reluctant Vampire: An Argeneau Novel Series: #15 of Argeneau Vampire Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Paula Christensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 31, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Lynsay Sands writes books that keep readers coming back for more.” —Katie MacAlister, USA Today bestselling author of A Girl’s Guide to Vampires Readers can’t get enough of Lynsay Sands’ delightfully devilish novels featuring the Argeneau vampire family, and with The Reluctant Vampire, Sands soars to new heights on silken bat wings. The story of a sexy Rogue Hunter forced to babysit a new immortal with a handsome, brooding, millennia-old vampire still devastated over the loss of a lover, The Reluctant Vampire offers heart, humor, and sizzling sensuality in equal measure—hallmarks of the incomparable Lynsay’s bestselling paranormal fiction.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-wanna-testify-a-novel-by-pearl-cleage--65295245https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Wanna Testify: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 10, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Familiar faces and places meet fresh twists and turns in this enthralling novel from acclaimed author Pearl Cleage.   Atlanta’s West End district has always been a haven and home to a coterie of unique characters—artists and thinkers, dreamers and doers. Folks here know one another’s names, keep their doors unlocked, and look out for their neighbors. Anyone planning to sell drugs, vandalize, or rob a little old lady should think twice before hitting this part of town. And Blue Hamilton, West End’s unofficial mayor and longtime protector, will see to it that you do. Blue wears many hats here, including adored husband to Regina, dear nephew to Abbey, and doting father to Sweetie and another little one on the way. Blue is also the man you pay your respects to if you’re looking to set up shop in this urban enclave—just ask Serena Mayflower, whom Blue sees striding down Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard wearing skin-tight black leather pants, thigh-high boots, and bright red lipstick. This tall, slender, ethereally beautiful woman and her four equally striking sisters make up the Too Fine Five, a quintet of international supermodels who have arrived in town for an Essence magazine photo shoot.          But Blue’s gut tells him that there’s more to these Mayflower mademoiselles than their affection for full moons and Bloody Marys. With the help of his beloved Regina and their close friends and relations in West End, Blue vows to uncover the women’s secret intentions—and prove once and for all that there is no greater force on earth than the power of love. A mesmerizing slice of not-so-everyday life, brimming with wicked wit and spiced with a few supernatural surprises, Just Wanna Testify showcases Pearl Cleage’s masterly storytelling at its soulful and satisfying finest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96446Tue, 10 May 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Wanna Testify: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Wanna Testify: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 10, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Familiar faces and places meet fresh twists and turns in this enthralling novel from acclaimed author Pearl Cleage.   Atlanta’s West End district has always been a haven and home to a coterie of unique characters—artists and thinkers, dreamers and doers. Folks here know one another’s names, keep their doors unlocked, and look out for their neighbors. Anyone planning to sell drugs, vandalize, or rob a little old lady should think twice before hitting this part of town. And Blue Hamilton, West End’s unofficial mayor and longtime protector, will see to it that you do. Blue wears many hats here, including adored husband to Regina, dear nephew to Abbey, and doting father to Sweetie and another little one on the way. Blue is also the man you pay your respects to if you’re looking to set up shop in this urban enclave—just ask Serena Mayflower, whom Blue sees striding down Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard wearing skin-tight black leather pants, thigh-high boots, and bright red lipstick. This tall, slender, ethereally beautiful woman and her four equally striking sisters make up the Too Fine Five, a quintet of international supermodels who have arrived in town for an Essence magazine photo shoot.          But Blue’s gut tells him that there’s more to these Mayflower mademoiselles than their affection for full moons and Bloody Marys. With the help of his beloved Regina and their close friends and relations in West End, Blue vows to uncover the women’s secret intentions—and prove once and for all that there is no greater force on earth than the power of love. A mesmerizing slice of not-so-everyday life, brimming with wicked wit and spiced with a few supernatural surprises, Just Wanna Testify showcases Pearl Cleage’s masterly storytelling at its soulful and satisfying finest.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-country-by-bobbie-ann-mason--65295301https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Country Author: Bobbie Ann Mason Narrator: Jill Brennan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. ''Astronauts have been to the moon,'' she blurted out to the picture. ''You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade.'' She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to cometo life. But Dwayne had died with his secrets. Emmett was walking around with his. Anyone who survived Vietnam seemed to regard it as something personal andembarrassing. Granddad had said they were embarrassed that they were still alive. ''I guess you're not embarrassed,'' she said to the picture. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96458Tue, 03 May 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Country Author: Bobbie Ann Mason Narrator: Jill Brennan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Country Author: Bobbie Ann Mason Narrator: Jill Brennan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. ''Astronauts have been to the moon,'' she blurted out to the picture. ''You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade.'' She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to cometo life. But Dwayne had died with his secrets. Emmett was walking around with his. Anyone who survived Vietnam seemed to regard it as something personal andembarrassing. Granddad had said they were embarrassed that they were still alive. ''I guess you're not embarrassed,'' she said to the picture. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-sparrows-fall-a-novel-by-meg-moseley--65295232https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Sparrows Fall: A Novel Author: Meg Moseley Narrator: Matilda Novak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Freedom. Safety. Love. Miranda vows to reclaim them--for herself, and for her children.   A widow and mother of six, Miranda Hanford leads a quiet, private life. When the pastor of her close-knit church announces his plans to move the entire congregation to another state, Miranda jumps at the opportunity to dissolve ties with Mason Chandler and his controlling method of ruling his flock. But then Mason threatens to unearth secrets from her past, and Miranda feels trapped, terrified she’ll be unable to protect her children. College professor Jack Hanford is more than surprised when he gets a call from his estranged sister-in-law’s oldest son, Timothy, informing him that Miranda has taken a serious fall and he has been named legal guardian of her children while she recovers. Quickly charmed by Miranda’s children, Jack brings some much-needed life into the sheltered household. But his constant challenging of the family’s conservative lifestyle makes the recovering mother uneasy and defensive—despite Jack’s unnerving appeal. As Jack tries to make sense of the mysterious Miranda and the secrets she holds so tightly, Mason’s pressure on her increases. With her emotions stirring and freedom calling, can Miranda find a way to unshackle her family without losing everything?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93524Tue, 03 May 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Sparrows Fall: A Novel Author: Meg Moseley Narrator: Matilda Novak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 3,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Sparrows Fall: A Novel Author: Meg Moseley Narrator: Matilda Novak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Freedom. Safety. Love. Miranda vows to reclaim them--for herself, and for her children.   A widow and mother of six, Miranda Hanford leads a quiet, private life. When the pastor of her close-knit church announces his plans to move the entire congregation to another state, Miranda jumps at the opportunity to dissolve ties with Mason Chandler and his controlling method of ruling his flock. But then Mason threatens to unearth secrets from her past, and Miranda feels trapped, terrified she’ll be unable to protect her children. College professor Jack Hanford is more than surprised when he gets a call from his estranged sister-in-law’s oldest son, Timothy, informing him that Miranda has taken a serious fall and he has been named legal guardian of her children while she recovers. Quickly charmed by Miranda’s children, Jack brings some much-needed life into the sheltered household. But his constant challenging of the family’s conservative lifestyle makes the recovering mother uneasy and defensive—despite Jack’s unnerving appeal. As Jack tries to make sense of the mysterious Miranda and the secrets she holds so tightly, Mason’s pressure on her increases. With her emotions stirring and freedom calling, can Miranda find a way to unshackle her family without losing everything?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heartache-falls-an-eternity-springs-novel-by-emily-march--65295260https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartache Falls: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #3 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The healing magic of Eternity Springs continues in this novel in Emily March’s vibrant series about a very special town and the people who need it most.   Married for more than twenty years, and with her children out of the nest, Ali Timberlake has come to Eternity Springs alone. She’s looking for answers to heartbreaking questions and searching for something that’s missing deep within herself. Taking a lease on the Bristlecone Café in pursuit of a lifelong dream, Ali feels revitalized as she becomes part of this charming mountain town. But a big piece of her is still back in Denver with her husband, Mac, a successful judge—and a man who isn’t going to let the woman he loves leave without a fight. When Mac shows up in Eternity Springs—sexy, seductive, and determined to win his wife back—he experiences the wonder of the place that has given Ali such feelings of happiness and belonging. He wants that for her, but even more, he wants that with her. Ali has found a special place for her heart. But is there still enough room left in that heart for him?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93102Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartache Falls: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #3 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartache Falls: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #3 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The healing magic of Eternity Springs continues in this novel in Emily March’s vibrant series about a very special town and the people who need it most.   Married for more than twenty years, and with her children out of the nest, Ali Timberlake has come to Eternity Springs alone. She’s looking for answers to heartbreaking questions and searching for something that’s missing deep within herself. Taking a lease on the Bristlecone Café in pursuit of a lifelong dream, Ali feels revitalized as she becomes part of this charming mountain town. But a big piece of her is still back in Denver with her husband, Mac, a successful judge—and a man who isn’t going to let the woman he loves leave without a fight. When Mac shows up in Eternity Springs—sexy, seductive, and determined to win his wife back—he experiences the wonder of the place that has given Ali such feelings of happiness and belonging. He wants that for her, but even more, he wants that with her. Ali has found a special place for her heart. But is there still enough room left in that heart for him?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sunlight-and-joy-an-ebook-original-short-story-by-barbara-delinsky--65295241https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunlight and Joy: An eBook Original Short Story Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Sunlight and Joy” is Barbara Delinsky’s heartwarming story about a couple relearning how to appreciate the simple things. Also included is an exclusive conversation with Barbara about what inspires her writing and an advance peek at her newest novel, Escape.   Blessed with three wonderful children and a life full of material comforts, Rick and Ellen have always had a happy, if increasingly busy, marriage. But when Rick announces that he’s been offered a promotion that will make the family pick up and move across country for a fourth time, Ellen is dismayed; she and their children have made a life for themselves in Portsmouth, not to mention that she is about to reach a pivotal point in her own teaching career. Ellen has always supported Rick’s dreams. What will he do when she tells him that she doesn’t want to start all over again for a job that will only make their lives more frantic?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96573Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunlight and Joy: An eBook Original Short Story Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunlight and Joy: An eBook Original Short Story Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Sunlight and Joy” is Barbara Delinsky’s heartwarming story about a couple relearning how to appreciate the simple things. Also included is an exclusive conversation with Barbara about what inspires her writing and an advance peek at her newest novel, Escape.   Blessed with three wonderful children and a life full of material comforts, Rick and Ellen have always had a happy, if increasingly busy, marriage. But when Rick announces that he’s been offered a promotion that will make the family pick up and move across country for a fourth time, Ellen is dismayed; she and their children have made a life for themselves in Portsmouth, not to mention that she is about to reach a pivotal point in her own teaching career. Ellen has always supported Rick’s dreams. What will he do when she tells him that she doesn’t want to start all over again for a job that will only make their lives more frantic?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-new-american-life-a-novel-by-francine-prose--65295238https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My New American Life: A Novel Author: Francine Prose Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who’s also a world-class storyteller.”—Russell Banks   Francine Prose captures contemporary America at itsmost hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorousnovel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusiveAmerican dream. Following her New York Times bestselling novels BlueAngel and A Changed Man, Prose delivers the darkly humorous storyof Lula, a twenty-something Albanian immigrant trying to find stability andcomfort in New York City in the charged aftermath of 9/11. Set at the frontlines of a cultural war between idealism and cynicism, inalienable rights andimplacable Homeland Security measures, My New American Life is a movingand sardonic journey alongside a cast of characters exploring what it means tobe American.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93262Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My New American Life: A Novel Author: Francine Prose Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My New American Life: A Novel Author: Francine Prose Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who’s also a world-class storyteller.”—Russell Banks   Francine Prose captures contemporary America at itsmost hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorousnovel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusiveAmerican dream. Following her New York Times bestselling novels BlueAngel and A Changed Man, Prose delivers the darkly humorous storyof Lula, a twenty-something Albanian immigrant trying to find stability andcomfort in New York City in the charged aftermath of 9/11. Set at the frontlines of a cultural war between idealism and cynicism, inalienable rights andimplacable Homeland Security measures, My New American Life is a movingand sardonic journey alongside a cast of characters exploring what it means tobe American.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flying-changes-by-sara-gruen--65295113https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying Changes Series: #2 of Riding Lessons Author: Sara Gruen Narrator: Catherine Gaffney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 12, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's days—the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva's dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm's way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make peace with her past. But if she cannot let go, the personal battles she has won and the heights she has achieved will have all been for naught. It is a time of change at Maple Brook horse farm, when loves must be confronted head-on and fears must be saddled and broken. But it is an unanticipated tragedy that will most drastically alter the fragile world of one remarkable family—even as it flings open gates that have long confined them, enabling them all to finally ride headlong and free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93134Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying Changes Series: #2 of Riding Lessons Author: Sara Gruen Narrator: Catherine Gaffney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying Changes Series: #2 of Riding Lessons Author: Sara Gruen Narrator: Catherine Gaffney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 12, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's days—the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva's dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm's way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make peace with her past. But if she cannot let go, the personal battles she has won and the heights she has achieved will have all been for naught. It is a time of change at Maple Brook horse farm, when loves must be confronted head-on and fears must be saddled and broken. But it is an unanticipated tragedy that will most drastically alter the fragile world of one remarkable family—even as it flings open gates that have long confined them, enabling them all to finally ride headlong and free.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/please-look-after-mom-by-kyung-sook-shin--65295259https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Please Look After Mom Author: Kyung-Sook Shin Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93028Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Please Look After Mom Author: Kyung-Sook Shin Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Please Look After Mom Author: Kyung-Sook Shin Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-silver-boat-a-novel-by-luanne-rice--65295258https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silver Boat: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it's set. From the beloved New York Times bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth-especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland. Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together? The novel is a season on Martha's Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they'd never been quite sure they could trust. The Silver Boat is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92678Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silver Boat: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silver Boat: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it's set. From the beloved New York Times bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth-especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland. Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together? The novel is a season on Martha's Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they'd never been quite sure they could trust. The Silver Boat is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heartbreak-of-a-hustler-s-wife-a-novel-by-nikki-turner--65295206https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife: A Novel Series: #2 of Hustler's Wife Author: Nikki Turner Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Long live the Queen of Hip Hop Lit!    Nikki Turner is back with another explosive, page-turning sequel to her #1 bestselling novels A Hustler’s Wife and Forever a Hustler’s Wife.   Yarni Taylor is a successful corporate attorney who wants nothing more than for her husband, Des, to renounce his hustlin’ ways and commit to his life as a pastor—especially after someone tries to kill him. But Des isn’t ready to abandon his old habits just yet. He has to find out who is behind the murder attempt, and he wonders if the brazen robbery that took place during one of his church services is related in any way. But before he or Yarni can regain their footing, a young woman shows up on their doorstep—Desember Day, the eighteen-year-old daughter Des never knew he had. And, unfortunately, she takes after her father, so trouble isn’t far behind.  With their lives on the line, Yarni must sacrifice everything and take it out of the office and back to the streets to save her husband and her family from their checkered but intricately connected pasts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92677Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife: A Novel Series: #2 of Hustler's Wife Author: Nikki Turner Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife: A Novel Series: #2 of Hustler's Wife Author: Nikki Turner Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Long live the Queen of Hip Hop Lit!    Nikki Turner is back with another explosive, page-turning sequel to her #1 bestselling novels A Hustler’s Wife and Forever a Hustler’s Wife.   Yarni Taylor is a successful corporate attorney who wants nothing more than for her husband, Des, to renounce his hustlin’ ways and commit to his life as a pastor—especially after someone tries to kill him. But Des isn’t ready to abandon his old habits just yet. He has to find out who is behind the murder attempt, and he wonders if the brazen robbery that took place during one of his church services is related in any way. But before he or Yarni can regain their footing, a young woman shows up on their doorstep—Desember Day, the eighteen-year-old daughter Des never knew he had. And, unfortunately, she takes after her father, so trouble isn’t far behind.  With their lives on the line, Yarni must sacrifice everything and take it out of the office and back to the streets to save her husband and her family from their checkered but intricately connected pasts.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/swim-back-to-me-by-ann-packer--65295203https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92681 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swim Back to Me Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a lifetime. A wife struggles to make sense of her husband’s sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother’s wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy—and vulnerability—of fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex. Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92681Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92681 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swim Back to Me Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92681 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swim Back to Me Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a lifetime. A wife struggles to make sense of her husband’s sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother’s wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy—and vulnerability—of fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex. Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/friendship-bread-a-novel-by-darien-gee--65295130https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friendship Bread: A Novel Author: Darien Gee Narrator: Nancy Linari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An anonymous gift sends a woman on a journey she never could have anticipated.   One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch: a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Bread and a simple note: I hope you enjoy it. Also included are a bag of starter, instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others. Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life. She’d just as soon toss the anonymous gift, but to make Gracie happy, she agrees to bake the bread.   When Julia meets two newcomers to the small town of Avalon, Illinois, she sparks a connection by offering them her extra bread starter. Widow Madeline Davis is laboring to keep her tea salon afloat while Hannah Wang de Brisay, a famed concert cellist, is at a crossroads, her career and marriage having come to an abrupt end. In the warm kitchen of Madeline’s tea salon, the three women forge a friendship that will change their lives forever. In no time, everyone in Avalon is baking Amish Friendship Bread. But even as the town unites for a benevolent cause and Julia becomes ever closer to her new friends, she realizes the profound necessity of confronting the painful past she shares with her sister. About life and loss, friendship and community, food and family, Friendship Bread tells the uplifting story of what endures when even the unthinkable happens. Includes a bonus PDF with Amish Friendship Bread recipes and tips]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92669Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friendship Bread: A Novel Author: Darien Gee Narrator: Nancy Linari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friendship Bread: A Novel Author: Darien Gee Narrator: Nancy Linari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An anonymous gift sends a woman on a journey she never could have anticipated.   One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch: a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Bread and a simple note: I hope you enjoy it. Also included are a bag of starter, instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others. Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life. She’d just as soon toss the anonymous gift, but to make Gracie happy, she agrees to bake the bread.   When Julia meets two newcomers to the small town of Avalon, Illinois, she sparks a connection by offering them her extra bread starter. Widow Madeline Davis is laboring to keep her tea salon afloat while Hannah Wang de Brisay, a famed concert cellist, is at a crossroads, her career and marriage having come to an abrupt end. In the warm kitchen of Madeline’s tea salon, the three women forge a friendship that will change their lives forever. In no time, everyone in Avalon is baking Amish Friendship Bread. But even as the town unites for a benevolent cause and Julia becomes ever closer to her new friends, she realizes the profound necessity of confronting the painful past she shares with her sister. About life and loss, friendship and community, food and family, Friendship Bread tells the uplifting story of what endures when even the unthinkable happens. Includes a bonus PDF with Amish Friendship Bread recipes and tips]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-peach-keeper-a-novel-by-sarah-addison-allen--65295315https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Peach Keeper: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be. It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots. But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it. For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town. Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living. Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the next—endure forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92206Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Peach Keeper: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Peach Keeper: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be. It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots. But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it. For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town. Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living. Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the next—endure forever.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hummingbird-lake-an-eternity-springs-novel-by-emily-march--65295138https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hummingbird Lake: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #2 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Experience the magic of Eternity Springs, where broken hearts find healing, in this uplifting novel in Emily March’s unforgettable series.   Haunted by painful memories, pediatric surgeon Sage Anderson gives up medicine and moves to Eternity Springs. There she finds a place to call home, but even her newfound success as a gifted artist isn’t enough to keep her nightmares at bay. Colt Rafferty is about to change all that. Eternity Springs is a refuge for Colt, a place to ground himself when the stress of investigating tragedies takes its toll. He has come here for a little R & R, but instead of relaxing, he finds himself fascinated by the mysterious redhead whose secrets beg to be discovered—a beauty running from her past, a heartsick woman in desperate need of the sweet sanctuary of a devoted man’s embrace. And he is just the man to show her the true path to peace—by offering her the healing power of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92205Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hummingbird Lake: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #2 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hummingbird Lake: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #2 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Experience the magic of Eternity Springs, where broken hearts find healing, in this uplifting novel in Emily March’s unforgettable series.   Haunted by painful memories, pediatric surgeon Sage Anderson gives up medicine and moves to Eternity Springs. There she finds a place to call home, but even her newfound success as a gifted artist isn’t enough to keep her nightmares at bay. Colt Rafferty is about to change all that. Eternity Springs is a refuge for Colt, a place to ground himself when the stress of investigating tragedies takes its toll. He has come here for a little R & R, but instead of relaxing, he finds himself fascinated by the mysterious redhead whose secrets beg to be discovered—a beauty running from her past, a heartsick woman in desperate need of the sweet sanctuary of a devoted man’s embrace. And he is just the man to show her the true path to peace—by offering her the healing power of love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chasing-harry-winston-by-lauren-weisberger--65295386https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Harry Winston Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Charlotte Parry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons is back with a delicious novel about a trio of best friends in Manhattan who agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible—and to do it within one calendar year. Meet Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana. Best friends since college, each has seen her share of career foils and romantic foibles over the past decade. Now, as they approach thirty, they’re looking toward their future...and they’re not quite sure they like what they see. When they are each alone on Valentine’s Day, the trio makes a pact. Within one year, each woman will change the thing that most challenges her. For Emmy, it will be to find romance—or a fling—in every foreign country she visits. For Leigh, a book editor with a dream boyfriend and dream apartment, no change seems necessary—until she starts to notice a brilliant and brooding man named Jesse. And for commitment-phobic, drop-dead-gorgeous Adriana, her goal is to have an engagement ring and a house in Scarsdale. Each woman starts the year with the best of intentions—which is exactly why the pact goes immediately, and exceptionally, awry. Filled with delicious insider details, Chasing Harry Winston whisks readers into the heart of an elite world and unforgettable characters. Let the games begin!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150430Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Harry Winston Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Charlotte Parry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Harry Winston Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Charlotte Parry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons is back with a delicious novel about a trio of best friends in Manhattan who agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible—and to do it within one calendar year. Meet Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana. Best friends since college, each has seen her share of career foils and romantic foibles over the past decade. Now, as they approach thirty, they’re looking toward their future...and they’re not quite sure they like what they see. When they are each alone on Valentine’s Day, the trio makes a pact. Within one year, each woman will change the thing that most challenges her. For Emmy, it will be to find romance—or a fling—in every foreign country she visits. For Leigh, a book editor with a dream boyfriend and dream apartment, no change seems necessary—until she starts to notice a brilliant and brooding man named Jesse. And for commitment-phobic, drop-dead-gorgeous Adriana, her goal is to have an engagement ring and a house in Scarsdale. Each woman starts the year with the best of intentions—which is exactly why the pact goes immediately, and exceptionally, awry. Filled with delicious insider details, Chasing Harry Winston whisks readers into the heart of an elite world and unforgettable characters. Let the games begin!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/certain-girls-by-jennifer-weiner--65295335https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Certain Girls Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Julie Dretzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.52 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 3.1 of Total 10 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine. Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha. As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy. Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Certain Girls Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Julie Dretzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Certain Girls Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Julie Dretzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.52 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 3.1 of Total 10 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine. Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha. As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy. Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lavender-morning-by-jude-deveraux--65295288https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lavender Morning Series: Part of Edilean Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Barbara McCulloh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming romance about a woman who finds true love in a small town, from New York Times bestselling author, Jude Deveraux. Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up attending private schools and afternoon teas, but she married the local handyman. After her mother died when Joce was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class, and Joce became an outsider—until she met Edilean Harcourt. Although she was sixty years Joce's senior, Miss Edi was a kindred soul who understood her like no one else ever had. When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Joce all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In the letter, Miss Edi also mentions that she has found the perfect man for Joce—a handsome young lawyer. Joce is shocked to learn that the mystery, the house, and the future love of her life are all in Edilean, a small town in Virginia that Miss Edi never told her about. Hurt that the woman who meant so much to her kept so many secrets, Jocelyn moves to this tight-knit village in an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her. As she begins to dig into Miss Edi's mystery, she soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family's history and her own future—and she meets a man with his own mysterious past.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150838Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lavender Morning Series: Part of Edilean Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Barbara McCulloh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lavender Morning Series: Part of Edilean Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Barbara McCulloh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming romance about a woman who finds true love in a small town, from New York Times bestselling author, Jude Deveraux. Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up attending private schools and afternoon teas, but she married the local handyman. After her mother died when Joce was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class, and Joce became an outsider—until she met Edilean Harcourt. Although she was sixty years Joce's senior, Miss Edi was a kindred soul who understood her like no one else ever had. When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Joce all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In the letter, Miss Edi also mentions that she has found the perfect man for Joce—a handsome young lawyer. Joce is shocked to learn that the mystery, the house, and the future love of her life are all in Edilean, a small town in Virginia that Miss Edi never told her about. Hurt that the woman who meant so much to her kept so many secrets, Jocelyn moves to this tight-knit village in an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her. As she begins to dig into Miss Edi's mystery, she soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family's history and her own future—and she meets a man with his own mysterious past.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/minding-frankie-by-maeve-binchy--65295311https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minding Frankie Author: Maeve Binchy Narrator: Sile Bermingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community. When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she’s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can’t do it alone. Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky-in-love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie’s first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie’s doting grandparents, Josie and Charles. But not everyone is pleased with the unconventional arrangement, especially a nosy social worker, Moira, who is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home. Now it’s up to Noel to persuade her that everyone in town has something special to offer when it comes to minding Frankie.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90818Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minding Frankie Author: Maeve Binchy Narrator: Sile Bermingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 1, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minding Frankie Author: Maeve Binchy Narrator: Sile Bermingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community. When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she’s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can’t do it alone. Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky-in-love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie’s first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie’s doting grandparents, Josie and Charles. But not everyone is pleased with the unconventional arrangement, especially a nosy social worker, Moira, who is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home. Now it’s up to Noel to persuade her that everyone in town has something special to offer when it comes to minding Frankie.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-paris-wife-a-novel-by-paula-mclain--65295252https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Paris Wife: A Novel Author: Paula McLain Narrator: Carrington Macduffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.95 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 10 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled “Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they’ve fought so hard for. A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90813Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Paris Wife: A Novel Author: Paula McLain Narrator: Carrington Macduffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Paris Wife: A Novel Author: Paula McLain Narrator: Carrington Macduffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.95 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 10 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled “Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they’ve fought so hard for. A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/angel-s-rest-an-eternity-springs-novel-by-emily-march--65295137https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Angel's Rest: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #1 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Beloved author Emily March returns with a warm and uplifting novel about a small town with a big heart. Welcome to Eternity Springs, a little piece of heaven in the Colorado Rockies.   Gabriel Callahan has lost everything that mattered. All he wants is solitude on an isolated mountain estate. Instead, he gets a neighbor. Vibrant, no-nonsense Nic Sullivan is Eternity Springs’ veterinarian, and she has an uncanny plan to lure this talented architect back to the world of the living. First with a dog, next with a renovation project, and, finally, with a night of passion that ends with a surprise. Now a man still raw from tragedy must face the biggest struggle of his heart. Can he forgive himself and believe in the power of second chances? Dare he trust in the promise of a future and a brand-new family here in Eternity Springs?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90816Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Angel's Rest: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #1 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Angel's Rest: An Eternity Springs Novel Series: #1 of Eternity Springs Author: Emily March Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Beloved author Emily March returns with a warm and uplifting novel about a small town with a big heart. Welcome to Eternity Springs, a little piece of heaven in the Colorado Rockies.   Gabriel Callahan has lost everything that mattered. All he wants is solitude on an isolated mountain estate. Instead, he gets a neighbor. Vibrant, no-nonsense Nic Sullivan is Eternity Springs’ veterinarian, and she has an uncanny plan to lure this talented architect back to the world of the living. First with a dog, next with a renovation project, and, finally, with a night of passion that ends with a surprise. Now a man still raw from tragedy must face the biggest struggle of his heart. Can he forgive himself and believe in the power of second chances? Dare he trust in the promise of a future and a brand-new family here in Eternity Springs?