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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.]]>enDramaCopyright Gertrude Hageneshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1155984f9806df943ac67302f2c5e9af.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/access-must-have-full-audiobooks-in-fiction-drama--6580678Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:35:07 +0000Gertrude HagenesGertrude Hagenesfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/683/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for a treasure trove of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks? We are proud to introduce diverse...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/683/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for a treasure trove of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks? We are proud to introduce diverse categories such as Business & Career Development, Communication Skills, and Health & Fitness. Especially, you will receive 3 free audiobooks to experience. You can listen to books anytime, anywhere on devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, and more. Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your knowledge and entertainment with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-measure-of-blood-by-kathleen-george--65309576https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Measure of Blood Author: Kathleen George Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 29, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nadal watches for weeks before he first approaches the boy. No matter what Maggie Brown says, he's sure Matt is his son, and a boy should know his father. After their first confrontation, Maggie should have run. She should have hidden her child. But she underestimated the man who was once her lover. With self-righteous determination, Nadal goes to her house. He demands to spend time with the boy. When she refuses, he reaches for a knife. The killer vanishes, and Matt is too scared to remember anything but his mother's fear. As Christie looks for the killer and Maggie's friends fight to keep Matt out of the hands of Child Services, Nadal watches the news and waits.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272874Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Measure of Blood Author: Kathleen George Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Measure of Blood Author: Kathleen George Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 29, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nadal watches for weeks before he first approaches the boy. No matter what Maggie Brown says, he's sure Matt is his son, and a boy should know his father. After their first confrontation, Maggie should have run. She should have hidden her child. But she underestimated the man who was once her lover. With self-righteous determination, Nadal goes to her house. He demands to spend time with the boy. When she refuses, he reaches for a knife. The killer vanishes, and Matt is too scared to remember anything but his mother's fear. As Christie looks for the killer and Maggie's friends fight to keep Matt out of the hands of Child Services, Nadal watches the news and waits.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fat-fridays-by-judith-keim--65309532https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fat Fridays Series: #1 of Fat Fridays Group Author: Judith Keim Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Sukie’s husband shacks up with her Pilates instructor, her domestic drama becomes the talk of her small Georgia town. Friends from her married life prove fickle, and Sukie hides at home, terrified of encountering the town gossips at the grocery store. Betsy, Sukie’s neighbor, invites her to join “Fat Fridays,” a weekly gathering at a local café where the women order whatever they crave—no calories counted. Over sausage pizza and sage advice, Sukie gets a grip on her new life and learns to love her freedom. Judith Keim’s warm, funny novel offers moving glimpses into each of the five women’s very different lives. As they struggle to deal with cruel exes, frustrating families, and forbidden love, the women offer one another the kind of friendship that is as rich and nurturing as their Friday feasts. Revised edition: This edition of Fat Friday includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273528Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fat Fridays Series: #1 of Fat Fridays Group Author: Judith Keim Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fat Fridays Series: #1 of Fat Fridays Group Author: Judith Keim Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Sukie’s husband shacks up with her Pilates instructor, her domestic drama becomes the talk of her small Georgia town. Friends from her married life prove fickle, and Sukie hides at home, terrified of encountering the town gossips at the grocery store. Betsy, Sukie’s neighbor, invites her to join “Fat Fridays,” a weekly gathering at a local café where the women order whatever they crave—no calories counted. Over sausage pizza and sage advice, Sukie gets a grip on her new life and learns to love her freedom. Judith Keim’s warm, funny novel offers moving glimpses into each of the five women’s very different lives. As they struggle to deal with cruel exes, frustrating families, and forbidden love, the women offer one another the kind of friendship that is as rich and nurturing as their Friday feasts. Revised edition: This edition of Fat Friday includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/worth-the-risk-by-jamie-beck--65309586https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worth the Risk Series: #3 of St. James Author: Jamie Beck Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Woman’s World Book Club pick. When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermont’s Green Mountains would help him get his life together, he didn’t anticipate replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new landlord, Gabby. Now, instead of prioritizing his sobriety and the resolution of the lawsuit threatening his business, he’s making excuses to spend time with the spunky young landscaper whose candor is more than a little addictive. Gabby Decouteau refuses to let her pill-popping mother and unreliable baby daddy turn her into a cynic, so she doesn’t fight her attraction to her enigmatic new tenant. Although Jackson’s smile rarely reaches his eyes, his generosity and dependability make her willing to overlook his demons. But once she convinces Jackson to give in to temptation, Gabby’s jealous ex threatens to disrupt the life Gabby has built for herself and her son. With so much at stake, Gabby and Jackson must decide if love is worth the risk.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273523Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worth the Risk Series: #3 of St. James Author: Jamie Beck Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worth the Risk Series: #3 of St. James Author: Jamie Beck Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Woman’s World Book Club pick. When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermont’s Green Mountains would help him get his life together, he didn’t anticipate replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new landlord, Gabby. Now, instead of prioritizing his sobriety and the resolution of the lawsuit threatening his business, he’s making excuses to spend time with the spunky young landscaper whose candor is more than a little addictive. Gabby Decouteau refuses to let her pill-popping mother and unreliable baby daddy turn her into a cynic, so she doesn’t fight her attraction to her enigmatic new tenant. Although Jackson’s smile rarely reaches his eyes, his generosity and dependability make her willing to overlook his demons. But once she convinces Jackson to give in to temptation, Gabby’s jealous ex threatens to disrupt the life Gabby has built for herself and her son. With so much at stake, Gabby and Jackson must decide if love is worth the risk.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-you-do-to-me-by-barbara-longley--65309559https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What You Do to Me Series: #1 of The Haneys Author: Barbara Longley Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Whether it’s repairing a home or taking care of clients’ other needs, Twin Cities handyman Sam Haney is in demand from his mostly female clientele. Despite Sam’s lothario reputation, love isn’t part of his portfolio. He’s built a lot of walls in his time, but the one that’s surrounded his heart ever since the death of his parents is his most solid yet. Haley Cooper has had enough heartache for a lifetime. Her high school sweetheart up and moved to Indonesia—alone—just two weeks before their wedding. Her mother thinks it’s time for Haley to move on and contracts Sam to work on Haley’s wreck of a house—and anything else, if he’s got the notion. Sparks fly and passion ignites. But Haley isn’t into Sam’s love-’em-and-leave-’em act. She wants something more. Fixing a house is one thing, but for this handyman, building a relationship will need a whole different set of skills.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270755Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What You Do to Me Series: #1 of The Haneys Author: Barbara Longley Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What You Do to Me Series: #1 of The Haneys Author: Barbara Longley Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Whether it’s repairing a home or taking care of clients’ other needs, Twin Cities handyman Sam Haney is in demand from his mostly female clientele. Despite Sam’s lothario reputation, love isn’t part of his portfolio. He’s built a lot of walls in his time, but the one that’s surrounded his heart ever since the death of his parents is his most solid yet. Haley Cooper has had enough heartache for a lifetime. Her high school sweetheart up and moved to Indonesia—alone—just two weeks before their wedding. Her mother thinks it’s time for Haley to move on and contracts Sam to work on Haley’s wreck of a house—and anything else, if he’s got the notion. Sparks fly and passion ignites. But Haley isn’t into Sam’s love-’em-and-leave-’em act. She wants something more. Fixing a house is one thing, but for this handyman, building a relationship will need a whole different set of skills.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/creatures-of-the-kingdom-stories-of-animals-and-nature-by-james-a-michener--65309549https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creatures of the Kingdom: Stories of Animals and Nature Author: James A. Michener Narrator: David Ackroyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In sixteen wonderful stories, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener burrows deep into the secret lives of animals and the hidden world of nature. Here he sheds light on nature’s most awesome and beguiling handiwork, from the sublime shaping and reshaping of earth’s lands and seas to a ridiculous armadillo’s assault on a bit of Texas real estate that paid off handsomely. Handpicked from Michener’s most popular books, these mini-masterpieces are imbued with the music of the spheres and the heartbeat of creation.   Praise for Creatures of the Kingdom   “[Creatures of the Kingdom contains] the dramatic elements of a life—the wonder of birth, rites of passage, lots of conflict, much of it physical and bloody, and death. . . . As characters in a James Michener novel, a beaver can know loneliness, a buffalo can bide his time, a salmon can feel encouraged, and a woolly mammoth can ‘luxuriate’ in the ecological rewards of a plains fire.”—Boston Sunday Herald   “Dramatic . . . enthralling . . . expertly crafted . . . Michener treats each of these creatures with fundamental respect, and in many cases, admiration and awe, if not outright love.”—The Virginian-Pilot   “Anyone who has read a James Michener novel knows that it’s a learning experience as well as an adventure.”—The Sacramento Bee   “Delightful . . . nature writing at its most fluid and involving.”—Booklist]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274909Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creatures of the Kingdom: Stories of Animals and Nature Author: James A. Michener Narrator: David Ackroyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creatures of the Kingdom: Stories of Animals and Nature Author: James A. Michener Narrator: David Ackroyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In sixteen wonderful stories, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener burrows deep into the secret lives of animals and the hidden world of nature. Here he sheds light on nature’s most awesome and beguiling handiwork, from the sublime shaping and reshaping of earth’s lands and seas to a ridiculous armadillo’s assault on a bit of Texas real estate that paid off handsomely. Handpicked from Michener’s most popular books, these mini-masterpieces are imbued with the music of the spheres and the heartbeat of creation.   Praise for Creatures of the Kingdom   “[Creatures of the Kingdom contains] the dramatic elements of a life—the wonder of birth, rites of passage, lots of conflict, much of it physical and bloody, and death. . . . As characters in a James Michener novel, a beaver can know loneliness, a buffalo can bide his time, a salmon can feel encouraged, and a woolly mammoth can ‘luxuriate’ in the ecological rewards of a plains fire.”—Boston Sunday Herald   “Dramatic . . . enthralling . . . expertly crafted . . . Michener treats each of these creatures with fundamental respect, and in many cases, admiration and awe, if not outright love.”—The Virginian-Pilot   “Anyone who has read a James Michener novel knows that it’s a learning experience as well as an adventure.”—The Sacramento Bee   “Delightful . . . nature writing at its most fluid and involving.”—Booklist]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miracle-in-seville-a-novel-by-james-a-michener--65309548https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle in Seville: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Kris Koscheski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the historical saga, returns to his beloved Spain with this magical novel of Seville at Easter time, a season of splendid pageantry, thrilling bullfights, deep piety—and the possibility of miracles. An American sports journalist has come to the city to report on efforts by the rancher Don Cayetano Mota to revive his once-proud line of bulls. Not only does Mota pray to the Virgin Mary, but he takes on herculean acts of devotion during the solemn celebrations of Holy Week. With treacherous enemies waiting in the ring, Mota’s struggle taps deeply into life’s mysteries, shaking the newspaperman’s skepticism and opening his eyes to the wonder of faith. Featuring illustrations by the American bullfighter John Fulton, Miracle in Seville is Michener at his most dazzling.   Praise for Miracle in Seville   “Eloquent . . . a vintage demonstration of Michener storytelling . . . What emerges most strongly is the real admiration and awe that lovers of bullfighting feel for the toro bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Compelling . . . told with an understanding of and appreciation for a culture where matadors are artists and miracles are possible.”—Chicago Tribune]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274908Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle in Seville: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Kris Koscheski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle in Seville: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Kris Koscheski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the historical saga, returns to his beloved Spain with this magical novel of Seville at Easter time, a season of splendid pageantry, thrilling bullfights, deep piety—and the possibility of miracles. An American sports journalist has come to the city to report on efforts by the rancher Don Cayetano Mota to revive his once-proud line of bulls. Not only does Mota pray to the Virgin Mary, but he takes on herculean acts of devotion during the solemn celebrations of Holy Week. With treacherous enemies waiting in the ring, Mota’s struggle taps deeply into life’s mysteries, shaking the newspaperman’s skepticism and opening his eyes to the wonder of faith. Featuring illustrations by the American bullfighter John Fulton, Miracle in Seville is Michener at his most dazzling.   Praise for Miracle in Seville   “Eloquent . . . a vintage demonstration of Michener storytelling . . . What emerges most strongly is the real admiration and awe that lovers of bullfighting feel for the toro bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Compelling . . . told with an understanding of and appreciation for a culture where matadors are artists and miracles are possible.”—Chicago Tribune]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-me-and-the-colors-of-life-by-noa-c-walker--65309529https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You, Me, and the Colors of Life Author: Noa C. Walker Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Faced with challenges from an early age, Janica has learned to celebrate and enjoy every day as a gift. Her life-affirming attitude fascinates Thomas, a shy young man who begins to see the rich colors of life in a whole new light. As she reveals a world he never could have imagined for himself, Thomas falls head over heels for the strong young woman and becomes part of her quirky circle of friends and her loving family. Their generosity of spirit draws Thomas out of his shell. He finds strength in their visits to the children’s hospital where Janica volunteers, captivating the kids’ attention with her imaginative stories. But all too soon fate deals them a harsh blow. Can their love survive life’s obstacles? You, Me, and the Colors of Life is a moving, hopeful story about the power of love and the power of living a life filled with joy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273527Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You, Me, and the Colors of Life Author: Noa C. Walker Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You, Me, and the Colors of Life Author: Noa C. Walker Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Faced with challenges from an early age, Janica has learned to celebrate and enjoy every day as a gift. Her life-affirming attitude fascinates Thomas, a shy young man who begins to see the rich colors of life in a whole new light. As she reveals a world he never could have imagined for himself, Thomas falls head over heels for the strong young woman and becomes part of her quirky circle of friends and her loving family. Their generosity of spirit draws Thomas out of his shell. He finds strength in their visits to the children’s hospital where Janica volunteers, captivating the kids’ attention with her imaginative stories. But all too soon fate deals them a harsh blow. Can their love survive life’s obstacles? You, Me, and the Colors of Life is a moving, hopeful story about the power of love and the power of living a life filled with joy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-mortal-enemy-by-willa-cather--65309540https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mortal Enemy Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 18, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274379Tue, 18 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mortal Enemy Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 18, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mortal Enemy Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 18, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-unexpected-by-j-a-stone--65309523https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Unexpected Author: J.A. Stone Narrator: Sophie Amoss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 18, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Corey Bennett knows how to handle loss: she buries her grief, just as she buried her loved ones. After losing her parents to a tragic car accident and then her husband to cancer, Corey has focused all her attention on her career—first in law school and then on the partner track at a prestigious Atlanta law firm. When her boss insists she take a vacation, Corey balks. But two weeks on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she reconnects with Tripp, a childhood friend, prove to be profoundly rejuvenating. Torn between her workaholic patterns and a new urge to nurture, Corey starts to question all her past choices. What does she want her life to be? And is she brave enough to say yes to love again? J.A. Stone’s graceful, big-hearted novel about one woman’s rebirth reveals that sometimes the greatest courage is required for the simplest act: choosing your own path. Revised edition: This edition of Life Unexpected includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270754Tue, 18 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Unexpected Author: J.A. Stone Narrator: Sophie Amoss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 18, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Unexpected Author: J.A. Stone Narrator: Sophie Amoss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 18, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Corey Bennett knows how to handle loss: she buries her grief, just as she buried her loved ones. After losing her parents to a tragic car accident and then her husband to cancer, Corey has focused all her attention on her career—first in law school and then on the partner track at a prestigious Atlanta law firm. When her boss insists she take a vacation, Corey balks. But two weeks on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she reconnects with Tripp, a childhood friend, prove to be profoundly rejuvenating. Torn between her workaholic patterns and a new urge to nurture, Corey starts to question all her past choices. What does she want her life to be? And is she brave enough to say yes to love again? J.A. Stone’s graceful, big-hearted novel about one woman’s rebirth reveals that sometimes the greatest courage is required for the simplest act: choosing your own path. Revised edition: This edition of Life Unexpected includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/small-great-things-a-novel-by-jodi-picoult--65309575https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Great Things: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Audra McDonald, Ari Fliakos, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 938 Ratings of Narrator: 4.84 of Total 216 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America today, both overt and subtle. Her many readers will find much to discuss in the pages of this topical, moving book.”—Booklist (starred review) Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong. With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game. Praise for Small Great Things “Small Great Things is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written. . . . It will challenge her readers . . . [and] expand our cultural conversation about race and prejudice.”—The Washington Post “A novel that puts its finger on the very pulse of the nation that we live in today . . . a fantastic read from beginning to end, as can always be expected from Picoult, this novel maintains a steady, page-turning pace that makes it hard for readers to put down.”—San Francisco Book Review]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274368Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Great Things: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Audra McDonald, Ari Fliakos, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Great Things: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Audra McDonald, Ari Fliakos, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 938 Ratings of Narrator: 4.84 of Total 216 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America today, both overt and subtle. Her many readers will find much to discuss in the pages of this topical, moving book.”—Booklist (starred review) Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong. With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game. Praise for Small Great Things “Small Great Things is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written. . . . It will challenge her readers . . . [and] expand our cultural conversation about race and prejudice.”—The Washington Post “A novel that puts its finger on the very pulse of the nation that we live in today . . . a fantastic read from beginning to end, as can always be expected from Picoult, this novel maintains a steady, page-turning pace that makes it hard for readers to put down.”—San Francisco Book Review]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-comet-seekers-a-novel-by-helen-sedgwick--65309567https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Comet Seekers: A Novel Author: Helen Sedgwick Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisín, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. François, the base’s chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the longing for a fresh start, which they share, as well as an indelible but unknown bond that stretches back centuries, connect them to each other. Helen Sedgwick carefully unfolds their surprisingly intertwined paths, moving forward and back through time to reveal how these lovers’ destinies have long been tied to each other by the skies—the arrival of comets great and small. In telling Róisín and François’s story, Sedgwick illuminates the lives of their ancestors, showing how strangers can be connected and ghosts can be real, and how the way we choose to see the world can be as desolate or as beautiful as the comets themselves. A mesmerizing, skillfully crafted, and emotionally perceptive novel that explores the choices we make, the connections we miss, and the ties that inextricably join our fates, The Comet Seekers reflects how the shifting cosmos unite us all through life, beyond death, and across the whole of time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274024Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Comet Seekers: A Novel Author: Helen Sedgwick Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Comet Seekers: A Novel Author: Helen Sedgwick Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisín, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. François, the base’s chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the longing for a fresh start, which they share, as well as an indelible but unknown bond that stretches back centuries, connect them to each other. Helen Sedgwick carefully unfolds their surprisingly intertwined paths, moving forward and back through time to reveal how these lovers’ destinies have long been tied to each other by the skies—the arrival of comets great and small. In telling Róisín and François’s story, Sedgwick illuminates the lives of their ancestors, showing how strangers can be connected and ghosts can be real, and how the way we choose to see the world can be as desolate or as beautiful as the comets themselves. A mesmerizing, skillfully crafted, and emotionally perceptive novel that explores the choices we make, the connections we miss, and the ties that inextricably join our fates, The Comet Seekers reflects how the shifting cosmos unite us all through life, beyond death, and across the whole of time.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bridget-jones-s-baby-the-diaries-by-helen-fielding--65309566https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries Author: Helen Fielding Narrator: Morwenna Banks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries.   8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time.   Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question – who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit?   9:45 PM It’s like they’re two halves of the perfect man, who’ll spend the rest of their lives each wanting to outdo the other one. And now it’s all enacting itself in my stomach.   In this gloriously funny, touching story of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget Jones – global phenomenon and the world’s favorite Singleton – is back with a bump.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273815Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries Author: Helen Fielding Narrator: Morwenna Banks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries Author: Helen Fielding Narrator: Morwenna Banks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries.   8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time.   Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question – who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit?   9:45 PM It’s like they’re two halves of the perfect man, who’ll spend the rest of their lives each wanting to outdo the other one. And now it’s all enacting itself in my stomach.   In this gloriously funny, touching story of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget Jones – global phenomenon and the world’s favorite Singleton – is back with a bump.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-fine-with-caroline-a-cold-river-novel-by-annie-england-noblin--65309526https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Fine with Caroline: A Cold River Novel Series: #1 of Cold River Author: Annie England Noblin Narrator: Em Eldridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of Sit! Stay! Speak! comes a tender, terrific novel complete with long-buried secrets, a three-legged pot belly pig, and an irresistible dog—an unforgettable story about love, friendship, and community. Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Mary Alice Monroe. Caroline O’Connor never dreamed she’d be back home in Cold River, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain town where everyone is ‘up your business.’…they mean well as they drive you crazy. She thought she’d left town for good, but now she’s back, helping to care for her New York born mother—struck with Alzheimer’s, and prone to saying and doing anything—and her father, the beloved local doctor frustrated he can’t cure his own wife. As for Caroline, she’s doing ‘just fine’ coping with her parents, her brazen cousin Ava Dawn’s marital disasters, her mostly-deaf dog…and with Noah Cranwell, far-flung relative of a local family mostly infamous for running moonshine, an ex-veteran who’s come to Cold River with troubles of his own. Caroline believes she knows everything about Cold River and the people who live in its hills and hollers … but sometimes life’s greatest surprises happen closest to home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274013Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Fine with Caroline: A Cold River Novel Series: #1 of Cold River Author: Annie England Noblin Narrator: Em Eldridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Fine with Caroline: A Cold River Novel Series: #1 of Cold River Author: Annie England Noblin Narrator: Em Eldridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of Sit! Stay! Speak! comes a tender, terrific novel complete with long-buried secrets, a three-legged pot belly pig, and an irresistible dog—an unforgettable story about love, friendship, and community. Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Mary Alice Monroe. Caroline O’Connor never dreamed she’d be back home in Cold River, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain town where everyone is ‘up your business.’…they mean well as they drive you crazy. She thought she’d left town for good, but now she’s back, helping to care for her New York born mother—struck with Alzheimer’s, and prone to saying and doing anything—and her father, the beloved local doctor frustrated he can’t cure his own wife. As for Caroline, she’s doing ‘just fine’ coping with her parents, her brazen cousin Ava Dawn’s marital disasters, her mostly-deaf dog…and with Noah Cranwell, far-flung relative of a local family mostly infamous for running moonshine, an ex-veteran who’s come to Cold River with troubles of his own. Caroline believes she knows everything about Cold River and the people who live in its hills and hollers … but sometimes life’s greatest surprises happen closest to home.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/two-by-two-by-nicholas-sparks--65309571https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two by Two Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.02 of Total 425 Ratings of Narrator: 4.22 of Total 83 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this New York Times bestseller, a single father discovers the true nature of unconditional love when a new chance at happiness turns his world upside down.At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive, and an expansive home in Charlotte. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is at the center of it. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear . . . and no one is more surprised than Russ when every aspect of the life he has taken for granted is turned upside down. In a matter of months, Russ finds himself without a job or a wife, caring for his young daughter while struggling to adapt to a new and baffling reality. Throwing himself into the wilderness of single parenting, Russ embarks on a journey at once terrifying and rewarding -- one that will test his abilities and his emotional resources beyond anything he's ever imagined. When a chance encounter with an old flame tempts him to take a chance on love again, he will navigate this new opportunity with trepidation and wonder. But with the loyal support of his parents, the wisdom of his older sister, Marge, and in the hard-won lessons of fatherhood, Russ will finally come to understand the true nature of unconditional love -- that it is a treasure to be bestowed, not earned.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270931Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two by Two Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two by Two Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.02 of Total 425 Ratings of Narrator: 4.22 of Total 83 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this New York Times bestseller, a single father discovers the true nature of unconditional love when a new chance at happiness turns his world upside down.At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive, and an expansive home in Charlotte. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is at the center of it. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear . . . and no one is more surprised than Russ when every aspect of the life he has taken for granted is turned upside down. In a matter of months, Russ finds himself without a job or a wife, caring for his young daughter while struggling to adapt to a new and baffling reality. Throwing himself into the wilderness of single parenting, Russ embarks on a journey at once terrifying and rewarding -- one that will test his abilities and his emotional resources beyond anything he's ever imagined. When a chance encounter with an old flame tempts him to take a chance on love again, he will navigate this new opportunity with trepidation and wonder. But with the loyal support of his parents, the wisdom of his older sister, Marge, and in the hard-won lessons of fatherhood, Russ will finally come to understand the true nature of unconditional love -- that it is a treasure to be bestowed, not earned.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/winter-storms-by-elin-hilderbrand--65309524https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Storms Series: #3 of Winter Street Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Gather under the mistletoe for another round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming third addition to Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling Winter Street series. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, and an ill-fated affair with the Winter Street Inn's old Santa Claus, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; Patrick is about to be released from prison; Kevin has a successful new business and is finally ready to tie the knot with Isabelle; and best of all, there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon. Kelley has recently survived a health scare; Jennifer can't quite shake her addiction to the drugs she used as a crutch while Patrick was in jail; and Ava still can't decide between the two lovers that she's been juggling with limited success. However, if there's one holiday that brings the Quinn family together to give thanks for the good times, it's Christmas. And this year promises to be a celebration unlike any other as the Quinns prepare to host Kevin and Isabelle's wedding at the inn. But as the special day approaches, a historic once-in-a-century blizzard bears down on Nantucket, threatening to keep the Quinns away from the place--and the people--they love most. Before the snow clears, the Quinns will have to survive enough upheavals to send anyone running for the spiked eggnog, in this touching novel that proves that when the holidays roll around, you can always go home again. Follow the Quinn family through the entire Winter Street Series:   - Winter Street - Winter Stroll - Winter Storms - Winter Solstice]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270769Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Storms Series: #3 of Winter Street Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Storms Series: #3 of Winter Street Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Gather under the mistletoe for another round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming third addition to Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling Winter Street series. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, and an ill-fated affair with the Winter Street Inn's old Santa Claus, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; Patrick is about to be released from prison; Kevin has a successful new business and is finally ready to tie the knot with Isabelle; and best of all, there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon. Kelley has recently survived a health scare; Jennifer can't quite shake her addiction to the drugs she used as a crutch while Patrick was in jail; and Ava still can't decide between the two lovers that she's been juggling with limited success. However, if there's one holiday that brings the Quinn family together to give thanks for the good times, it's Christmas. And this year promises to be a celebration unlike any other as the Quinns prepare to host Kevin and Isabelle's wedding at the inn. But as the special day approaches, a historic once-in-a-century blizzard bears down on Nantucket, threatening to keep the Quinns away from the place--and the people--they love most. Before the snow clears, the Quinns will have to survive enough upheavals to send anyone running for the spiked eggnog, in this touching novel that proves that when the holidays roll around, you can always go home again. Follow the Quinn family through the entire Winter Street Series:   - Winter Street - Winter Stroll - Winter Storms - Winter Solstice]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-black-sheep-s-secret-child-the-rancher-returns-by-brenda-jackson-cat-schield--65309522https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Sheep's Secret Child & The Rancher Returns Author: Brenda Jackson, Cat Schield Narrator: Amy Landon, Sean Crisden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Black Sheep's Secret Child A second chance with her son's secret father!  Widow Savannah Caldwell faces the challenge of her life: begging Trent Caldwell—her former fling and late husband's brother—to save the family's ailing music business. That she's still attracted to Trent makes things hard; that Trent is her son's secret father makes things impossible!  Trent is fiercely proud of making his own fortune, despite his controlling father. And he's always believed his brother got the girl who should have been Trent's. Now he'll have the family business, and his brother's widow in the bargain. But will their romantic reunion be waylaid by Savannah's shocking baby secret? The Rancher Returns Discover New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson's The Westmoreland Legacy—a navy SEAL returns to his ranch…and finds irresistible desire!  Returning from active duty to find his ranch being dug up by a beautiful stranger isn't the homecoming navy SEAL Gavin Blake expected. Layla Harris is convinced there's buried treasure on his land. But the only treasure this wealthy rancher wants to uncover is the professor's secret desires! When Layla unearths family secrets—and mysterious threats—he vows to do whatever it takes to protect her. Even as her revelations change everything…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274576Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Sheep's Secret Child & The Rancher Returns Author: Brenda Jackson, Cat Schield Narrator: Amy Landon, Sean Crisden Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Sheep's Secret Child & The Rancher Returns Author: Brenda Jackson, Cat Schield Narrator: Amy Landon, Sean Crisden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Black Sheep's Secret Child A second chance with her son's secret father!  Widow Savannah Caldwell faces the challenge of her life: begging Trent Caldwell—her former fling and late husband's brother—to save the family's ailing music business. That she's still attracted to Trent makes things hard; that Trent is her son's secret father makes things impossible!  Trent is fiercely proud of making his own fortune, despite his controlling father. And he's always believed his brother got the girl who should have been Trent's. Now he'll have the family business, and his brother's widow in the bargain. But will their romantic reunion be waylaid by Savannah's shocking baby secret? The Rancher Returns Discover New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson's The Westmoreland Legacy—a navy SEAL returns to his ranch…and finds irresistible desire!  Returning from active duty to find his ranch being dug up by a beautiful stranger isn't the homecoming navy SEAL Gavin Blake expected. Layla Harris is convinced there's buried treasure on his land. But the only treasure this wealthy rancher wants to uncover is the professor's secret desires! When Layla unearths family secrets—and mysterious threats—he vows to do whatever it takes to protect her. Even as her revelations change everything…]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/today-will-be-different-by-maria-semple--65309521https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Today Will Be Different Author: Maria Semple Narrator: Kathleen Wilhoite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272585Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Today Will Be Different Author: Maria Semple Narrator: Kathleen Wilhoite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Today Will Be Different Author: Maria Semple Narrator: Kathleen Wilhoite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nicotine-a-novel-by-nell-zink--65309508https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nicotine: A Novel Author: Nell Zink Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The ''wonderfully talented'' (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home. Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life—by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic ''healing center.'' And she’s never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm’s previous marriage—one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked), one a photographer on a distant tropical island. But all that changes when her father dies, and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property ''Nicotine.'' The Nicotine residents (united in defense of smokers’ rights) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she’s desperately lacking, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. As the Baker family’s lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it—and its residents—until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between Baby-Boomer idealism and Millennial pragmatism, between the have-nots and want-mores, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273714Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nicotine: A Novel Author: Nell Zink Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nicotine: A Novel Author: Nell Zink Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The ''wonderfully talented'' (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home. Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life—by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic ''healing center.'' And she’s never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm’s previous marriage—one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked), one a photographer on a distant tropical island. But all that changes when her father dies, and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property ''Nicotine.'' The Nicotine residents (united in defense of smokers’ rights) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she’s desperately lacking, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. As the Baker family’s lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it—and its residents—until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between Baby-Boomer idealism and Millennial pragmatism, between the have-nots and want-mores, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unbroken-line-of-the-moon-by-johanne-hildebrandt--65309579https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbroken Line of the Moon Series: #1 of Valhalla Author: Johanne Hildebrandt Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this savage saga of love, war, lust, and magic set in the tenth century, young Sigrid is destined to be the mother of the king of the Nordic lands that would become Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and England. A devout believer in the old Nordic gods, Sigrid is visited regularly in her dreams by the goddess Freya, who whispers to her of the future. Though Sigrid is beautiful, rich, arrogant, and matchlessly clever, her uncanny ability to foresee the future and manipulate the present guides her through dangerous politics as a bloody war between Vikings and Christians rages on. Sigrid’s father wants her to marry Erik, a local king, to secure the peace between the Goths and the Swedes. Thinking she is doing Freya’s will, she accepts the marriage offer, only to find that her destiny lies not with Erik but with Sweyn, a warrior who dreams of dethroning Harald Bluetooth, the legendary ruler of Denmark. Will Sigrid sacrifice her will for the greatest Viking kingdom of all time, or will she follow her heart at the risk of losing everything?