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-think-i-love-you-by-allison-pearson--65295243https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Think I Love You Author: Allison Pearson Narrator: Sian Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The new novel from the best-selling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It takes us on an unforgettable journey into first love, and—with the emotional intensity and penetrating wit that have made her beloved among readers all over the world—reminds us of how the ardor of our youth can ignite our adult lives. Wales, 1974. Petra and Sharon, two thirteen-year-old girls, are obsessed with David Cassidy. His fan magazine is their Bible, and some days his letters are the only things that keep them going as they struggle through the humiliating daily rituals of adolescence—confronting their bewildering new bodies, fighting with mothers who don’t understand them at all. Together they tackle the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz, a contest whose winners will be flown to America to meet Cassidy in person. London, 1998. Petra is pushing forty, on the brink of divorce, and fighting with her own thirteen-year-old daughter when she discovers a dusty letter in her mother’s closet declaring her the winner of the contest she and Sharon had labored over with such hope and determination. More than twenty years later, twenty pounds heavier, bruised by grief and the disappointments of middle age, Petra reunites with Sharon for an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to meet their teen idol at last, and finds her life utterly transformed. Funny, moving, full of beautiful observations about the awakenings of both youth and middle age, Allison Pearson’s long-awaited new novel will speak across generations to mothers and daughters and women of all ages. Permissions Acknowledgments   Lyrics from 'Daydreamer' used with kind permission of the composer Terry Dempsey and publisher Angela Music Publishing Co. (Pty) Ltd.; 'I Think I Love You' words and music by Tony Romeo © 1970. Reproduced by permission of Screen-Gems EMI Music Inc., London W8 5SW; 'Cherish' words and music by Terry Kirkman © 1965. Reproduced by permission of Beechwood Music Corporation, London W8 5SW; 'How Can I Be Sure' words and music by Edward J. Brigati and Felix Cavaliere © 1967. Reproduced by permission of EMI Entertainment World Inc., London W8 5SW; '(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden' © 1971 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Extract from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot © the Estate of T. S. Eliot, reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90815Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Think I Love You Author: Allison Pearson Narrator: Sian Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 8,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Think I Love You Author: Allison Pearson Narrator: Sian Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The new novel from the best-selling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It takes us on an unforgettable journey into first love, and—with the emotional intensity and penetrating wit that have made her beloved among readers all over the world—reminds us of how the ardor of our youth can ignite our adult lives. Wales, 1974. Petra and Sharon, two thirteen-year-old girls, are obsessed with David Cassidy. His fan magazine is their Bible, and some days his letters are the only things that keep them going as they struggle through the humiliating daily rituals of adolescence—confronting their bewildering new bodies, fighting with mothers who don’t understand them at all. Together they tackle the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz, a contest whose winners will be flown to America to meet Cassidy in person. London, 1998. Petra is pushing forty, on the brink of divorce, and fighting with her own thirteen-year-old daughter when she discovers a dusty letter in her mother’s closet declaring her the winner of the contest she and Sharon had labored over with such hope and determination. More than twenty years later, twenty pounds heavier, bruised by grief and the disappointments of middle age, Petra reunites with Sharon for an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to meet their teen idol at last, and finds her life utterly transformed. Funny, moving, full of beautiful observations about the awakenings of both youth and middle age, Allison Pearson’s long-awaited new novel will speak across generations to mothers and daughters and women of all ages. Permissions Acknowledgments   Lyrics from 'Daydreamer' used with kind permission of the composer Terry Dempsey and publisher Angela Music Publishing Co. (Pty) Ltd.; 'I Think I Love You' words and music by Tony Romeo © 1970. Reproduced by permission of Screen-Gems EMI Music Inc., London W8 5SW; 'Cherish' words and music by Terry Kirkman © 1965. Reproduced by permission of Beechwood Music Corporation, London W8 5SW; 'How Can I Be Sure' words and music by Edward J. Brigati and Felix Cavaliere © 1967. Reproduced by permission of EMI Entertainment World Inc., London W8 5SW; '(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden' © 1971 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Extract from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot © the Estate of T. S. Eliot, reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heartwood-a-novel-by-belva-plain--65295144https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartwood: A Novel Series: #5 of Werner Family Saga Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. For three decades her deeply moving epics have captivated the hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere. Now, in her final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took up in her very first work, Evergreen, bringing us this unforgettable story of family and friendship, love and marriage, the challenges of life and the true secret of happiness. Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made. For one of Iris’s daughters, it’s the choice of a fresh start in New York City—and a last chance to save her troubled marriage. While Laura and Robbie cope with an impending separation and its effect on Iris’s young granddaughter, Iris herself must come to grips with the discovery of a long-held family secret. But it’s an emotional parting of another kind that looms most prominently on Iris’s horizon—as neither her beloved husband, nor the solidity of her own marriage, is immune to the ravages of time. Through separations and reunions, the changes we cannot avoid and the love that sustains, Iris will weather whatever lies ahead with a faith that cannot be shaken. Like the inmost rings of a tree that abide through the generations, she will be as strong as heartwood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90802Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartwood: A Novel Series: #5 of Werner Family Saga Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartwood: A Novel Series: #5 of Werner Family Saga Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. For three decades her deeply moving epics have captivated the hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere. Now, in her final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took up in her very first work, Evergreen, bringing us this unforgettable story of family and friendship, love and marriage, the challenges of life and the true secret of happiness. Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made. For one of Iris’s daughters, it’s the choice of a fresh start in New York City—and a last chance to save her troubled marriage. While Laura and Robbie cope with an impending separation and its effect on Iris’s young granddaughter, Iris herself must come to grips with the discovery of a long-held family secret. But it’s an emotional parting of another kind that looms most prominently on Iris’s horizon—as neither her beloved husband, nor the solidity of her own marriage, is immune to the ravages of time. Through separations and reunions, the changes we cannot avoid and the love that sustains, Iris will weather whatever lies ahead with a faith that cannot be shaken. Like the inmost rings of a tree that abide through the generations, she will be as strong as heartwood.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-half-life-by-jennifer-weiner--65295264https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half Life Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Katie Finneran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: February 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s short story, The Half Life, previously published in Redbook magazine is now available on audio. From Redbook ’s Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home … “My life is over,” Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting departure in the overcrowded International Terminal of the Philadelphia airport for an overseas business trip, to romantic Paris no less. She watched as her husband, Tosh, put his own suitcase into the trunk of a taxi the day before. He’d been telling her for months that he wasn’t happy, and though she still wants to believe it is just a phase, after a call to her mother from the Admiral’s Club, she can no longer deny that he’s left her, left their home, left their four-year-old daughter in her mother’s sole care. Piper met Tosh when she was only twenty-two, just the way self help books said she would—when she wasn’t looking. Now at forty, she wonders how, through all those years, they’d gotten to this place in their marriage. When her flight is canceled due to volcanic ash spreading from Iceland across Europe, and when a handsome stranger offers her an invitation to share a cab, she realizes she can take a departure from her own life. And after a day of living like a tourist in her own city, she hopes she can still find her way home…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90851Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half Life Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Katie Finneran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: February 1, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half Life Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Katie Finneran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: February 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s short story, The Half Life, previously published in Redbook magazine is now available on audio. From Redbook ’s Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home … “My life is over,” Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting departure in the overcrowded International Terminal of the Philadelphia airport for an overseas business trip, to romantic Paris no less. She watched as her husband, Tosh, put his own suitcase into the trunk of a taxi the day before. He’d been telling her for months that he wasn’t happy, and though she still wants to believe it is just a phase, after a call to her mother from the Admiral’s Club, she can no longer deny that he’s left her, left their home, left their four-year-old daughter in her mother’s sole care. Piper met Tosh when she was only twenty-two, just the way self help books said she would—when she wasn’t looking. Now at forty, she wonders how, through all those years, they’d gotten to this place in their marriage. When her flight is canceled due to volcanic ash spreading from Iceland across Europe, and when a handsome stranger offers her an invitation to share a cab, she realizes she can take a departure from her own life. And after a day of living like a tourist in her own city, she hopes she can still find her way home…]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/swamplandia-by-karen-russell--65295158https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swamplandia! Author: Karen Russell Narrator: Arielle Sitrick, David Ackroyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90749Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swamplandia! Author: Karen Russell Narrator: Arielle Sitrick, David Ackroyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swamplandia! Author: Karen Russell Narrator: Arielle Sitrick, David Ackroyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-proper-care-and-maintenance-of-friendship-by-lisa-verge-higgins--65295319https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship Author: Lisa Verge Higgins Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 26, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Rachel Braun was the inspiration to her group of friends, the one who lived each day to the fullest—and the one whose life was cut tragically short. Upon her untimely death, Rachel left letters for her three best friends challenging them to face their biggest fears. Sarah, an international relief worker who calls the steamy jungles of Africa home, must travel halfway around the world to track down the only man she ever loved. Stay-at-home mom Kate must confront her fear of heights by skydiving and soon finds that her new hobby is affecting her once-tranquil marriage. She and her husband must find a way to rekindle the romance they once shared. And Jo, a media mogul voted “least likely to breed,” is given the most terrifying assignment of all: caring for Rachel’s orphaned and grieving little girl. In doing so, Jo is forced to confront her own unhappy childhood—and the wall it has built around her heart. Even as these women mourn Rachel’s passing, her legacy lives on and their lives are enriched by a friend who, in many ways, knew them better than they knew themselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90671Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship Author: Lisa Verge Higgins Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship Author: Lisa Verge Higgins Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 26, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Rachel Braun was the inspiration to her group of friends, the one who lived each day to the fullest—and the one whose life was cut tragically short. Upon her untimely death, Rachel left letters for her three best friends challenging them to face their biggest fears. Sarah, an international relief worker who calls the steamy jungles of Africa home, must travel halfway around the world to track down the only man she ever loved. Stay-at-home mom Kate must confront her fear of heights by skydiving and soon finds that her new hobby is affecting her once-tranquil marriage. She and her husband must find a way to rekindle the romance they once shared. And Jo, a media mogul voted “least likely to breed,” is given the most terrifying assignment of all: caring for Rachel’s orphaned and grieving little girl. In doing so, Jo is forced to confront her own unhappy childhood—and the wall it has built around her heart. Even as these women mourn Rachel’s passing, her legacy lives on and their lives are enriched by a friend who, in many ways, knew them better than they knew themselves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-cup-of-friendship-a-novel-by-deborah-rodriguez--65295273https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Friendship: A Novel Author: Deborah Rodriguez Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 25, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the author of the “bighearted . . . inspiring” (Vogue) memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there—thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship. After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home—it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone. The thirty-eight-year-old American’s pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors. She’s especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure. Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son—who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts. Into the café come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story; Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn “danger pay” as a consultant; and Candace, a wealthy and well-connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment. When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the café and gives her a home—but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy. As this group of men and women discover that there’s more to one another than meets the eye, they’ll form an unlikely friendship that will change not only their own lives but the lives of an entire country. Brimming with Deborah Rodriguez’s remarkable gift for depicting the nuances of life in Kabul, and filled with vibrant characters that readers will truly care about, A Cup of Friendship is the best kind of fiction—full of heart yet smart and thought-provoking.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90635Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Friendship: A Novel Author: Deborah Rodriguez Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Friendship: A Novel Author: Deborah Rodriguez Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 25, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the author of the “bighearted . . . inspiring” (Vogue) memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there—thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship. After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home—it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone. The thirty-eight-year-old American’s pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors. She’s especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure. Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son—who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts. Into the café come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story; Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn “danger pay” as a consultant; and Candace, a wealthy and well-connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment. When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the café and gives her a home—but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy. As this group of men and women discover that there’s more to one another than meets the eye, they’ll form an unlikely friendship that will change not only their own lives but the lives of an entire country. Brimming with Deborah Rodriguez’s remarkable gift for depicting the nuances of life in Kabul, and filled with vibrant characters that readers will truly care about, A Cup of Friendship is the best kind of fiction—full of heart yet smart and thought-provoking.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/call-me-irresistible-by-susan-elizabeth-phillips--65295274https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Me Irresistible Series: #6 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Shannon Cochran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 18, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The funniest love story of the year, Call Me Irresistible is the book Susan Elizabeth Phillips fans have been craving. The beloved New York Times bestselling author returns with a delightfully sassy, sexy, and downright irresistible tale of true love Texas style. Ted Beaudine, one of Phillips’s most charming characters (the adolescent heartbreaker from her hilarious debut, Fancy Pants, and the new college graduate from Lady Be Good) is now all grown up and in a heap of romantic trouble all his own—in a perfectly marvelous contemporary romance that fans of Emily Giffin, Kristen Hannah, and Elin Hilderbrand will simply adore.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89618Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Me Irresistible Series: #6 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Shannon Cochran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Me Irresistible Series: #6 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Shannon Cochran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 18, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The funniest love story of the year, Call Me Irresistible is the book Susan Elizabeth Phillips fans have been craving. The beloved New York Times bestselling author returns with a delightfully sassy, sexy, and downright irresistible tale of true love Texas style. Ted Beaudine, one of Phillips’s most charming characters (the adolescent heartbreaker from her hilarious debut, Fancy Pants, and the new college graduate from Lady Be Good) is now all grown up and in a heap of romantic trouble all his own—in a perfectly marvelous contemporary romance that fans of Emily Giffin, Kristen Hannah, and Elin Hilderbrand will simply adore.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-honor-and-betray-by-kimberla-lawson-roby--65295324https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Honor, and Betray Series: #8 of A Reverend Curtis Black Novel Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby Narrator: Paula Jai Parker-Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 10, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. While the living, breathing reminder of her husband's infidelity infuriates Charlotte, Curtis couldn't be happier to finally have his whole family together. Despite her best efforts to keep her feelings hidden, Charlotte resents Curtina, taking her emotions out on the young girl. When confronted about her behavior Charlotte starts spending time away from home, all the while getting closer to her ex-boyfriend. Curtis appears to devote himself to his parish and the new church they're building, but is he really focusing his attention on the female parishioners trying to lure him into bed? Suddenly Curtis and Charlotte find themselves slipping into dangerous territory, and not even Curtis' seven-figure salary can prevent what is about to happen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89232Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Honor, and Betray Series: #8 of A Reverend Curtis Black Novel Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby Narrator: Paula Jai Parker-Martin Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Honor, and Betray Series: #8 of A Reverend Curtis Black Novel Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby Narrator: Paula Jai Parker-Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 10, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. While the living, breathing reminder of her husband's infidelity infuriates Charlotte, Curtis couldn't be happier to finally have his whole family together. Despite her best efforts to keep her feelings hidden, Charlotte resents Curtina, taking her emotions out on the young girl. When confronted about her behavior Charlotte starts spending time away from home, all the while getting closer to her ex-boyfriend. Curtis appears to devote himself to his parish and the new church they're building, but is he really focusing his attention on the female parishioners trying to lure him into bed? Suddenly Curtis and Charlotte find themselves slipping into dangerous territory, and not even Curtis' seven-figure salary can prevent what is about to happen.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/best-friends-forever-by-jennifer-weiner--65295375https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends Forever Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: James Colby, Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes 'a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups' (Maureen Corrigan, NPR). Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents’ house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She’s just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. 'Something horrible has happened,' Val tells Addie, 'and you’re the only one who can help.' Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It’s about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends Forever Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: James Colby, Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends Forever Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: James Colby, Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes 'a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups' (Maureen Corrigan, NPR). Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents’ house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She’s just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. 'Something horrible has happened,' Val tells Addie, 'and you’re the only one who can help.' Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It’s about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/left-neglected-by-lisa-genova--65295322https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left Neglected Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Sarah Paulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 13 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called “left neglect,” she learns what truly matters most in life. Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. After a brain injury steals her awareness of everything on her left side, Sarah must retrain her mind to perceive the world as a whole. In so doing, she also learns how to pay attention to the people and parts of her life that matter most. In this powerful and poignant New York Times bestseller, Lisa Genova explores what can happen when we are forced to change our perception of everything around us. Left Neglected is an unforgettable story about finding abundance in the most difficult of circumstances, learning to pay attention to the details, and nourishing what truly matters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left Neglected Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Sarah Paulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left Neglected Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Sarah Paulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 13 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called “left neglect,” she learns what truly matters most in life. Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. After a brain injury steals her awareness of everything on her left side, Sarah must retrain her mind to perceive the world as a whole. In so doing, she also learns how to pay attention to the people and parts of her life that matter most. In this powerful and poignant New York Times bestseller, Lisa Genova explores what can happen when we are forced to change our perception of everything around us. Left Neglected is an unforgettable story about finding abundance in the most difficult of circumstances, learning to pay attention to the details, and nourishing what truly matters.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-impressions-by-jude-deveraux--65295249https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Impressions Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Cynthia Darlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A contemporary novel of romance and renewal from perennial bestseller Jude Deveraux, First Impressions is an emotionally charged story of one woman's bid to start over. Eden Palmer knows how to make it on her own. The forty-something single mother has worked hard to raise her beloved daughter—now twenty-seven and recently married. The offspring of a terrible event, Eden's daughter, Melissa, has long been the jewel of Eden's life, the one for whom she would sacrifice anything and everything. But sooner or later a woman must come into her own, and that's what Eden tries to do when she moves to Arundel, North Carolina, to take ownership of Farrington Manor, a beautiful old house filled with charm and memories that was willed to Eden by the person who cared for her when she needed it most. Torn between the desire to stay with her daughter and the need to build a separate life on her own, Eden opts for some distance and some much-needed perspective. But it's not long before she realizes that sometimes you have to go back before you can start over. Arriving in Arundel—the South's prettiest small town—Eden quickly learns that looks can be deceiving when her move is met with delight in some quarters and jealousy in others. Pursued by two eligible bachelors—the rugged Jared McBride and Braddon Granville, local lawyer and town catch—Eden is flattered, and more than a little suspicious. Juggling the attentions of two men is hard enough, but soon Eden's bid to start over plunges her in the middle of a mystery that threatens not just her plans and reputation, but her very life. Can she use one man to save her from the other?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93274Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Impressions Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Cynthia Darlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Impressions Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Cynthia Darlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A contemporary novel of romance and renewal from perennial bestseller Jude Deveraux, First Impressions is an emotionally charged story of one woman's bid to start over. Eden Palmer knows how to make it on her own. The forty-something single mother has worked hard to raise her beloved daughter—now twenty-seven and recently married. The offspring of a terrible event, Eden's daughter, Melissa, has long been the jewel of Eden's life, the one for whom she would sacrifice anything and everything. But sooner or later a woman must come into her own, and that's what Eden tries to do when she moves to Arundel, North Carolina, to take ownership of Farrington Manor, a beautiful old house filled with charm and memories that was willed to Eden by the person who cared for her when she needed it most. Torn between the desire to stay with her daughter and the need to build a separate life on her own, Eden opts for some distance and some much-needed perspective. But it's not long before she realizes that sometimes you have to go back before you can start over. Arriving in Arundel—the South's prettiest small town—Eden quickly learns that looks can be deceiving when her move is met with delight in some quarters and jealousy in others. Pursued by two eligible bachelors—the rugged Jared McBride and Braddon Granville, local lawyer and town catch—Eden is flattered, and more than a little suspicious. Juggling the attentions of two men is hard enough, but soon Eden's bid to start over plunges her in the middle of a mystery that threatens not just her plans and reputation, but her very life. Can she use one man to save her from the other?]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-white-queen-by-philippa-gregory--65295207https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Queen Series: #2 of Cousins' War Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Susan Lyons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.52 of Total 33 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman who rises from obscurity to become Queen of England, and changes the course of history forever. Elizabeth Woodville is a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition. Her mother is Jacquetta, also known as the mystical lady of the rivers, and she is even more determined to bring power and wealth to the family line. While riding in the woods one day, Elizabeth captures the attentions of the newly crowned King Edward IV and, despite her common upbringing, marries him in secret. When she is raised up to be his queen, the English court is outraged, but Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for her family’s dominance. Yet despite her best efforts, and even with the help of her mother’s powers, her two sons become pawns in a famous unsolved mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the lost princes in the Tower of London. In this dazzling account of the deadly Wars of the Roses, brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize: the throne of England.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92624Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Queen Series: #2 of Cousins' War Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Susan Lyons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 26 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Queen Series: #2 of Cousins' War Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Susan Lyons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.52 of Total 33 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman who rises from obscurity to become Queen of England, and changes the course of history forever. Elizabeth Woodville is a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition. Her mother is Jacquetta, also known as the mystical lady of the rivers, and she is even more determined to bring power and wealth to the family line. While riding in the woods one day, Elizabeth captures the attentions of the newly crowned King Edward IV and, despite her common upbringing, marries him in secret. When she is raised up to be his queen, the English court is outraged, but Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for her family’s dominance. Yet despite her best efforts, and even with the help of her mother’s powers, her two sons become pawns in a famous unsolved mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the lost princes in the Tower of London. In this dazzling account of the deadly Wars of the Roses, brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize: the throne of England.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-earthquakes-by-jennifer-weiner--65295198https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes Series: Part of Washington Square Press Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who's struggling to balance her work and motherhood while dealing with unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. Ayinde's basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then, there's Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband, and a tragic secret to start her life all over again. From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93278Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes Series: Part of Washington Square Press Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes Series: Part of Washington Square Press Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who's struggling to balance her work and motherhood while dealing with unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. Ayinde's basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then, there's Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband, and a tragic secret to start her life all over again. From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/guy-not-taken-by-jennifer-weiner--65295112https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guy Not Taken Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Mary Catherine Garrison, Jordan Bridges Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved river-view apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart. The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who 'feel like they could be your best friend' (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93275Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guy Not Taken Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Mary Catherine Garrison, Jordan Bridges Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guy Not Taken Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Mary Catherine Garrison, Jordan Bridges Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved river-view apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart. The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who 'feel like they could be your best friend' (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-still-dream-about-you-a-novel-by-fannie-flagg--65295210https://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: 3.96 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women 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 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease 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: 3.96 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women 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-traitor-s-wife-a-novel-by-kathleen-kent--65295156https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traitor's Wife: A Novel Author: Kathleen Kent Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures, with Thomas slowly revealing the story of his part in the English Civil War. But in the rugged new world they inhabit, danger is ever present, whether it be from the assassins sent from London to kill the executioner of Charles I or the wolves -- in many forms -- who hunt for blood. A love story and a tale of courage, The Wolves of Andover confirms Kathleen Kent's ability to craft powerful stories of family from colonial history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88326Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traitor's Wife: A Novel Author: Kathleen Kent Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traitor's Wife: A Novel Author: Kathleen Kent Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures, with Thomas slowly revealing the story of his part in the English Civil War. But in the rugged new world they inhabit, danger is ever present, whether it be from the assassins sent from London to kill the executioner of Charles I or the wolves -- in many forms -- who hunt for blood. A love story and a tale of courage, The Wolves of Andover confirms Kathleen Kent's ability to craft powerful stories of family from colonial history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-reckless-bride-by-stephanie-laurens--65295323https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reckless Bride Series: #4 of Black Cobra Quartet Author: Stephanie Laurens Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A fabulously entertaining new quartet—with links to her popular Cynster series….Laurens adds a dash of exotic spice to her always reliable mix of sexy romance and risky intrigue.” —Booklist   The fourth book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Laurens’s sensational Black Cobra Quartet, The Reckless Bride is a brilliant mix of intrigue, danger, and historical romance from one of the very best in the business. A breathtaking adventure set in England’s Regency Era, The Reckless Bride continues the acclaimed romance novelist’s extraordinary chronicle of love and duty, as brave ex-officers of the Crown band together to destroy the traitorous fiend known as The Black Cobra.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83693Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reckless Bride Series: #4 of Black Cobra Quartet Author: Stephanie Laurens Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reckless Bride Series: #4 of Black Cobra Quartet Author: Stephanie Laurens Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A fabulously entertaining new quartet—with links to her popular Cynster series….Laurens adds a dash of exotic spice to her always reliable mix of sexy romance and risky intrigue.” —Booklist   The fourth book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Laurens’s sensational Black Cobra Quartet, The Reckless Bride is a brilliant mix of intrigue, danger, and historical romance from one of the very best in the business. A breathtaking adventure set in England’s Regency Era, The Reckless Bride continues the acclaimed romance novelist’s extraordinary chronicle of love and duty, as brave ex-officers of the Crown band together to destroy the traitorous fiend known as The Black Cobra.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fried-green-tomatoes-at-the-whistle-stop-cafe-a-novel-by-fannie-flagg--65295343https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 19, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again... 'Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!' --Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird 'A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.' --The New York Times 'It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.' --Los Angeles Times 'Funny and macabre.' --The Washington Post 'Courageous and wise.' --Houston Chronicle]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 19, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again... 'Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!' --Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird 'A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.' --The New York Times 'It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.' --Los Angeles Times 'Funny and macabre.' --The Washington Post 'Courageous and wise.' --Houston Chronicle]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eighteen-acres-a-novel-by-nicolle-wallace--65295338https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eighteen Acres: A Novel Author: Nicolle Wallace Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 19, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the former Communications Director for the White House and current political media strategist comes a suspenseful and smart commercial novel about the first female president and all dramas and deceptions she faces both in politics and in love. Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer, and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet. Charlotte Kramer, the 45th US President, Melanie Kingston, the White House chief of staff, and Dale Smith, a White House correspondent for one of the networks are all working tirelessly on Charlotte’s campaign for re-election. At the very moment when they should have been securing success, though, Kramer’s White House implodes under rumors of her husband’s infidelity and grave errors of judgment on the part of her closest national security advisor. In an upheaval that threatens not only the presidency, but the safety of the American people, Charlotte must fight to regain her footing and protect the the country she has given her life to serving. Eighteen Acres combines political and family drama into one un-put-downable novel. It is a smart, juicy and fast-paced read that we’re sure fans of commercial women’s fiction will fall in total love with.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83649Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eighteen Acres: A Novel Author: Nicolle Wallace Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eighteen Acres: A Novel Author: Nicolle Wallace Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 19, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the former Communications Director for the White House and current political media strategist comes a suspenseful and smart commercial novel about the first female president and all dramas and deceptions she faces both in politics and in love. Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer, and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet. Charlotte Kramer, the 45th US President, Melanie Kingston, the White House chief of staff, and Dale Smith, a White House correspondent for one of the networks are all working tirelessly on Charlotte’s campaign for re-election. At the very moment when they should have been securing success, though, Kramer’s White House implodes under rumors of her husband’s infidelity and grave errors of judgment on the part of her closest national security advisor. In an upheaval that threatens not only the presidency, but the safety of the American people, Charlotte must fight to regain her footing and protect the the country she has given her life to serving. Eighteen Acres combines political and family drama into one un-put-downable novel. It is a smart, juicy and fast-paced read that we’re sure fans of commercial women’s fiction will fall in total love with.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/world-and-town-a-novel-by-gish-jen--65295244https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World and Town: A Novel Author: Gish Jen Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: “It was like having twins…She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium.” But two years later, it’s time for Hattie to start over. She moves to a small New England town where she is soon joined by a Cambodian American family and an ex-lover—now a retired neuroscientist—all of them looking for their own new lives. What Hattie makes of this situation and of the changing town of Riverlake—challenged as it is, in 2001, by fundamentalist Christians, struggling family farms, and unexpected immigrants—lies at the center of a novel that asks deep and absorbing questions about religion, home, and what “worlds” we make of the world. Moving, humorous, and broad-ranging, World and Town is rich in character and brilliantly evocative of its time and place. This is a masterful novel from one of our most admired writers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83770Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World and Town: A Novel Author: Gish Jen Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 13, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World and Town: A Novel Author: Gish Jen Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: “It was like having twins…She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium.” But two years later, it’s time for Hattie to start over. She moves to a small New England town where she is soon joined by a Cambodian American family and an ex-lover—now a retired neuroscientist—all of them looking for their own new lives. What Hattie makes of this situation and of the changing town of Riverlake—challenged as it is, in 2001, by fundamentalist Christians, struggling family farms, and unexpected immigrants—lies at the center of a novel that asks deep and absorbing questions about religion, home, and what “worlds” we make of the world. Moving, humorous, and broad-ranging, World and Town is rich in character and brilliantly evocative of its time and place. This is a masterful novel from one of our most admired writers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-false-friend-by-myla-goldberg--65295285https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The False Friend Author: Myla Goldberg Narrator: Myla Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 5, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two  eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out . . . Leaders of a mercurial clique of girls, Celia and Djuna reigned mercilessly over their three followers. One after­noon, they decided to walk home along a forbidden road. Djuna disappeared, and for twenty years Celia blocked out how it happened. The lie Celia told to conceal her misdeed became the accepted truth: everyone assumed Djuna had been abducted, though neither she nor her abductor was ever found. Celia’s unconscious avoidance of this has meant that while she and her longtime boyfriend, Huck, are professionally successful, they’ve been unable to move forward, their relationship falling into a rut that threatens to bury them both. Celia returns to her hometown to confess the truth, but her family and childhood friends don’t believe her. Huck wants to be supportive, but his love can’t blind him to all that contra­dicts Celia’s version of the past. Celia’s desperate search to understand what happened to Djuna has powerful consequences. A deeply resonant and emotionally charged story, The False Friend explores the adults that children become—leading us to question the truths that we accept or reject, as well as the lies to which we succumb.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83407Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The False Friend Author: Myla Goldberg Narrator: Myla Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 5, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The False Friend Author: Myla Goldberg Narrator: Myla Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 5, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two  eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out . . . Leaders of a mercurial clique of girls, Celia and Djuna reigned mercilessly over their three followers. One after­noon, they decided to walk home along a forbidden road. Djuna disappeared, and for twenty years Celia blocked out how it happened. The lie Celia told to conceal her misdeed became the accepted truth: everyone assumed Djuna had been abducted, though neither she nor her abductor was ever found. Celia’s unconscious avoidance of this has meant that while she and her longtime boyfriend, Huck, are professionally successful, they’ve been unable to move forward, their relationship falling into a rut that threatens to bury them both. Celia returns to her hometown to confess the truth, but her family and childhood friends don’t believe her. Huck wants to be supportive, but his love can’t blind him to all that contra­dicts Celia’s version of the past. Celia’s desperate search to understand what happened to Djuna has powerful consequences. A deeply resonant and emotionally charged story, The False Friend explores the adults that children become—leading us to question the truths that we accept or reject, as well as the lies to which we succumb.