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270740Sat, 01 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbroken Line of the Moon Series: #1 of Valhalla Author: Johanne Hildebrandt Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbroken Line of the Moon Series: #1 of Valhalla Author: Johanne Hildebrandt Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this savage saga of love, war, lust, and magic set in the tenth century, young Sigrid is destined to be the mother of the king of the Nordic lands that would become Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and England. A devout believer in the old Nordic gods, Sigrid is visited regularly in her dreams by the goddess Freya, who whispers to her of the future. Though Sigrid is beautiful, rich, arrogant, and matchlessly clever, her uncanny ability to foresee the future and manipulate the present guides her through dangerous politics as a bloody war between Vikings and Christians rages on. Sigrid’s father wants her to marry Erik, a local king, to secure the peace between the Goths and the Swedes. Thinking she is doing Freya’s will, she accepts the marriage offer, only to find that her destiny lies not with Erik but with Sweyn, a warrior who dreams of dethroning Harald Bluetooth, the legendary ruler of Denmark. Will Sigrid sacrifice her will for the greatest Viking kingdom of all time, or will she follow her heart at the risk of losing everything?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-we-were-before-by-leah-mercer--65309520https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who We Were Before Author: Leah Mercer Narrator: Simon Mattacks, Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Romantic Novel Award Nominee Zoe knows that it wasn’t really her fault. Of course it wasn’t. But if she’d just grasped harder, run faster, lunged quicker, she might have saved him. And Edward doesn’t really blame her, though his bitter words at the time still haunt her, and he can no more take them back than she can halt the car that killed their son. Two years on, every day is a tragedy. Edward knows they should take healing steps together, but he’s tired of being shut out. For Zoe, it just seems easier to let grief lead the way. A weekend in Paris might be their last hope for reconciliation, but mischance sees them separated before they’ve even left Gare du Nord. Lost and alone, Edward and Zoe must try to find their way back to each other—and find their way back to the people they were before. But is that even possible?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270748Sat, 01 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who We Were Before Author: Leah Mercer Narrator: Simon Mattacks, Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who We Were Before Author: Leah Mercer Narrator: Simon Mattacks, Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Romantic Novel Award Nominee Zoe knows that it wasn’t really her fault. Of course it wasn’t. But if she’d just grasped harder, run faster, lunged quicker, she might have saved him. And Edward doesn’t really blame her, though his bitter words at the time still haunt her, and he can no more take them back than she can halt the car that killed their son. Two years on, every day is a tragedy. Edward knows they should take healing steps together, but he’s tired of being shut out. For Zoe, it just seems easier to let grief lead the way. A weekend in Paris might be their last hope for reconciliation, but mischance sees them separated before they’ve even left Gare du Nord. Lost and alone, Edward and Zoe must try to find their way back to each other—and find their way back to the people they were before. But is that even possible?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-special-power-of-restoring-lost-things-by-courtney-elizabeth-mauk--65309512https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things Author: Courtney Elizabeth Mauk Narrator: Sadie Alexandru Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Set against a layered Manhattan landscape, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things explores a fractured family through the alternating perspectives of the mother, father, and brother of a young woman during the aftermath of her disappearance. A year of silent but collective anguish culminates in the fateful thirty hours after a body with a striking resemblance to hers is found, and we see her buttoned-up Upper West Side family spiral in different, dangerous directions: Her mother, Carol, nearly comatose by day, comes alive at night in a vigilante-like attempt to track down her daughter’s killer. Her brother, Ben, once the “good kid,” adopts her bad habits along with her former friends who may have been complicit in her death. And after failing to keep his family from splitting apart, her seemingly stoic father, Drew, finally allows himself to crack. In her third novel, Courtney Elizabeth Mauk presents a nuanced character study and offers a jolting and unforgettable portrait of a family’s struggle to survive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274677Sat, 01 Oct 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things Author: Courtney Elizabeth Mauk Narrator: Sadie Alexandru Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things Author: Courtney Elizabeth Mauk Narrator: Sadie Alexandru Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Set against a layered Manhattan landscape, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things explores a fractured family through the alternating perspectives of the mother, father, and brother of a young woman during the aftermath of her disappearance. A year of silent but collective anguish culminates in the fateful thirty hours after a body with a striking resemblance to hers is found, and we see her buttoned-up Upper West Side family spiral in different, dangerous directions: Her mother, Carol, nearly comatose by day, comes alive at night in a vigilante-like attempt to track down her daughter’s killer. Her brother, Ben, once the “good kid,” adopts her bad habits along with her former friends who may have been complicit in her death. And after failing to keep his family from splitting apart, her seemingly stoic father, Drew, finally allows himself to crack. In her third novel, Courtney Elizabeth Mauk presents a nuanced character study and offers a jolting and unforgettable portrait of a family’s struggle to survive.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/christmas-at-promise-lodge-by-charlotte-hubbard--65309545https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas At Promise Lodge Series: #2 of Promise Lodge Author: Charlotte Hubbard Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: As Promise Lodge's first wedding arrives, the evidence of a community building a foundation for the future is a cause for celebration. But the bishop's narrow-minded wedding sermon doesn't sit well with the Bender sisters, the town's courageous founders, especially widowed Mattie Schwartz. She believes marriage and family aren't the most important of God's gifts-even if she suspects her tender feelings for Preacher Amos Troyer run deeper than simple friendship. When an accident threatens to change the course of his life forever, he wonders if the Lord has sent him a message. He'll need faith, hope, and charity to find the right path-and a Christmas blessing to convince Mattie to walk it with him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274894Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas At Promise Lodge Series: #2 of Promise Lodge Author: Charlotte Hubbard Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas At Promise Lodge Series: #2 of Promise Lodge Author: Charlotte Hubbard Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: As Promise Lodge's first wedding arrives, the evidence of a community building a foundation for the future is a cause for celebration. But the bishop's narrow-minded wedding sermon doesn't sit well with the Bender sisters, the town's courageous founders, especially widowed Mattie Schwartz. She believes marriage and family aren't the most important of God's gifts-even if she suspects her tender feelings for Preacher Amos Troyer run deeper than simple friendship. When an accident threatens to change the course of his life forever, he wonders if the Lord has sent him a message. He'll need faith, hope, and charity to find the right path-and a Christmas blessing to convince Mattie to walk it with him.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/soulmates-a-novel-by-jessica-grose--65309542https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soulmates: A Novel Author: Jessica Grose Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt, Carly Robins, Zach Villa, Elizabeth Wiley, Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.59 of Total 69 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 15 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ''For anyone who has ever suspected something sinister lurking behind the craze of new-age spirituality, Jessica Grose has crafted just the tale for you. With the delicious bite of satire and the page-turning satisfaction of a thriller, Soulmates is a deeply compelling, funny and sharply observed look at just how far we will go to achieve inner peace.''—Lena Dunham A clever, timely novel about a marriage, and infidelity, the meaning of true spirituality, perception and reality from the author of Sad Desk Salad, in which a scorned ex-wife tries to puzzle out the pieces of her husband’s mysterious death at a yoga retreat and their life together. It’s been two years since the divorce, and Dana has moved on. She’s killing it at her law firm, she’s never looked better, thanks to all those healthy meals she cooks, and she’s thrown away Ethan’s ratty old plaid recliner. She hardly thinks about her husband—ex-husband—anymore, or about how the man she’d known since college ran away to the Southwest with a yoga instructor, spouting spiritual claptrap that Dana still can’t comprehend. But when she sees Ethan’s picture splashed across the front page of the New York Post—''Nama-Slay: Yoga Couple Found Dead in New Mexico Cave''—Dana discovers she hasn’t fully let go of Ethan or the past. The article implies that it was a murder-suicide, and Ethan’s to blame. How could the man she once loved so deeply be a killer? Restless to find answers that might help her finally to let go, Dana begins to dig into the mystery surrounding Ethan’s death. Sifting through the clues of his life, Dana finds herself back in the last years of their marriage . . . and discovers that their relationship—like Ethan’s death—wasn’t what it appeared to be. A novel of marriage, meditation, and all the spaces in between, Soulmates is a page-turning mystery, a delicious satire of our feel-good spiritual culture, and a nuanced look at contemporary relationships by one of the sharpest writers working today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273176Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soulmates: A Novel Author: Jessica Grose Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt, Carly Robins, Zach Villa, Elizabeth Wiley, Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soulmates: A Novel Author: Jessica Grose Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt, Carly Robins, Zach Villa, Elizabeth Wiley, Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.59 of Total 69 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 15 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ''For anyone who has ever suspected something sinister lurking behind the craze of new-age spirituality, Jessica Grose has crafted just the tale for you. With the delicious bite of satire and the page-turning satisfaction of a thriller, Soulmates is a deeply compelling, funny and sharply observed look at just how far we will go to achieve inner peace.''—Lena Dunham A clever, timely novel about a marriage, and infidelity, the meaning of true spirituality, perception and reality from the author of Sad Desk Salad, in which a scorned ex-wife tries to puzzle out the pieces of her husband’s mysterious death at a yoga retreat and their life together. It’s been two years since the divorce, and Dana has moved on. She’s killing it at her law firm, she’s never looked better, thanks to all those healthy meals she cooks, and she’s thrown away Ethan’s ratty old plaid recliner. She hardly thinks about her husband—ex-husband—anymore, or about how the man she’d known since college ran away to the Southwest with a yoga instructor, spouting spiritual claptrap that Dana still can’t comprehend. But when she sees Ethan’s picture splashed across the front page of the New York Post—''Nama-Slay: Yoga Couple Found Dead in New Mexico Cave''—Dana discovers she hasn’t fully let go of Ethan or the past. The article implies that it was a murder-suicide, and Ethan’s to blame. How could the man she once loved so deeply be a killer? Restless to find answers that might help her finally to let go, Dana begins to dig into the mystery surrounding Ethan’s death. Sifting through the clues of his life, Dana finds herself back in the last years of their marriage . . . and discovers that their relationship—like Ethan’s death—wasn’t what it appeared to be. A novel of marriage, meditation, and all the spaces in between, Soulmates is a page-turning mystery, a delicious satire of our feel-good spiritual culture, and a nuanced look at contemporary relationships by one of the sharpest writers working today.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-professor-s-house-by-willa-cather--65309528https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Professor's House Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life that's a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal—from one of the most highly acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life. The Professor's House combines a delightful grasp of the social and domestic rituals of a Midwestern university town in the 1920s with profound spiritual and psychological introspection.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273812Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Professor's House Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Professor's House Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life that's a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal—from one of the most highly acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life. The Professor's House combines a delightful grasp of the social and domestic rituals of a Midwestern university town in the 1920s with profound spiritual and psychological introspection.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-promise-kitchen-a-novel-by-peggy-lampman--65309519https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Promise Kitchen: A Novel Author: Peggy Lampman Narrator: Kristin Kalbli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Food, friendship, family, and a fresh start. Shelby Preston, a young single mother, is at a crossroads. She feels suffocated by her hardscrabble life in rural Georgia and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Lord knows her family could use a pot of something good. In Atlanta, Mallory Lakes is reeling from a bad breakup. The newspaper food columnist is also bracing for major changes at work that could put her job at risk. Determined to find the perfect recipe for how to reinvent herself, she gets involved in the growing farm-to-table movement. But an emotional setback threatens to derail everything she’s worked for. Shelby and Mallory couldn’t be more different. But through their shared passion for food, they form an unlikely friendship—a bond that just might be their salvation. This heartwarming and lyrical tale reminds us that family isn’t necessarily whom you’re related to—it’s whom you invite to your table. This is a new release of a previously published edition titled Simmer and Smoke; it contains twenty delightful recipes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270739Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Promise Kitchen: A Novel Author: Peggy Lampman Narrator: Kristin Kalbli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Promise Kitchen: A Novel Author: Peggy Lampman Narrator: Kristin Kalbli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Food, friendship, family, and a fresh start. Shelby Preston, a young single mother, is at a crossroads. She feels suffocated by her hardscrabble life in rural Georgia and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Lord knows her family could use a pot of something good. In Atlanta, Mallory Lakes is reeling from a bad breakup. The newspaper food columnist is also bracing for major changes at work that could put her job at risk. Determined to find the perfect recipe for how to reinvent herself, she gets involved in the growing farm-to-table movement. But an emotional setback threatens to derail everything she’s worked for. Shelby and Mallory couldn’t be more different. But through their shared passion for food, they form an unlikely friendship—a bond that just might be their salvation. This heartwarming and lyrical tale reminds us that family isn’t necessarily whom you’re related to—it’s whom you invite to your table. This is a new release of a previously published edition titled Simmer and Smoke; it contains twenty delightful recipes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-in-the-castle-a-novel-by-santa-montefiore--65309518https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Castle: A Novel Series: #1 of Deverill Chronicles Author: Santa Montefiore Narrator: Genevieve Swallow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Ireland. The early twentieth century. Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war. Hear their story — and see why JOJO Moyes says that ''Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore.''  Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill grows up in Castle Deverill, on the sunning green ghills of West Cork, Ireland — the same place her ancestors have always dwelled. She isn't fully Irish, as the son of the local veterinarian likes to tease her; but this doesn't stop Kitty and Jack O'Leary from falling in love... Bridie Doyle, daughter to Castle Deverill's cook, cherishes her friendship with Kitty. Yet she can’t help dreaming of someday having wealth, having glamour, having... more. And when she discovers Kitty's darkest secret, Bridie finds herself growing to resent the girl in the castle who seems to have it all. As Irish and British forces collide in Southern Ireland, Jack enlists to fight — and Kitty throws herself into the cause for Irish liberty, running messages and ammunition between the rebels. But , her allegiance to her family and her friends will soon be tested... and when Castle Deverill comes under attack, the only home and life she’s ever known are threatened. A powerful story of love, loyalty, and friendship, The Girl in the Castle is an exquisitely written novel set against the magical, captivating landscape of Ireland — perfect for fans of DOWNTON ABBEY and KATE MORTON. Also published as The Irish Girl available in paperback.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274022Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Castle: A Novel Series: #1 of Deverill Chronicles Author: Santa Montefiore Narrator: Genevieve Swallow Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Castle: A Novel Series: #1 of Deverill Chronicles Author: Santa Montefiore Narrator: Genevieve Swallow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Ireland. The early twentieth century. Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war. Hear their story — and see why JOJO Moyes says that ''Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore.''  Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill grows up in Castle Deverill, on the sunning green ghills of West Cork, Ireland — the same place her ancestors have always dwelled. She isn't fully Irish, as the son of the local veterinarian likes to tease her; but this doesn't stop Kitty and Jack O'Leary from falling in love... Bridie Doyle, daughter to Castle Deverill's cook, cherishes her friendship with Kitty. Yet she can’t help dreaming of someday having wealth, having glamour, having... more. And when she discovers Kitty's darkest secret, Bridie finds herself growing to resent the girl in the castle who seems to have it all. As Irish and British forces collide in Southern Ireland, Jack enlists to fight — and Kitty throws herself into the cause for Irish liberty, running messages and ammunition between the rebels. But , her allegiance to her family and her friends will soon be tested... and when Castle Deverill comes under attack, the only home and life she’s ever known are threatened. A powerful story of love, loyalty, and friendship, The Girl in the Castle is an exquisitely written novel set against the magical, captivating landscape of Ireland — perfect for fans of DOWNTON ABBEY and KATE MORTON. Also published as The Irish Girl available in paperback.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/echoes-of-family-by-barbara-claypole-white--65309514https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes of Family Author: Barbara Claypole White Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it began. Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead, and her first love, Gabriel, badly injured. Three decades later she’s finally found peace in the North Carolina recording studio she runs with her husband, Darius, and her almost-daughter, Jade…until another fatality propels her back across the ocean to confront the long-buried past. In her picturesque childhood village, the first person she meets is the last person she wants to see again: Gabriel. Now the village vicar, he takes her in without question, and ripples of what if reverberate through both their hearts. As Marianne’s mind unravels, Jade and Darius track her down. Tempers clash when everyone tries to help, but only by finding the courage to face her illness can Marianne heal herself and her offbeat family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274671Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes of Family Author: Barbara Claypole White Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes of Family Author: Barbara Claypole White Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it began. Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead, and her first love, Gabriel, badly injured. Three decades later she’s finally found peace in the North Carolina recording studio she runs with her husband, Darius, and her almost-daughter, Jade…until another fatality propels her back across the ocean to confront the long-buried past. In her picturesque childhood village, the first person she meets is the last person she wants to see again: Gabriel. Now the village vicar, he takes her in without question, and ripples of what if reverberate through both their hearts. As Marianne’s mind unravels, Jade and Darius track her down. Tempers clash when everyone tries to help, but only by finding the courage to face her illness can Marianne heal herself and her offbeat family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mercury-a-novel-by-margot-livesey--65309511https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mercury: A Novel Author: Margot Livesey Narrator: Derek Perkins, Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A taut emotional thriller about love, obsession and the secrets that pull a family apart. Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optician in suburban Boston, he rests assured that he and his wife, Viv, who works at the local stables, will live out quiet lives with their two children. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young racehorse—enters their lives and everything changes. Viv’s friend Hilary has inherited Mercury from her brother after his mysterious death—he was riding Mercury late one afternoon and the horse returned to the stables alone. When Hilary first brings Mercury to board at the stables everyone there is struck by his beauty and prowess, particularly Viv. As she rides him, Viv dreams of competing with Mercury, rebuilding the ambitions of grandeur that she held for herself before moving to the suburbs. But her daydreams soon morph into consuming desire, and her infatuation with the thoroughbred quickly escalates to obsession. By the time Donald understands the change that has come over Viv, it is too late to stop the impending fate that both their actions have wrought for them and their loved ones. A beautifully crafted, riveting novel about the ways in which relationships can be disrupted and, ultimately, destroyed by obsession, secrets and ever-escalating lies.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273168Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mercury: A Novel Author: Margot Livesey Narrator: Derek Perkins, Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mercury: A Novel Author: Margot Livesey Narrator: Derek Perkins, Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A taut emotional thriller about love, obsession and the secrets that pull a family apart. Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optician in suburban Boston, he rests assured that he and his wife, Viv, who works at the local stables, will live out quiet lives with their two children. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young racehorse—enters their lives and everything changes. Viv’s friend Hilary has inherited Mercury from her brother after his mysterious death—he was riding Mercury late one afternoon and the horse returned to the stables alone. When Hilary first brings Mercury to board at the stables everyone there is struck by his beauty and prowess, particularly Viv. As she rides him, Viv dreams of competing with Mercury, rebuilding the ambitions of grandeur that she held for herself before moving to the suburbs. But her daydreams soon morph into consuming desire, and her infatuation with the thoroughbred quickly escalates to obsession. By the time Donald understands the change that has come over Viv, it is too late to stop the impending fate that both their actions have wrought for them and their loved ones. A beautifully crafted, riveting novel about the ways in which relationships can be disrupted and, ultimately, destroyed by obsession, secrets and ever-escalating lies.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vivian-in-red-by-kristina-riggle--65309510https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vivian In Red Author: Kristina Riggle Narrator: Chris Lutkin, Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Famed Broadway Milo Short steps out of his Upper West Side brownstone on one exceptionally hot morning, he's not expecting to see the impossible: a woman from his life sixty years ago, winking at him on a New York sidewalk. The sight causes him to suffer a stroke. And when he comes to, the renowned lyricist discovers he has lost the ability to communicate. Milo believes he must unravel his complicated history with Vivian Adair in order to win back his words. But he needs help-in the form of his granddaughter Eleanor-failed journalist and family misfit. Tapped to write her grandfather's definitive biography, Eleanor must dig into Milo's colorful past to discover the real story behind Milo.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274893Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vivian In Red Author: Kristina Riggle Narrator: Chris Lutkin, Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vivian In Red Author: Kristina Riggle Narrator: Chris Lutkin, Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Famed Broadway Milo Short steps out of his Upper West Side brownstone on one exceptionally hot morning, he's not expecting to see the impossible: a woman from his life sixty years ago, winking at him on a New York sidewalk. The sight causes him to suffer a stroke. And when he comes to, the renowned lyricist discovers he has lost the ability to communicate. Milo believes he must unravel his complicated history with Vivian Adair in order to win back his words. But he needs help-in the form of his granddaughter Eleanor-failed journalist and family misfit. Tapped to write her grandfather's definitive biography, Eleanor must dig into Milo's colorful past to discover the real story behind Milo.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gaining-visibility-by-pamela-hearon--65309507https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaining Visibility Author: Pamela Hearon Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Julia Berkwith's daughter has moved to Alaska, her beloved mother-in-law is in a nursing home, and her ex-husband is in Hawaii--with a younger woman. In her late forties, Julia is now used to being invisible. But even if she has to do it alone, she's determined to celebrate her victory over breast cancer by hiking Italy's Cinque Terre. Invigorated by the beauty of the Italian countryside, Julia seems unstoppable, until she's injured by a rock--one that happens to belong to thirty-something stone mason Vitale DeLuca. Reluctantly, Julia accepts Vitale's insistent offer of lodging while she recovers. But in his home, amid his exquisite sculptures, Julia sees beyond his charm and looks to something special: a talent she must bring to the world's attention.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274892Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaining Visibility Author: Pamela Hearon Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaining Visibility Author: Pamela Hearon Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Julia Berkwith's daughter has moved to Alaska, her beloved mother-in-law is in a nursing home, and her ex-husband is in Hawaii--with a younger woman. In her late forties, Julia is now used to being invisible. But even if she has to do it alone, she's determined to celebrate her victory over breast cancer by hiking Italy's Cinque Terre. Invigorated by the beauty of the Italian countryside, Julia seems unstoppable, until she's injured by a rock--one that happens to belong to thirty-something stone mason Vitale DeLuca. Reluctantly, Julia accepts Vitale's insistent offer of lodging while she recovers. But in his home, amid his exquisite sculptures, Julia sees beyond his charm and looks to something special: a talent she must bring to the world's attention.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-diary-of-hendrik-groen-83-1-4-years-old-by-hendrik-groen--65309531https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old Author: Hendrik Groen Narrator: Derek Jacobi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ** THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON ** 'There are many laughs in this book but it's so much more than just a comedy. It's a story about how friendship, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I'm an old man, I want to be Hendrik Groen' John Boyne, author of international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas *** 'Another year and I still don't like old people. Me? I am 83 years old.' Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he had to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is ... elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing all its ups and downs - not least his new endeavour the anarchic Old-But-Not Dead Club. And when Eefje moves in - the woman Hendrik has always longed for - he polishes his shoes (and his teeth), grooms what's left of his hair and attempts to make something of the life he has left, with hilarious, tender and devastating consequences. The indomitable Hendrik Groen - Holland's unlikeliest hero - has become a cultural phenomenon in his native Netherlands and now he and his famously anonymous creator are conquering the globe. A major Dutch bestseller, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen will not only delight older readers with its wit and relevance, but will charm and inspire those who have years to go before their own expiry date. *** Praise for The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 ¼ Years Old 'A story with a great deal of heart, it pulled me in with its self-deprecating humour, finely drawn characters and important themes. Anyone who hopes to grow old with dignity will have much to reflect on' Graeme Simsion 'There are many laughs in this book but it's so much more than just a comedy. It's a story about how friendship, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I'm an old man, I want to be Hendrik Groen' John Boyne 'A funny but also touching diary praised for its wit and realism' BBC Radio 4 Front Row 'I laughed until I cried and then laughed and cried some more' David Suchet 'Thoughtful, anxious and gruff... Laced with humour' The Best New Fiction Mail on Sunday 'Amusing [and] wickedly accurate ... I was constantly put in mind of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, another comi-tragedy concerning the tyranny of institutions of the unwanted. Enjoy Groen's light touch but do not be fooled by it. We live in an ageing society. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is a handbook of resistance for our time' ***** FIVE STARS Sunday Express 'Highly entertaining ... a delightful and touching saga of one man's way of coping with old age ... we may assume that Hendrik Groen is a character of fiction. But it is a fiction so closely based on the observation of real life that it is utterly convincing' Daily Express 'A joy to read, as much concerned with friendship and dignity as it is with the debilitating effects of aging ... An entertaining and uplifting story of a man in the winter of his days, stoic in the face of bureaucratic nonsense and an unabashed need to wear a nappy. Imagined or not, this is the diary of someone who wants nothing more than to be allowed see out his days with dignity and respect. It's not too much to ask, really, is it?' John Boyne Irish Times 'Full of off-beat charm and quirky characters' Cathy Rentzenbrink, Stylist 'Hendrik pens an exposé of his care home, sets up the Old-But-Not-Dead club and relishes the arrival of a new female resident. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh and think. Terrific' Fanny Blake, Woman and Home]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274552Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old Author: Hendrik Groen Narrator: Derek Jacobi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old Author: Hendrik Groen Narrator: Derek Jacobi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ** THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON ** 'There are many laughs in this book but it's so much more than just a comedy. It's a story about how friendship, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I'm an old man, I want to be Hendrik Groen' John Boyne, author of international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas *** 'Another year and I still don't like old people. Me? I am 83 years old.' Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he had to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is ... elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing all its ups and downs - not least his new endeavour the anarchic Old-But-Not Dead Club. And when Eefje moves in - the woman Hendrik has always longed for - he polishes his shoes (and his teeth), grooms what's left of his hair and attempts to make something of the life he has left, with hilarious, tender and devastating consequences. The indomitable Hendrik Groen - Holland's unlikeliest hero - has become a cultural phenomenon in his native Netherlands and now he and his famously anonymous creator are conquering the globe. A major Dutch bestseller, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen will not only delight older readers with its wit and relevance, but will charm and inspire those who have years to go before their own expiry date. *** Praise for The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 ¼ Years Old 'A story with a great deal of heart, it pulled me in with its self-deprecating humour, finely drawn characters and important themes. Anyone who hopes to grow old with dignity will have much to reflect on' Graeme Simsion 'There are many laughs in this book but it's so much more than just a comedy. It's a story about how friendship, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I'm an old man, I want to be Hendrik Groen' John Boyne 'A funny but also touching diary praised for its wit and realism' BBC Radio 4 Front Row 'I laughed until I cried and then laughed and cried some more' David Suchet 'Thoughtful, anxious and gruff... Laced with humour' The Best New Fiction Mail on Sunday 'Amusing [and] wickedly accurate ... I was constantly put in mind of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, another comi-tragedy concerning the tyranny of institutions of the unwanted. Enjoy Groen's light touch but do not be fooled by it. We live in an ageing society. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is a handbook of resistance for our time' ***** FIVE STARS Sunday Express 'Highly entertaining ... a delightful and touching saga of one man's way of coping with old age ... we may assume that Hendrik Groen is a character of fiction. But it is a fiction so closely based on the observation of real life that it is utterly convincing' Daily Express 'A joy to read, as much concerned with friendship and dignity as it is with the debilitating effects of aging ... An entertaining and uplifting story of a man in the winter of his days, stoic in the face of bureaucratic nonsense and an unabashed need to wear a nappy. Imagined or not, this is the diary of someone who wants nothing more than to be allowed see out his days with dignity and respect. It's not too much to ask, really, is it?' John Boyne Irish...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-real-liddy-james-by-anne-marie-casey--65309551https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Liddy James Author: Anne-Marie Casey Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Smart and funny . . . Liddy will resonate for readers who love strong, mature women with a bit of Irish fire, as with fans of Cecelia Ahern and Marian Keyes and Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette.' --Booklist A witty and captivating novel about a modern-day superwoman who leans in so far she falls over   Forty-four, fit, and fabulous, Liddy James is one of New York’s top divorce attorneys, a bestselling author, and a mother of two. Armed with a ruthless reputation and a capsule wardrobe, she glides through the courtrooms and salons of the Manhattan elite with ease. What’s her secret? Liddy will tell you: “I don’t do guilt!”   This is the last thing literature professor Peter James wants to hear. Devastated by his divorce from Liddy six years earlier, the two have a tangled history his new partner, Rose, is only just sorting out. But Rose is a patient woman with faith in a well-timed miracle and she’s determined to be sympathetic to Peter’s plight. Together, Liddy, Peter, and Rose have formed a modern family to raise Liddy and Peter’s truculent teen and Liddy’s darling, if fatherless, six-year-old.   But when Rose announces she’s pregnant, Liddy’s nanny takes flight, the bill for a roof repair looms, and a high-profile divorce case becomes too personal, Liddy realizes her days as a guilt-free woman might be over. Following a catastrophic prime-time TV interview, she carts her sons back to Ireland to retrace their family’s history. But marooned in the Celtic countryside things are still far from simple, and Liddy will have to come to terms with much more than a stormy neighbor and an unorthodox wedding if she ever hopes to rediscover the real Liddy James. Fun, fearless, and full of heart, The Real Liddy James takes a fresh look at the balancing act every family performs. With the deft characterization and sharp wit that made her first novel an international bestseller, Anne-Marie Casey invites us into the ambitions, passions, and misadventures of this extraordinary heroine.  'Witty, clever, elegantly-written, fascinating and wise. I ADORED.' --Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author 'Whip-smart and crackling with energy . . . had me stopping nearly every page to read paragraphs out loud to anyone who would listen. A true delight!' --Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273560Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Liddy James Author: Anne-Marie Casey Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Liddy James Author: Anne-Marie Casey Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Smart and funny . . . Liddy will resonate for readers who love strong, mature women with a bit of Irish fire, as with fans of Cecelia Ahern and Marian Keyes and Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette.' --Booklist A witty and captivating novel about a modern-day superwoman who leans in so far she falls over   Forty-four, fit, and fabulous, Liddy James is one of New York’s top divorce attorneys, a bestselling author, and a mother of two. Armed with a ruthless reputation and a capsule wardrobe, she glides through the courtrooms and salons of the Manhattan elite with ease. What’s her secret? Liddy will tell you: “I don’t do guilt!”   This is the last thing literature professor Peter James wants to hear. Devastated by his divorce from Liddy six years earlier, the two have a tangled history his new partner, Rose, is only just sorting out. But Rose is a patient woman with faith in a well-timed miracle and she’s determined to be sympathetic to Peter’s plight. Together, Liddy, Peter, and Rose have formed a modern family to raise Liddy and Peter’s truculent teen and Liddy’s darling, if fatherless, six-year-old.   But when Rose announces she’s pregnant, Liddy’s nanny takes flight, the bill for a roof repair looms, and a high-profile divorce case becomes too personal, Liddy realizes her days as a guilt-free woman might be over. Following a catastrophic prime-time TV interview, she carts her sons back to Ireland to retrace their family’s history. But marooned in the Celtic countryside things are still far from simple, and Liddy will have to come to terms with much more than a stormy neighbor and an unorthodox wedding if she ever hopes to rediscover the real Liddy James. Fun, fearless, and full of heart, The Real Liddy James takes a fresh look at the balancing act every family performs. With the deft characterization and sharp wit that made her first novel an international bestseller, Anne-Marie Casey invites us into the ambitions, passions, and misadventures of this extraordinary heroine.  'Witty, clever, elegantly-written, fascinating and wise. I ADORED.' --Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author 'Whip-smart and crackling with energy . . . had me stopping nearly every page to read paragraphs out loud to anyone who would listen. A true delight!' --Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-good-parts-by-loretta-nyhan--65309539https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Good Parts Author: Loretta Nyhan Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: At thirty-nine, Leona Accorsi is broke, single, back in school, and living in her sister Carly’s basement. She’s perfectly content being quirky Auntie Lee to Carly’s four children. That is, until Leona’s doctor tells her that if she wants to have a child, she’d better do it now. Leona does want a baby. She always has, but the circumstances have never been right. Now she has a huge decision to make: face motherhood on her own or risk missing out on its rewards. Unfortunately, she’s let her romantic life go stagnant. She barely even knows any single men. She has just a few prospects: a Vietnam vet and partial amputee, his intimidating son, the sweet but troubled man who tutors her niece, and a fellow nursing student she’s never actually met. As Leona discovers more about each one, she realizes any of them could be the right man for the job. The more important question is, has she become the right woman?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273692Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Good Parts Author: Loretta Nyhan Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Good Parts Author: Loretta Nyhan Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: At thirty-nine, Leona Accorsi is broke, single, back in school, and living in her sister Carly’s basement. She’s perfectly content being quirky Auntie Lee to Carly’s four children. That is, until Leona’s doctor tells her that if she wants to have a child, she’d better do it now. Leona does want a baby. She always has, but the circumstances have never been right. Now she has a huge decision to make: face motherhood on her own or risk missing out on its rewards. Unfortunately, she’s let her romantic life go stagnant. She barely even knows any single men. She has just a few prospects: a Vietnam vet and partial amputee, his intimidating son, the sweet but troubled man who tutors her niece, and a fellow nursing student she’s never actually met. As Leona discovers more about each one, she realizes any of them could be the right man for the job. The more important question is, has she become the right woman?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-champagne-queen-by-petra-durst-benning--65309515https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Champagne Queen Series: #2 of The Century Trilogy Author: Petra Durst-Benning Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn’t stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family’s isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon will make when they have their own land. An unexpected inheritance opens a door for the newlyweds—Leon’s uncle has left them a vineyard, and in champagne country no less! But all is not as it seems. The decrepit estate has very little staff to help, and Isabelle cannot focus her husband’s efforts on the farm. She soon decides to seize the opportunity to run the vineyard herself. Like her friends Clara and Josephine, she can learn anything she needs to face a new challenge. And with their help, she will even take on the fierce local competition, with generations of wine-making history tying them to the land she’s just learning to toil. Can Isabelle’s passion and perseverance bring Feininger champagne to the world? Will life with Leon become the happily ever after she’s always dreamed of?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273730Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Champagne Queen Series: #2 of The Century Trilogy Author: Petra Durst-Benning Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Champagne Queen Series: #2 of The Century Trilogy Author: Petra Durst-Benning Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn’t stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family’s isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon will make when they have their own land. An unexpected inheritance opens a door for the newlyweds—Leon’s uncle has left them a vineyard, and in champagne country no less! But all is not as it seems. The decrepit estate has very little staff to help, and Isabelle cannot focus her husband’s efforts on the farm. She soon decides to seize the opportunity to run the vineyard herself. Like her friends Clara and Josephine, she can learn anything she needs to face a new challenge. And with their help, she will even take on the fierce local competition, with generations of wine-making history tying them to the land she’s just learning to toil. Can Isabelle’s passion and perseverance bring Feininger champagne to the world? Will life with Leon become the happily ever after she’s always dreamed of?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shine-short-story-a-short-story-by-jodi-picoult--65309558https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shine (Short Story): A Short Story Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Audra McDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jodi Picoult tackles issues of race and privilege in this ebook original short story, a prequel to her upcoming novel Small Great Things. In “Shine,” the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time and My Sister’s Keeper introduces readers to the unforgettable Ruth Brooks.   Today is Ruth’s first day of third grade at Dalton. The prestigious institution on New York’s Upper East Side couldn’t be more different from her old school in Harlem. Despite being the smartest girl in her grade, Ruth suspects that her classmates and teachers only see her dark skin. She also notices that Christina, the daughter of her mother’s employer, treats Ruth very differently when they’re hanging out with the popular girls rather than playing together. Ruth must navigate between two worlds, never losing sight of the dreams she has for herself—in hopes that someday, someone will see her for who she really is.   Includes a preview of Jodi Picoult’s highly anticipated new novel, Small Great Things!   Praise for Jodi Picoult   “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance.”—Stephen King   “It’s hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.”—Financial Times   “Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships.”—The Boston Globe   “Picoult is a master of the craft of storytelling.”—Associated Press]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273558Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shine (Short Story): A Short Story Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Audra McDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shine (Short Story): A Short Story Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Audra McDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jodi Picoult tackles issues of race and privilege in this ebook original short story, a prequel to her upcoming novel Small Great Things. In “Shine,” the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time and My Sister’s Keeper introduces readers to the unforgettable Ruth Brooks.   Today is Ruth’s first day of third grade at Dalton. The prestigious institution on New York’s Upper East Side couldn’t be more different from her old school in Harlem. Despite being the smartest girl in her grade, Ruth suspects that her classmates and teachers only see her dark skin. She also notices that Christina, the daughter of her mother’s employer, treats Ruth very differently when they’re hanging out with the popular girls rather than playing together. Ruth must navigate between two worlds, never losing sight of the dreams she has for herself—in hopes that someday, someone will see her for who she really is.   Includes a preview of Jodi Picoult’s highly anticipated new novel, Small Great Things!   Praise for Jodi Picoult   “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance.”—Stephen King   “It’s hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.”—Financial Times   “Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships.”—The Boston Globe   “Picoult is a master of the craft of storytelling.”—Associated Press]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-muddied-murder-by-wendy-tyson--65309554https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Muddied Murder Series: #1 of A Greenhouse Mystery Author: Wendy Tyson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Megan Sawyer gives up her big-city law career to care for her grandmother and run the family's organic farm and cafe, she expects to find tranquility in her scenic hometown of Winsome, PA. Instead, her goat goes missing, rain muddies her fields, the town denies her business permits, and her family's Colonial-era farm sucks up the remains of her savings. Just when she thinks she's reached the bottom of the rain barrel, Megan and the town's hunky veterinarian discover the local zoning commissioner's battered body in her barn. Now Megan is thrust into the middle of a murder investigation-and she's the chief suspect. Can Megan dig through small-town secrets, local politics, and old grievances to find a killer before that killer strikes again?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273656Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Muddied Murder Series: #1 of A Greenhouse Mystery Author: Wendy Tyson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Muddied Murder Series: #1 of A Greenhouse Mystery Author: Wendy Tyson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Megan Sawyer gives up her big-city law career to care for her grandmother and run the family's organic farm and cafe, she expects to find tranquility in her scenic hometown of Winsome, PA. Instead, her goat goes missing, rain muddies her fields, the town denies her business permits, and her family's Colonial-era farm sucks up the remains of her savings. Just when she thinks she's reached the bottom of the rain barrel, Megan and the town's hunky veterinarian discover the local zoning commissioner's battered body in her barn. Now Megan is thrust into the middle of a murder investigation-and she's the chief suspect. Can Megan dig through small-town secrets, local politics, and old grievances to find a killer before that killer strikes again?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lullaby-sky-by-carolyn-brown--65309535https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lullaby Sky Author: Carolyn Brown Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all over—Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It’s like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious old house, but she has full custody of her sparky five-year-old daughter. All Hannah has to do now is put the past behind her. And now that she’s free, she wants to make a difference. With the help of her warm, close-knit circle of friends—including her high school crush, Travis Wilson—Hannah begins turning her home into a safe house for other women who’ve endured the pain she’s known. But even as life and laughter return to Hannah’s home, she’s haunted by the memory of her dangerously unstable ex. With a second chance at love on the horizon, Hannah must face down her past in order to let the sunshine back into her life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273688Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lullaby Sky Author: Carolyn Brown Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 13,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lullaby Sky Author: Carolyn Brown Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all over—Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It’s like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious old house, but she has full custody of her sparky five-year-old daughter. All Hannah has to do now is put the past behind her. And now that she’s free, she wants to make a difference. With the help of her warm, close-knit circle of friends—including her high school crush, Travis Wilson—Hannah begins turning her home into a safe house for other women who’ve endured the pain she’s known. But even as life and laughter return to Hannah’s home, she’s haunted by the memory of her dangerously unstable ex. With a second chance at love on the horizon, Hannah must face down her past in order to let the sunshine back into her life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/commonwealth-by-ann-patchett--65309517https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Commonwealth Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Hope Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 159 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 28 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273160Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Commonwealth Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Hope Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Commonwealth Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Hope Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 159 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 28 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tea-planter-s-wife-a-novel-by-dinah-jefferies--65309516https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tea Planter's Wife: A Novel Author: Dinah Jefferies Narrator: Avita Jay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1920s Ceylon: A young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences In this lush, atmospheric page-turner, nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper has married Laurence, the seductively mysterious owner of a vast tea empire in colonial Ceylon, after a whirlwind romance in London. When she joins him at his faraway tea plantation, she’s filled with hope for their life together, eager to take on the role of mistress of the house, learn the tea business, and start a family. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbors and her new sister-in-law treacherous. Gwen finds herself drawn to a local Sinhalese man of questionable intentions and worries about her new husband’s connection to a brash American businesswoman. But most troubling are the unanswered questions surrounding Laurence’s first marriage. Why won’t anyone discuss the fate of his first wife? Who’s buried in the unmarked grave in the forest? As the darkness of her husband’s past emerges, Gwen is forced to make a devastating choice, one that could destroy their future and Gwen’s chance at happiness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272958Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tea Planter's Wife: A Novel Author: Dinah Jefferies Narrator: Avita Jay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tea Planter's Wife: A Novel Author: Dinah Jefferies Narrator: Avita Jay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1920s Ceylon: A young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences In this lush, atmospheric page-turner, nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper has married Laurence, the seductively mysterious owner of a vast tea empire in colonial Ceylon, after a whirlwind romance in London. When she joins him at his faraway tea plantation, she’s filled with hope for their life together, eager to take on the role of mistress of the house, learn the tea business, and start a family. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbors and her new sister-in-law treacherous. Gwen finds herself drawn to a local Sinhalese man of questionable intentions and worries about her new husband’s connection to a brash American businesswoman. But most troubling are the unanswered questions surrounding Laurence’s first marriage. Why won’t anyone discuss the fate of his first wife? Who’s buried in the unmarked grave in the forest? As the darkness of her husband’s past emerges, Gwen is forced to make a devastating choice, one that could destroy their future and Gwen’s chance at happiness.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-after-coffee-by-virginia-franken--65309509https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life After Coffee Author: Virginia Franken Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When globe-trotting coffee buyer Amy O’Hara, assures her husband—who stays at home to watch the kids—that it is He Who Has it Harder…she doesn’t really believe it. That is, until the day she gets laid off, her husband locks himself in the garage to write the Great American Screenplay, and she discovers she’s actually the world’s most incompetent mother. Overnight, Amy’s world is no longer one of farmer negations and upscale coffee tastings. Instead she’s spending her days attempting to discover where exactly she went wrong with her two resentful children and trying to carve out a place within her local community of put-together neighborhood moms. However, as their family dynamic begins to change in both fun and frustrating ways, she’s starting to ask herself the big questions: Can her marriage survive this kind of role reversal? How do you clean puke out from in between the seams of a car seat? And what does she really amount to when the job she thought defined her is removed from the equation? One thing is certain: whatever happens, she’s going to need a lot more caffeine.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273687Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life After Coffee Author: Virginia Franken Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 13,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life After Coffee Author: Virginia Franken Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When globe-trotting coffee buyer Amy O’Hara, assures her husband—who stays at home to watch the kids—that it is He Who Has it Harder…she doesn’t really believe it. That is, until the day she gets laid off, her husband locks himself in the garage to write the Great American Screenplay, and she discovers she’s actually the world’s most incompetent mother. Overnight, Amy’s world is no longer one of farmer negations and upscale coffee tastings. Instead she’s spending her days attempting to discover where exactly she went wrong with her two resentful children and trying to carve out a place within her local community of put-together neighborhood moms. However, as their family dynamic begins to change in both fun and frustrating ways, she’s starting to ask herself the big questions: Can her marriage survive this kind of role reversal? How do you clean puke out from in between the seams of a car seat? And what does she really amount to when the job she thought defined her is removed from the equation? One thing is certain: whatever happens, she’s going to need a lot more caffeine.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-cornish-girl-by-gloria-cook--65309564https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cornish Girl Author: Gloria Cook Narrator: Patricia Gallimore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Cornish saga, perfect for fans of POLDARK In the Cornish mining village of Meryen, a secret never stays a secret for very long... No one knows this more than Tara Nankervis. Beautiful, yet pained, she is forced to share a devastating secret with her much older and destructive husband Joshua. Out of options, she plans to leave once and for all, taking her daughter Rosa Grace with her. But will she have the courage to leave everything behind, or is home truly where the heart is?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273157Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cornish Girl Author: Gloria Cook Narrator: Patricia Gallimore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 8,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cornish Girl Author: Gloria Cook Narrator: Patricia Gallimore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Cornish saga, perfect for fans of POLDARK In the Cornish mining village of Meryen, a secret never stays a secret for very long... No one knows this more than Tara Nankervis. Beautiful, yet pained, she is forced to share a devastating secret with her much older and destructive husband Joshua. Out of options, she plans to leave once and for all, taking her daughter Rosa Grace with her. But will she have the courage to leave everything behind, or is home truly where the heart is?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-one-real-thing-the-hart-s-boardwalk-series-by-samantha-young--65309573https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One Real Thing: The Hart's Boardwalk Series Series: #1 of Hart's Boardwalk Author: Samantha Young Narrator: Tad Branson, Angelica Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of On Dublin Street is back with the first in a sexy new romance series set in a small town on the Delaware coastline.   Welcome to Hartwell, a quiet seaside escape where uncovering old secrets could lead one woman to discover the meaning of a love that lasts…   While Doctor Jessica Huntington engages with the inmates at the women’s correctional facility where she works, she’s always careful to avoid emotional attachments in her personal life.  Loss and betrayal taught her that lesson long ago. But when she comes across a set of old love letters in the prison’s library and visits the picturesque town of Hartwell to deliver them to their intended recipient, she finds herself unable to resist the town’s charm—and her attraction to the sexy owner of a local bar proves equally hard to deny.   Since his divorce from his unfaithful ex-wife, Cooper Lawson has focused on what really matters: his family and the boardwalk pub they’ve owned for generations.  But the first time Jessica steps into his bar, Cooper is beyond tempted to risk his heart on her.   Yet as their attraction grows hotter and Jessica remains stubbornly closed off, he begins to realize it will take more than just passion to convince her there’s only one real thing in life worth fighting for….]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270025Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One Real Thing: The Hart's Boardwalk Series Series: #1 of Hart's Boardwalk Author: Samantha Young Narrator: Tad Branson, Angelica Lee Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One Real Thing: The Hart's Boardwalk Series Series: #1 of Hart's Boardwalk Author: Samantha Young Narrator: Tad Branson, Angelica Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of On Dublin Street is back with the first in a sexy new romance series set in a small town on the Delaware coastline.   Welcome to Hartwell, a quiet seaside escape where uncovering old secrets could lead one woman to discover the meaning of a love that lasts…   While Doctor Jessica Huntington engages with the inmates at the women’s correctional facility where she works, she’s always careful to avoid emotional attachments in her personal life.  Loss and betrayal taught her that lesson long ago. But when she comes across a set of old love letters in the prison’s library and visits the picturesque town of Hartwell to deliver them to their intended recipient, she finds herself unable to resist the town’s charm—and her attraction to the sexy owner of a local bar proves equally hard to deny.   Since his divorce from his unfaithful ex-wife, Cooper Lawson has focused on what really matters: his family and the boardwalk pub they’ve owned for generations.  But the first time Jessica steps into his bar, Cooper is beyond tempted to risk his heart on her.   Yet as their attraction grows hotter and Jessica remains stubbornly closed off, he begins to realize it will take more than just passion to convince her there’s only one real thing in life worth fighting for….]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/forgotten-women-by-freda-lightfoot--65309556https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273681 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgotten Women Author: Freda Lightfoot Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It is 1936 and Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home. But not all women are content to be left behind. In Britain, Charlotte McBain and Libby Forbes, friends from opposite sides of the class divide, are determined to do what they can; in Spain, Rosita García Díaz, fiercely loyal to her family and country, cannot stand by and watch. Three brave women, inspired by patriotism, idealism, love and even revenge, dare to go into battle against tradition and oppression. Tying them all together is Jo, Libby’s granddaughter. Five decades later she travels to Spain hoping to make sense of a troubling letter hidden among her grandmother’s possessions. What she learns will change all of their lives forever. Deceit, heartbreak and a longstanding fear of reprisals must all be overcome if the deeds of the forgotten women are to be properly honoured.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273681Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273681 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgotten Women Author: Freda Lightfoot Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 6,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273681 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgotten Women Author: Freda Lightfoot Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It is 1936 and Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home. But not all women are content to be left behind. In Britain, Charlotte McBain and Libby Forbes, friends from opposite sides of the class divide, are determined to do what they can; in Spain, Rosita García Díaz, fiercely loyal to her family and country, cannot stand by and watch. Three brave women, inspired by patriotism, idealism, love and even revenge, dare to go into battle against tradition and oppression. Tying them all together is Jo, Libby’s granddaughter. Five decades later she travels to Spain hoping to make sense of a troubling letter hidden among her grandmother’s possessions. What she learns will change all of their lives forever. Deceit, heartbreak and a longstanding fear of reprisals must all be overcome if the deeds of the forgotten women are to be properly honoured.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/change-of-heart-by-nicole-jacquelyn--65309547https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Change of Heart Series: #2 of Fostering Love Author: Nicole Jacquelyn Narrator: Alastair Haynesbridge, Charlotte North Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: They've spent their lives pushing each other away, but what will happen when they need each other most? Anita Martin doesn't expect much from life. Growing up on the street, bouncing from one foster home to another, she learned to rely only on herself. Even after she finally found a loving family to take her in, she was still an outsider-something Abraham, one of the family's older sons, never let her forget. Abraham Evans doesn't know how Ani always manages to get under his skin, only that's she's been doing it since they were teens. She is-and always has been-undeniably gorgeous. But he's never met anyone as pissed off at the world as Ani. For fifteen years, Ani and Bram have agreed on exactly one thing: they can't stand each other-until one night when their anger gives way to passion. Yet even as Ani and Bram begin to secretly seek comfort in one another's arms, they remain emotionally worlds apart. When Ani's life takes a dramatic turn and she realizes she needs more than Bram can give, their fragile, no-strings relationship unravels. One way or another, Ani is determined to survive. But when Bram finally admits his true feelings, he may discover Ani has moved on without him . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272580Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Change of Heart Series: #2 of Fostering Love Author: Nicole Jacquelyn Narrator: Alastair Haynesbridge, Charlotte North Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Change of Heart Series: #2 of Fostering Love Author: Nicole Jacquelyn Narrator: Alastair Haynesbridge, Charlotte North Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: They've spent their lives pushing each other away, but what will happen when they need each other most? Anita Martin doesn't expect much from life. Growing up on the street, bouncing from one foster home to another, she learned to rely only on herself. Even after she finally found a loving family to take her in, she was still an outsider-something Abraham, one of the family's older sons, never let her forget. Abraham Evans doesn't know how Ani always manages to get under his skin, only that's she's been doing it since they were teens. She is-and always has been-undeniably gorgeous. But he's never met anyone as pissed off at the world as Ani. For fifteen years, Ani and Bram have agreed on exactly one thing: they can't stand each other-until one night when their anger gives way to passion. Yet even as Ani and Bram begin to secretly seek comfort in one another's arms, they remain emotionally worlds apart. When Ani's life takes a dramatic turn and she realizes she needs more than Bram can give, their fragile, no-strings relationship unravels. One way or another, Ani is determined to survive. But when Bram finally admits his true feelings, he may discover Ani has moved on without him . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nutshell-by-ian-mcewan--65309612https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nutshell Author: Ian McEwan Narrator: Rory Kinnear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269330Thu, 01 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nutshell Author: Ian McEwan Narrator: Rory Kinnear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 1, 2016 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nutshell Author: Ian McEwan Narrator: Rory Kinnear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shelf-life-of-happiness-by-david-machado--65309572https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shelf Life of Happiness Author: David Machado Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Ripped apart by Portugal’s financial crisis, Daniel’s family is struggling to adjust to circumstances beyond their control. His wife and children move out to live with family hours away, but Daniel believes against all odds that he will find a job and everything will return to normal. Even as he loses his home, suffers severe damage to his car, and finds himself living in his old, abandoned office building, Daniel fights the realization that things have changed. He’s unable to see what remains among the rubble—friendship, his family’s love, and people’s deep desire to connect. If Daniel can let go of the past and find his true self, he just might save not only himself but also everyone that really matters to him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272724Thu, 01 Sep 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shelf Life of Happiness Author: David Machado Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shelf Life of Happiness Author: David Machado Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Ripped apart by Portugal’s financial crisis, Daniel’s family is struggling to adjust to circumstances beyond their control. His wife and children move out to live with family hours away, but Daniel believes against all odds that he will find a job and everything will return to normal. Even as he loses his home, suffers severe damage to his car, and finds himself living in his old, abandoned office building, Daniel fights the realization that things have changed. He’s unable to see what remains among the rubble—friendship, his family’s love, and people’s deep desire to connect. If Daniel can let go of the past and find his true self, he just might save not only himself but also everyone that really matters to him.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nix-a-novel-by-nathan-hill--65309610https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nix: A novel Author: Nathan Hill Narrator: Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. “A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America....  Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving  It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268953Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nix: A novel Author: Nathan Hill Narrator: Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nix: A novel Author: Nathan Hill Narrator: Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. “A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America....  Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving  It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-unprepared-by-meg-little-reilly--65309562https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Unprepared Author: Meg Little Reilly Narrator: Zach Villa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: We Are Unprepared is a novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other...the superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a rural Vermont town and the Eastern Seaboard when it hits. But the destruction begins months earlier, when fear infects people's lives and spreads like a plague. Ash and Pia’s move from Brooklyn to the bucolic hills of Vermont was supposed to be a fresh start—a picturesque farmhouse, mindful lifestyle, maybe even children. But just three months in, news breaks of a devastating superstorm expected in the coming months. Fear of the impending disaster divides their tight-knit rural town and exposes the chasms in Ash and Pia’s marriage. Ash seeks common ground with those who believe in working together for the common good. Pia teams up with “preppers” who want to go off the grid and war with the rest of the locals over whom to trust and how to protect themselves. Where Isole had once been a town of old farm families, yuppie transplants and beloved rednecks, they divide into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools. We Are Unprepared is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human, environmental and cultural costs of our changing earth. But hope awaits on the other side.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270214Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Unprepared Author: Meg Little Reilly Narrator: Zach Villa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Unprepared Author: Meg Little Reilly Narrator: Zach Villa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: We Are Unprepared is a novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other...the superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a rural Vermont town and the Eastern Seaboard when it hits. But the destruction begins months earlier, when fear infects people's lives and spreads like a plague. Ash and Pia’s move from Brooklyn to the bucolic hills of Vermont was supposed to be a fresh start—a picturesque farmhouse, mindful lifestyle, maybe even children. But just three months in, news breaks of a devastating superstorm expected in the coming months. Fear of the impending disaster divides their tight-knit rural town and exposes the chasms in Ash and Pia’s marriage. Ash seeks common ground with those who believe in working together for the common good. Pia teams up with “preppers” who want to go off the grid and war with the rest of the locals over whom to trust and how to protect themselves. Where Isole had once been a town of old farm families, yuppie transplants and beloved rednecks, they divide into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools. We Are Unprepared is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human, environmental and cultural costs of our changing earth. But hope awaits on the other side.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rushing-waters-by-danielle-steel--65309537https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rushing Waters Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.72 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 3.82 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Danielle Steel fearlessly tackles a catastrophe and its aftermath with characters who are joined together by accident, then share their vulnerabilities, regrets, losses, and hopes. Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband’s worry. The successful interior designer is intent on seeing her lively architect mother and has an important personal appointment to keep. But despite Ellen’s urging, when the storm hits, seventy-four-year-old Grace Madison refuses to leave her Tribeca apartment in the midst of the evacuation zone, and they must eventually wade through chest-high water to the police boats outside. British investment banker Charles Williams is traveling on business but is also eager to see his young daughters, who live with his beautiful, estranged ex-wife in SoHo. Desperate to find them, he checks the shelters where thousands have taken refuge and runs into Ellen and her mother. Juliette Dubois, a dedicated ER doctor, fights to save lives when the generators at her hospital fail. NYU students Peter Holbrook and Ben Weiss, living in a shabby downtown walkup, are excited by the adventure of the approaching hurricane, refuse to evacuate, and settle in with junk food and beer until their building threatens to collapse. Should they swim for it or not? A day of chaos takes its toll. Lives, belongings, and loved ones are swept away. Heroes are revealed as the city and New Yorkers struggle to face a natural disaster of epic proportions. And then the real challenge begins, as the survivors face their futures, with damage to repair and scars to heal. Keenly observed and brilliantly told, this is an unforgettable story that proves that while life can change in an instant, even the darkest storm can bring forth courage, resilience, unexpected joy, and new life. And it reminds us all that nature, at its fiercest, is a powerful force nothing and no one can resist.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273724Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rushing Waters Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rushing Waters Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.72 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 3.82 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Danielle Steel fearlessly tackles a catastrophe and its aftermath with characters who are joined together by accident, then share their vulnerabilities, regrets, losses, and hopes. Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband’s worry. The successful interior designer is intent on seeing her lively architect mother and has an important personal appointment to keep. But despite Ellen’s urging, when the storm hits, seventy-four-year-old Grace Madison refuses to leave her Tribeca apartment in the midst of the evacuation zone, and they must eventually wade through chest-high water to the police boats outside. British investment banker Charles Williams is traveling on business but is also eager to see his young daughters, who live with his beautiful, estranged ex-wife in SoHo. Desperate to find them, he checks the shelters where thousands have taken refuge and runs into Ellen and her mother. Juliette Dubois, a dedicated ER doctor, fights to save lives when the generators at her hospital fail. NYU students Peter Holbrook and Ben Weiss, living in a shabby downtown walkup, are excited by the adventure of the approaching hurricane, refuse to evacuate, and settle in with junk food and beer until their building threatens to collapse. Should they swim for it or not? A day of chaos takes its toll. Lives, belongings, and loved ones are swept away. Heroes are revealed as the city and New Yorkers struggle to face a natural disaster of epic proportions. And then the real challenge begins, as the survivors face their futures, with damage to repair and scars to heal. Keenly observed and brilliantly told, this is an unforgettable story that proves that while life can change in an instant, even the darkest storm can bring forth courage, resilience, unexpected joy, and new life. And it reminds us all that nature, at its fiercest, is a powerful force nothing and no one can resist.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rosa-s-island-by-val-wood--65309577https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/271022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rosa's Island Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 25, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote, watery island fastness on the wild East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the motherly Mrs Drew, she realised as she grew up that this large and seemingly close farming family contained many troubled souls. Mr Drew, whose religious fervour held a dark secret; Jim, the eldest son, who was terrified of something from his past; Delia, longing to escape from the island; and tall, handsome, confident Matthew, who wanted only one thing - Rosa herself. But Rosa's background was one of mystery. Her mother, before she drowned in the dyke near their home, had always promised that one day Rosa's father would return to her - a handsome Spaniard, with jewels and silks in treasure chests, sailing in on a ship with golden sails. Mr Drew knew the secret of Rosa's past - and so did the two mysterious Irishmen, who came back to the island after many years and who threatened everything which Rosa held most dear. Other novels by Valerie Wood include: The Hungry Tide, winner of the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction, Annie, Children of the Tide, The Romany Girl, Emily, and Going Home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/271022Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/271022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rosa's Island Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 25, 2016 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/271022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rosa's Island Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 25, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote, watery island fastness on the wild East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the motherly Mrs Drew, she realised as she grew up that this large and seemingly close farming family contained many troubled souls. Mr Drew, whose religious fervour held a dark secret; Jim, the eldest son, who was terrified of something from his past; Delia, longing to escape from the island; and tall, handsome, confident Matthew, who wanted only one thing - Rosa herself. But Rosa's background was one of mystery. Her mother, before she drowned in the dyke near their home, had always promised that one day Rosa's father would return to her - a handsome Spaniard, with jewels and silks in treasure chests, sailing in on a ship with golden sails. Mr Drew knew the secret of Rosa's past - and so did the two mysterious Irishmen, who came back to the island after many years and who threatened everything which Rosa held most dear. Other novels by Valerie Wood include: The Hungry Tide, winner of the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction, Annie, Children of the Tide, The Romany Girl, Emily, and Going Home.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shelter-from-the-storm-by-ellie-dean--65309536https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shelter from the Storm Series: #11 of The Cliffehaven Series Author: Ellie Dean Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 25, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard life and surrounded by soldiers - from England and America. The atmosphere is one of spontaneity and impulsiveness, brought on by the unpredictability of war. So when April meets Daniel, a young American soldier, whose mother is Sioux and father is of African descent, she doesn't hesitate when she starts to fall for him. The attraction is immediate, and coming from strict racial segregation in South Carolina, Daniel finds the freedom he has in England overwhelming. Daniel and April endeavour to spend as much time together as possible - every moment is precious with the threat of Daniel being sent to fight overseas looming over them. But with war and race both involved, their relationship was never going to be simple . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270651Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shelter from the Storm Series: #11 of The Cliffehaven Series Author: Ellie Dean Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shelter from the Storm Series: #11 of The Cliffehaven Series Author: Ellie Dean Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 25, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard life and surrounded by soldiers - from England and America. The atmosphere is one of spontaneity and impulsiveness, brought on by the unpredictability of war. So when April meets Daniel, a young American soldier, whose mother is Sioux and father is of African descent, she doesn't hesitate when she starts to fall for him. The attraction is immediate, and coming from strict racial segregation in South Carolina, Daniel finds the freedom he has in England overwhelming. Daniel and April endeavour to spend as much time together as possible - every moment is precious with the threat of Daniel being sent to fight overseas looming over them. But with war and race both involved, their relationship was never going to be simple . . .]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/behold-the-dreamers-oprah-s-book-club-a-novel-by-imbolo-mbue--65309629https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Author: Imbolo Mbue Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 23, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 113 Ratings of Narrator: 4.91 of Total 32 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY  NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews  Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. Praise for Behold the Dreamers “A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”—The Washington Post “A capacious, big-hearted novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “Behold the Dreamers’ heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”—Entertainment Weekly “Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”—People (book of the week) “[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”—NPR “This story is one that needs to be told.”—Bust  “Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”—The Boston Globe “A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269309Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Author: Imbolo Mbue Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Author: Imbolo Mbue Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 23, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 113 Ratings of Narrator: 4.91 of Total 32 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY  NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews  Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. Praise for Behold the Dreamers “A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”—The Washington Post “A capacious, big-hearted novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “Behold the Dreamers’ heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”—Entertainment Weekly “Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”—People (book of the week) “[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”—NPR “This story is one that needs to be told.”—Bust  “Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”—The Boston Globe “A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/montana-rescue-by-kim-law--65309538https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Montana Rescue Series: #2 of The Wildes of Birch Bay Author: Kim Law Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 23, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Championship bull rider Nick Wilde is the face of Montana Pro Rodeo, with all the acclaim and fans he can handle. But is that enough? Contemplating his next career move, he’s come home to his family’s cherry orchard—and to his childhood crush, helicopter pilot Harper Stone. But Harper’s not quite the sexy, badass girl he once lusted after. Recently widowed, she’s broken in two. Wanting to help her move on, Nick finds himself aching for the kind of stability he never had as a child. True love comes once if you’re lucky, and Harper already had her shot. An accident took her husband eighteen months ago and left only pain and guilt in his place. Now Nick is waking up her body and heart to everything she might still have to gain—or lose. A second chance is more than she thinks she deserves. But with a man like Nick doing the persuading, maybe it’s time to try.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272693Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Montana Rescue Series: #2 of The Wildes of Birch Bay Author: Kim Law Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Montana Rescue Series: #2 of The Wildes of Birch Bay Author: Kim Law Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 23, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Championship bull rider Nick Wilde is the face of Montana Pro Rodeo, with all the acclaim and fans he can handle. But is that enough? Contemplating his next career move, he’s come home to his family’s cherry orchard—and to his childhood crush, helicopter pilot Harper Stone. But Harper’s not quite the sexy, badass girl he once lusted after. Recently widowed, she’s broken in two. Wanting to help her move on, Nick finds himself aching for the kind of stability he never had as a child. True love comes once if you’re lucky, and Harper already had her shot. An accident took her husband eighteen months ago and left only pain and guilt in his place. Now Nick is waking up her body and heart to everything she might still have to gain—or lose. A second chance is more than she thinks she deserves. But with a man like Nick doing the persuading, maybe it’s time to try.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cooking-for-picasso-a-novel-by-camille-aubray--65309659https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cooking for Picasso: A Novel Author: Camille Aubray Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist’s life. “A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking.”—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Café Paradis. A mysterious new patron who’s slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request—to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he’s secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito. Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life—and for him, art and women are always entwined. The spirited Ondine, chafing under her family’s authority and nursing a broken heart, is just beginning to discover her own talents and appetites. Her encounter with Picasso will continue to affect her life for many decades onward, as the great artist and the talented young chef each pursue their own passions and destiny. New York, present day: Céline, a Hollywood makeup artist who’s come home for the holidays, learns from her mother, Julie, that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso. Prompted by her mother’s enigmatic stories and the hint of more family secrets yet to be uncovered, Céline carries out Julie’s wishes and embarks on a voyage to the very town where Ondine and Picasso first met. In the lush, heady atmosphere of the Côte d’Azur, and with the help of several eccentric fellow guests attending a rigorous cooking class at her hotel, Céline discovers truths about art, culture, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future. Featuring an array of both fictional characters and the French Riviera’s most famous historical residents, set against the breathtaking scenery of the South of France, Cooking for Picasso is a touching, delectable, and wise story, illuminating the powers of trust, money, art, and creativity in the choices that men and women make as they seek a path toward love, success, and joie de vivre. Praise for Cooking for Picasso “Intrigue, art, food, and deception are woven together in a tale of love and betrayal around the life and legacy of Picasso. Touching and true, this well-written narrative made me long for my mother’s coq au vin and for the sun of Juan-les-Pins.”—Jacques Pépin, chef, TV personality, author]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268893Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cooking for Picasso: A Novel Author: Camille Aubray Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cooking for Picasso: A Novel Author: Camille Aubray Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist’s life. “A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking.”—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Café Paradis. A mysterious new patron who’s slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request—to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he’s secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito. Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life—and for him, art and women are always entwined. The spirited Ondine, chafing under her family’s authority and nursing a broken heart, is just beginning to discover her own talents and appetites. Her encounter with Picasso will continue to affect her life for many decades onward, as the great artist and the talented young chef each pursue their own passions and destiny. New York, present day: Céline, a Hollywood makeup artist who’s come home for the holidays, learns from her mother, Julie, that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso. Prompted by her mother’s enigmatic stories and the hint of more family secrets yet to be uncovered, Céline carries out Julie’s wishes and embarks on a voyage to the very town where Ondine and Picasso first met. In the lush, heady atmosphere of the Côte d’Azur, and with the help of several eccentric fellow guests attending a rigorous cooking class at her hotel, Céline discovers truths about art, culture, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future. Featuring an array of both fictional characters and the French Riviera’s most famous historical residents, set against the breathtaking scenery of the South of France, Cooking for Picasso is a touching, delectable, and wise story, illuminating the powers of trust, money, art, and creativity in the choices that men and women make as they seek a path toward love, success, and joie de vivre. Praise for Cooking for Picasso “Intrigue, art, food, and deception are woven together in a tale of love and betrayal around the life and legacy of Picasso. Touching and true, this well-written narrative made me long for my mother’s coq au vin and for the sun of Juan-les-Pins.”—Jacques Pépin, chef, TV personality, author]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/another-brooklyn-a-novel-by-jacqueline-woodson--65309640https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Brooklyn: A Novel Author: Jacqueline Woodson Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263971Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Brooklyn: A Novel Author: Jacqueline Woodson Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Brooklyn: A Novel Author: Jacqueline Woodson Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/low-country-a-novel-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65309588https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Low Country: A Novel Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband—and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates in his successful land-developing conglomerate. To escape her stifling routine, Caro drinks a little too much. But her true solace is the Lowcountry island her beloved Granddaddy left her—an oasis of breathtaking beauty that is home to a band of wild ponies. When Caro learns that her husband must develop the island or lose the business, she is devastated. The Lowcountry is her heritage—and what will happen to the ponies whose spirit and freedom have captivated her since childhood? Saving the island could cost Caroline more than she ever imagined. To succeed, she must confront the part of herself numbed by alcohol and careful avoidance—and shatter long-held ideals about her role in society, her marriage, and ultimately, herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265805Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Low Country: A Novel Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Low Country: A Novel Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband—and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates in his successful land-developing conglomerate. To escape her stifling routine, Caro drinks a little too much. But her true solace is the Lowcountry island her beloved Granddaddy left her—an oasis of breathtaking beauty that is home to a band of wild ponies. When Caro learns that her husband must develop the island or lose the business, she is devastated. The Lowcountry is her heritage—and what will happen to the ponies whose spirit and freedom have captivated her since childhood? Saving the island could cost Caroline more than she ever imagined. To succeed, she must confront the part of herself numbed by alcohol and careful avoidance—and shatter long-held ideals about her role in society, her marriage, and ultimately, herself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/war-and-turpentine-a-novel-by-stefan-hertmans--65309585https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Turpentine: A Novel Author: Stefan Hertmans Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his father’s work;dodging death in a foundry; fighting in the war that altered the course of history; marrying the sister of the woman he truly loved; being haunted by an ever-present reminder of the artist he had hoped to be and the soldier he was forced to become. Wrestling with this tale, the grandson straddles past and present, searching for a way to understand his own part in both. As artfully rendered as a Renaissance fresco, War and Turpentine paints an extraordinary portrait of one man’s life and reveals how that life echoed down through the generations. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270380Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Turpentine: A Novel Author: Stefan Hertmans Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Turpentine: A Novel Author: Stefan Hertmans Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his father’s work;dodging death in a foundry; fighting in the war that altered the course of history; marrying the sister of the woman he truly loved; being haunted by an ever-present reminder of the artist he had hoped to be and the soldier he was forced to become. Wrestling with this tale, the grandson straddles past and present, searching for a way to understand his own part in both. As artfully rendered as a Renaissance fresco, War and Turpentine paints an extraordinary portrait of one man’s life and reveals how that life echoed down through the generations. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-city-baker-s-guide-to-country-living-by-louise-miller--65309553https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living Author: Louise Miller Narrator: Jorjeana Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Mix in one part Diane Mott ­Davidson’s delightful culinary adventures with several tablespoons of Jan Karon’s country living and quirky characters, bake at 350 degrees for one rich and warm romance.' --Library Journal A full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home—and that sometimes the best things are found when you didn’t even know you were looking When Olivia Rawlings—pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club—sets not just her flambéed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of—the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, home of Bag Balm, the country’s longest-running contra dance, and her best friend Hannah. But the getaway turns into something more lasting when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous, sweater-set-wearing owner of the Sugar Maple Inn, offers Livvy a job. Broke and knowing that her days at the club are numbered, Livvy accepts. Livvy moves with her larger-than-life, uberenthusiastic dog, Salty, into a sugarhouse on the inn’s property and begins creating her mouthwatering desserts for the residents of Guthrie. She soon uncovers the real reason she has been hired—to help Margaret reclaim the inn’s blue ribbon status at the annual county fair apple pie contest.   With the joys of a fragrant kitchen, the sound of banjos and fiddles being tuned in a barn, and the crisp scent of the orchard just outside the front door, Livvy soon finds herself immersed in small town life. And when she meets Martin McCracken, the Guthrie native who has returned from Seattle to tend his ailing father, Livvy  comes to understand that she may not be as alone in this world as she once thought.   But then another new arrival takes the community by surprise, and Livvy must decide whether to do what she does best and flee—or stay and finally discover what it means to belong. Olivia Rawlings may finally find out that the life you want may not be the one you expected—it could be even better.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268889Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living Author: Louise Miller Narrator: Jorjeana Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living Author: Louise Miller Narrator: Jorjeana Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Mix in one part Diane Mott ­Davidson’s delightful culinary adventures with several tablespoons of Jan Karon’s country living and quirky characters, bake at 350 degrees for one rich and warm romance.' --Library Journal A full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home—and that sometimes the best things are found when you didn’t even know you were looking When Olivia Rawlings—pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club—sets not just her flambéed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of—the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, home of Bag Balm, the country’s longest-running contra dance, and her best friend Hannah. But the getaway turns into something more lasting when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous, sweater-set-wearing owner of the Sugar Maple Inn, offers Livvy a job. Broke and knowing that her days at the club are numbered, Livvy accepts. Livvy moves with her larger-than-life, uberenthusiastic dog, Salty, into a sugarhouse on the inn’s property and begins creating her mouthwatering desserts for the residents of Guthrie. She soon uncovers the real reason she has been hired—to help Margaret reclaim the inn’s blue ribbon status at the annual county fair apple pie contest.   With the joys of a fragrant kitchen, the sound of banjos and fiddles being tuned in a barn, and the crisp scent of the orchard just outside the front door, Livvy soon finds herself immersed in small town life. And when she meets Martin McCracken, the Guthrie native who has returned from Seattle to tend his ailing father, Livvy  comes to understand that she may not be as alone in this world as she once thought.   But then another new arrival takes the community by surprise, and Livvy must decide whether to do what she does best and flee—or stay and finally discover what it means to belong. Olivia Rawlings may finally find out that the life you want may not be the one you expected—it could be even better.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-party-with-an-infant-by-kaui-hart-hemmings--65309533https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Party With an Infant Author: Kaui Hart Hemmings Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Mommyhood gets hilariously tricky in this novel from the author of The Descendents” (Cosmopolitan). How to Party With an Infant follows a quirky single mom who finds friendship and love in this “smart, funny send-up of modern motherhood, San Francisco-style” (San Francisco Chronicle). When Mele Bart told her boyfriend Bobby she was pregnant with his child, he stunned her with an announcement of his own: he was engaged to someone else. Fast forward two years, Mele’s daughter Ellie is a toddler, and Bobby and his fiancée want Ellie to be the flower girl at their wedding. Mele, who also has agreed to attend the nuptials, knows she can’t continue obsessing about Bobby and his cheese making, Napa-residing, fiancée. She needs something to do. So she answers a questionnaire provided by the San Francisco Mommy Club in elaborate and shocking detail and decides to enter their cookbook writing contest. Even though she joined the group out of desperation, Mele has found her people: Annie, Barrett, Georgia, and Henry (a stay-at-home dad). As the wedding date approaches, Mele uses her friends’ stories to inspire recipes and find comfort, both. The “delicious” (The Seattle Times) How to Party with an Infant is a hilarious and poignant novel from Kaui Hart Hemmings, who has an uncanny ability to make disastrous romances and tragic circumstances not only relatable and funny, but unforgettable. “[Hemmings] perfectly captures modern parenthood among the privileged and, with moments of concise poignancy, the silent shames of motherhood...The pleasure of Hemmings’s levity and wisdom more than sustain the reader. We cheer for her warm, self-deprecating characters and hope they continue to laugh together instead of crying alone” (The New York Times Book Review).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269519Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Party With an Infant Author: Kaui Hart Hemmings Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Party With an Infant Author: Kaui Hart Hemmings Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Mommyhood gets hilariously tricky in this novel from the author of The Descendents” (Cosmopolitan). How to Party With an Infant follows a quirky single mom who finds friendship and love in this “smart, funny send-up of modern motherhood, San Francisco-style” (San Francisco Chronicle). When Mele Bart told her boyfriend Bobby she was pregnant with his child, he stunned her with an announcement of his own: he was engaged to someone else. Fast forward two years, Mele’s daughter Ellie is a toddler, and Bobby and his fiancée want Ellie to be the flower girl at their wedding. Mele, who also has agreed to attend the nuptials, knows she can’t continue obsessing about Bobby and his cheese making, Napa-residing, fiancée. She needs something to do. So she answers a questionnaire provided by the San Francisco Mommy Club in elaborate and shocking detail and decides to enter their cookbook writing contest. Even though she joined the group out of desperation, Mele has found her people: Annie, Barrett, Georgia, and Henry (a stay-at-home dad). As the wedding date approaches, Mele uses her friends’ stories to inspire recipes and find comfort, both. The “delicious” (The Seattle Times) How to Party with an Infant is a hilarious and poignant novel from Kaui Hart Hemmings, who has an uncanny ability to make disastrous romances and tragic circumstances not only relatable and funny, but unforgettable. “[Hemmings] perfectly captures modern parenthood among the privileged and, with moments of concise poignancy, the silent shames of motherhood...The pleasure of Hemmings’s levity and wisdom more than sustain the reader. We cheer for her warm, self-deprecating characters and hope they continue to laugh together instead of crying alone” (The New York Times Book Review).]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/between-sisters-by-cathy-kelly--65309525https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Sisters Author: Cathy Kelly Narrator: Caroline Lennon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 International bestselling author, Cathy Kelly, returns with a heartwarming novel Meet the women of Delaney Gardens, a bustling suburban village in the outer reaches of Dublin. There's Cassie, who's spent her married life doing everything right for her children, husband, and mother-in-law, yet feels so exhausted that 'wine o'clock' comes a little earlier each afternoon. There's her sister Coco, who runs a vintage dress shop, but has avoided the complications of romantic commitment. Watching over them is their grandmother Pearl, who, despite caring deeply for her family, is contending with a long-buried secret. And then there's Elsa, the polished face of daytime TV, who's triumphed over demons before, but is now facing her toughest battle yet. At every crossroad these women face, readers are taken deeper into the heart of what it means to be a family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270199Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Sisters Author: Cathy Kelly Narrator: Caroline Lennon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Sisters Author: Cathy Kelly Narrator: Caroline Lennon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 International bestselling author, Cathy Kelly, returns with a heartwarming novel Meet the women of Delaney Gardens, a bustling suburban village in the outer reaches of Dublin. There's Cassie, who's spent her married life doing everything right for her children, husband, and mother-in-law, yet feels so exhausted that 'wine o'clock' comes a little earlier each afternoon. There's her sister Coco, who runs a vintage dress shop, but has avoided the complications of romantic commitment. Watching over them is their grandmother Pearl, who, despite caring deeply for her family, is contending with a long-buried secret. And then there's Elsa, the polished face of daytime TV, who's triumphed over demons before, but is now facing her toughest battle yet. At every crossroad these women face, readers are taken deeper into the heart of what it means to be a family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shining-sea-by-anne-korkeakivi--65309513https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shining Sea Author: Anne Korkeakivi Narrator: David Pittu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An arresting and absorbing novel that spans decades, drawing us into the turbulent lives of a family in Southern California after the sudden death of the father. Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, Shining Sea quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three -year-old Michael Gannon's widow and offspring. Brilliantly described and utterly alive on the page, the Gannon clan find themselves charting paths they never anticipated, for decades to come. Told with a cinematic sweep, Shining Sea transports us from World War II to the present day, crisscrossing from the beaches of Southern California to the Woodstock rock festival, from London's gritty nightlife in the eighties to Scotland's remote Inner Hebrides, from the dry heat of Arizona to the fertile farmland of Massachusetts. Epic, tender, and beautifully rendered, Shining Sea is the portrait of an American family-a profound depiction of the ripple effects of war, the passing down of memory, the making of myth, and the power of the ideal of heroism to lead us astray but sometimes also to keep us afloat.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270197Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shining Sea Author: Anne Korkeakivi Narrator: David Pittu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shining Sea Author: Anne Korkeakivi Narrator: David Pittu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An arresting and absorbing novel that spans decades, drawing us into the turbulent lives of a family in Southern California after the sudden death of the father. Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, Shining Sea quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three -year-old Michael Gannon's widow and offspring. Brilliantly described and utterly alive on the page, the Gannon clan find themselves charting paths they never anticipated, for decades to come. Told with a cinematic sweep, Shining Sea transports us from World War II to the present day, crisscrossing from the beaches of Southern California to the Woodstock rock festival, from London's gritty nightlife in the eighties to Scotland's remote Inner Hebrides, from the dry heat of Arizona to the fertile farmland of Massachusetts. Epic, tender, and beautifully rendered, Shining Sea is the portrait of an American family-a profound depiction of the ripple effects of war, the passing down of memory, the making of myth, and the power of the ideal of heroism to lead us astray but sometimes also to keep us afloat.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/secrets-of-nanreath-hall-a-novel-by-alix-rickloff--65309642https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets of Nanreath Hall: A Novel Author: Alix Rickloff Narrator: Laura Waddell, Lauren Irwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers. Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive parents Graham and Prue Handley have been killed in an air raid. She desperately needs their advice as she’s been assigned to the military hospital that has set up camp inside her biological mother’s childhood home—Nanreath Hall. Anna was just six-years-old when her mother, Lady Katherine Trenowyth, died. All she has left are vague memories that tease her with clues she can’t unravel. Anna’s assignment to Nanreath Hall could be the chance for her to finally become acquainted with the family she’s never known—and to unbury the truth and secrets surrounding her past. Cornwall, 1913. In the luxury of pre-WWI England, Lady Katherine Trenowyth is expected to do nothing more than make a smart marriage and have a respectable life. When Simon Halliday, a bohemian painter, enters her world, Katherine begins to question the future that was so carefully laid out for her. Her choices begin to lead her away from the stability of her home and family toward a wild existence of life, art, and love. But as everything begins to fall apart, Katherine finds herself destitute and alone. As Anna is drawn into her newfound family’s lives and their tangled loyalties, she discovers herself at the center of old heartbreaks and unbearable tragedies, leaving her to decide if the secrets of the past are too dangerous to unearth…and if the family she’s discovered is one she can keep.