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cailiffs-of-baghdad-georgia-a-novel-by-mary-helen-stefaniak--65295266https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak Narrator: Robynn Rodriguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 1, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar. Miss Spivey and her project transform the lives of everyone around her: Gladys’ older brother Force (with his movie-star looks), their pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially the Cailiffs’ African American neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes the key to a colorful, hidden history of the South. Populated by unforgettable characters—including three impressive camels—The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris—and back again—in an entrancing feat of storytelling.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83642Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak Narrator: Robynn Rodriguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak Narrator: Robynn Rodriguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 1, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar. Miss Spivey and her project transform the lives of everyone around her: Gladys’ older brother Force (with his movie-star looks), their pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially the Cailiffs’ African American neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes the key to a colorful, hidden history of the South. Populated by unforgettable characters—including three impressive camels—The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris—and back again—in an entrancing feat of storytelling.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mini-shopaholic-a-novel-by-sophie-kinsella--65295269https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mini Shopaholic: A Novel Series: #6 of Shopaholic Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 21, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “frothy fun . . . Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!” (The Washington Post) “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Becky Brandon thinks that having a daughter is a dream come true: a shopping friend for life! But two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping. The toddler creates havoc everywhere she goes, from Harrods to her own christening. On top of everything else, Becky and Luke are still living with her parents (the deal on house #4 has fallen through), when suddenly there’s a huge nationwide financial crisis.   With people having to cut back, Becky decides to throw a surprise party for Luke to cheer everyone up. But when costs start to spiral out of control, she must decide whether to accept help from an unexpected source—and therefore run the risk of hurting the person she loves. Will Becky be able to pull off the celebration of the year? Will she and Luke ever find a home of their own? Will Minnie ever learn to behave? And . . . most important . . . will Becky’s secret wishes ever come true? Praise for Mini Shopaholic   “Madcap adventure.”—People   “A page-turner . . . [Sophie] Kinsella at her most hilarious best.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram   “Screamingly funny.”—USA Today]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83364Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mini Shopaholic: A Novel Series: #6 of Shopaholic Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mini Shopaholic: A Novel Series: #6 of Shopaholic Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 21, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “frothy fun . . . Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!” (The Washington Post) “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Becky Brandon thinks that having a daughter is a dream come true: a shopping friend for life! But two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping. The toddler creates havoc everywhere she goes, from Harrods to her own christening. On top of everything else, Becky and Luke are still living with her parents (the deal on house #4 has fallen through), when suddenly there’s a huge nationwide financial crisis.   With people having to cut back, Becky decides to throw a surprise party for Luke to cheer everyone up. But when costs start to spiral out of control, she must decide whether to accept help from an unexpected source—and therefore run the risk of hurting the person she loves. Will Becky be able to pull off the celebration of the year? Will she and Luke ever find a home of their own? Will Minnie ever learn to behave? And . . . most important . . . will Becky’s secret wishes ever come true? Praise for Mini Shopaholic   “Madcap adventure.”—People   “A page-turner . . . [Sophie] Kinsella at her most hilarious best.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram   “Screamingly funny.”—USA Today]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/safe-haven-by-nicholas-sparks--65295272https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Haven Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 14, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.51 of Total 79 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 18 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In a small North Carolina town, a mysterious and beautiful woman running from her past slowly falls for a kind-hearted store owner . . . until dark secrets begin to threaten her new life. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathetic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83314Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Haven Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 14, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Haven Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 14, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.51 of Total 79 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 18 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In a small North Carolina town, a mysterious and beautiful woman running from her past slowly falls for a kind-hearted store owner . . . until dark secrets begin to threaten her new life. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathetic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-vintage-affair-a-novel-by-isabel-wolff--65295212https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Vintage Affair: A Novel Author: Isabel Wolff Narrator: Violet Mathieson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Every dress has a history. And so does every woman.   In Isabel Wolff’s captivating A Vintage Affair, a treasured child’s coat becomes a thread of hope connecting two very different women.   Her friends are stunned when Phoebe Swift abruptly leaves a plum job at the prestigious Sotheby’s auction house to open her own vintage clothing shop in London—but to Phoebe, it’s the fulfillment of a dream. In the sunlight-flooded interior of Village Vintage, surrounded by Yves Saint Laurent silk scarves, Vivienne Westwood bustle skirts, cupcake dresses, and satin gowns, Phoebe hopes to make her store the hot new place to shop, even as she deals with two ardent suitors, her increasingly difficult mother, and a secret from her past that casts a shadow over her new venture. For Phoebe, each vintage garment carries its own precious history. Digging for finds in attics and wardrobes, Phoebe is rewarded whenever she finds something truly unique, for she knows that when you buy a piece of vintage clothing, you’re not just buying fabric and thread—you’re buying a piece of someone’s past. But one particular article of clothing will soon unexpectedly change her life.    Thérèse Bell, an elderly Frenchwoman, has an impressive clothing collection. But among the array of smart suits and couture gowns, Phoebe finds a child’s sky-blue coat—an item with which Bell is stubbornly reluctant to part. As the two women become friends, Phoebe will learn the tale of that little blue coat. And she will discover an astonishing connection between herself and Thérèse Bell—one that will help her heal the pain of her own past and allow her to love again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83266Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Vintage Affair: A Novel Author: Isabel Wolff Narrator: Violet Mathieson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Vintage Affair: A Novel Author: Isabel Wolff Narrator: Violet Mathieson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Every dress has a history. And so does every woman.   In Isabel Wolff’s captivating A Vintage Affair, a treasured child’s coat becomes a thread of hope connecting two very different women.   Her friends are stunned when Phoebe Swift abruptly leaves a plum job at the prestigious Sotheby’s auction house to open her own vintage clothing shop in London—but to Phoebe, it’s the fulfillment of a dream. In the sunlight-flooded interior of Village Vintage, surrounded by Yves Saint Laurent silk scarves, Vivienne Westwood bustle skirts, cupcake dresses, and satin gowns, Phoebe hopes to make her store the hot new place to shop, even as she deals with two ardent suitors, her increasingly difficult mother, and a secret from her past that casts a shadow over her new venture. For Phoebe, each vintage garment carries its own precious history. Digging for finds in attics and wardrobes, Phoebe is rewarded whenever she finds something truly unique, for she knows that when you buy a piece of vintage clothing, you’re not just buying fabric and thread—you’re buying a piece of someone’s past. But one particular article of clothing will soon unexpectedly change her life.    Thérèse Bell, an elderly Frenchwoman, has an impressive clothing collection. But among the array of smart suits and couture gowns, Phoebe finds a child’s sky-blue coat—an item with which Bell is stubbornly reluctant to part. As the two women become friends, Phoebe will learn the tale of that little blue coat. And she will discover an astonishing connection between herself and Thérèse Bell—one that will help her heal the pain of her own past and allow her to love again.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lady-in-waiting-a-novel-by-susan-meissner--65295168https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady in Waiting: A Novel Author: Susan Meissner Narrator: Donna Rawlins, Samantha Eggar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Love is a choice you make every day. Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay never expected to watch her husband, Brad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him, or the course of events that follow Brad’s departure. Jane finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one recognizable word: Jane. Feeling an instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring—and perhaps about herself. ~ In the sixteenth-century, Lucy Day becomes the dressmaker to Lady Jane Grey, an innocent young woman whose fate seems to be controlled by a dangerous political and religious climate, one threatening to deny her true love and pursuit of her own interests. As the stories of both Janes dovetail through the journey of one ring, it becomes clear that each woman has far more influence over her life than she once imagined. It all comes down to the choices each makes despite the realities they face.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83247Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady in Waiting: A Novel Author: Susan Meissner Narrator: Donna Rawlins, Samantha Eggar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady in Waiting: A Novel Author: Susan Meissner Narrator: Donna Rawlins, Samantha Eggar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Love is a choice you make every day. Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay never expected to watch her husband, Brad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him, or the course of events that follow Brad’s departure. Jane finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one recognizable word: Jane. Feeling an instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring—and perhaps about herself. ~ In the sixteenth-century, Lucy Day becomes the dressmaker to Lady Jane Grey, an innocent young woman whose fate seems to be controlled by a dangerous political and religious climate, one threatening to deny her true love and pursuit of her own interests. As the stories of both Janes dovetail through the journey of one ring, it becomes clear that each woman has far more influence over her life than she once imagined. It all comes down to the choices each makes despite the realities they face.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sassafrass-cypress-indigo-a-novel-by-ntozake-shange--65295270https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel Author: Ntozake Shange Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Ntozake Shange’s most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories, and her dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving and easing the contractions of her soul. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston—with “too much of the South in her”—who lives in poetry, can talk to her dolls, and has a great gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. This story of three sisters making their way in an often hostile world is a touching celebration of womanhood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83341Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel Author: Ntozake Shange Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel Author: Ntozake Shange Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Ntozake Shange’s most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories, and her dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving and easing the contractions of her soul. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston—with “too much of the South in her”—who lives in poetry, can talk to her dolls, and has a great gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. This story of three sisters making their way in an often hostile world is a touching celebration of womanhood.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/juliet-by-anne-fortier--65295173https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Juliet Author: Anne Fortier Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 24, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A sweeping novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied—for better or worse—to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers. Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key—one carried by her mother on the day she herself died—to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy.     This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever—a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. Their ill-fated love turned medieval Siena upside-down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reaching its pinnacle in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.      But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves into the history of Romeo and Giulietta, and the closer she gets to the treasure they allegedly left behind, the greater the danger surrounding her—superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she begins to fear that the notorious curse—“A plague on both your houses!”—is still at work, and that she is destined to be its next target. Only someone like Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate, but his story ended long ago. Or did it? Praise for Juliet “One of those rare novels that have it all . . . I was swept away”—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants “Juliet leads us on a thrilling treasure hunt through present-day Italy that makes the classic tragedy itself spellbinding all over again.”—Elle “Boldly imagined, brilliantly plotted, beautifully described, Juliet will carry you spellbound until the gripping end.”—Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany “The Shakespearean scholarship on display is both impressive and well-handled.”—The Washington Post]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83154Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Juliet Author: Anne Fortier Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 24, 2010 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Juliet Author: Anne Fortier Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 24, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A sweeping novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied—for better or worse—to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers. Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key—one carried by her mother on the day she herself died—to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy.     This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever—a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. Their ill-fated love turned medieval Siena upside-down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reaching its pinnacle in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.      But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves into the history of Romeo and Giulietta, and the closer she gets to the treasure they allegedly left behind, the greater the danger surrounding her—superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she begins to fear that the notorious curse—“A plague on both your houses!”—is still at work, and that she is destined to be its next target. Only someone like Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate, but his story ended long ago. Or did it? Praise for Juliet “One of those rare novels that have it all . . . I was swept away”—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants “Juliet leads us on a thrilling treasure hunt through present-day Italy that makes the classic tragedy itself spellbinding all over again.”—Elle “Boldly imagined, brilliantly plotted, beautifully described, Juliet will carry you spellbound until the gripping end.”—Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany “The Shakespearean scholarship on display is both impressive and well-handled.”—The Washington Post]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-night-at-chateau-marmont-a-novel-by-lauren-weisberger--65295268https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at Chateau Marmont: A Novel Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Merritt Wever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 17, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada, a compulsively readable novel about a woman whose struggling singer-songwriter husband is catapulted to fame, dragging them both onto the pages of celebrity gossip magazines—and changing their marriage forever. Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline... For five years, she’s worked two jobs to support her husband’s dream of making it in the music world. Finally, after countless gigs at Manhattan dive bars and toiling as an A&R intern, the soulful, enigmatic Julian Alter gets signed by Sony, where he logs long hours in the recording studio with no promise of success. But when he is invited to perform on a national late-night talk show, he is catapulted to stardom—literally overnight. At first the newfound fame is fun—who wouldn’t want to stay at the Chateau Marmont or love being treated like rock royalty? But as Brooke’s sweet husband becomes increasingly absent and tabloid rumors swirl, Brooke begins to question the truth about their marriage and is forced to finally come to terms with what she thinks she wants—and what she actually needs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83213Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at Chateau Marmont: A Novel Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Merritt Wever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at Chateau Marmont: A Novel Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Merritt Wever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 17, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada, a compulsively readable novel about a woman whose struggling singer-songwriter husband is catapulted to fame, dragging them both onto the pages of celebrity gossip magazines—and changing their marriage forever. Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline... For five years, she’s worked two jobs to support her husband’s dream of making it in the music world. Finally, after countless gigs at Manhattan dive bars and toiling as an A&R intern, the soulful, enigmatic Julian Alter gets signed by Sony, where he logs long hours in the recording studio with no promise of success. But when he is invited to perform on a national late-night talk show, he is catapulted to stardom—literally overnight. At first the newfound fame is fun—who wouldn’t want to stay at the Chateau Marmont or love being treated like rock royalty? But as Brooke’s sweet husband becomes increasingly absent and tabloid rumors swirl, Brooke begins to question the truth about their marriage and is forced to finally come to terms with what she thinks she wants—and what she actually needs.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pirate-queen-by-patricia-hickman--65295342https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirate Queen Author: Patricia Hickman Narrator: Flora Plumb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Treasure is found in the most unlikely places. The envy of all her friends, wife and mother Saphora Warren is the model of southern gentility and accomplishment. She lives in a beautiful Lake Norman home, and has raised three capable adult children. Her husband is a successful plastic surgeon--and a philanderer. It is for that reason that, after hosting a garden party for Southern Living magazine, Saphora packs her bags to escape the trappings of the picturesque-but-vacant life.  Saphora’s departure is interrupted by her husband Bender’s early arrival home, and his words that change her life forever: I’m dying.   Against her desires, Saphora agrees to take care of Bender as he fights his illness. They relocate, at his insistance, to their coastal home in Oriental—the same house she had chosen for her private getaway. When her idyllic retreat is overrun by her grown children, grandchildren, townspeople, relatives, and a precocious neighbor child, Saphora’s escape to paradise is anything but the life she had imagined. As she gropes for evidence of God's presence amid the turmoil, can she discover that the richest treasures come in surprising packages?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83162Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirate Queen Author: Patricia Hickman Narrator: Flora Plumb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 10, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirate Queen Author: Patricia Hickman Narrator: Flora Plumb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Treasure is found in the most unlikely places. The envy of all her friends, wife and mother Saphora Warren is the model of southern gentility and accomplishment. She lives in a beautiful Lake Norman home, and has raised three capable adult children. Her husband is a successful plastic surgeon--and a philanderer. It is for that reason that, after hosting a garden party for Southern Living magazine, Saphora packs her bags to escape the trappings of the picturesque-but-vacant life.  Saphora’s departure is interrupted by her husband Bender’s early arrival home, and his words that change her life forever: I’m dying.   Against her desires, Saphora agrees to take care of Bender as he fights his illness. They relocate, at his insistance, to their coastal home in Oriental—the same house she had chosen for her private getaway. When her idyllic retreat is overrun by her grown children, grandchildren, townspeople, relatives, and a precocious neighbor child, Saphora’s escape to paradise is anything but the life she had imagined. As she gropes for evidence of God's presence amid the turmoil, can she discover that the richest treasures come in surprising packages?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-queen-a-novel-by-philippa-gregory--65295280https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83172 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Queen: A Novel Series: #3 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 3, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 77 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne. Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her Lancaster house is the true ruler of England, and that she has a great destiny before her. Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, to England, and even to the little boy. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king; sends him into exile; and pledges him in marriage to her enemy Elizabeth of York’s daughter. As the political tides constantly move and shift, Margaret masterminds one of the greatest rebellions of all time—all the while knowing that her son has grown to manhood, recruited an army, and awaits his opportunity to win the greatest prize in all of England. The Red Queen is a novel of conspiracy, passion, and coldhearted ambition, the story of a proud and determined woman who believes that she alone is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape the course of history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83172Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83172 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Queen: A Novel Series: #3 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83172 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Queen: A Novel Series: #3 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 3, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 77 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne. Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her Lancaster house is the true ruler of England, and that she has a great destiny before her. Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, to England, and even to the little boy. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king; sends him into exile; and pledges him in marriage to her enemy Elizabeth of York’s daughter. As the political tides constantly move and shift, Margaret masterminds one of the greatest rebellions of all time—all the while knowing that her son has grown to manhood, recruited an army, and awaits his opportunity to win the greatest prize in all of England. The Red Queen is a novel of conspiracy, passion, and coldhearted ambition, the story of a proud and determined woman who believes that she alone is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape the course of history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-day-by-david-nicholls--65295351https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day Author: David Nicholls Narrator: Anna Bentinck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NOW A NETFLIX SERIES  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. • What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. •  '[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter.' —People   It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. They face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Dex and Em must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. As the years go by,  the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed.    '[A] surprisingly deep romance...so thoroughly satisfying.' —Entertainment Weekly Packaging may vary]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83091Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day Author: David Nicholls Narrator: Anna Bentinck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 15, 2010 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day Author: David Nicholls Narrator: Anna Bentinck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NOW A NETFLIX SERIES  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. • What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. •  '[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter.' —People   It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. They face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Dex and Em must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. As the years go by,  the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed.    '[A] surprisingly deep romance...so thoroughly satisfying.' —Entertainment Weekly Packaging may vary]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-hook-road-by-ayelet-waldman--65295320https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Hook Road Author: Ayelet Waldman Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: As lyrical as a sonata, Ayelet Waldman’s follow-up novel to Love and Other Impossible Pursuits explores the aftermath of a family tragedy. Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers, Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ways in which their lives are unraveled and stitched together by misfortune, by good intentions and failure, and by love and calamity. A marriage collapses under the strain of a daughter’s death; two bereaved siblings find comfort in one another; and an adopted young girl breathes new life into her family with her prodigious talent for the violin. As she writes with obvious affection for these unforgettable characters, Ayelet Waldman skillfully interweaves life’s finer pleasures—music and literature—with the more mundane joys of living. Within these resonant pages, a vase filled with wildflowers or a cold beer on a hot summer day serve as constant reminders that it’s often the little things that make life so precious.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Hook Road Author: Ayelet Waldman Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Hook Road Author: Ayelet Waldman Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: As lyrical as a sonata, Ayelet Waldman’s follow-up novel to Love and Other Impossible Pursuits explores the aftermath of a family tragedy. Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers, Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ways in which their lives are unraveled and stitched together by misfortune, by good intentions and failure, and by love and calamity. A marriage collapses under the strain of a daughter’s death; two bereaved siblings find comfort in one another; and an adopted young girl breathes new life into her family with her prodigious talent for the violin. As she writes with obvious affection for these unforgettable characters, Ayelet Waldman skillfully interweaves life’s finer pleasures—music and literature—with the more mundane joys of living. Within these resonant pages, a vase filled with wildflowers or a cold beer on a hot summer day serve as constant reminders that it’s often the little things that make life so precious.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fly-away-home-a-novel-by-jennifer-weiner--65295295https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fly Away Home: A Novel Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Judith Light Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From one of the nation’s most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house. When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffs’ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve—a husband, a young son, the perfect home—and yet she’s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER’s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richard’s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be. Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fly Away Home: A Novel Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Judith Light Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fly Away Home: A Novel Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Judith Light Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From one of the nation’s most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house. When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffs’ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve—a husband, a young son, the perfect home—and yet she’s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER’s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richard’s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be. Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cookbook-collector-a-novel-by-allegra-goodman--65295314https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cookbook Collector: A Novel Author: Allegra Goodman Narrator: Ariadne Meyers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much—as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way. Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82953Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cookbook Collector: A Novel Author: Allegra Goodman Narrator: Ariadne Meyers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cookbook Collector: A Novel Author: Allegra Goodman Narrator: Ariadne Meyers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much—as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way. Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-island-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65295300https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Denice Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This “deliciously addictive” (Kirkus) beach read from Elin Hilderbrand follows a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fills an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement. It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store—a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles. But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Denice Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Denice Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This “deliciously addictive” (Kirkus) beach read from Elin Hilderbrand follows a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fills an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement. It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store—a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles. But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-where-we-live-a-novel-by-janelle-brown--65295278https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This is Where We Live: A Novel Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann, Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release, he’s assembled a new band and is a few songs shy of an album. They’ve recently purchased their first home—an adorable mid-century bungalow with a breathtaking view of the city of Los Angeles—with the magical assistance of an adjustable-rate mortgage. But a series of seismic events—the tanking of Claudia’s film, the return of Jeremy’s ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments—deal a crushing blow to their dreams of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future. This Is Where We Live is a novel about the crucible of this economic moment—the way these times play with our hopes, compel us to reckon with our ambition, test our capacity for reinvention, and ask us to question the very things we love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This is Where We Live: A Novel Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann, Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This is Where We Live: A Novel Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann, Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release, he’s assembled a new band and is a few songs shy of an album. They’ve recently purchased their first home—an adorable mid-century bungalow with a breathtaking view of the city of Los Angeles—with the magical assistance of an adjustable-rate mortgage. But a series of seismic events—the tanking of Claudia’s film, the return of Jeremy’s ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments—deal a crushing blow to their dreams of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future. This Is Where We Live is a novel about the crucible of this economic moment—the way these times play with our hopes, compel us to reckon with our ambition, test our capacity for reinvention, and ask us to question the very things we love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nobodies-album-by-carolyn-parkhurst--65295275https://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: Contemporary Women 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 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease 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: Contemporary Women 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/lowcountry-summer-a-plantation-novel-by-dorothea-benton-frank--65295214https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel Series: #7 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Frank…writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang….[Her] stuff is never escapist fluff—it’s the real deal.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution Return to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank’s beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frank’s warmth and humor. The much-beloved New York Times bestselling author follows the recent success of Return to Sullivans Island, Bulls Island, and Land of Mango Sunsets with a tale rich in atmosphere and unforgettable scenes of Southern life, once again placing her at the dais, alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Pat Conroy, and other masters of contemporary Southern fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel Series: #7 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel Series: #7 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Frank…writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang….[Her] stuff is never escapist fluff—it’s the real deal.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution Return to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank’s beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frank’s warmth and humor. The much-beloved New York Times bestselling author follows the recent success of Return to Sullivans Island, Bulls Island, and Land of Mango Sunsets with a tale rich in atmosphere and unforgettable scenes of Southern life, once again placing her at the dais, alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Pat Conroy, and other masters of contemporary Southern fiction.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/backseat-saints-by-joshilyn-jackson--65295346https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backseat Saints Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Read this 'enthralling' portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created while reigniting her rough and tough Texan bravery (Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help). Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old novels and a taste for dangerous men. Now, as demure Mrs. Ro Grandee, she's living the very life her mother abandoned. She's all but forgotten the girl she used to be-teenaged spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol-until an airport gypsy warns Rose it's time to find her way back to that brave, tough girl . . . or else. Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas, running from a man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did. Starring a minor character from Jackson's bestselling Gods in Alabama, Backseat Saints will dazzle readers with its stunning portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will travel to satisfy the demands of forgiveness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backseat Saints Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 8, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backseat Saints Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Read this 'enthralling' portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created while reigniting her rough and tough Texan bravery (Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help). Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old novels and a taste for dangerous men. Now, as demure Mrs. Ro Grandee, she's living the very life her mother abandoned. She's all but forgotten the girl she used to be-teenaged spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol-until an airport gypsy warns Rose it's time to find her way back to that brave, tough girl . . . or else. Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas, running from a man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did. Starring a minor character from Jackson's bestselling Gods in Alabama, Backseat Saints will dazzle readers with its stunning portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will travel to satisfy the demands of forgiveness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-one-that-i-want-a-novel-by-allison-winn-scotch--65295177https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One That I Want: A Novel Author: Allison Winn Scotch Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When Tilly's seemingly perfect life starts changing around her, she must decide which is the life she wants-- the one she's carefully tended for decades or the one she never considered possible? Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the life she always dreamed of married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown and trying for a baby. Perfect. On the surface you might never know how tough things used to be. At seventeen, Tilly lost her mother to cancer, and while her father drowned his grief in alcohol, she was left to play parent to her two younger sisters rather than be a kid herself. Still Tilly never let tragedy overtake her belief that hard work and good cheer could solve any problem. Of course she’s also spent a lifetime plastering a smile on her face and putting everyone else’s problems ahead of her own. But that relentless happiness has served her well—her sisters are grown and content, her dad is ten years sober, and she’s helping her students achieve all their dreams while she and her husband, Tyler, start a family. A perfect life indeed. One sweltering afternoon at the local fair, everything changes when Tilly wanders into the fortune teller’s tent and is greeted by an old childhood friend, now a psychic. “I’m giving you the gift of clarity,” her friend says. “It’s what I always thought you needed.” Soon Tilly starts seeing things-- her father relapsing, staggering out of a bar and Tyler uprooting their happy, stable life, a packed U-Haul in the driveway. Even more disturbing, these visions start coming true. Suddenly Tilly’s perfect life, so meticulously mapped out, seems to be crumbling around her. And she’s not sure what’s more frightening: that she’s begun to see the future or what the future holds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61905Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One That I Want: A Novel Author: Allison Winn Scotch Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One That I Want: A Novel Author: Allison Winn Scotch Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When Tilly's seemingly perfect life starts changing around her, she must decide which is the life she wants-- the one she's carefully tended for decades or the one she never considered possible? Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the life she always dreamed of married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown and trying for a baby. Perfect. On the surface you might never know how tough things used to be. At seventeen, Tilly lost her mother to cancer, and while her father drowned his grief in alcohol, she was left to play parent to her two younger sisters rather than be a kid herself. Still Tilly never let tragedy overtake her belief that hard work and good cheer could solve any problem. Of course she’s also spent a lifetime plastering a smile on her face and putting everyone else’s problems ahead of her own. But that relentless happiness has served her well—her sisters are grown and content, her dad is ten years sober, and she’s helping her students achieve all their dreams while she and her husband, Tyler, start a family. A perfect life indeed. One sweltering afternoon at the local fair, everything changes when Tilly wanders into the fortune teller’s tent and is greeted by an old childhood friend, now a psychic. “I’m giving you the gift of clarity,” her friend says. “It’s what I always thought you needed.” Soon Tilly starts seeing things-- her father relapsing, staggering out of a bar and Tyler uprooting their happy, stable life, a packed U-Haul in the driveway. Even more disturbing, these visions start coming true. Suddenly Tilly’s perfect life, so meticulously mapped out, seems to be crumbling around her. And she’s not sure what’s more frightening: that she’s begun to see the future or what the future holds.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/anthropology-of-an-american-girl-a-novel-by-hilary-thayer-hamann--65295362https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel Author: Hilary Thayer Hamann Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 25, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Anthropology of an American Girl is a semi-autobiographical novel. It is the story of a young woman and her culture that strives for a measure of narrative depth, detail, and objectivity. It follows its protagonist, Eveline Auerbach, as she moves through a pre-digital American landscape during the 1970s and 1980s. In the most basic respect, it is a coming of age story that prescribes a return to simplicity as the most rational and ethical response to the chaos and confusion of upward mobility.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956Tue, 25 May 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel Author: Hilary Thayer Hamann Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel Author: Hilary Thayer Hamann Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 25, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Anthropology of an American Girl is a semi-autobiographical novel. It is the story of a young woman and her culture that strives for a measure of narrative depth, detail, and objectivity. It follows its protagonist, Eveline Auerbach, as she moves through a pre-digital American landscape during the 1970s and 1980s. In the most basic respect, it is a coming of age story that prescribes a return to simplicity as the most rational and ethical response to the chaos and confusion of upward mobility.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-thread-a-novel-by-ann-hood--65295365https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Thread: A Novel Author: Ann Hood Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 3, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey toward adoption forces Maya to confront the lost daughter of her past. Brilliantly braiding together the stories of Chinese mothers who must give up their daughters with stories of the modern American women who yearn for a child of their own, Ann Hood writes a moving and beautifully told novel of the red thread of fate that binds these characters’ lives. Heartrending and wise, The Red Thread is an unforgettable portrait of the incomparable power of a mother’s love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61604Mon, 03 May 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Thread: A Novel Author: Ann Hood Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 3, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Thread: A Novel Author: Ann Hood Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 3, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey toward adoption forces Maya to confront the lost daughter of her past. Brilliantly braiding together the stories of Chinese mothers who must give up their daughters with stories of the modern American women who yearn for a child of their own, Ann Hood writes a moving and beautifully told novel of the red thread of fate that binds these characters’ lives. Heartrending and wise, The Red Thread is an unforgettable portrait of the incomparable power of a mother’s love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/till-you-hear-from-me-a-novel-by-pearl-cleage--65295189https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Till You Hear From Me: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon, is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics. The Rev’s stinging words and myopic views don’t sound anything like the man who raised Ida. When friends call to express their concern, Ida realizes it’s time to head home and see for herself what’s going on. Back in her old West End neighborhood, Ida runs into childhood friend and smooth political operator Wes Harper, also in town to pay a visit to the Reverend Dunbar, his mentor. While Ida and the Rev try to find the balance between personal loyalties and political realities, they must do some serious soul searching in order to get things back on track before Wes permanently derails their best laid plans.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Till You Hear From Me: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Till You Hear From Me: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon, is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics. The Rev’s stinging words and myopic views don’t sound anything like the man who raised Ida. When friends call to express their concern, Ida realizes it’s time to head home and see for herself what’s going on. Back in her old West End neighborhood, Ida runs into childhood friend and smooth political operator Wes Harper, also in town to pay a visit to the Reverend Dunbar, his mentor. While Ida and the Rev try to find the balance between personal loyalties and political realities, they must do some serious soul searching in order to get things back on track before Wes permanently derails their best laid plans.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hero-at-large-by-janet-evanovich--65295216https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hero at Large Author: Janet Evanovich Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “[Evanovich] is funny and ceaselessly inventive.'' —Los Angeles Times Book Review   Hero at Large is a delightful mix of laughter and romance—a newly revised classic from #1 New York Times bestseller Janet Evanovich, author of Metro Girl, The Grand Finale, and the sensational Stephanie Plum novels. Evanovich’s many fans will flock to this zany tale of a single-mom skating coach and the handsome “house husband” hunk she brings home…after breaking his arm and his toe!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61653Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hero at Large Author: Janet Evanovich Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 13, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hero at Large Author: Janet Evanovich Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “[Evanovich] is funny and ceaselessly inventive.'' —Los Angeles Times Book Review   Hero at Large is a delightful mix of laughter and romance—a newly revised classic from #1 New York Times bestseller Janet Evanovich, author of Metro Girl, The Grand Finale, and the sensational Stephanie Plum novels. Evanovich’s many fans will flock to this zany tale of a single-mom skating coach and the handsome “house husband” hunk she brings home…after breaking his arm and his toe!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lake-shore-limited-by-sue-miller--65295358https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lake Shore Limited Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Sue Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008’s heralded best seller The Senator’s Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina—Billy—Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The story itself centers on The Lake Shore Limited—a play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that train as it pulls into Union Station in Chicago, and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife, who is traveling on it. Billy had waited in just such a way on 9/11 to hear whether her lover, Gus, was on one of the planes used in the attack. The novel moves from the snow-filled woods of Vermont to the rainy brick sidewalks of Boston as the lives of the other characters intersect and interweave with Billy’s: Leslie, Gus’s sister, still driven by grief years after her brother’s death; Rafe, the actor who rises to greatness in a performance inspired by a night of incandescent lovemaking; and Sam, a man irresistibly drawn to Billy after he sees the play that so clearly displays the terrible conflicts and ambivalence of her situation. How Billy has come to create the play out of these emotions, how it is then created anew on the stage, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters’ lives—these form the thread that binds them all together and drives the novel compulsively forward. A powerful love story; a mesmerizing tale of entanglements, connections, and inconsolable losses; a marvelous reflection on the meaning of grace and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art: The Lake Shore Limited is Sue Miller at her dazzling best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62130Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lake Shore Limited Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Sue Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lake Shore Limited Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Sue Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008’s heralded best seller The Senator’s Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina—Billy—Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The story itself centers on The Lake Shore Limited—a play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that train as it pulls into Union Station in Chicago, and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife, who is traveling on it. Billy had waited in just such a way on 9/11 to hear whether her lover, Gus, was on one of the planes used in the attack. The novel moves from the snow-filled woods of Vermont to the rainy brick sidewalks of Boston as the lives of the other characters intersect and interweave with Billy’s: Leslie, Gus’s sister, still driven by grief years after her brother’s death; Rafe, the actor who rises to greatness in a performance inspired by a night of incandescent lovemaking; and Sam, a man irresistibly drawn to Billy after he sees the play that so clearly displays the terrible conflicts and ambivalence of her situation. How Billy has come to create the play out of these emotions, how it is then created anew on the stage, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters’ lives—these form the thread that binds them all together and drives the novel compulsively forward. A powerful love story; a mesmerizing tale of entanglements, connections, and inconsolable losses; a marvelous reflection on the meaning of grace and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art: The Lake Shore Limited is Sue Miller at her dazzling best.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-swimming-pool-by-holly-lecraw--65295291https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swimming Pool Author: Holly LeCraw Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut.Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered—and their lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil died soon after, an uncharged suspect. Now divorced and estranged from her only daughter, Marcella lives alone, mired in grief and guilt. Meanwhile, Cecil's grown son, Jed, returns to the Cape with his sister for the first time in years. One day he finds a woman's bathing suit buried in a closet—a relic, unbeknownst to him, of his father's affair—and, on a hunch, confronts Marcella. When they fall into an affair of their own, their passion temporarily masks the pain of the past, but also leads to crises and revelations they never could have imagined. In what is sure to be the debut of the season, The Swimming Pool delivers a sensuous narrative of such force and depth that you won't be able to put it down.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61537Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swimming Pool Author: Holly LeCraw Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swimming Pool Author: Holly LeCraw Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut.Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered—and their lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil died soon after, an uncharged suspect. Now divorced and estranged from her only daughter, Marcella lives alone, mired in grief and guilt. Meanwhile, Cecil's grown son, Jed, returns to the Cape with his sister for the first time in years. One day he finds a woman's bathing suit buried in a closet—a relic, unbeknownst to him, of his father's affair—and, on a hunch, confronts Marcella. When they fall into an affair of their own, their passion temporarily masks the pain of the past, but also leads to crises and revelations they never could have imagined. In what is sure to be the debut of the season, The Swimming Pool delivers a sensuous narrative of such force and depth that you won't be able to put it down.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-time-i-saw-you-a-novel-by-elizabeth-berg--65295289https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.78 of Total 9 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of Pleasures, comes a wonderful new novel about women and men reconnecting with one another—and themselves—at their fortieth high school reunion. To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something different—a last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear. As the onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy Shauman, the reunion brings with it the possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob, Pete Decker. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice Mayhew, it’s a chance to reexamine a painful past. For Lester Heseenpfeffer, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vet—or at least that’s what he tells himself. For Candy Armstrong, the class beauty, it’s the hope of finding friendship before it is too late. As Dorothy, Mary Alice, Lester, Candy, and the other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: Desires and personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen. In this beautiful novel, Elizabeth Berg deftly weaves together stories of roads taken and not taken, choices made and opportunities missed, and the possibilities of second chances.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.78 of Total 9 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of Pleasures, comes a wonderful new novel about women and men reconnecting with one another—and themselves—at their fortieth high school reunion. To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something different—a last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear. As the onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy Shauman, the reunion brings with it the possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob, Pete Decker. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice Mayhew, it’s a chance to reexamine a painful past. For Lester Heseenpfeffer, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vet—or at least that’s what he tells himself. For Candy Armstrong, the class beauty, it’s the hope of finding friendship before it is too late. As Dorothy, Mary Alice, Lester, Candy, and the other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: Desires and personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen. In this beautiful novel, Elizabeth Berg deftly weaves together stories of roads taken and not taken, choices made and opportunities missed, and the possibilities of second chances.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-who-chased-the-moon-a-novel-by-sarah-addison-allen--65295303https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 16, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew—a reclusive, real-life gentle giant—she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson’s cakes—which is a good thing, because Julia can’t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she’s hurt in the past?     Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 16, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew—a reclusive, real-life gentle giant—she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson’s cakes—which is a good thing, because Julia can’t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she’s hurt in the past?     Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blood-bayou-by-karen-young--65295317https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Bayou Author: Karen Young Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A recipient of the RITA from the Romance Writers of America and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times, Karen Young has penned over 30 novels and boasts more than 10 million copies in print. Lawyer Camille St. James helps free an inmate she believes was wrongly imprisoned-only to have him turn up days later as the suspect in a new murder. '. this outing adds to her blend of suspense and romance spiritual elements.'-Publishers Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61264Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Bayou Author: Karen Young Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 26, 2010 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Bayou Author: Karen Young Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A recipient of the RITA from the Romance Writers of America and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times, Karen Young has penned over 30 novels and boasts more than 10 million copies in print. Lawyer Camille St. James helps free an inmate she believes was wrongly imprisoned-only to have him turn up days later as the suspect in a new murder. '. this outing adds to her blend of suspense and romance spiritual elements.'-Publishers Weekly]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-immortal-hunter-a-rogue-hunter-novel-by-lynsay-sands--65295368https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Hunter: A Rogue Hunter Novel Series: #11 of Argeneau Vampire Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Victoria McGee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Even vampires need a vacation. But Decker Argeneau's ends abruptly when he's asked to help hunt the group of rogue vampires targeting mortals -- one that might include a defector in his own family. Before he can worry about that, though, he's got to rescue the latest victim. It's all part of the job, including taking a bullet for a beautiful doctor. Dr. Danielle McGill doesn't know if she can trust the man who just saved her life. There are too many questions, such as what is the secret organization he says he's part of, and why do his wounds hardly bleed? However, with her sister in the hands of some dangerous men, she doesn't have much choice but to trust him. Except now Decker's talking about life mates and awakening a passion that's taking Dani beyond anything she's ever known. Being undead may not be half-bad...especially if it means spending forever with a man who would love her with his mind, body, and immortal soul.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60601Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Hunter: A Rogue Hunter Novel Series: #11 of Argeneau Vampire Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Victoria McGee Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Hunter: A Rogue Hunter Novel Series: #11 of Argeneau Vampire Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Victoria McGee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Even vampires need a vacation. But Decker Argeneau's ends abruptly when he's asked to help hunt the group of rogue vampires targeting mortals -- one that might include a defector in his own family. Before he can worry about that, though, he's got to rescue the latest victim. It's all part of the job, including taking a bullet for a beautiful doctor. Dr. Danielle McGill doesn't know if she can trust the man who just saved her life. There are too many questions, such as what is the secret organization he says he's part of, and why do his wounds hardly bleed? However, with her sister in the hands of some dangerous men, she doesn't have much choice but to trust him. Except now Decker's talking about life mates and awakening a passion that's taking Dani beyond anything she's ever known. Being undead may not be half-bad...especially if it means spending forever with a man who would love her with his mind, body, and immortal soul.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-my-daughter-by-barbara-delinsky--65295296https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not My Daughter Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 15 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Boston Globe)   When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.   Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values. Now her detractors accuse her of being a lax mother, perhaps not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter's pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought-for dreams are all at risk.   The emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to breaking in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has given us a powerful novel, one that asks a central question: What does it take to be a good mother?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not My Daughter Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not My Daughter Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 15 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Boston Globe)   When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.   Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values. Now her detractors accuse her of being a lax mother, perhaps not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter's pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought-for dreams are all at risk.   The emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to breaking in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has given us a powerful novel, one that asks a central question: What does it take to be a good mother?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/noah-s-compass-a-novel-by-anne-tyler--65295294https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noah's Compass: A Novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is—well, something quite different. We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noah's Compass: A Novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noah's Compass: A Novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is—well, something quite different. We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-lives-of-the-kudzu-debutantes-a-novel-by-cathy-holton--65295196https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes: A Novel Author: Cathy Holton Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: December 9, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Cotillion (n): a formal gathering of bright young women on the verge of entering adulthood, the society pages, and prospective high-tax-bracket marriages. Think a Civil War reenactment with crisp, clean white dresses. Catfight (n): an impromptu gathering of not-so-young women on the verge of losing their cool. Think a cotillion with hair-pulling. It’s been more than a year since the Kudzu Debutantes exacted sweet, merciless revenge on their cheating husbands, but the repercussions are still palpable throughout Ithaca, Georgia: Nita is anxiously preparing herself for marriage to Jimmy Lee, a man thirteen years her junior; Lavonne, despite having dropped her husband—and eighty pounds—and having launched her own business, longs for love; and while Eadie remains married to Trevor, she feels more neglected than ever. So the occasion of Nita’s second wedding seems like just the ticket to cheer up the disconsolate Debs. But they’ve made a formidable enemy in Virginia Broadwell, first lady of Ithaca and the bride’s ex-mother-in-law. Hell-bent on vengeance and determined to restore old-school social mores, Virginia hatches a plan so devious it makes her pedicured toes curl in anticipation. Soon enough, the women are knocked for a loop, but you can’t keep a Kudzu Debutante down for long. The one thing stronger than Virginia’s wrath is the bond between the three friends. With spirit, wit, and down-home gumption, the take-no-prisoners trio decides it’s time to ditch their cotillion manners as they rally to save Nita’s marriage, Lavonne’s business, Eadie’s sanity, and the honor of Kudzu Debs the world over. Packed with authentic Southern flavor and characters as colorful as an azalea in full bloom, The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes serves up stinging one-liners and earthy wisdom in equal measure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60250Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes: A Novel Author: Cathy Holton Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes: A Novel Author: Cathy Holton Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: December 9, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Cotillion (n): a formal gathering of bright young women on the verge of entering adulthood, the society pages, and prospective high-tax-bracket marriages. Think a Civil War reenactment with crisp, clean white dresses. Catfight (n): an impromptu gathering of not-so-young women on the verge of losing their cool. Think a cotillion with hair-pulling. It’s been more than a year since the Kudzu Debutantes exacted sweet, merciless revenge on their cheating husbands, but the repercussions are still palpable throughout Ithaca, Georgia: Nita is anxiously preparing herself for marriage to Jimmy Lee, a man thirteen years her junior; Lavonne, despite having dropped her husband—and eighty pounds—and having launched her own business, longs for love; and while Eadie remains married to Trevor, she feels more neglected than ever. So the occasion of Nita’s second wedding seems like just the ticket to cheer up the disconsolate Debs. But they’ve made a formidable enemy in Virginia Broadwell, first lady of Ithaca and the bride’s ex-mother-in-law. Hell-bent on vengeance and determined to restore old-school social mores, Virginia hatches a plan so devious it makes her pedicured toes curl in anticipation. Soon enough, the women are knocked for a loop, but you can’t keep a Kudzu Debutante down for long. The one thing stronger than Virginia’s wrath is the bond between the three friends. With spirit, wit, and down-home gumption, the take-no-prisoners trio decides it’s time to ditch their cotillion manners as they rally to save Nita’s marriage, Lavonne’s business, Eadie’s sanity, and the honor of Kudzu Debs the world over. Packed with authentic Southern flavor and characters as colorful as an azalea in full bloom, The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes serves up stinging one-liners and earthy wisdom in equal measure.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rainwater-by-sandra-brown--65295226https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rainwater Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Victor Slezak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas. Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship’s captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behavior and failure to speak elicits undesired advice from others in town. Ella’s plate is full from sunup to sundown. When a room in her boarding house opens up, the respected town doctor brings Ella a new boarder―the handsome and gallant Mr. David Rainwater—but Ella is immediately resistant to opening up her home to this mysterious stranger. Even with assurances that Mr. Rainwater is a man of impeccable character, a former cotton broker and a victim of the Great Depression, Ella stiffens at the thought of taking him in. Dr. Kincaid tells Ella in confidence that Mr. Rainwater won’t require the room for long: he is dying. Begrudgingly, Ella accepts Mr. Rainwater’s application to board, but she knows that something is happening; she is being swept along by an unusual series of events. Soon, this strong-minded, independent woman will realize that the living that she has eked out for herself in the small bubble of her town is about to change, whether she likes it or not... Racial tensions, the financial strain of livelihoods in cotton drying up into dust, and the threat of political instability swirl together into a tornado on the horizon. One thing is certain: the winds of change are blowing all over Texas—and through the cracks in the life that Ella Barron has painstakingly built. This is the story of a woman who takes her life’s circumstances in both hands, but who will be forced to reckon with the chaos of her circumstances...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59904Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rainwater Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Victor Slezak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 3, 2009 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rainwater Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Victor Slezak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas. Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship’s captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behavior and failure to speak elicits undesired advice from others in town. Ella’s plate is full from sunup to sundown. When a room in her boarding house opens up, the respected town doctor brings Ella a new boarder―the handsome and gallant Mr. David Rainwater—but Ella is immediately resistant to opening up her home to this mysterious stranger. Even with assurances that Mr. Rainwater is a man of impeccable character, a former cotton broker and a victim of the Great Depression, Ella stiffens at the thought of taking him in. Dr. Kincaid tells Ella in confidence that Mr. Rainwater won’t require the room for long: he is dying. Begrudgingly, Ella accepts Mr. Rainwater’s application to board, but she knows that something is happening; she is being swept along by an unusual series of events. Soon, this strong-minded, independent woman will realize that the living that she has eked out for herself in the small bubble of her town is about to change, whether she likes it or not... Racial tensions, the financial strain of livelihoods in cotton drying up into dust, and the threat of political instability swirl together into a tornado on the horizon. One thing is certain: the winds of change are blowing all over Texas—and through the cracks in the life that Ella Barron has painstakingly built. This is the story of a woman who takes her life’s circumstances in both hands, but who will be forced to reckon with the chaos of her circumstances...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-untamed-bride-by-stephanie-laurens--65295271https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Untamed Bride Series: #1 of Black Cobra Quartet Author: Stephanie Laurens Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The first book in a brand-new series, The Black Cobra Quartet, from New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author Stephanie Laurens, The Untamed Bride is the story of a bold, beautiful woman with a scandalous past and a battle-hardened, sinfully wealthy, completely unstoppable man who must join forces to fight a deadly foe known only as the Black Cobra—and who must also confront the dangers of the heart . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59735Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Untamed Bride Series: #1 of Black Cobra Quartet Author: Stephanie Laurens Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Untamed Bride Series: #1 of Black Cobra Quartet Author: Stephanie Laurens Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The first book in a brand-new series, The Black Cobra Quartet, from New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author Stephanie Laurens, The Untamed Bride is the story of a bold, beautiful woman with a scandalous past and a battle-hardened, sinfully wealthy, completely unstoppable man who must join forces to fight a deadly foe known only as the Black Cobra—and who must also confront the dangers of the heart . . .]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-christmas-cookie-club-by-ann-pearlman--65295328https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59680 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Cookie Club Author: Ann Pearlman Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 20, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 20 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Ann Pearlman’s irresistible novel provides the perfect ingredients for a fun and touching read about a group of women who gather each year to share a journey of friendship, hope, heartbreak—and recipes. Every year at Christmastime, Marnie and her closest girlfriends mark their calendars for the cookie exchange. Everyone has to bring a batch of homemade cookies and a bottle of wine, but this year, it’s their stories that are especially important—the passion and hopefulness of new romance, the betrayal and disillusionment some relationships bring, the joys and fears of motherhood, the stress of financial troubles. On this evening, at least, the sisterly love they have for one another rises above it all. Celebrating courage and joy in spite of hard times and honoring the importance of women’s friendships as well as the embracing bonds of community, Ann Pearlman’s delightful novel speaks to us all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59680Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59680 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Cookie Club Author: Ann Pearlman Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59680 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Cookie Club Author: Ann Pearlman Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 20, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 20 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Ann Pearlman’s irresistible novel provides the perfect ingredients for a fun and touching read about a group of women who gather each year to share a journey of friendship, hope, heartbreak—and recipes. Every year at Christmastime, Marnie and her closest girlfriends mark their calendars for the cookie exchange. Everyone has to bring a batch of homemade cookies and a bottle of wine, but this year, it’s their stories that are especially important—the passion and hopefulness of new romance, the betrayal and disillusionment some relationships bring, the joys and fears of motherhood, the stress of financial troubles. On this evening, at least, the sisterly love they have for one another rises above it all. Celebrating courage and joy in spite of hard times and honoring the importance of women’s friendships as well as the embracing bonds of community, Ann Pearlman’s delightful novel speaks to us all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/white-picket-fences-a-novel-by-susan-meissner--65295227https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Picket Fences: A Novel Author: Susan Meissner Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands– in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm–and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a “normal” life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn’t seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn’t expect her arrival will affect him much–or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else. Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won’t make them go away. Will Tally’s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all–or can she help them find the truth without losing each other?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59703Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Picket Fences: A Novel Author: Susan Meissner Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Picket Fences: A Novel Author: Susan Meissner Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands– in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm–and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a “normal” life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn’t seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn’t expect her arrival will affect him much–or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else. Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won’t make them go away. Will Tally’s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all–or can she help them find the truth without losing each other?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-penny-pinchers-club-by-sarah-strohmeyer--65295370https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny Pinchers Club Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 18, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Author of the beloved Bubbles Yablonsky mystery series, Sarah Strohmeyer treats listeners to an entertaining novel about making it in hard times. Kat, a compulsive consumer at New Jersey's many malls, loves to shop until she drops-and it's taking a heavy toll on her marriage. Why else would her husband be using a secret bank account of his own? Finally, Kat is persuaded to join the Penny Pinchers Club. But there is such a thing as being too thrifty.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60498Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny Pinchers Club Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny Pinchers Club Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 18, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Author of the beloved Bubbles Yablonsky mystery series, Sarah Strohmeyer treats listeners to an entertaining novel about making it in hard times. Kat, a compulsive consumer at New Jersey's many malls, loves to shop until she drops-and it's taking a heavy toll on her marriage. Why else would her husband be using a secret bank account of his own? Finally, Kat is persuaded to join the Penny Pinchers Club. But there is such a thing as being too thrifty.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-deep-blue-sea-for-beginners-by-luanne-rice--65295239https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries… A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love… A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together… New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin—and where they may be fulfilled at last…. Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately…. Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice’s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries… A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love… A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together… New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin—and where they may be fulfilled at last…. Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately…. Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice’s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/friends-fauxs-a-novel-by-tracie-howard--65295374https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friends & Fauxs: A Novel Author: Tracie Howard Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Tracie Howard is back with all of the Gucci, glitz, and glamour in this steamy follow-up to her smash hit Gold Diggers! Gillian Tillman learned all about landing a wealthy man from her globe-trotting mother, Imelda, but this second-generation gold digger has a style all her own. With big dreams of becoming a huge star, she slept her way right into the million-dollar mansion of her now-husband, star-producer Brandon Russell. He not only launched Gillian’s film career, but landed her the starring and Oscar-nominated role in the hit film Gold Diggers. But all that glitters may not be gold. Gillian wrestles with the real possibility that Brandon may be a mob-connected money launderer, and worse yet, may have had a hand in the murder of her friend Paulette. When pictures of her naked surface on the Internet, both Gillian’s Oscar dreams and her marriage are threatened, even though she swears they aren’t of her. Meanwhile her best friends are struggling with issues of their own. Reese’s beloved son falls ill and she’s forced to decide between spilling a long-kept secret and saving his life, and Lauren’s hard-won happiness is threatened by a shocking betrayal. Buckle your seatbelt as the lives of these larger-than-life characters intersect in a wild, page-turning romp.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58851Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friends & Fauxs: A Novel Author: Tracie Howard Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friends & Fauxs: A Novel Author: Tracie Howard Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Tracie Howard is back with all of the Gucci, glitz, and glamour in this steamy follow-up to her smash hit Gold Diggers! Gillian Tillman learned all about landing a wealthy man from her globe-trotting mother, Imelda, but this second-generation gold digger has a style all her own. With big dreams of becoming a huge star, she slept her way right into the million-dollar mansion of her now-husband, star-producer Brandon Russell. He not only launched Gillian’s film career, but landed her the starring and Oscar-nominated role in the hit film Gold Diggers. But all that glitters may not be gold. Gillian wrestles with the real possibility that Brandon may be a mob-connected money launderer, and worse yet, may have had a hand in the murder of her friend Paulette. When pictures of her naked surface on the Internet, both Gillian’s Oscar dreams and her marriage are threatened, even though she swears they aren’t of her. Meanwhile her best friends are struggling with issues of their own. Reese’s beloved son falls ill and she’s forced to decide between spilling a long-kept secret and saving his life, and Lauren’s hard-won happiness is threatened by a shocking betrayal. Buckle your seatbelt as the lives of these larger-than-life characters intersect in a wild, page-turning romp.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/twenties-girl-a-novel-by-sophie-kinsella--65295334https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twenties Girl: A Novel Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 21, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 53 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie–a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance–mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is floundering, and she’s just been dumped by the “perfect” man. Sadie, however, could care less. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from each other along the way. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, Twenties Girl is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58656Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twenties Girl: A Novel Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 21,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twenties Girl: A Novel Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 21, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 53 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie–a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance–mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is floundering, and she’s just been dumped by the “perfect” man. Sadie, however, could care less. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from each other along the way. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, Twenties Girl is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-altars-everywhere-by-rebecca-wells--65295348https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Altars Everywhere Series: #2 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author’s gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved.”— Seattle Weekly The companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda—a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family—leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood joy and sorrow. Little Altars Everywhere is an insightful, piercing, and unflinching evocation of childhood, a loving tribute to the transformative power of faith, and a thoroughly fresh chronicle of a family that is as haunted as it is blessed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Altars Everywhere Series: #2 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Altars Everywhere Series: #2 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author’s gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved.”— Seattle Weekly The companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda—a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family—leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood joy and sorrow. Little Altars Everywhere is an insightful, piercing, and unflinching evocation of childhood, a loving tribute to the transformative power of faith, and a thoroughly fresh chronicle of a family that is as haunted as it is blessed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-divine-secrets-of-the-ya-ya-sisterhood-by-rebecca-wells--65295267https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series: #1 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch The incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a classic of Southern women’s fiction to be read and reread over and over again. A poignant, funny, outrageous, and wise novel about a lifetime friendship between four Southern women, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood brilliantly explores the bonds of female friendship, the often-rocky relationship between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of humor and love, in a story as fresh and uplifting as when it was first published a decade and a half ago. If you haven’t yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series: #1 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series: #1 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch The incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a classic of Southern women’s fiction to be read and reread over and over again. A poignant, funny, outrageous, and wise novel about a lifetime friendship between four Southern women, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood brilliantly explores the bonds of female friendship, the often-rocky relationship between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of humor and love, in a story as fresh and uplifting as when it was first published a decade and a half ago. If you haven’t yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ya-yas-in-bloom-by-rebecca-wells--65295247https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ya-Yas in Bloom Series: #3 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.41 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars through sixty years of marriage, children, and hair-raising family secrets. When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Ya-Yas in Bloom shows us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through at a time when the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure. Performed by Judith Ivey]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ya-Yas in Bloom Series: #3 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ya-Yas in Bloom Series: #3 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.41 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars through sixty years of marriage, children, and hair-raising family secrets. When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Ya-Yas in Bloom shows us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through at a time when the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure. Performed by Judith Ivey]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-castaways-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65295208https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Castaways: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Katie Hale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "The perfect summer read" (Booklist) from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand: an intense tale of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of endless summer island life. With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret as they struggle to answer the question: What happened to Greg and Tess? The Castaways probes the boundaries of friendship and forgiveness as it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, and suspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island life that have made Elin Hilderbrand's novels beloved bestsellers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Castaways: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Katie Hale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Castaways: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Katie Hale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "The perfect summer read" (Booklist) from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand: an intense tale of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of endless summer island life. With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret as they struggle to answer the question: What happened to Greg and Tess? The Castaways probes the boundaries of friendship and forgiveness as it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, and suspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island life that have made Elin Hilderbrand's novels beloved bestsellers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/return-to-sullivans-island-by-dorothea-benton-frank--65295250https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Sullivans Island Series: #6 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 30, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Her books are funny, sexy, and usually damp with seawater.” —Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides   In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank focuses on the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes, earning high praise from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which writes, “Frank brings to vivid life the rich landscape and its unpretentious folks….A reader need only close her eyes for a moment to feel that thick-sticky heat, smell the wild salt marshes.” If you enjoy getting lost in the works of Anne Rivers Siddons, Rebecca Wells, and Pat Conroy—novels brimming with atmosphere and strong Southern charm—you are going to love Dotty Frank’s Return to Sullivans Island.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58448Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Sullivans Island Series: #6 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Sullivans Island Series: #6 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 30, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Her books are funny, sexy, and usually damp with seawater.” —Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides   In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank focuses on the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes, earning high praise from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which writes, “Frank brings to vivid life the rich landscape and its unpretentious folks….A reader need only close her eyes for a moment to feel that thick-sticky heat, smell the wild salt marshes.” If you enjoy getting lost in the works of Anne Rivers Siddons, Rebecca Wells, and Pat Conroy—novels brimming with atmosphere and strong Southern charm—you are going to love Dotty Frank’s Return to Sullivans Island.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/obsession-by-gloria-vanderbilt--65295349https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obsession Author: Gloria Vanderbilt Narrator: Gloria Vanderbilt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The marriages of desire . . . From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man—and, ultimately, with each other. Talbot Bingham is a renowned architectural genius who, with his formidable wife, Priscilla, creates an architectural community. When he dies unexpectedly in the middle of their tenth wedding anniversary celebration, the devastated Priscilla is left keeper of the flame of Talbot's genius. Going through her husband's archives, she comes unexpectedly upon a pile of neatly tied letters, and the shocking secret of her husband's intimate life—a discovery that shatters the foundation of her soul and spirit. Obsession explores the mysteries of the human heart and the nature of sexuality and obsession, provoking questions about whom we choose to love, and why. The reader is left to decide if the other woman represents another facet of Priscilla, or if Priscilla her-self has invented the other woman who completed the world her husband so recently inhabited?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58443Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obsession Author: Gloria Vanderbilt Narrator: Gloria Vanderbilt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 23, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obsession Author: Gloria Vanderbilt Narrator: Gloria Vanderbilt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The marriages of desire . . . From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man—and, ultimately, with each other. Talbot Bingham is a renowned architectural genius who, with his formidable wife, Priscilla, creates an architectural community. When he dies unexpectedly in the middle of their tenth wedding anniversary celebration, the devastated Priscilla is left keeper of the flame of Talbot's genius. Going through her husband's archives, she comes unexpectedly upon a pile of neatly tied letters, and the shocking secret of her husband's intimate life—a discovery that shatters the foundation of her soul and spirit. Obsession explores the mysteries of the human heart and the nature of sexuality and obsession, provoking questions about whom we choose to love, and why. The reader is left to decide if the other woman represents another facet of Priscilla, or if Priscilla her-self has invented the other woman who completed the world her husband so recently inhabited?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fixer-upper-by-mary-kay-andrews--65295218https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fixer Upper Author: Mary Kay Andrews Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 77 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 21 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Entirely satisfying, an expert balance of warmth and compassion, terrific supporting characters, a little steamy sex and just enough suspense to keep you from guessing how it will all go down.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution A hilarious novel about one woman’s quest to redo an old house . . . and her life, as only New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews can tell it. After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left unemployed and broke. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father’s offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow. But when she arrives, Dempsey realizes that “Bird Droppings” would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol–pink dump with duct-taped windows and a driveway full of junk. There’s also a murderously grumpy old lady, one of Dempsey’s distant relations, who has claimed squatter’s rights and isn’t moving out. Ever. Everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey’s business, from a smooth-talking real-estate agent to a cute lawyer who owns the local paper. As if that's not bad enough, pesky FBI agents keep showing up on her doorstep, looking for information about her ex-boss. All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. Before long, what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and, ultimately, a journey that takes her to a place she never expected—back home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58381Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fixer Upper Author: Mary Kay Andrews Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 23, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fixer Upper Author: Mary Kay Andrews Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 77 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 21 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Entirely satisfying, an expert balance of warmth and compassion, terrific supporting characters, a little steamy sex and just enough suspense to keep you from guessing how it will all go down.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution A hilarious novel about one woman’s quest to redo an old house . . . and her life, as only New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews can tell it. After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left unemployed and broke. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father’s offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow. But when she arrives, Dempsey realizes that “Bird Droppings” would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol–pink dump with duct-taped windows and a driveway full of junk. There’s also a murderously grumpy old lady, one of Dempsey’s distant relations, who has claimed squatter’s rights and isn’t moving out. Ever. Everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey’s business, from a smooth-talking real-estate agent to a cute lawyer who owns the local paper. As if that's not bad enough, pesky FBI agents keep showing up on her doorstep, looking for information about her ex-boss. All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. Before long, what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and, ultimately, a journey that takes her to a place she never expected—back home.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-on-the-line-by-laura-castoro--65295321https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love on the Line Author: Laura Castoro Narrator: Susan Spain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 22, 2009 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of multiple literary prizes, Laura Castoro pens novels in genres as diverse as contemporary fiction, Westerns, and period romance. Love on the Line stars unforgettable mother and daughter Thea and Jesse Morgan. Recently widowed, Thea has become a successful business woman and is now rekindling a love affair with a former star athlete-turned pastor. Meanwhile, Jesse struggles with her mixed race heritage as she tries to fit in at college.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61487Fri, 22 May 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love on the Line Author: Laura Castoro Narrator: Susan Spain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 22, 2009 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love on the Line Author: Laura Castoro Narrator: Susan Spain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 22, 2009 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of multiple literary prizes, Laura Castoro pens novels in genres as diverse as contemporary fiction, Westerns, and period romance. Love on the Line stars unforgettable mother and daughter Thea and Jesse Morgan. Recently widowed, Thea has become a successful business woman and is now rekindling a love affair with a former star athlete-turned pastor. Meanwhile, Jesse struggles with her mixed race heritage as she tries to fit in at college.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bean-trees-by-barbara-kingsolver--65295221https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bean Trees Author: Barbara Kingsolver Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 103 Ratings of Narrator: 4.1 of Total 21 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.”  — Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58216Tue, 19 May 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bean Trees Author: Barbara Kingsolver Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 19, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bean Trees Author: Barbara Kingsolver Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 103 Ratings of Narrator: 4.1 of Total 21 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.”  — Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-safe-a-novel-by-elizabeth-berg--65295287https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Safe: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen’s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Safe: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Safe: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen’s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-geometry-of-sisters-by-luanne-rice--65295222https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Geometry of Sisters Series: #1 of Newport, Rhode Island Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Jaclyn Gaines, Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 14, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What is one sister without the other? Is it even possible to imagine? New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters. Here in the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, an unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin…. After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach English at the academy. Behind her lies her life as the perfect Midwestern wife and mother, a life that seemed on the surface to be all she had ever wished for. That illusion vanished in a storm off Mackinac Island in the wake of an accident that engulfed Maura’s husband and her older daughter, Carrie. Now, with her son and younger daughter, she hopes to find a new beginning. Newport has never failed to infuse Maura with a sense of mystery and hope. But for fourteen-year-old Beck, the move is a painful upheaval from everything she has ever loved—especially her sister, Carrie. Ever since her sister disappeared, Beck has retreated into the world of mathematics, where principles are permanent, unlike so many other things in life. Without Carrie, Beck has lost half of herself—the half that would have fit in at the elite private school she and her brother, Travis, will now attend. The half that made things right. Still, Beck clings to the hope that her sister will return to them. Beck isn’t alone in her struggle to adjust. At sixteen, Travis is juggling a long-distance first love and an attraction to an expensive-looking girl with a wicked sparkle in her eye. And for Maura, ghosts linger here—an unresolved breach with her own beloved sister and a long-ago secret that may now have the power to set her free…. Set against the breathtaking beauty of the New England coast at its most dramatic, populated by a cast of indelible characters, The Geometry of Sisters is Luanne Rice at her most compelling, a dazzling world to which readers will want to return again and again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Geometry of Sisters Series: #1 of Newport, Rhode Island Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Jaclyn Gaines, Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Geometry of Sisters Series: #1 of Newport, Rhode Island Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Jaclyn Gaines, Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 14, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What is one sister without the other? Is it even possible to imagine? New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters. Here in the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, an unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin…. After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach English at the academy. Behind her lies her life as the perfect Midwestern wife and mother, a life that seemed on the surface to be all she had ever wished for. That illusion vanished in a storm off Mackinac Island in the wake of an accident that engulfed Maura’s husband and her older daughter, Carrie. Now, with her son and younger daughter, she hopes to find a new beginning. Newport has never failed to infuse Maura with a sense of mystery and hope. But for fourteen-year-old Beck, the move is a painful upheaval from everything she has ever loved—especially her sister, Carrie. Ever since her sister disappeared, Beck has retreated into the world of mathematics, where principles are permanent, unlike so many other things in life. Without Carrie, Beck has lost half of herself—the half that would have fit in at the elite private school she and her brother, Travis, will now attend. The half that made things right. Still, Beck clings to the hope that her sister will return to them. Beck isn’t alone in her struggle to adjust. At sixteen, Travis is juggling a long-distance first love and an attraction to an expensive-looking girl with a wicked sparkle in her eye. And for Maura, ghosts linger here—an unresolved breach with her own beloved sister and a long-ago secret that may now have the power to set her free…. Set against the breathtaking beauty of the New England coast at its most dramatic, populated by a cast of indelible characters, The Geometry of Sisters is Luanne Rice at her most compelling, a dazzling world to which readers will want to return again and again.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-winner-stands-alone-by-paulo-coelho--65295284https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Winner Stands Alone Author: Paulo Coelho Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “[Coelho’s] special talent seems to be his ability to speak to everyone at once. The kind of spirituality he espouses is to all comers. . . . His readers often say that they see their own lives in his own books.” —New Yorker From the bestselling author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, comes an absorbing new novel that holds a mirror up to our culture’s obsession with fame, glamour, and celebrity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54883Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Winner Stands Alone Author: Paulo Coelho Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Winner Stands Alone Author: Paulo Coelho Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “[Coelho’s] special talent seems to be his ability to speak to everyone at once. The kind of spirituality he espouses is to all comers. . . . His readers often say that they see their own lives in his own books.” —New Yorker From the bestselling author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, comes an absorbing new novel that holds a mirror up to our culture’s obsession with fame, glamour, and celebrity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nappily-ever-after-by-trisha-r-thomas--65295290https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nappily Ever After Author: Trisha R. Thomas Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Venus Johnston has a great job and a long-term, live-in boyfriend who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She also has a weekly date at the beauty parlor to keep her long, nappy hair slick and straight. But the tedious hours and harsh chemicals in the salon have long grated on Venus, and one frustrating day, she trades in the long hair for a dramatically short, natural cut—and sends her commitment-balking boyfriend packing. It’s a bold declaration of independence and one that has effects she never could have imagined; reactions from friends and coworkers range from concern, to contempt, to outright condemnation. When her ex starts dating a voluptuous, long-haired beauty, Venus is forced to question what she really wants out of life. With wit, resilience, and determination, Venus finally learns what true happiness is, on her own terms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54805Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nappily Ever After Author: Trisha R. Thomas Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nappily Ever After Author: Trisha R. Thomas Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Venus Johnston has a great job and a long-term, live-in boyfriend who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She also has a weekly date at the beauty parlor to keep her long, nappy hair slick and straight. But the tedious hours and harsh chemicals in the salon have long grated on Venus, and one frustrating day, she trades in the long hair for a dramatically short, natural cut—and sends her commitment-balking boyfriend packing. It’s a bold declaration of independence and one that has effects she never could have imagined; reactions from friends and coworkers range from concern, to contempt, to outright condemnation. When her ex starts dating a voluptuous, long-haired beauty, Venus is forced to question what she really wants out of life. With wit, resilience, and determination, Venus finally learns what true happiness is, on her own terms.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everyone-is-beautiful-a-novel-by-katherine-center--65295356https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone is Beautiful: A Novel Author: Katherine Center Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in the Northeast. She’s left behind family, friends, and a comfortable life–all so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead last–and when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance, it’s the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count since the day she said “I do,” Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. Lanie sets change in motion–joining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. In the end, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone is Beautiful: A Novel Author: Katherine Center Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone is Beautiful: A Novel Author: Katherine Center Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in the Northeast. She’s left behind family, friends, and a comfortable life–all so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead last–and when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance, it’s the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count since the day she said “I do,” Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. Lanie sets change in motion–joining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. In the end, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heart-and-soul-by-maeve-binchy--65295234https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart and Soul Author: Maeve Binchy Narrator: Sile Bermingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “[Maeve] Binchy makes you laugh, cry, and care. Her warmth and sympathy render the daily struggles of ordinary people heroic and turn storytelling into art.”  –San Francisco Chronicle With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already–two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband–but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients. Before long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity. Heart and Soul is Maeve Binchy at her storytelling best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54599Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart and Soul Author: Maeve Binchy Narrator: Sile Bermingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart and Soul Author: Maeve Binchy Narrator: Sile Bermingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “[Maeve] Binchy makes you laugh, cry, and care. Her warmth and sympathy render the daily struggles of ordinary people heroic and turn storytelling into art.”  –San Francisco Chronicle With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already–two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband–but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients. Before long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity. Heart and Soul is Maeve Binchy at her storytelling best.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-i-did-for-love-by-susan-elizabeth-phillips--65295377https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Did for Love Series: #5 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Writing with both sharp wit and terrific emotional warmth, Phillips delivers another of her supremely satisfying contemporary romances.” —Chicago Tribune   Perennial New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is easily one of the most beloved authors of women’s fiction in America—and with her wonderfully witty What I Did for Love, she works her magic once again. Turning her satirical eye on Hollywood and the messy love triangles of its major superstars (think Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie), the incomparable Susan delivers a treasure of a romantic comedy that the Detroit Free Press calls “a laugh-out-loud tale,” and Publishers Weekly calls a “massively entertaining romp.” Read What I Did for Love and discover why Susan Elizabeth Phillips has won more Favorite Book of the Year Awards from the Romance Writers of America than any other author, including Nora Roberts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54391Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Did for Love Series: #5 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Did for Love Series: #5 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Writing with both sharp wit and terrific emotional warmth, Phillips delivers another of her supremely satisfying contemporary romances.” —Chicago Tribune   Perennial New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is easily one of the most beloved authors of women’s fiction in America—and with her wonderfully witty What I Did for Love, she works her magic once again. Turning her satirical eye on Hollywood and the messy love triangles of its major superstars (think Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie), the incomparable Susan delivers a treasure of a romantic comedy that the Detroit Free Press calls “a laugh-out-loud tale,” and Publishers Weekly calls a “massively entertaining romp.” Read What I Did for Love and discover why Susan Elizabeth Phillips has won more Favorite Book of the Year Awards from the Romance Writers of America than any other author, including Nora Roberts.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/still-alice-by-lisa-genova--65295350https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Lisa Genova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 144 Ratings of Narrator: 3.76 of Total 51 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind... Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Lisa Genova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Lisa Genova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 144 Ratings of Narrator: 3.76 of Total 51 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind... Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/milk-and-honey-by-faye-kellerman--65295299https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milk and Honey Series: #3 of Decker/Lazarus Novels Author: Faye Kellerman Narrator: Mitchell Greenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is determined to follow the scant clues to an answer. But his trail is leading him to a killing ground where four bodies lie still and lifeless. And by the time Rina returns, Peter Decker is already held fast in a sticky mass of hatred, passion, and murder -- in a world where intense sweetness is accompanied by a deadly sting.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54278Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milk and Honey Series: #3 of Decker/Lazarus Novels Author: Faye Kellerman Narrator: Mitchell Greenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milk and Honey Series: #3 of Decker/Lazarus Novels Author: Faye Kellerman Narrator: Mitchell Greenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is determined to follow the scant clues to an answer. But his trail is leading him to a killing ground where four bodies lie still and lifeless. And by the time Rina returns, Peter Decker is already held fast in a sticky mass of hatred, passion, and murder -- in a world where intense sweetness is accompanied by a deadly sting.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/glitter-baby-by-susan-elizabeth-phillips--65295292https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glitter Baby Series: #1 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 30, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won't make that easy. Jake Koranda is both New York's most brilliant playwright and Hollywood's hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there's more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur's tougher than Jake expects. Even with the odds stacked against her, she's fiercely determined to discover the woman she's destined to be. An ugly duckling who can't believe she's turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55002Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glitter Baby Series: #1 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glitter Baby Series: #1 of Wynette, Texas Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 30, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won't make that easy. Jake Koranda is both New York's most brilliant playwright and Hollywood's hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there's more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur's tougher than Jake expects. Even with the odds stacked against her, she's fiercely determined to discover the woman she's destined to be. An ugly duckling who can't believe she's turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crossroads-by-belva-plain--65295376https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossroads Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.4 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: No one explores the rich tapestry of the human heart as Belva Plain does. Her more than twenty New York Times bestsellers have captivated readers and garnered legions of devoted fans. Now Plain dazzles us once again with a new novel of rare eloquence and raw emotion…a powerful tale about the consequences of greed—and the acts of love and forgiveness that can heal the heart. Cassie Wright never saw it coming. As owner of Wright Glassworks, the foremost company in a thriving New England town, Cassie’s life was quiet, focused on her work and home…until a tragic accident turns her carefully ordered world upside down. For there is a surviving child to think about—and Cassie must take in one-year-old Gwen, who has no one else to care for her. As the years pass, Cassie will raise Gwen as her own, and a little girl who lost everything will flourish in a world of privilege and opportunity. Enter Jewel Fairbanks. Beautiful and conniving, Jewel will touch the lives of both Cassie and Gwen in powerful ways. From the moment they meet, Jewel envies Gwen, who seems to have everything Jewel wants. The two couldn’t be more different, but their lives will soon become inextricably intertwined. Both will marry—but to profoundly different men. For Gwen, it is honest, hardworking Stan who steals her heart; Jewel will set her sights on Jeff, a shrewd businessman who owns the company where Stan works. But when Stan makes a shocking discovery on the job, relationships begin to shift and change...and soon a tangled drama of greed, jealousy, and betrayal will encircle both couples, as a chain reaction of unexpected events changes four lives forever—in ways they never could have foreseen….]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossroads Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossroads Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.4 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: No one explores the rich tapestry of the human heart as Belva Plain does. Her more than twenty New York Times bestsellers have captivated readers and garnered legions of devoted fans. Now Plain dazzles us once again with a new novel of rare eloquence and raw emotion…a powerful tale about the consequences of greed—and the acts of love and forgiveness that can heal the heart. Cassie Wright never saw it coming. As owner of Wright Glassworks, the foremost company in a thriving New England town, Cassie’s life was quiet, focused on her work and home…until a tragic accident turns her carefully ordered world upside down. For there is a surviving child to think about—and Cassie must take in one-year-old Gwen, who has no one else to care for her. As the years pass, Cassie will raise Gwen as her own, and a little girl who lost everything will flourish in a world of privilege and opportunity. Enter Jewel Fairbanks. Beautiful and conniving, Jewel will touch the lives of both Cassie and Gwen in powerful ways. From the moment they meet, Jewel envies Gwen, who seems to have everything Jewel wants. The two couldn’t be more different, but their lives will soon become inextricably intertwined. Both will marry—but to profoundly different men. For Gwen, it is honest, hardworking Stan who steals her heart; Jewel will set her sights on Jeff, a shrewd businessman who owns the company where Stan works. But when Stan makes a shocking discovery on the job, relationships begin to shift and change...and soon a tangled drama of greed, jealousy, and betrayal will encircle both couples, as a chain reaction of unexpected events changes four lives forever—in ways they never could have foreseen….]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-true-love-by-laura-lippman--65295372https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One True Love Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53879Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One True Love Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One True Love Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lulu-in-marrakech-by-diane-johnson--65295360https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lulu in Marrakech Author: Diane Johnson Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Like Jane Austen [Diane Johnston] steps out of the frame to anatomize her characters with sudden insight; like Virginia Woolf she creeps back in to record their inappropriate thoughts–and their consternation at having them.” –Newsweek Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm. It’s the perfect cover for her assignment with the American CIA: tracing the flow of money from well-heeled donors to radical Islamic groups. While spending her days poolside and her nights at lively dinner parties, Lulu observes the fragile coexistence of two cultures that, if not clashing yet, have begun to show signs of fracture. Beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a more sinister world laced not only with double standards, but with double agents. The more Lulu immerses herself in the workings of Marrakech, the more questions emerge; when bombs explode, the danger is palpable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53694Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lulu in Marrakech Author: Diane Johnson Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lulu in Marrakech Author: Diane Johnson Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Like Jane Austen [Diane Johnston] steps out of the frame to anatomize her characters with sudden insight; like Virginia Woolf she creeps back in to record their inappropriate thoughts–and their consternation at having them.” –Newsweek Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm. It’s the perfect cover for her assignment with the American CIA: tracing the flow of money from well-heeled donors to radical Islamic groups. While spending her days poolside and her nights at lively dinner parties, Lulu observes the fragile coexistence of two cultures that, if not clashing yet, have begun to show signs of fracture. Beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a more sinister world laced not only with double standards, but with double agents. The more Lulu immerses herself in the workings of Marrakech, the more questions emerge; when bombs explode, the danger is palpable.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-he-needed-by-laura-lippman--65295345https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What He Needed Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53886Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What He Needed Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What He Needed Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-accidental-detective-by-laura-lippman--65295330https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accidental Detective Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53865Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accidental Detective Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 28 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accidental Detective Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-penthouse-forum-a-first-draft-by-laura-lippman--65295327https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft) Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53870Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft) Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft) Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-babysitter-s-code-by-laura-lippman--65295326https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Babysitter's Code Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53867Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Babysitter's Code Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Babysitter's Code Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hardly-knew-her-by-laura-lippman--65295316https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Lippman is a writing powerhouse.” —USA Today   New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction—including the Edgar®, Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards—Laura Lippman brilliantly demonstrates her astonishing agility as a short story writer with Hardly Knew Her. A sterling collection of sixteen suspenseful short fictions and novellas—most set in and around her beloved Baltimore and several featuring her popular series character private investigator Tess Monaghan—Hardly Knew Her was called, “Riveting…One of the best collections released in some time” by the Boston Globe. The Seattle Times says, “something in the short-story form brings out the wicked in Laura Lippman,” and this exceptional collection is indisputable proof that Lippman is without peer as she walks boldly on the dark and dangerous side.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53875Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Lippman is a writing powerhouse.” —USA Today   New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction—including the Edgar®, Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards—Laura Lippman brilliantly demonstrates her astonishing agility as a short story writer with Hardly Knew Her. A sterling collection of sixteen suspenseful short fictions and novellas—most set in and around her beloved Baltimore and several featuring her popular series character private investigator Tess Monaghan—Hardly Knew Her was called, “Riveting…One of the best collections released in some time” by the Boston Globe. The Seattle Times says, “something in the short-story form brings out the wicked in Laura Lippman,” and this exceptional collection is indisputable proof that Lippman is without peer as she walks boldly on the dark and dangerous side.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-eyed-susan-by-laura-lippman--65295312https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black-Eyed Susan Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53868Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black-Eyed Susan Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black-Eyed Susan Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/honor-bar-by-laura-lippman--65295309https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Honor Bar Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53878Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Honor Bar Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 28 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Honor Bar Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pony-girl-by-laura-lippman--65295308https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pony Girl Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53880Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pony Girl Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pony Girl Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arm-and-the-woman-by-laura-lippman--65295307https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ARM and the Woman Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53866Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ARM and the Woman Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ARM and the Woman Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/easy-as-a-b-c-by-laura-lippman--65295305https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Easy as A-B-C Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53871Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Easy as A-B-C Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Easy as A-B-C Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-crack-cocaine-diet-by-laura-lippman--65295304https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crack Cocaine Diet Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53869Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crack Cocaine Diet Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crack Cocaine Diet Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scratch-a-woman-by-laura-lippman--65295302https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scratch a Woman Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53882Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scratch a Woman Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scratch a Woman Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/femme-fatale-by-laura-lippman--65295297https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Femme Fatale Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53872Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Femme Fatale Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 36 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Femme Fatale Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-good-fuck-spoiled-by-laura-lippman--65295281https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Fuck Spoiled Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53873Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Fuck Spoiled Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Fuck Spoiled Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hardly-knew-her-by-laura-lippman--65295279https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. For people who have yet to listen to Lippman, get ready to experience the spellbinding power of ''one of today's most pleasing storytellers, hailed for her keen psychological insights and her compelling characterizations,'' (San Diego Union-Tribune), who has ''invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work'' (George Pelecanos). As for longtime devotees of her multiple award-winning novels, you'll discover that you hardly know her. This audio contains the individual short story “Hardly Knew Her”, from the collection Hardly Knew Her.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53874Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. For people who have yet to listen to Lippman, get ready to experience the spellbinding power of ''one of today's most pleasing storytellers, hailed for her keen psychological insights and her compelling characterizations,'' (San Diego Union-Tribune), who has ''invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work'' (George Pelecanos). As for longtime devotees of her multiple award-winning novels, you'll discover that you hardly know her. This audio contains the individual short story “Hardly Knew Her”, from the collection Hardly Knew Her.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ropa-vieja-by-laura-lippman--65295255https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ropa Vieja Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53881Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ropa Vieja Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ropa Vieja Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories—and reveals another level of mastery. In Femme Fatale, a chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shoeshine-man-s-regrets-by-laura-lippman--65295235https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shoeshine Man's Regrets Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A short story featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye Tess Monaghan and Whitney Talbot witness an altercation between a boorish restaurant patron and a shoeshine man. When it is discovered that the mild-mannered shoeshine man is wanted for a murder that occurred 40 years in the past, a friend of Tess's asks her to investigate and the case turns out to be full of surprises.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53883Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shoeshine Man's Regrets Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shoeshine Man's Regrets Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Francois Battiste, Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A short story featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye Tess Monaghan and Whitney Talbot witness an altercation between a boorish restaurant patron and a shoeshine man. When it is discovered that the mild-mannered shoeshine man is wanted for a murder that occurred 40 years in the past, a friend of Tess's asks her to investigate and the case turns out to be full of surprises.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-letters-a-novel-by-luanne-rice--65295262https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Letters: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Joseph Monninger, Bruce Turk, Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 23, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Is there any mystery greater than those we love the most? In this remarkable collaboration, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you’ll forget it’s fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a family before, and after, the moment that changed the course of two people’s journey forever. Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they’ve never before voiced, as they recall their marriage—its magic moments and its challenges—and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place. As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother’s heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again….]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Letters: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Joseph Monninger, Bruce Turk, Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Letters: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Joseph Monninger, Bruce Turk, Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 23, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Is there any mystery greater than those we love the most? In this remarkable collaboration, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you’ll forget it’s fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a family before, and after, the moment that changed the course of two people’s journey forever. Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they’ve never before voiced, as they recall their marriage—its magic moments and its challenges—and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place. As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother’s heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again….]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-other-queen-by-philippa-gregory--65295318https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Queen Series: #15 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Dagmara Dominczyk, Bianca Amato, Graeme Malcolm Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory—a dazzling new novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots. Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary. Though promised protection, Mary, perceived as a serious threat to the English crown, is soon imprisoned by her former friend as a “guest” in the house of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcomes the condemned queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they grow to realize that the task will bankrupt their estate and lose them what little favor they’ve managed to gain as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Queen Elizabeth. And Mary is not as hopeless as she appears, manipulating the earl and spinning her own web of treachery and deceit, as she sharpens her weapons to reclaim her Scottish throne—and to take over Queen Elizabeth’s of England.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53397Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Queen Series: #15 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Dagmara Dominczyk, Bianca Amato, Graeme Malcolm...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Queen Series: #15 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Dagmara Dominczyk, Bianca Amato, Graeme Malcolm Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory—a dazzling new novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots. Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary. Though promised protection, Mary, perceived as a serious threat to the English crown, is soon imprisoned by her former friend as a “guest” in the house of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcomes the condemned queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they grow to realize that the task will bankrupt their estate and lose them what little favor they’ve managed to gain as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Queen Elizabeth. And Mary is not as hopeless as she appears, manipulating the earl and spinning her own web of treachery and deceit, as she sharpens her weapons to reclaim her Scottish throne—and to take over Queen Elizabeth’s of England.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-next-thing-on-my-list-a-novel-by-jill-smolinski--65295361https://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: Contemporary Women 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 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease 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: Contemporary Women 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/the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-society-a-novel-by-mary-ann-shaffer-annie-barrows--65295389https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel Author: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows Narrator: Juliet Mills, Paul Boehmer, Rosalyn Landor, John Lee, Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 270 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 44 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. “Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. . . . As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever. Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways. Praise for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society “A jewel . . . Poignant and keenly observed, Guernsey is a small masterpiece about love, war, and the immeasurable sustenance to be found in good books and good friends.”—People “A book-lover’s delight, an implicit and sometimes explicit paean to all things literary.”—Chicago Sun-Times “A sparkling epistolary novel radiating wit, lightly worn erudition and written with great assurance and aplomb.”—The Sunday Times (London) “Cooked perfectly à point: subtle and elegant in flavour, yet emotionally satisfying to the finish.”—The Times (London)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52931Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel Author: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows Narrator: Juliet Mills, Paul Boehmer, Rosalyn Landor,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel Author: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows Narrator: Juliet Mills, Paul Boehmer, Rosalyn Landor, John Lee, Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 270 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 44 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. “Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. . . . As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever. Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways. Praise for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society “A jewel . . . Poignant and keenly observed, Guernsey is a small masterpiece about love, war, and the immeasurable sustenance to be found in good books and good friends.”—People “A book-lover’s delight, an implicit and sometimes explicit paean to all things literary.”—Chicago Sun-Times “A sparkling epistolary novel radiating wit, lightly worn erudition and written with great assurance and aplomb.”—The Sunday Times (London) “Cooked perfectly à point: subtle and elegant in flavour, yet emotionally satisfying to the finish.”—The Times (London)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-the-river-ends-by-charles-martin--65295378https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the River Ends Author: Charles Martin Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A powerfully emotional and beautifully written story of heartbreaking loss and undying love He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina’s most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they’d found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish before she loses the fight for good, Doss is there, too, supporting her and making everything possible. Together they steal away in the middle of the night to embark upon a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary’s River—a voyage Doss promised Abbie in the early days of their courtship. Where the River Ends chronicles their love-filled, tragedy-tinged journey and a bond that transcends all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52982Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the River Ends Author: Charles Martin Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 15, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the River Ends Author: Charles Martin Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A powerfully emotional and beautifully written story of heartbreaking loss and undying love He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina’s most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they’d found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish before she loses the fight for good, Doss is there, too, supporting her and making everything possible. Together they steal away in the middle of the night to embark upon a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary’s River—a voyage Doss promised Abbie in the early days of their courtship. Where the River Ends chronicles their love-filled, tragedy-tinged journey and a bond that transcends all.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-kiss-a-novel-by-luanne-rice--65295263https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kiss: A Novel Series: #6 of Hubbard's Point Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling with a heartbreaking mystery, and of a woman rebuilding her world and reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago. A face on a poster, a name in the news, an inexplicable tragedy. A promising young man goes out one warm summer evening and is found dead—murdered—less than twenty-four hours later. No motive. No clues. No answers. Most people reflect briefly on the disturbing headlines, perhaps say a silent prayer of safely removed sympathy, and go on with their lives. But what if the young man was your son? Or your true love? Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth—Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson. Now Gavin’s boat, the Squire Toby, sits anchored in the harbor within sight of the window of the woman he once loved, still loves, and will always love. Sheridan, too, had once fervently believed in the miraculous power of love and healing, forgiveness, connection, and reconnection. But that faith died along with her son…. Unfolding among the Hubbard’s Point people and places that fans have come to treasure, and replete with feeling and mystery, Last Kiss weighs the power of the past to heal as well as wound, in a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption that no reader will ever forget.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kiss: A Novel Series: #6 of Hubbard's Point Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kiss: A Novel Series: #6 of Hubbard's Point Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling with a heartbreaking mystery, and of a woman rebuilding her world and reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago. A face on a poster, a name in the news, an inexplicable tragedy. A promising young man goes out one warm summer evening and is found dead—murdered—less than twenty-four hours later. No motive. No clues. No answers. Most people reflect briefly on the disturbing headlines, perhaps say a silent prayer of safely removed sympathy, and go on with their lives. But what if the young man was your son? Or your true love? Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth—Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson. Now Gavin’s boat, the Squire Toby, sits anchored in the harbor within sight of the window of the woman he once loved, still loves, and will always love. Sheridan, too, had once fervently believed in the miraculous power of love and healing, forgiveness, connection, and reconnection. But that faith died along with her son…. Unfolding among the Hubbard’s Point people and places that fans have come to treasure, and replete with feeling and mystery, Last Kiss weighs the power of the past to heal as well as wound, in a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption that no reader will ever forget.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-summer-affair-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65295331https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Summer Affair: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The perfect wife and mother finds the perfect temptation in this "perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun, and scandal" (Kirkus Reviews). Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it all—and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist. So when she agrees to chair the committee for Nantucket's social event of the year, she knows she can handle it. Claire can handle anything. But when planning the gala propels her into the orbit of billionaire Lock Dixon, unexpected sparks begin to fly. Lock insists on working closely with Claire—often over a bottle of wine—and before long she can't ignore the subtle touches and lingering looks. To her surprise, she can't ignore how they make her feel, either. Claire finds the gala, her life, and herself spinning out of control. A Summer Affair captures the love, loss, and limbo of an illicit romance and unchecked passion as it takes us on a brave and breathless journey into the heart of one modern woman. "Think you know where this is going? Think again. Hilderbrand is way too smart to give away the whole story in her title." —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Summer Affair: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Summer Affair: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The perfect wife and mother finds the perfect temptation in this "perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun, and scandal" (Kirkus Reviews). Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it all—and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist. So when she agrees to chair the committee for Nantucket's social event of the year, she knows she can handle it. Claire can handle anything. But when planning the gala propels her into the orbit of billionaire Lock Dixon, unexpected sparks begin to fly. Lock insists on working closely with Claire—often over a bottle of wine—and before long she can't ignore the subtle touches and lingering looks. To her surprise, she can't ignore how they make her feel, either. Claire finds the gala, her life, and herself spinning out of control. A Summer Affair captures the love, loss, and limbo of an illicit romance and unchecked passion as it takes us on a brave and breathless journey into the heart of one modern woman. "Think you know where this is going? Think again. Hilderbrand is way too smart to give away the whole story in her title." —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/outtakes-from-a-marriage-a-novel-by-ann-leary--65295325https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel Author: Ann Leary Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'A sparkling debut novel...a bittersweet tale about love, marriage, and the perils of fame.' —People Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’s finally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love. Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joe’s phone—a message left by a woman who is clearly more than a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively checking Joe’s messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront him. Julia’s search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a “nothing,” as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. But after Joe won her heart, she settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations. Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her son’s preschool each day. A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia, the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet. 'How does a free spirit turned wife and mother cope with her actor husband's infidelity?...With tears, irreverent humor and, ultimately, a reaffirmed sense of self...A witty take on marital survival in Manhattan—with heart.' —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel Author: Ann Leary Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel Author: Ann Leary Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'A sparkling debut novel...a bittersweet tale about love, marriage, and the perils of fame.' —People Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’s finally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love. Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joe’s phone—a message left by a woman who is clearly more than a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively checking Joe’s messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront him. Julia’s search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a “nothing,” as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. But after Joe won her heart, she settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations. Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her son’s preschool each day. A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia, the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet. 'How does a free spirit turned wife and mother cope with her actor husband's infidelity?...With tears, irreverent humor and, ultimately, a reaffirmed sense of self...A witty take on marital survival in Manhattan—with heart.' —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sugar-queen-by-sarah-addison-allen--65295337https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Queen Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 20, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever. Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother’s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night…. Until she finds it harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee Baker, a tough-talking, tenderhearted woman who is one part nemesis—and two parts fairy godmother… Fleeing a life of bad luck and big mistakes, Della Lee has decided Josey’s clandestine closet is the safest place to crash. In return she’s going to change Josey’s life—because, clearly, it is not the closet of a happy woman. With Della Lee’s tough love, Josey is soon forgoing pecan rolls and caramels, tapping into her startlingly keen feminine instincts, and finding her narrow existence quickly expanding. Before long, Josey bonds with Chloe Finley, a young woman who makes the best sandwiches in town, is hounded by books that inexplicably appear whenever she needs them, and—most amazing of all—has a close connection to Josey’s longtime crush. As little by little Josey dares to step outside herself, she discovers a world where the color red has astonishing power, passion can make eggs fry in their cartons, and romance can blossom at any time—even for her. It seems that Della Lee’s work is done, and it’s time for her to move on. But the truth about where she’s going, why she showed up in the first place—and what Chloe has to do with it all—is about to add one more unexpected chapter to Josey’s fast-changing life. Brimming with warmth, wit, and a sprinkling of magic, here is a spellbinding tale of friendship, love—and the enchanting possibilities of every new day.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284991Tue, 20 May 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Queen Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 20, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Queen Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 20, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever. Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother’s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night…. Until she finds it harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee Baker, a tough-talking, tenderhearted woman who is one part nemesis—and two parts fairy godmother… Fleeing a life of bad luck and big mistakes, Della Lee has decided Josey’s clandestine closet is the safest place to crash. In return she’s going to change Josey’s life—because, clearly, it is not the closet of a happy woman. With Della Lee’s tough love, Josey is soon forgoing pecan rolls and caramels, tapping into her startlingly keen feminine instincts, and finding her narrow existence quickly expanding. Before long, Josey bonds with Chloe Finley, a young woman who makes the best sandwiches in town, is hounded by books that inexplicably appear whenever she needs them, and—most amazing of all—has a close connection to Josey’s longtime crush. As little by little Josey dares to step outside herself, she discovers a world where the color red has astonishing power, passion can make eggs fry in their cartons, and romance can blossom at any time—even for her. It seems that Della Lee’s work is done, and it’s time for her to move on. But the truth about where she’s going, why she showed up in the first place—and what Chloe has to do with it all—is about to add one more unexpected chapter to Josey’s fast-changing life. Brimming with warmth, wit, and a sprinkling of magic, here is a spellbinding tale of friendship, love—and the enchanting possibilities of every new day.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-day-i-ate-whatever-i-wanted-stories-by-elizabeth-berg--65295261https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want–and then some? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life–or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find friendship in the most surprising of places? Imagine that the people in these wonderful stories–who do all of these things and more–are asking you: What would you do, if nobody was looking?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52520Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want–and then some? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life–or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find friendship in the most surprising of places? Imagine that the people in these wonderful stories–who do all of these things and more–are asking you: What would you do, if nobody was looking?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-third-angel-a-novel-by-alice-hoffman--65295384https://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: Contemporary Women 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 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease 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: Contemporary Women 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/belong-to-me-a-novel-by-marisa-de-los-santos--65295367https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belong to Me: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Marisa de los Santos’s Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that’s also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt.” —Harlan Coben   “Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving.” —Boston Globe The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to “belong” to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection—beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women’s fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart—and the ideal companion to de los Santos’s previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belong to Me: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belong to Me: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Marisa de los Santos’s Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that’s also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt.” —Harlan Coben   “Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving.” —Boston Globe The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to “belong” to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection—beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women’s fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart—and the ideal companion to de los Santos’s previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-who-stopped-swimming-by-joshilyn-jackson--65295394https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 4, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable--an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming. Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50863Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 4, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable--an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming. Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/remember-me-by-sophie-kinsella--65295332https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Me? Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 26, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel. When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident, Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband–who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she . . . well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all. Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52460Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Me? Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 26, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Me? Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 26, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel. When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident, Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband–who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she . . . well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all. Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/light-of-the-moon-by-luanne-rice--65295363https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light of the Moon Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports listeners across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Spurred by her mother’s dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain.    American-born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter, who now fears the horses she once loved. Within their bittersweet private orbit, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn’t known she had lost. And here she will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the legendary slave-saint Susannah seeks and in the miracles she is said to still perform. Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light of the Moon Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light of the Moon Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports listeners across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Spurred by her mother’s dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain.    American-born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter, who now fears the horses she once loved. Within their bittersweet private orbit, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn’t known she had lost. And here she will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the legendary slave-saint Susannah seeks and in the miracles she is said to still perform. Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-opposite-of-love-by-julie-buxbaum--65295277https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite of Love Author: Julie Buxbaum Narrator: Emily Janice Card Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath her sense of fun, her bravado, and her independent exterior, Emily knows that her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her.   As the holiday season looms and Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel: she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her Grandpa Jack, a charming, feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about in the world, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and underneath it all, fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’t last forever. How this brave, original young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite of Love Author: Julie Buxbaum Narrator: Emily Janice Card Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite of Love Author: Julie Buxbaum Narrator: Emily Janice Card Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath her sense of fun, her bravado, and her independent exterior, Emily knows that her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her.   As the holiday season looms and Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel: she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her Grandpa Jack, a charming, feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about in the world, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and underneath it all, fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’t last forever. How this brave, original young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-between-us-by-barbara-delinsky--65295256https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Between Us Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Nothing will break this mother-daughter bond. Not even the truth. Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter. The Secret Between Us is an unforgettable story about making bad choices for the right reasons and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has delivered a riveting study of family and a superbly crafted novel, perfectly targeted to fans of provocative fiction. “Delinsky delves deeper into the human heart and spirit with each new novel.”–Cincinnati Enquirer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Between Us Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Between Us Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Nothing will break this mother-daughter bond. Not even the truth. Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter. The Secret Between Us is an unforgettable story about making bad choices for the right reasons and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has delivered a riveting study of family and a superbly crafted novel, perfectly targeted to fans of provocative fiction. “Delinsky delves deeper into the human heart and spirit with each new novel.”–Cincinnati Enquirer]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-senator-s-wife-by-sue-miller--65295381https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senator's Wife Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia’s husband’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved–the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of style–fused with an utterly engrossing story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senator's Wife Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senator's Wife Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia’s husband’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved–the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of style–fused with an utterly engrossing story.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-whole-new-light-a-novel-by-sandra-brown--65295333https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Whole New Light: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 27, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 10 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the heat of an Acapulco night... Cyn McCall knew she could always count on her late husband's friend and business partner, Worth Lansing. He could make her laugh and forget her problems. She could tease him about his many romantic entanglements. The last thing Cyn expected was to find herself longing for a man who could never settle down.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52223Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Whole New Light: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Whole New Light: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 27, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 10 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the heat of an Acapulco night... Cyn McCall knew she could always count on her late husband's friend and business partner, Worth Lansing. He could make her laugh and forget her problems. She could tease him about his many romantic entanglements. The last thing Cyn expected was to find herself longing for a man who could never settle down.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-age-of-innocence-by-edith-wharton--65295379https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Innocence Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 20, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for literature ever awarded to a woman, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. But before their engagement is announced, he meets the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, May’s cousin, who has returned to New York after a long absence. Ellen mirrors his own sense of disillusionment with society and the “good marriage” he is about to embark upon and provokes a moral struggle within him as he continues to go through the motions. A social commentary of surprising compassion and insight, The Age of Innocence toes the line between the comedy of manners and the tragedy of thwarted love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53197Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Innocence Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Innocence Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 20, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for literature ever awarded to a woman, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. But before their engagement is announced, he meets the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, May’s cousin, who has returned to New York after a long absence. Ellen mirrors his own sense of disillusionment with society and the “good marriage” he is about to embark upon and provokes a moral struggle within him as he continues to go through the motions. A social commentary of surprising compassion and insight, The Age of Innocence toes the line between the comedy of manners and the tragedy of thwarted love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/taken-by-storm-by-tami-hoag--65295385https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taken by Storm Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 30, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes this bittersweet romance classic about a woman who’s rebuilt her life—and her heart—after the disappointments of the past, only to find her carefully laid plans shattered by a knock on the door.… As a trauma nurse, Julia McCarver is accustomed to dealing with life-and-death emergencies. But she is the one in shock when she answers the door and finds the past standing there in the person of S. T. “Storm” Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once but three times in the wake of his abrupt and devastating departures, and she has no intention of doing it a fourth time. Because that’s what S.T. promises he will do—break her engagement to another man, her heart, and her future all over again. Except, of course, that’s not what he calls his plan to win her back. He gives himself two weeks to convince Julia that he’s changed, that she is still in love with him, and that—despite conventional wisdom—the fourth time lightning struck can be a charm.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52311Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taken by Storm Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 30, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taken by Storm Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 30, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes this bittersweet romance classic about a woman who’s rebuilt her life—and her heart—after the disappointments of the past, only to find her carefully laid plans shattered by a knock on the door.… As a trauma nurse, Julia McCarver is accustomed to dealing with life-and-death emergencies. But she is the one in shock when she answers the door and finds the past standing there in the person of S. T. “Storm” Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once but three times in the wake of his abrupt and devastating departures, and she has no intention of doing it a fourth time. Because that’s what S.T. promises he will do—break her engagement to another man, her heart, and her future all over again. Except, of course, that’s not what he calls his plan to win her back. He gives himself two weeks to convince Julia that he’s changed, that she is still in love with him, and that—despite conventional wisdom—the fourth time lightning struck can be a charm.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chloe-zhivago-s-recipe-for-marriage-and-mischief-a-novel-by-olivia-lichtenstein--65295310https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief: A Novel Author: Olivia Lichtenstein Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 5, 2007 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Here’s the perfect recipe for mischief: Take one sexually neglected woman and one dashing, romantic foreigner. Add a craving for adventure plus a few drops of heady desire . . . then stand back, because in Olivia Lichtenstein’s sparkling and sharply observed comedy of lust, longing, and marital unrest, this mix proves to be deliciously volatile. Chloe Zhivago has it all: a successful career, two teenage children who still speak to her, a faithful best buddy, a Famous Friend from hell, and Greg, Chloe’s husband of seventeen years, a family-practice doctor who occupies his time writing letters to the parking commission. And then it suddenly hits her. Is this all there is? When did wild weekends of passion become nights of chaste kisses and snoring to wake the dead? What happens when the kids leave the nest but the husband stays behind? Enter Ivan. Married but questing and quixotic, he proffers notes of seduction written in Russian and lures Chloe to the precipice of one glorious, fortuitous fling. Does she dare? This wonderfully funny, sexy novel asks a vital question–how do you keep love alive in a marriage?–and answers it with poignancy and pure irresistible comedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief: A Novel Author: Olivia Lichtenstein Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief: A Novel Author: Olivia Lichtenstein Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 5, 2007 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Here’s the perfect recipe for mischief: Take one sexually neglected woman and one dashing, romantic foreigner. Add a craving for adventure plus a few drops of heady desire . . . then stand back, because in Olivia Lichtenstein’s sparkling and sharply observed comedy of lust, longing, and marital unrest, this mix proves to be deliciously volatile. Chloe Zhivago has it all: a successful career, two teenage children who still speak to her, a faithful best buddy, a Famous Friend from hell, and Greg, Chloe’s husband of seventeen years, a family-practice doctor who occupies his time writing letters to the parking commission. And then it suddenly hits her. Is this all there is? When did wild weekends of passion become nights of chaste kisses and snoring to wake the dead? What happens when the kids leave the nest but the husband stays behind? Enter Ivan. Married but questing and quixotic, he proffers notes of seduction written in Russian and lures Chloe to the precipice of one glorious, fortuitous fling. Does she dare? This wonderfully funny, sexy novel asks a vital question–how do you keep love alive in a marriage?–and answers it with poignancy and pure irresistible comedy.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/evening-by-susan-minot--65295383https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evening Author: Susan Minot Narrator: Kathryn Walker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ('Monkeys takes your breath away,' said Anne Tyler; 'heartbreaking, exhilarating,' raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream. Evening unfolds in the rushlight of that memory, as Ann relives those three vivid days on the New England coast, with motorboats buzzing and bands playing in the night, and the devastating tragedy that followed a spectacular wedding. Here, in the surge of hope and possibility that coursed through her at twenty-five--in a singular time of complete surrender--Ann discovers the highest point of her life. Superbly written and miraculously uplifting, Evening is a stirring exploration of time and memory, of love's transcendence and of its failure to transcend--a rich testament to the depths of grief and passion, and a stunning achievement.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52750Tue, 01 May 2007 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evening Author: Susan Minot Narrator: Kathryn Walker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evening Author: Susan Minot Narrator: Kathryn Walker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ('Monkeys takes your breath away,' said Anne Tyler; 'heartbreaking, exhilarating,' raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream. Evening unfolds in the rushlight of that memory, as Ann relives those three vivid days on the New England coast, with motorboats buzzing and bands playing in the night, and the devastating tragedy that followed a spectacular wedding. Here, in the surge of hope and possibility that coursed through her at twenty-five--in a singular time of complete surrender--Ann discovers the highest point of her life. Superbly written and miraculously uplifting, Evening is a stirring exploration of time and memory, of love's transcendence and of its failure to transcend--a rich testament to the depths of grief and passion, and a stunning achievement.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/temperatures-rising-by-sandra-brown--65295251https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Temperatures Rising Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Darkly handsome with an arrogant edge, architectural engineer Scout Ritland is the kind of American man who spells trouble. Chantal duPont should know, for she has experienced the best and worst of the country and its people—including one who broke her heart. Yet here she is, home on sultry Parrish Island, putting herself in the way of another bold Yankee. This time, however, it’s for a good cause: Scout is the one man who can help her village, and she’s not about to let him get the better of her—no matter how much she may want to. Fresh from completing his work on the island’s new luxury resort, Scout’s ready for a little recreation—though being kidnapped and shot isn’t on his agenda. But when he catches sight of an exotic beauty with electric blue eyes, events quickly spin out of control. Scout should be outraged to find himself held captive, but an abductor as alluring as Chantal makes it hard to stay angry. Soon Scout is swept up by Chantal’s need to help her people—and the role he is to play in her ambitious plan. With each passing day, the work and the woman present him with challenges he could never find at home. But as the project progresses, intrigue and adventure burn hotter than the island’s volcano—and two people who have met their match in each other face a future that could tear them apart....]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52491Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Temperatures Rising Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Temperatures Rising Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Darkly handsome with an arrogant edge, architectural engineer Scout Ritland is the kind of American man who spells trouble. Chantal duPont should know, for she has experienced the best and worst of the country and its people—including one who broke her heart. Yet here she is, home on sultry Parrish Island, putting herself in the way of another bold Yankee. This time, however, it’s for a good cause: Scout is the one man who can help her village, and she’s not about to let him get the better of her—no matter how much she may want to. Fresh from completing his work on the island’s new luxury resort, Scout’s ready for a little recreation—though being kidnapped and shot isn’t on his agenda. But when he catches sight of an exotic beauty with electric blue eyes, events quickly spin out of control. Scout should be outraged to find himself held captive, but an abductor as alluring as Chantal makes it hard to stay angry. Soon Scout is swept up by Chantal’s need to help her people—and the role he is to play in her ambitious plan. With each passing day, the work and the woman present him with challenges he could never find at home. But as the project progresses, intrigue and adventure burn hotter than the island’s volcano—and two people who have met their match in each other face a future that could tear them apart....]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/h-r-h-by-danielle-steel--65295359https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.R.H. Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Jay O. Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 31, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win the day and forever alter her world, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years. Christianna is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriously–and her father has ironclad plans for Christianna’s life, a burden that is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her father’s palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdom–the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change, and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a calling among the brave doctors and volunteers. Finally free from the scrutiny of her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new friends and coworkers–even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing. But as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life beckon her home, Christianna’s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn. By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christianna’s life is changed forever–in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a prince’s palace to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds. Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, H.R.H. is a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom, and duty versus love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.R.H. Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Jay O. Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 31, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.R.H. Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Jay O. Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 31, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win the day and forever alter her world, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years. Christianna is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriously–and her father has ironclad plans for Christianna’s life, a burden that is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her father’s palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdom–the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change, and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a calling among the brave doctors and volunteers. Finally free from the scrutiny of her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new friends and coworkers–even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing. But as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life beckon her home, Christianna’s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn. By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christianna’s life is changed forever–in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a prince’s palace to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds. Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, H.R.H. is a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom, and duty versus love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-out-by-danielle-steel--65295355https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Out Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend. For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees– while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life–and may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed. From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love. In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family–finding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Out Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Out Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend. For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees– while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life–and may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed. From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love. In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family–finding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-by-danielle-steel--65295373https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 74 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door…. Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is. A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history–to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France…and to a history she never knew she had. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah’s passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home’s every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man’s last gift…about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation…and about a future she’s only just beginning to imagine. In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman’s courageous choice to pour herself into a dream–and receive its gifts in return.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 74 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door…. Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is. A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history–to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France…and to a history she never knew she had. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah’s passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home’s every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man’s last gift…about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation…and about a future she’s only just beginning to imagine. In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman’s courageous choice to pour herself into a dream–and receive its gifts in return.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/long-time-coming-a-novel-by-sandra-brown--65295388https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Time Coming: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In more than fifty New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown has captivated her millions of readers with stories of charismatic love and tantalizing twists of fate. In this classic tale, a woman is reunited with the man she has loved for years—and must reveal the secret that will jeopardize her chance for happiness at last. He arrived out of the blue—a flesh-and-blood phantom from the past in a sports car as sleek and sexy as Law Kincaid himself. The world-famous astronaut was as devastatingly attractive as the first time Marnie Hibbs had laid eyes on him, seventeen years before. But she well knew the perils of falling for a ladies’ man like Law. And this time she had someone besides herself to protect. Law is determined to discover who is sending him anonymous letters claiming he’d fathered a son he knows nothing about. Showing up at the Hibbs’s return address from the letters seemed like a step in the right direction. Marnie swears she isn’t the guilty party, but when Law meets her son, it’s like a one-two punch to his solar plexus. The boy is nearly the spitting image of Law. Law can’t remember sleeping with Marnie—then again, he can’t remember much about his crazy past. But there’s more to it than that: Marnie claims the boy isn’t biologically hers. As the tension between them becomes unbearable and the attraction undeniable, Marnie is forced to reveal a long-held secret...one that might cause her to lose both the boy she loves more than anyone—and the man she desires more than anything.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52401Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Time Coming: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: December...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Time Coming: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In more than fifty New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown has captivated her millions of readers with stories of charismatic love and tantalizing twists of fate. In this classic tale, a woman is reunited with the man she has loved for years—and must reveal the secret that will jeopardize her chance for happiness at last. He arrived out of the blue—a flesh-and-blood phantom from the past in a sports car as sleek and sexy as Law Kincaid himself. The world-famous astronaut was as devastatingly attractive as the first time Marnie Hibbs had laid eyes on him, seventeen years before. But she well knew the perils of falling for a ladies’ man like Law. And this time she had someone besides herself to protect. Law is determined to discover who is sending him anonymous letters claiming he’d fathered a son he knows nothing about. Showing up at the Hibbs’s return address from the letters seemed like a step in the right direction. Marnie swears she isn’t the guilty party, but when Law meets her son, it’s like a one-two punch to his solar plexus. The boy is nearly the spitting image of Law. Law can’t remember sleeping with Marnie—then again, he can’t remember much about his crazy past. But there’s more to it than that: Marnie claims the boy isn’t biologically hers. As the tension between them becomes unbearable and the attraction undeniable, Marnie is forced to reveal a long-held secret...one that might cause her to lose both the boy she loves more than anyone—and the man she desires more than anything.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sex-and-the-city-by-candace-bushnell--65295390https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex and the City Author: Candace Bushnell Narrator: Cynthia Nixon Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs–and forever changes the conversation about women, friendships, love, and sex.  Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, Sex and the City blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through Manhattan.  "Fascinating... hilarious... welcome to the cruel planet that is Manhattan." – Los Angeles Times   "Compulsively readable." – Marie Claire  "Jane Austen with a martini."– Sunday Telegraph]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51872Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex and the City Author: Candace Bushnell Narrator: Cynthia Nixon Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex and the City Author: Candace Bushnell Narrator: Cynthia Nixon Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs–and forever changes the conversation about women, friendships, love, and sex.  Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, Sex and the City blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through Manhattan.  "Fascinating... hilarious... welcome to the cruel planet that is Manhattan." – Los Angeles Times   "Compulsively readable." – Marie Claire  "Jane Austen with a martini."– Sunday Telegraph]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-undomestic-goddess-by-sophie-kinsella--65295392https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Undomestic Goddess Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 19, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.96 of Total 146 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they’ve hired a lawyer–and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can’t sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #@%# ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope–and finds love–is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake. But will her old life ever catch up with her? And if it does…will she want it back? Praise for The Undomestic Goddess 'Light and breezy . . . Samantha is eminently likable, and overworked readers will empathize with her glee at her first full weekend off in years.'—Christian Science Monitor 'Sophie Kinsella is at the top of the chick lit game. Her plots are fast-paced and entertaining, with the perfect amount of realistic neurosis to accompany her quirky heroines.'—New York Post 'Perfectly amusing . . . The Undomestic Goddess is a genuinely funny, sweet book. Kinsella is a comic whiz who consistently delivers what her readers crave.'—Miami Herald  'A lovely romantic comedy.'—Washington Post]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52725Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Undomestic Goddess Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 19,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Undomestic Goddess Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 19, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.96 of Total 146 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they’ve hired a lawyer–and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can’t sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #@%# ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope–and finds love–is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake. But will her old life ever catch up with her? And if it does…will she want it back? Praise for The Undomestic Goddess 'Light and breezy . . . Samantha is eminently likable, and overworked readers will empathize with her glee at her first full weekend off in years.'—Christian Science Monitor 'Sophie Kinsella is at the top of the chick lit game. Her plots are fast-paced and entertaining, with the perfect amount of realistic neurosis to accompany her quirky heroines.'—New York Post 'Perfectly amusing . . . The Undomestic Goddess is a genuinely funny, sweet book. Kinsella is a comic whiz who consistently delivers what her readers crave.'—Miami Herald  'A lovely romantic comedy.'—Washington Post]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miracle-by-danielle-steel--65295341https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Glenn Fitzgerald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 28, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.59 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: It is New Year’s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm’s wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife’s death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn’s and Maggie’ s homes, the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all. As three lives come together and a unique friendship is forged, something extraordinary begins to happen…Maggie, still grieving a loss, slowly comes alive again–and Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But at the center of the friendship is Quinn. A man who has scaled heights of success in business, Quinn is now adrift, waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire, Quinn is consumed by guilt, focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion, and his friendship with Maggie begins to change, Quinn faces a choice–between a safe haven and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will affect other lives as powerfully as his own. And it will take him on an extraordinary journey–and into a second, terrifying storm, one that will bring him danger…or deliverance. Danielle Steel brings us miracles big and small–the kind we are blessed with and those we give to others. With a subtle hand and a flawless touch, she has written a novel that soars with hope, and makes us laugh, cry, and care.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Glenn Fitzgerald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 28, 2005 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Glenn Fitzgerald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 28, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.59 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: It is New Year’s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm’s wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife’s death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn’s and Maggie’ s homes, the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all. As three lives come together and a unique friendship is forged, something extraordinary begins to happen…Maggie, still grieving a loss, slowly comes alive again–and Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But at the center of the friendship is Quinn. A man who has scaled heights of success in business, Quinn is now adrift, waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire, Quinn is consumed by guilt, focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion, and his friendship with Maggie begins to change, Quinn faces a choice–between a safe haven and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will affect other lives as powerfully as his own. And it will take him on an extraordinary journey–and into a second, terrifying storm, one that will bring him danger…or deliverance. Danielle Steel brings us miracles big and small–the kind we are blessed with and those we give to others. With a subtle hand and a flawless touch, she has written a novel that soars with hope, and makes us laugh, cry, and care.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/demon-rumm-a-novel-by-sandra-brown--65295380https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Demon Rumm: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 28, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.48 of Total 52 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: It was the publicity stunt from hell as far as Kirsten Rumm was concerned. She may have been writing the book about her late husband, aeronautical daredevil Demon Rumm, but she didn’t see the need to play host to the arrogant bad-boy actor starring in the film version’s title role. Still, for the good of the project, Kirsten agreed to share her beachfront home with the impossibly sexy screen idol. Any other woman would do anything to be in her sandals, but Kirsten wasn’t falling for Rylan North, even if he did play his role of male lead to perfection. His down-home charm, his gentleness and virile charisma, might be seducing her in every sense of the word, but he was an actor, after all. Seducing an audience was his job. Rylan could have any woman he wanted. So why was he so desperately pretending to want her? From the moment he saw her, Rylan North knew that Kirsten Rumm was the woman he’d been waiting all his life to cast as the star in his real-life love story. What did it matter if he was every woman’s fantasy if he couldn’t get Kirsten to so much as glance his way? He’d caught the look of past hurt behind her sky-blue eyes–a dark secret that shadowed the sparkle. Rylan was determined to find out what tragedy held this passionate woman back from a second chance at love even if it cost him his reputation, his career, and his life. But first he’d have to get Kirsten to act on her instincts . . . and to trust the flesh-and-blood man behind the fantasy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52501Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Demon Rumm: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 28, 2004...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Demon Rumm: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 28, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.48 of Total 52 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: It was the publicity stunt from hell as far as Kirsten Rumm was concerned. She may have been writing the book about her late husband, aeronautical daredevil Demon Rumm, but she didn’t see the need to play host to the arrogant bad-boy actor starring in the film version’s title role. Still, for the good of the project, Kirsten agreed to share her beachfront home with the impossibly sexy screen idol. Any other woman would do anything to be in her sandals, but Kirsten wasn’t falling for Rylan North, even if he did play his role of male lead to perfection. His down-home charm, his gentleness and virile charisma, might be seducing her in every sense of the word, but he was an actor, after all. Seducing an audience was his job. Rylan could have any woman he wanted. So why was he so desperately pretending to want her? From the moment he saw her, Rylan North knew that Kirsten Rumm was the woman he’d been waiting all his life to cast as the star in his real-life love story. What did it matter if he was every woman’s fantasy if he couldn’t get Kirsten to so much as glance his way? He’d caught the look of past hurt behind her sky-blue eyes–a dark secret that shadowed the sparkle. Rylan was determined to find out what tragedy held this passionate woman back from a second chance at love even if it cost him his reputation, his career, and his life. But first he’d have to get Kirsten to act on her instincts . . . and to trust the flesh-and-blood man behind the fantasy.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/echoes-by-danielle-steel--65295344https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 26, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening. By the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Knowing that her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. And as the two built a new life together, Beata’s past would stay with her in ways she could never have predicted. For as the years pass, and Europe is once again engulfed in war, Beata must watch in horror as Hitler’s terror threatens her life and family—even her eighteen-year-old daughter Amadea, who has taken on the vows of a Carmelite nun. For Amadea, the convent is no refuge. As family and friends are swept away without a trace, Amadea is forced into hiding. Thus begins a harrowing journey of survival, as she escapes into the heart of the French Resistance. Here Amadea will find a renewed sense of purpose, taking on the most daring missions behind enemy lines. And it is here, in the darkest moments of fear, that Amadea will feel her mother’s loving strength—and that of her mother’s mother before her–as the voices of lost loved ones echo powerfully in her heart. And here, amid the fires of war, Amadea will meet an extraordinary man, British secret agent Rupert Montgomery. In Colonel Montgomery, Amadea finds a man who will help her discover her place in an unbreakable chain between generations…and between her lost family and her dreams for the future—a future she is only just beginning to imagine: a future of hope rooted in the rich soil of the past. With the grace of a master storyteller, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, creating a bold, sweeping tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking images—from the elegant rituals of Europe’s prewar aristocracy to the brutal desperation of Germany’s death camps. Drawing us into a vanished world, Echoes weaves an intricate tapestry of a mother’s love, a daughter’s courage…and the unwavering faith that sustained them—even in history’s darkest hour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 26, 2004 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 26, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening. By the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Knowing that her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. And as the two built a new life together, Beata’s past would stay with her in ways she could never have predicted. For as the years pass, and Europe is once again engulfed in war, Beata must watch in horror as Hitler’s terror threatens her life and family—even her eighteen-year-old daughter Amadea, who has taken on the vows of a Carmelite nun. For Amadea, the convent is no refuge. As family and friends are swept away without a trace, Amadea is forced into hiding. Thus begins a harrowing journey of survival, as she escapes into the heart of the French Resistance. Here Amadea will find a renewed sense of purpose, taking on the most daring missions behind enemy lines. And it is here, in the darkest moments of fear, that Amadea will feel her mother’s loving strength—and that of her mother’s mother before her–as the voices of lost loved ones echo powerfully in her heart. And here, amid the fires of war, Amadea will meet an extraordinary man, British secret agent Rupert Montgomery. In Colonel Montgomery, Amadea finds a man who will help her discover her place in an unbreakable chain between generations…and between her lost family and her dreams for the future—a future she is only just beginning to imagine: a future of hope rooted in the rich soil of the past. With the grace of a master storyteller, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, creating a bold, sweeping tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking images—from the elegant rituals of Europe’s prewar aristocracy to the brutal desperation of Germany’s death camps. Drawing us into a vanished world, Echoes weaves an intricate tapestry of a mother’s love, a daughter’s courage…and the unwavering faith that sustained them—even in history’s darkest hour.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/second-chance-by-danielle-steel--65295354https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Chance Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Matt Walton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 29, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.24 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steel’s captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, it’s never too late for a second chance.... SECOND CHANCE As editor-in-chief of New York’s leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. With closets stuffed with Fendi, a snoring bulldog named Sir Winston sharing her bed, and a houseman who favors gold lamé and borrows her shoes, Fiona was utterly content with her life. Until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office. After a dinner date left them both wanting more, Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows. And in the most romantic city in the world, somewhere between the magic of the runway and the stroll along the Seine, Fiona let this man into her heart. A widower with two daughters, John Anderson was nearly Fiona’s opposite in every way. As conservative as she was freewheeling, John was both amused and appalled by Fiona’s world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, and high-heeled housemen. But within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston—and Fiona was making room in her closets. It didn’t take long for the dominoes to start falling. First, John introduced Fiona to his daughters, their blood-thirsty Pekingese, and a snarling housekeeper straight out of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. It was hate at first sight. Then, after a dinner party with John’s biggest client goes disastrously awry, Fiona and John’s relationship began to unravel with alarming speed. What happens next will set Fiona on a journey filled with pain and revelation, awakening and change.…For when she returns to Paris alone and takes an amazing risk, an extraordinary series of events begins to unfold. And as the snow falls on the city of light, Fiona is about to get the surprise of her life: a second act she never saw coming. In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Danielle Steel brings us into the lives of two unforgettable people as they love and laugh, struggle and survive. With unerring insight, she captures the heady magic of instant attraction, the challenges of change—and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Chance Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Matt Walton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 29, 2004 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Chance Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Matt Walton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 29, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.24 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steel’s captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, it’s never too late for a second chance.... SECOND CHANCE As editor-in-chief of New York’s leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. With closets stuffed with Fendi, a snoring bulldog named Sir Winston sharing her bed, and a houseman who favors gold lamé and borrows her shoes, Fiona was utterly content with her life. Until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office. After a dinner date left them both wanting more, Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows. And in the most romantic city in the world, somewhere between the magic of the runway and the stroll along the Seine, Fiona let this man into her heart. A widower with two daughters, John Anderson was nearly Fiona’s opposite in every way. As conservative as she was freewheeling, John was both amused and appalled by Fiona’s world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, and high-heeled housemen. But within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston—and Fiona was making room in her closets. It didn’t take long for the dominoes to start falling. First, John introduced Fiona to his daughters, their blood-thirsty Pekingese, and a snarling housekeeper straight out of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. It was hate at first sight. Then, after a dinner party with John’s biggest client goes disastrously awry, Fiona and John’s relationship began to unravel with alarming speed. What happens next will set Fiona on a journey filled with pain and revelation, awakening and change.…For when she returns to Paris alone and takes an amazing risk, an extraordinary series of events begins to unfold. And as the snow falls on the city of light, Fiona is about to get the surprise of her life: a second act she never saw coming. In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Danielle Steel brings us into the lives of two unforgettable people as they love and laugh, struggle and survive. With unerring insight, she captures the heady magic of instant attraction, the challenges of change—and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shopaholic-sister-by-sophie-kinsella--65295340https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shopaholic & Sister Series: #4 of Shopaholic Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Josephine Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 4, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.41 of Total 111 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Sophie Kinsella has conquered the hearts of millions with her New York Times bestselling Shopaholic novels, which feature the irresistible one-woman shopping phenomenon Becky Bloomwood. Now Becky’s back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!). What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the Chinese urns and twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong…the five kilim rugs from Turkey…the splendid hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs) from Sri Lanka…the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband Luke expressly forbade her to buy)… Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London and Luke is furious. Two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their usually immaculate loft, and the bills for them are outrageous. Becky’s even maxed out on her second secret credit card, and she doesn’t have a new job yet! Luke insists she go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky’s feeling rather blue—when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She’s convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They’ll go shopping together, drink cappuccinos together, have manicures together, and watch their favorite videos together. Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood’s sister can’t…hate shopping?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367415Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shopaholic & Sister Series: #4 of Shopaholic Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Josephine Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shopaholic & Sister Series: #4 of Shopaholic Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Josephine Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 4, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.41 of Total 111 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Sophie Kinsella has conquered the hearts of millions with her New York Times bestselling Shopaholic novels, which feature the irresistible one-woman shopping phenomenon Becky Bloomwood. Now Becky’s back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!). What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the Chinese urns and twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong…the five kilim rugs from Turkey…the splendid hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs) from Sri Lanka…the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband Luke expressly forbade her to buy)… Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London and Luke is furious. Two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their usually immaculate loft, and the bills for them are outrageous. Becky’s even maxed out on her second secret credit card, and she doesn’t have a new job yet! Luke insists she go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky’s feeling rather blue—when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She’s convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They’ll go shopping together, drink cappuccinos together, have manicures together, and watch their favorite videos together. Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood’s sister can’t…hate shopping?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ransom-by-danielle-steel--65295396https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ransom Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ransom Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ransom Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/can-you-keep-a-secret-by-sophie-kinsella--65295391https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can You Keep a Secret? Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 16, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 235 Ratings of Narrator: 4.26 of Total 19 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes a novel with the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism as her beloved Shopaholic series. “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:   Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.   Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.   Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.   Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger. . . .   But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO.  Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse. Or could they?   Praise for Can You Keep a Secret?   “Venturing beyond Saks and Barney’s, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. . . . Kinsella’s down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter.”—Publishers Weekly “If laughing out loud in public places is your bag, be sure to pick up [Can You Keep a Secret?]. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend.”—Boston Herald   “Kinsella’s timing is so perfect, her instincts so spot-on, that it’s easy to . . . devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is.”—Miami Herald “Chick lit at its lightest and breeziest . . . filled with fabulous clothes, stalwart friends, and snotty enemies waiting to be taken down a peg.”—Orlando Sentinel “[Kinsella’s] dialogue is sharp, even her minor characters are well drawn, and her parody of the marketing world is very funny.”—Washington Post Book World “[A] comedic frenzy of ill-fated events . . . punchy . . . fast-moving.”—Rocky Mountain News]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160430Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can You Keep a Secret? Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: December...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can You Keep a Secret? Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 16, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 235 Ratings of Narrator: 4.26 of Total 19 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes a novel with the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism as her beloved Shopaholic series. “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:   Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.   Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.   Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.   Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger. . . .   But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO.  Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse. Or could they?   Praise for Can You Keep a Secret?   “Venturing beyond Saks and Barney’s, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. . . . Kinsella’s down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter.”—Publishers Weekly “If laughing out loud in public places is your bag, be sure to pick up [Can You Keep a Secret?]. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend.”—Boston Herald   “Kinsella’s timing is so perfect, her instincts so spot-on, that it’s easy to . . . devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is.”—Miami Herald “Chick lit at its lightest and breeziest . . . filled with fabulous clothes, stalwart friends, and snotty enemies waiting to be taken down a peg.”—Orlando Sentinel “[Kinsella’s] dialogue is sharp, even her minor characters are well drawn, and her parody of the marketing world is very funny.”—Washington Post Book World “[A] comedic frenzy of ill-fated events . . . punchy . . . fast-moving.”—Rocky Mountain News]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/house-of-sand-and-fog-by-andre-dubus--65295313https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House of Sand and Fog Author: Andre Dubus Narrator: Fontaine Dollas Dubus, Andre Dubus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 11, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge in an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53904Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House of Sand and Fog Author: Andre Dubus Narrator: Fontaine Dollas Dubus, Andre Dubus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House of Sand and Fog Author: Andre Dubus Narrator: Fontaine Dollas Dubus, Andre Dubus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 11, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge in an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/safe-harbour-by-danielle-steel--65295369https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Harbour Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 14, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring —and keep— families together... On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, Ophélie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to draw—and can't help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, Ophélie is thrown off balance by her daughter's new companion—until she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and Ophélie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, Ophélie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen Ophélie and Matt's friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, Ophélie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events reverberate in two already wounded hearts, something extraordinary happens. Out of the darkness that has shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope. With grace and compassion, Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, family members and lifelong friends. Her haunting, impassioned novel takes us across the complex landscape of loss—to the blessings that arise from even the darkest tragedies. At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Harbour Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 14, 2003 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Harbour Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 14, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring —and keep— families together... On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, Ophélie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to draw—and can't help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, Ophélie is thrown off balance by her daughter's new companion—until she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and Ophélie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, Ophélie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen Ophélie and Matt's friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, Ophélie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events reverberate in two already wounded hearts, something extraordinary happens. Out of the darkness that has shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope. With grace and compassion, Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, family members and lifelong friends. Her haunting, impassioned novel takes us across the complex landscape of loss—to the blessings that arise from even the darkest tragedies. At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/johnny-angel-by-danielle-steel--65295364https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Angel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them. Johnny Angel With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall, lanky Johnny had a future filled with promise--until he stepped into a car on prom night, dazzling in his rented tux, and in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that follow, Johnny’s family and high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No one is more devastated than Johnny’s mother, Alice, whose oldest son owned her heart from the day he was born. But amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen to the Peterson family, something that will alter the course of each of their lives. When a sudden illness sends Alice to the hospital, a glorious vision comes to her in her dreams. There, standing before her, is Johnny himself, with that familiar twinkle in his eye, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her splintered family. For Alice, seeing her marvelous lost boy is a miracle she can’t quite believe but is more than willing to embrace. In the weeks to come, Johnny will appear in the most unlikely places, visible only to the two people who need him most: his nine-year-old brother, locked in a silent world, whose special needs Johnny always seemed to understand…and his mother, who has always nurtured her family, but who now needs a guardian angel of her own. Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother’s side, leaving miracles in his wake, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister, and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever. An unforgettable story of loving and letting go, of mixed blessings and second chances, Johnny Angel is a celebration of life, hope, and forgiveness. It will make you laugh and cry…and hold your loved ones just a little bit closer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Angel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 1, 2003 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Angel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them. Johnny Angel With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall, lanky Johnny had a future filled with promise--until he stepped into a car on prom night, dazzling in his rented tux, and in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that follow, Johnny’s family and high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No one is more devastated than Johnny’s mother, Alice, whose oldest son owned her heart from the day he was born. But amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen to the Peterson family, something that will alter the course of each of their lives. When a sudden illness sends Alice to the hospital, a glorious vision comes to her in her dreams. There, standing before her, is Johnny himself, with that familiar twinkle in his eye, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her splintered family. For Alice, seeing her marvelous lost boy is a miracle she can’t quite believe but is more than willing to embrace. In the weeks to come, Johnny will appear in the most unlikely places, visible only to the two people who need him most: his nine-year-old brother, locked in a silent world, whose special needs Johnny always seemed to understand…and his mother, who has always nurtured her family, but who now needs a guardian angel of her own. Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother’s side, leaving miracles in his wake, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister, and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever. An unforgettable story of loving and letting go, of mixed blessings and second chances, Johnny Angel is a celebration of life, hope, and forgiveness. It will make you laugh and cry…and hold your loved ones just a little bit closer.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dating-game-by-danielle-steel--65295393https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dating Game Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Sam Freed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game. Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn’t imagine what he was about to say. “I want a divorce,” Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life. The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to “fix her up” with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move—as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone. Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchman—so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris’s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That’s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life’s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy. In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101Tue, 07 Jan 2003 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dating Game Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Sam Freed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2003 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dating Game Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Sam Freed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game. Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn’t imagine what he was about to say. “I want a divorce,” Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life. The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to “fix her up” with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move—as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone. Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchman—so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris’s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That’s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life’s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy. In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sunset-in-st-tropez-by-danielle-steel--65295336https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset In St. Tropez Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 25, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her 55th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores the seasons of an extraordinary friendship, weaving the story of three couples, lifelong friends, for whom a month’s holiday in St. Tropez becomes a summer of change, revelation, secrets, surprises, and new beginnings . . . As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year’s Eve together was a sacred tradition for Diana, her husband of thirty-two years, Eric, and their best friends, Pascale and John Donnally and Anne and Robert Smith. The future looked rosy as the long-time friends sipped champagne and talked of renting a villa together in the South of France the following summer. But life had other plans . . . Just two weeks after New Year’s, tragedy strikes the heart of their close circle, as Robert Smith suffers a sudden, unexpected loss. Without hesitation, Diana and Eric, Pascale and John rally to his side, united in their support, love, and shared grief. Convinced that a change of scenery is just what Robert needs, they urge him to join them on the Riviera in August. But as they soon discover, the ramshackle old mansion they rented in St. Tropez--sight unseen--is far different from the exquisite villa and sun-drenched gardens touted in the brochure. Cobwebs hang from the ceiling. Beds collapse beneath them. All while a would-be housekeeper in a leopard-skin bikini and six-inch heels sashays through the house with a trio of yapping poodles at her heels. But the biggest surprise of all is the woman Robert invites to the villa as his guest--a lovely, much-younger film actress with mile-long legs and a million-dollar smile. Diana and Pascale hate her on sight. But the men are dazzled. And amid the crumbling furniture and the glorious sunsets, the strained relationships and the acts of forgiveness, more surprises are in store for the villa’s occupants. With the last days of summer fast approaching, each couple finds themselves changing in unexpected ways, as old wounds are healed, new love discovered, and miracles unfold...all beneath the dazzling sun of St. Tropez. By turns wise and moving, heartbreaking and wickedly funny, Danielle Steel’s new novel is about forgiving without forgetting, about the sorrow that shadows our lives and the hope that saves us. And it is about once-in-a-lifetime friendships . . .the kind that heal, sustain, and change us forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset In St. Tropez Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 25, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset In St. Tropez Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 25, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her 55th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores the seasons of an extraordinary friendship, weaving the story of three couples, lifelong friends, for whom a month’s holiday in St. Tropez becomes a summer of change, revelation, secrets, surprises, and new beginnings . . . As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year’s Eve together was a sacred tradition for Diana, her husband of thirty-two years, Eric, and their best friends, Pascale and John Donnally and Anne and Robert Smith. The future looked rosy as the long-time friends sipped champagne and talked of renting a villa together in the South of France the following summer. But life had other plans . . . Just two weeks after New Year’s, tragedy strikes the heart of their close circle, as Robert Smith suffers a sudden, unexpected loss. Without hesitation, Diana and Eric, Pascale and John rally to his side, united in their support, love, and shared grief. Convinced that a change of scenery is just what Robert needs, they urge him to join them on the Riviera in August. But as they soon discover, the ramshackle old mansion they rented in St. Tropez--sight unseen--is far different from the exquisite villa and sun-drenched gardens touted in the brochure. Cobwebs hang from the ceiling. Beds collapse beneath them. All while a would-be housekeeper in a leopard-skin bikini and six-inch heels sashays through the house with a trio of yapping poodles at her heels. But the biggest surprise of all is the woman Robert invites to the villa as his guest--a lovely, much-younger film actress with mile-long legs and a million-dollar smile. Diana and Pascale hate her on sight. But the men are dazzled. And amid the crumbling furniture and the glorious sunsets, the strained relationships and the acts of forgiveness, more surprises are in store for the villa’s occupants. With the last days of summer fast approaching, each couple finds themselves changing in unexpected ways, as old wounds are healed, new love discovered, and miracles unfold...all beneath the dazzling sun of St. Tropez. By turns wise and moving, heartbreaking and wickedly funny, Danielle Steel’s new novel is about forgiving without forgetting, about the sorrow that shadows our lives and the hope that saves us. And it is about once-in-a-lifetime friendships . . .the kind that heal, sustain, and change us forever.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nanny-diaries-by-emma-mclaughlin-nicola-kraus--65295347https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nanny Diaries Author: Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 29, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 88 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Based on the real-life experiences and the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets—the nannies. The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America's overprivileged raise les petits—as if grooming them for a best-of-show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class to tackle head-on the truer state of backstairs Park Avenue. Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic apartment, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved in ensuring that a Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day. When the Xes' marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny's nearly impossible mission becomes maintaining the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity, and most importantly, her sense of humor. Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nanny Diaries Author: Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nanny Diaries Author: Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 29, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 88 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Based on the real-life experiences and the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets—the nannies. The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America's overprivileged raise les petits—as if grooming them for a best-of-show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class to tackle head-on the truer state of backstairs Park Avenue. Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic apartment, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved in ensuring that a Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day. When the Xes' marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny's nearly impossible mission becomes maintaining the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity, and most importantly, her sense of humor. Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cottage-by-danielle-steel--65295398https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cottage Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles . . . and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide. On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as The Cottage. Modeled after the “cottages” of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywood’s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. He’s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house.  His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy O’Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Mark’s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Mark’s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly, The Cottage is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop. But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends . . . and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coop’s budding romance with a wealthy debutante. . . A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news. . . . A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates. . . . And in the midst of it all, The Cottage welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coop’s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslow–loner, bachelor, movie star–may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been. Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances . . . of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cottage Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cottage Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles . . . and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide. On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as The Cottage. Modeled after the “cottages” of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywood’s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. He’s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house.  His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy O’Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Mark’s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Mark’s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly, The Cottage is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop. But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends . . . and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coop’s budding romance with a wealthy debutante. . . A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news. . . . A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates. . . . And in the midst of it all, The Cottage welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coop’s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslow–loner, bachelor, movie star–may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been. Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances . . . of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/answered-prayers-by-danielle-steel--65295371https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Answered Prayers Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one woman’s struggle to break free from the past—and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers. On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself. For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather—a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reach—that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back—and an old friend reenters Faith’s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: “Fred.” Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jack’s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves “The Three Musketeers” as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faith’s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husband’s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faith’s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herself—and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that heal—and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Answered Prayers Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Answered Prayers Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one woman’s struggle to break free from the past—and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers. On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself. For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather—a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reach—that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back—and an old friend reenters Faith’s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: “Fred.” Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jack’s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves “The Three Musketeers” as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faith’s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husband’s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faith’s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herself—and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that heal—and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/leap-of-faith-by-danielle-steel--65295395https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leap of Faith Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 12, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal. Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Château de Marmouton. In Marie-Ange's isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education — and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to Château de Marmouton. When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the château's new owner is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a dashing young widower who invites her into his home, then into his heart. But their magical life together, which soon includes marriage, children, and lavish homes, slowly takes an ominous turn. A mysterious woman tells Marie-Ange a shocking story, a story so chilling she doesn't want to believe it. Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now. He is thousands of miles away. And as the darkness gathers around her, Marie-Ange must find the faith and courage to take one, last desperate step to save her loved ones ... and herself. Danielle Steel's powerful new novel is about being pulled into a place where nothing is what it seems. It is about being seduced and lied to and turned around, and wanting to believe the lies — until the moment comes, in one blinding instant, when survival and salvation depend on a final Leap of Faith: the only path to freedom, and life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leap of Faith Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 12, 2001 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leap of Faith Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 12, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal. Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Château de Marmouton. In Marie-Ange's isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education — and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to Château de Marmouton. When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the château's new owner is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a dashing young widower who invites her into his home, then into his heart. But their magical life together, which soon includes marriage, children, and lavish homes, slowly takes an ominous turn. A mysterious woman tells Marie-Ange a shocking story, a story so chilling she doesn't want to believe it. Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now. He is thousands of miles away. And as the darkness gathers around her, Marie-Ange must find the faith and courage to take one, last desperate step to save her loved ones ... and herself. Danielle Steel's powerful new novel is about being pulled into a place where nothing is what it seems. It is about being seduced and lied to and turned around, and wanting to believe the lies — until the moment comes, in one blinding instant, when survival and salvation depend on a final Leap of Faith: the only path to freedom, and life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lone-eagle-by-danielle-steel--65295329https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lone Eagle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3081 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 51st bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken.  It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free... The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon.  Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-five years before.  What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn't expect.  As the snow continued to fall, Kate's mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met.  She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she'd ever known. It was just days before Christmas, 1940.  The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City.  In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye.  At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs.  All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star- just out of reach.  Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find.  As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives.  Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe.  Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation.  Joe's planes are his life, his passion.  But irresistably drawn to her, moth moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate.  Even after the long dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns.  Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away.  As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life. When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family.  Joes wants the world, his limitless horizon, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life.  But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives. Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breaths life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives.  With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise.  The joinging of two remarkable halves into a single far more powerful whole.  It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lone Eagle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lone Eagle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3081 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 51st bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken.  It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free... The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon.  Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-five years before.  What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn't expect.  As the snow continued to fall, Kate's mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met.  She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she'd ever known. It was just days before Christmas, 1940.  The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City.  In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye.  At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs.  All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star- just out of reach.  Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find.  As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives.  Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe.  Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation.  Joe's planes are his life, his passion.  But irresistably drawn to her, moth moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate.  Even after the long dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns.  Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away.  As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life. When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family.  Joes wants the world, his limitless horizon, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life.  But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives. Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breaths life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives.  With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise.  The joinging of two remarkable halves into a single far more powerful whole.  It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-kiss-by-danielle-steel--65295353https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kiss Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 2, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 67 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole. On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of pasengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still—until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus's tremendous weight. And a long journey begins—toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future... Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a godsend, a woman of extraordinary beauty and intellectual curiosity—a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift, a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave and will not betray. Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, amidst the sudden crash of steel against steel, they are thrust onto a new path, a path fraught with pain but also with possibility. Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body, spirit, and heart. Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabell, a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill, a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel and realities that will test him to his core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever. In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kiss Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 2, 2001 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kiss Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 2, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 67 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole. On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of pasengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still—until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus's tremendous weight. And a long journey begins—toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future... Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a godsend, a woman of extraordinary beauty and intellectual curiosity—a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift, a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave and will not betray. Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, amidst the sudden crash of steel against steel, they are thrust onto a new path, a path fraught with pain but also with possibility. Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body, spirit, and heart. Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabell, a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill, a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel and realities that will test him to his core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever. In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/journey-by-danielle-steel--65295397https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 31, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges. Maddy has always tried to deny Jack’s subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation — as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep. It seems impossible that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Maddy’s secrets are well kept, even from herself. Maddy’s healing begins when she joins the First Lady’s Commission on Violence Against Women. There, she hears eerily familiar stories from terrified wives and girlfriends. And there she comes to know Bill Alexander, a distinguished diplomat. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddy’s marriage and begs her to open her eyes. As she takes the first steps toward freedom, a remarkable series of events unfolds ... a stranger from Maddy’s past reappears ... White House headlines bring the nation to a standstill ... and a devastating tragedy forces Maddy to realize how much has been taken from her. Faced with the most difficult choice of her life, Maddy finds a strength she never knew she had and a gift that will change her life forever. With wisdom and compassion, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel reminds us that no one is exempt from the effects of abuse, in its subtlest forms. But at its core, Journey is a book about hope, about change, and about daring to be free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 31, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 31, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges. Maddy has always tried to deny Jack’s subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation — as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep. It seems impossible that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Maddy’s secrets are well kept, even from herself. Maddy’s healing begins when she joins the First Lady’s Commission on Violence Against Women. There, she hears eerily familiar stories from terrified wives and girlfriends. And there she comes to know Bill Alexander, a distinguished diplomat. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddy’s marriage and begs her to open her eyes. As she takes the first steps toward freedom, a remarkable series of events unfolds ... a stranger from Maddy’s past reappears ... White House headlines bring the nation to a standstill ... and a devastating tragedy forces Maddy to realize how much has been taken from her. Faced with the most difficult choice of her life, Maddy finds a strength she never knew she had and a gift that will change her life forever. With wisdom and compassion, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel reminds us that no one is exempt from the effects of abuse, in its subtlest forms. But at its core, Journey is a book about hope, about change, and about daring to be free.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-on-hope-street-by-danielle-steel--65295399https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Hope Street Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 49th bestselling novel is a story of courage and loss, of the power of family and the strength of the human soul. Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable loss. How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend? How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, including one with special needs of his own? Powered by her children's love, Liz finds the strength to return to work, to become both mother and "daddy," coaching her youngest son for the Special Olympics. And one by one the holidays come and go before her eyes: Valentine's Day without flowers and without Jack...Easter...July 4.... Then, just weeks before Labor Day, a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospital—and brings a doctor named Bill Webster into her life. Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son. And as the long days of summer blend into fall, a new relationship offers new hope, and Liz reflects on what she has, on what she's lost, on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else is left. Then, with the first anniversary of her husband's death approaching, and with it another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning and change—and ahead to the beginning of a new life. The House on Hope Street is about learning to live again after you think life is over, about getting up when you have been knocked down, again and again. It is about cherishing small miracles, and believing in big ones. It is above all about hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Hope Street Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Hope Street Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 49th bestselling novel is a story of courage and loss, of the power of family and the strength of the human soul. Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable loss. How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend? How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, including one with special needs of his own? Powered by her children's love, Liz finds the strength to return to work, to become both mother and "daddy," coaching her youngest son for the Special Olympics. And one by one the holidays come and go before her eyes: Valentine's Day without flowers and without Jack...Easter...July 4.... Then, just weeks before Labor Day, a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospital—and brings a doctor named Bill Webster into her life. Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son. And as the long days of summer blend into fall, a new relationship offers new hope, and Liz reflects on what she has, on what she's lost, on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else is left. Then, with the first anniversary of her husband's death approaching, and with it another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning and change—and ahead to the beginning of a new life. The House on Hope Street is about learning to live again after you think life is over, about getting up when you have been knocked down, again and again. It is about cherishing small miracles, and believing in big ones. It is above all about hope.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heaven-s-price-a-novel-by-sandra-brown--65295382https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven's Price: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Robin Mattson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 22 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown has created a sensation with her contemporary novels. In Heaven’s Price she offers a sexy, tender, and funny story about a woman who thinks she knows her destiny, until she learns that her fate—and her heart—have something else in store.   Blair Simpson embraces a life most people merely dream about. Devoting her nights—as well as her days—to dancing in the chorus line of Broadway musicals and in occasional TV commercials, she has never considered another career. But when an injury sends her to a small town for six long months of recuperation, she finds herself surrounded by couples who are raising families and building dreams together. And there she meets a man who forces her to come to terms with a part of herself she has long denied.   From Blair’s first encounter with her new landlord, Sean Garrett, the powerful sexual attraction between them catches her off guard. For the first time she’s unable to lose herself in dancing, as Sean’s passion and tenderness urge her to open her life to him. More than anything, Sean wants to build a future with fiery, raven-haired Blair. But Blair’s own passion for dance has ruled her for so long, she may not be able to break its hold—even if it costs her the love she had thought she’d never find.   “Ms. Brown’s larger-than-life heroes and heroines make you believe all the warm, wonderful, wild things in life.”—Rendezvous]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52495Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven's Price: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Robin Mattson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven's Price: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Robin Mattson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 22 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown has created a sensation with her contemporary novels. In Heaven’s Price she offers a sexy, tender, and funny story about a woman who thinks she knows her destiny, until she learns that her fate—and her heart—have something else in store.   Blair Simpson embraces a life most people merely dream about. Devoting her nights—as well as her days—to dancing in the chorus line of Broadway musicals and in occasional TV commercials, she has never considered another career. But when an injury sends her to a small town for six long months of recuperation, she finds herself surrounded by couples who are raising families and building dreams together. And there she meets a man who forces her to come to terms with a part of herself she has long denied.   From Blair’s first encounter with her new landlord, Sean Garrett, the powerful sexual attraction between them catches her off guard. For the first time she’s unable to lose herself in dancing, as Sean’s passion and tenderness urge her to open her life to him. More than anything, Sean wants to build a future with fiery, raven-haired Blair. But Blair’s own passion for dance has ruled her for so long, she may not be able to break its hold—even if it costs her the love she had thought she’d never find.   “Ms. Brown’s larger-than-life heroes and heroines make you believe all the warm, wonderful, wild things in life.”—Rendezvous]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/granny-dan-by-danielle-steel--65295357https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny Dan Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Lewis Arlt, Patrice Donnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . . The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrived at a ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of seven. By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. But events both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war, an extraordinary man, and a devastating illness altered the course of her life. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice—as the world around her was about to change forever. Granny Dan is about the magic of history. In it, Danielle Steel reminds us how little we know of those who came before us—and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives, and see who they once were, there is so much we would understand and learn. For in this extraordinary novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all: an unexpected gift of a life transformed, a long-forgotten history of youth and beauty, love and dreams.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny Dan Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Lewis Arlt, Patrice Donnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny Dan Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Lewis Arlt, Patrice Donnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . . The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrived at a ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of seven. By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. But events both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war, an extraordinary man, and a devastating illness altered the course of her life. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice—as the world around her was about to change forever. Granny Dan is about the magic of history. In it, Danielle Steel reminds us how little we know of those who came before us—and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives, and see who they once were, there is so much we would understand and learn. For in this extraordinary novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all: an unexpected gift of a life transformed, a long-forgotten history of youth and beauty, love and dreams.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wedding-a-novel-by-danielle-steel--65295352https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wedding: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: J.R. Horne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Simon Steinberg and Blaire Scott are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. He is a major producer, she an award-winning writer for television. Their oldest daughter, Allegra, is an entertainment lawyer with a career that consumes too much of her time, until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns her life upside down and she is suddenly planning a wedding. As preparations begin and the ever-increasing anxiety of the preparations brings out both the best and the worst in everyone, couples in each generation of the Steinberg family struggle with broken vows, new hopes, and the real meaning of Allegra's wedding. For both families, it is an opportunity for reconciliation, forgiveness, and new hope for the future. 'A compelling portrait of real people in an unreal world from one of the world's most popular authors.' (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wedding: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: J.R. Horne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wedding: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: J.R. Horne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Simon Steinberg and Blaire Scott are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. He is a major producer, she an award-winning writer for television. Their oldest daughter, Allegra, is an entertainment lawyer with a career that consumes too much of her time, until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns her life upside down and she is suddenly planning a wedding. As preparations begin and the ever-increasing anxiety of the preparations brings out both the best and the worst in everyone, couples in each generation of the Steinberg family struggle with broken vows, new hopes, and the real meaning of Allegra's wedding. For both families, it is an opportunity for reconciliation, forgiveness, and new hope for the future. 'A compelling portrait of real people in an unreal world from one of the world's most popular authors.' (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/send-no-flowers-a-novel-by-sandra-brown--65295339https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Send No Flowers: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Alison Fraser Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the beloved Sandra Brown, whose "storytelling gift [is] surprisingly rare" (Toronto Sun), comes this New York Times bestselling novel, an exquisitely sensual tale of a young woman's sudden, irresistible affair with a stranger—a man whose secret could shatter her life.... Since the death of her husband, Alicia Russell has struggled to take care of her two young sons alone. But when a sudden storm threatens to ruin a family camping trip, Alicia must rely upon a stranger for help. Before long, the man offers much more than shelter from the storm. Handsome, sensual, and slightly mysterious, Pierce Reynolds showers much-needed attention on Alicia's sons—and reminds her how it feels to be desired. But even as Pierce tempts Alicia to explore her newly reawakened longings, he holds her at arm's length, his only explanation a silent refusal to share the secrets of his heart. Alicia knows she can't give Pierce up without a fight. But how can she convince him that love is a risk worth taking?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52490Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Send No Flowers: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Alison Fraser Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Send No Flowers: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Alison Fraser Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the beloved Sandra Brown, whose "storytelling gift [is] surprisingly rare" (Toronto Sun), comes this New York Times bestselling novel, an exquisitely sensual tale of a young woman's sudden, irresistible affair with a stranger—a man whose secret could shatter her life.... Since the death of her husband, Alicia Russell has struggled to take care of her two young sons alone. But when a sudden storm threatens to ruin a family camping trip, Alicia must rely upon a stranger for help. Before long, the man offers much more than shelter from the storm. Handsome, sensual, and slightly mysterious, Pierce Reynolds showers much-needed attention on Alicia's sons—and reminds her how it feels to be desired. But even as Pierce tempts Alicia to explore her newly reawakened longings, he holds her at arm's length, his only explanation a silent refusal to share the secrets of his heart. Alicia knows she can't give Pierce up without a fight. But how can she convince him that love is a risk worth taking?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mirror-image-by-danielle-steel--65295254https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror Image Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: John Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Henderson's life and family. Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that, for the sake of his son, he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever; and took one of the twins to the battlefields of France, the other into a marriage she longed for but could not have. From Manhattan society to the trenches of war-ravaged France, Mirror Image moves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled era. With startling insight, Danielle Steel explores women's choices: between home and adventure, between the love for family and the passion for a cause, between sacrifice and desire. But at the heart of Mirror Image is a fascinating, realistic portrait of identical twins, two vastly different sisters who lead their lives and follow their destinies against a vivid backdrop of a world at war.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror Image Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: John Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror Image Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: John Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Henderson's life and family. Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that, for the sake of his son, he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever; and took one of the twins to the battlefields of France, the other into a marriage she longed for but could not have. From Manhattan society to the trenches of war-ravaged France, Mirror Image moves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled era. With startling insight, Danielle Steel explores women's choices: between home and adventure, between the love for family and the passion for a cause, between sacrifice and desire. But at the heart of Mirror Image is a fascinating, realistic portrait of identical twins, two vastly different sisters who lead their lives and follow their destinies against a vivid backdrop of a world at war.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/breakfast-in-bed-a-novel-by-sandra-brown--65295246https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakfast in Bed: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Robin Mattson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.92 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Hurt one too many times in the past, Sloan Fairchild isn't interested in love. Instead, she pours all her energy into running her elegant bed-and-breakfast inn. But when her best friend asks her to house her fiance for a month, Sloan opens the doors of Fairchild House to Carter Madison...and meets a man who turns her world—and her concept of herself—upside down. Sloan tries to ignore the feelings this handsome man stirs in her...tries to stop herself from dreaming dreams that can never be. Yet when Carter reveals his own desire, Sloan will find herself facing a heart-wrenching decision: to love for the moment, to walk away forever, or to fight to have it all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52498Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakfast in Bed: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Robin Mattson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakfast in Bed: A Novel Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Robin Mattson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.92 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Hurt one too many times in the past, Sloan Fairchild isn't interested in love. Instead, she pours all her energy into running her elegant bed-and-breakfast inn. But when her best friend asks her to house her fiance for a month, Sloan opens the doors of Fairchild House to Carter Madison...and meets a man who turns her world—and her concept of herself—upside down. Sloan tries to ignore the feelings this handsome man stirs in her...tries to stop herself from dreaming dreams that can never be. Yet when Carter reveals his own desire, Sloan will find herself facing a heart-wrenching decision: to love for the moment, to walk away forever, or to fight to have it all.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lady-boss-by-jackie-collins--65295366https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Boss Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 1990 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s life as a writer and icon is now explored in the CNN Films documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story! The dangerously beautiful Lucky Santangelo—star of two of Jackie Collins’s previous smash, international bestsellers, Chances and Lucky—returns, and this time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly clever Lucky is out to conquer Hollywood! In Chances Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky, she was married three times. And now, in Lady Boss, she takes on Hollywood and wins! Panther Studios is the prize and Lucky wants it. In her quest for power she meets adversaries and enemies, friends and betrayers. And her relationship with her husband, charismatic comedian and movie star, Lennie Golden is put to the test. Lucky's first challenge is to buy the only movie studio still not controlled by a powerful conglomerate—Panther Studios, owned by the retired, irascible, old Abe Panther. But Abe won't sell his beloved studio to Lucky until she proves she has the guts to make it in Hollywood. It's his idea that she disguise herself as a secretary and go in undercover to find out what's really going on. It's a challenge that also satisfies Lucky's passion for adventure—and her desire to take chances. In the process, Lucky uncovers a world of financial scheming, big-time betrayal, and bizarre sex. When Lucky makes her final move, assuming the role of Lady Boss at Panther Studios, she stuns the entire industry and sets off a series of shock waves, not only threatening her marriage to Lennie, but unleashing the hatred of crime boss Carlos Bonnatti—a hatred that goes back generations, putting her life, and the lives of everyone close to her, in danger… ​Bringing back one of her most intriguing and endearing characters, Lucky Santangelo, Jackie Collins shows once again that she is the unquestioned queen of glamorous fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50738Thu, 01 Nov 1990 00:29:20 +0000Gunner KoeppPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Boss Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 1990 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Boss Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 1990 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s life as a writer and icon is now explored in the CNN Films documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story! The dangerously beautiful Lucky Santangelo—star of two of Jackie Collins’s previous smash, international bestsellers, Chances and Lucky—returns, and this time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly clever Lucky is out to conquer Hollywood! In Chances Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky, she was married three times. And now, in Lady Boss, she takes on Hollywood and wins! Panther Studios is the prize and Lucky wants it. In her quest for power she meets adversaries and enemies, friends and betrayers. And her relationship with her husband, charismatic comedian and movie star, Lennie Golden is put to the test. Lucky's first challenge is to buy the only movie studio still not controlled by a powerful conglomerate—Panther Studios, owned by the retired, irascible, old Abe Panther. But Abe won't sell his beloved studio to Lucky until she proves she has the guts to make it in Hollywood. It's his idea that she disguise herself as a secretary and go in undercover to find out what's really going on. It's a challenge that also satisfies Lucky's passion for adventure—and her desire to take chances. In the process, Lucky uncovers a world of financial scheming, big-time betrayal, and bizarre sex. When Lucky makes her final move, assuming the role of Lady Boss at Panther Studios, she stuns the entire industry and sets off a series of shock waves, not only threatening her marriage to Lennie, but unleashing the hatred of crime boss Carlos Bonnatti—a hatred that goes back generations, putting her life, and the lives of everyone close to her, in danger… ​Bringing back one of her most intriguing and endearing characters, Lucky Santangelo, Jackie Collins shows once again that she is the unquestioned queen of glamorous fiction.]]>184cleanfull