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265803Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets of Nanreath Hall: A Novel Author: Alix Rickloff Narrator: Laura Waddell, Lauren Irwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets of Nanreath Hall: A Novel Author: Alix Rickloff Narrator: Laura Waddell, Lauren Irwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers. Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive parents Graham and Prue Handley have been killed in an air raid. She desperately needs their advice as she’s been assigned to the military hospital that has set up camp inside her biological mother’s childhood home—Nanreath Hall. Anna was just six-years-old when her mother, Lady Katherine Trenowyth, died. All she has left are vague memories that tease her with clues she can’t unravel. Anna’s assignment to Nanreath Hall could be the chance for her to finally become acquainted with the family she’s never known—and to unbury the truth and secrets surrounding her past. Cornwall, 1913. In the luxury of pre-WWI England, Lady Katherine Trenowyth is expected to do nothing more than make a smart marriage and have a respectable life. When Simon Halliday, a bohemian painter, enters her world, Katherine begins to question the future that was so carefully laid out for her. Her choices begin to lead her away from the stability of her home and family toward a wild existence of life, art, and love. But as everything begins to fall apart, Katherine finds herself destitute and alone. As Anna is drawn into her newfound family’s lives and their tangled loyalties, she discovers herself at the center of old heartbreaks and unbearable tragedies, leaving her to decide if the secrets of the past are too dangerous to unearth…and if the family she’s discovered is one she can keep.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bright-precious-days-a-novel-by-jay-mcinerney--65309593https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright, Precious Days: A Novel Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City: a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial triumph of the highest order.   Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if they’re living the dream that drew them to New York City in the first place: book parties or art openings one night and high-society events the next; jobs they care about (and in fact love); twin children whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes at a fiendish cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has superb cultural credentials yet minimal cash flow; as he navigates a business that requires, beyond astute literary judgment, constant financial improvisation, he encounters an audacious, potentially game-changing—or ruinous—opportunity. Meanwhile, instead of chasing personal gain in this incredibly wealthy city, Corrine devotes herself to helping feed its hungry poor, and she and her husband soon discover they’re being priced out of the newly fashionable neighborhood they’ve called home for most of their adult lives, with their son and daughter caught in the balance. Then Corrine’s world is turned upside down when the man with whom she’d had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change—including Obama’s historic election and the global economic collapse he inherited—the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have imagined.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268890Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright, Precious Days: A Novel Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright, Precious Days: A Novel Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City: a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial triumph of the highest order.   Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if they’re living the dream that drew them to New York City in the first place: book parties or art openings one night and high-society events the next; jobs they care about (and in fact love); twin children whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes at a fiendish cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has superb cultural credentials yet minimal cash flow; as he navigates a business that requires, beyond astute literary judgment, constant financial improvisation, he encounters an audacious, potentially game-changing—or ruinous—opportunity. Meanwhile, instead of chasing personal gain in this incredibly wealthy city, Corrine devotes herself to helping feed its hungry poor, and she and her husband soon discover they’re being priced out of the newly fashionable neighborhood they’ve called home for most of their adult lives, with their son and daughter caught in the balance. Then Corrine’s world is turned upside down when the man with whom she’d had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change—including Obama’s historic election and the global economic collapse he inherited—the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have imagined.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carousel-court-a-novel-by-joe-mcginniss--65309587https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carousel Court: A Novel Author: Joe McGinniss Narrator: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of marriage. Nick and Phoebe Maguire are a young couple who move cross-country to Southern California in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son following a trauma. But they arrive at the worst possible economic time, cemented into the dark heart of foreclosure alley and surrounded by neighbors swamped by debt who set fire to their belongings, flee in the dead of night, and eye one another with suspicion while keeping shotguns by their beds. Trapped, broke, and increasingly desperate, Nick and Phoebe each devise their own plan to claw their way back into the middle class and beyond. Hatched under one roof, their two separate, secret agendas will inevitably collide. “A fearless novel about a family and a society on the brink…Harrowing but, against all odds, ultimately tender” (O, The Oprah Magazine), Carousel Court is an unforgettable vision of contemporary life. It has the ambition of our most serious literary work and the soul of a thriller, managing to be simultaneously sexy, scary, and powerfully moving. Most of all, it offers an unflinching portrait of modern marriage in a nation scarred by vanished jobs, psychotropic cure-alls, infidelity via iPhone, and ruthless choices. “Fast…Foreboding…Joe McGinniss spins an edgy tale, often laced with a reporter’s eye for the little details that make characters pop” (The Washington Post). He leaves you simultaneously gutted and grateful—and curious what your partner is up to on that electronic device across the room.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269518Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carousel Court: A Novel Author: Joe McGinniss Narrator: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carousel Court: A Novel Author: Joe McGinniss Narrator: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of marriage. Nick and Phoebe Maguire are a young couple who move cross-country to Southern California in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son following a trauma. But they arrive at the worst possible economic time, cemented into the dark heart of foreclosure alley and surrounded by neighbors swamped by debt who set fire to their belongings, flee in the dead of night, and eye one another with suspicion while keeping shotguns by their beds. Trapped, broke, and increasingly desperate, Nick and Phoebe each devise their own plan to claw their way back into the middle class and beyond. Hatched under one roof, their two separate, secret agendas will inevitably collide. “A fearless novel about a family and a society on the brink…Harrowing but, against all odds, ultimately tender” (O, The Oprah Magazine), Carousel Court is an unforgettable vision of contemporary life. It has the ambition of our most serious literary work and the soul of a thriller, managing to be simultaneously sexy, scary, and powerfully moving. Most of all, it offers an unflinching portrait of modern marriage in a nation scarred by vanished jobs, psychotropic cure-alls, infidelity via iPhone, and ruthless choices. “Fast…Foreboding…Joe McGinniss spins an edgy tale, often laced with a reporter’s eye for the little details that make characters pop” (The Washington Post). He leaves you simultaneously gutted and grateful—and curious what your partner is up to on that electronic device across the room.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/for-baby-s-sake-an-heir-for-the-billionaire-by-kat-cantrell-janice-maynard--65309583https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For Baby's Sake & An Heir for the Billionaire Author: Kat Cantrell, Janice Maynard Narrator: Graham Halstead, Corey Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Baby's Sake His ex inherited a baby—and she needs his help! Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard!  James Kavanagh is rich and sexy as sin, but his workaholic neighbor Lila Baxter has been there, done that—and has the heartbreak to prove it. They've avoided each other since their affair ended, but now she's brought home a baby.  He's clearly the last man Lila wants to ask for help. But she knows nothing about babies, and James is a born family man. When one offer of help leads to another, they're soon under the same roof. Almost like a real family. Suddenly the heat they've ignored is ready to ignite! An Heir for the Billionaire Will a single mom and her baby become an instant family for this all-business tycoon?  After learning her billionaire father is dying, Nora Winchester O'Malley rushes to his bedside in Chicago—and right into an old friend's arms. Reid Chamberlain is there to comfort the young widowed mom when she needs it most. But what passes between them isn't mere compassion…it's sheer passion.  Reid has been all business for so long, shutting down his emotions as he built up his hotel empire. Now Nora and her adorable child have come along, stirring up demons he must face to have a shot at a future…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268933Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For Baby's Sake & An Heir for the Billionaire Author: Kat Cantrell, Janice Maynard Narrator: Graham Halstead, Corey Snow Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For Baby's Sake & An Heir for the Billionaire Author: Kat Cantrell, Janice Maynard Narrator: Graham Halstead, Corey Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Baby's Sake His ex inherited a baby—and she needs his help! Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard!  James Kavanagh is rich and sexy as sin, but his workaholic neighbor Lila Baxter has been there, done that—and has the heartbreak to prove it. They've avoided each other since their affair ended, but now she's brought home a baby.  He's clearly the last man Lila wants to ask for help. But she knows nothing about babies, and James is a born family man. When one offer of help leads to another, they're soon under the same roof. Almost like a real family. Suddenly the heat they've ignored is ready to ignite! An Heir for the Billionaire Will a single mom and her baby become an instant family for this all-business tycoon?  After learning her billionaire father is dying, Nora Winchester O'Malley rushes to his bedside in Chicago—and right into an old friend's arms. Reid Chamberlain is there to comfort the young widowed mom when she needs it most. But what passes between them isn't mere compassion…it's sheer passion.  Reid has been all business for so long, shutting down his emotions as he built up his hotel empire. Now Nora and her adorable child have come along, stirring up demons he must face to have a shot at a future…]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/breaking-and-holding-a-novel-by-judy-fogarty--65309560https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking and Holding: A Novel Author: Judy Fogarty Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Patricia Curren, the summer of 1978 begins with a devastating discovery: an unfamiliar black pearl button in the bed she shares with her controlling husband, Jack. Seeking the courage to end her desolate marriage, Patricia spends a quiet summer alone on beautiful Kiawah Island. But when she meets Terry Sloan, a collegiate tennis player trying to go pro, their physical attraction sparks a slow burn toward obsession. Once Patricia and Terry share closely guarded secrets from their pasts, they want more than a summer together. But their love soon fractures, as a potential sponsor takes an unusually keen interest in Terry—both on court and off. And when single, career-driven Lynn Hewitt arrives, other secrets must surface, including the one Patricia has kept from Terry all summer. An intimate portrait of the folly of the human heart, Breaking and Holding explores buried truths that are startlingly unveiled. What’s left in their wake has the power not only to shatter lives…but to redeem them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269725Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking and Holding: A Novel Author: Judy Fogarty Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking and Holding: A Novel Author: Judy Fogarty Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Patricia Curren, the summer of 1978 begins with a devastating discovery: an unfamiliar black pearl button in the bed she shares with her controlling husband, Jack. Seeking the courage to end her desolate marriage, Patricia spends a quiet summer alone on beautiful Kiawah Island. But when she meets Terry Sloan, a collegiate tennis player trying to go pro, their physical attraction sparks a slow burn toward obsession. Once Patricia and Terry share closely guarded secrets from their pasts, they want more than a summer together. But their love soon fractures, as a potential sponsor takes an unusually keen interest in Terry—both on court and off. And when single, career-driven Lynn Hewitt arrives, other secrets must surface, including the one Patricia has kept from Terry all summer. An intimate portrait of the folly of the human heart, Breaking and Holding explores buried truths that are startlingly unveiled. What’s left in their wake has the power not only to shatter lives…but to redeem them.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/harmony-by-carolyn-parkhurst--65309544https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harmony Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Narrator: Jorjeana Marie, Abigail Revasch, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: '[A] provocative page-turner.' —People “In Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose.” —Washington Post “Gorgeously written and patently original.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly 'normal' family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a 'family camp' in New Hampshire--a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally--a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly--whose condition is deemed undiagnosable--is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother Alexandra is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom of child behavior guru Scott Bean for a solution. But what they discover in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the very limit. Told from the alternating perspectives of both Alexandra and her younger daughter Iris (the book's Nick Carraway), this is a unputdownable story about the strength of love, the bonds of family, and how you survive the unthinkable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268901Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harmony Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Narrator: Jorjeana Marie, Abigail Revasch, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harmony Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Narrator: Jorjeana Marie, Abigail Revasch, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: '[A] provocative page-turner.' —People “In Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose.” —Washington Post “Gorgeously written and patently original.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly 'normal' family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a 'family camp' in New Hampshire--a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally--a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly--whose condition is deemed undiagnosable--is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother Alexandra is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom of child behavior guru Scott Bean for a solution. But what they discover in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the very limit. Told from the alternating perspectives of both Alexandra and her younger daughter Iris (the book's Nick Carraway), this is a unputdownable story about the strength of love, the bonds of family, and how you survive the unthinkable.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sweet-tomorrows-a-rose-harbor-novel-by-debbie-macomber--65309541https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel Series: #5 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Debbie Macomber, Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber’s beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future—come what may.   Nine months ago, Mark Taylor abruptly left Cedar Cove on a perilous mission to right a wrong from his past. Though Mark finally confessed his love for her, innkeeper Jo Marie Rose is unsure if he’s ever coming back. The Rose Harbor Inn barely seems the same without Mark, but Jo Marie can’t bear to lose herself in grief once more. Determined to move forward, she begins dating again, and finds companionship when she takes on a boarder who is starting a new chapter herself.   Recovering from a twice-broken heart, Emily Gaffney, a young teacher, is staying at the inn while she looks for a home of her own. Having given up on marriage, Emily dreams of adopting children someday. She has her eye on one house in particular—with room for kids. Although Emily’s inquiries about the house are rudely rebuffed, her rocky start with the owner eventually blossoms into a friendship. But when the relationship verges on something more, Emily will have to rethink what she truly wants and the chances she’s willing to take.   The inn seems to be working its magic again—Emily opening herself up to love, Jo Marie moving on—until Jo Marie receives shocking news.   With Debbie Macomber’s trademark charm and wisdom, Sweet Tomorrows brings to a close the journeys of cherished characters who feel like old friends. Macomber has created an enchanting place in the Rose Harbor Inn that readers will never forget. With a Letter Read by the Author.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268830Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel Series: #5 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Debbie Macomber, Lorelei King Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel Series: #5 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Debbie Macomber, Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber’s beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future—come what may.   Nine months ago, Mark Taylor abruptly left Cedar Cove on a perilous mission to right a wrong from his past. Though Mark finally confessed his love for her, innkeeper Jo Marie Rose is unsure if he’s ever coming back. The Rose Harbor Inn barely seems the same without Mark, but Jo Marie can’t bear to lose herself in grief once more. Determined to move forward, she begins dating again, and finds companionship when she takes on a boarder who is starting a new chapter herself.   Recovering from a twice-broken heart, Emily Gaffney, a young teacher, is staying at the inn while she looks for a home of her own. Having given up on marriage, Emily dreams of adopting children someday. She has her eye on one house in particular—with room for kids. Although Emily’s inquiries about the house are rudely rebuffed, her rocky start with the owner eventually blossoms into a friendship. But when the relationship verges on something more, Emily will have to rethink what she truly wants and the chances she’s willing to take.   The inn seems to be working its magic again—Emily opening herself up to love, Jo Marie moving on—until Jo Marie receives shocking news.   With Debbie Macomber’s trademark charm and wisdom, Sweet Tomorrows brings to a close the journeys of cherished characters who feel like old friends. Macomber has created an enchanting place in the Rose Harbor Inn that readers will never forget. With a Letter Read by the Author.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-daughter-of-union-county-a-novel-by-francine-thomas-howard--65309590https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daughter of Union County: A Novel Author: Francine Thomas Howard Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A mother’s devotion. A daughter’s search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post–Civil War South. In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled parents in the finest house in Arkansas. Unknown to the light-skinned, blue-eyed girl, she’s been born into a secret. Though her father—a man desperate to produce an heir—is white, Margaret’s real mother, a woman named Salome, is black. As the years go by, Margaret’s hidden history allows her to pass into a world of privilege. When the truth of her ancestry is revealed, she is confronted by a father who’ll risk anything to protect his legacy and embraced by Salome, who is determined to reclaim the child she loves. It’s a pivotal point for Margaret—as well as for the generations that will follow. Spanning decades, this unforgettable saga illuminates the empowering struggle of race and reinvention, of loyalty and family, and of finding your identity and the true freedom that comes with it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269748Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daughter of Union County: A Novel Author: Francine Thomas Howard Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daughter of Union County: A Novel Author: Francine Thomas Howard Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A mother’s devotion. A daughter’s search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post–Civil War South. In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled parents in the finest house in Arkansas. Unknown to the light-skinned, blue-eyed girl, she’s been born into a secret. Though her father—a man desperate to produce an heir—is white, Margaret’s real mother, a woman named Salome, is black. As the years go by, Margaret’s hidden history allows her to pass into a world of privilege. When the truth of her ancestry is revealed, she is confronted by a father who’ll risk anything to protect his legacy and embraced by Salome, who is determined to reclaim the child she loves. It’s a pivotal point for Margaret—as well as for the generations that will follow. Spanning decades, this unforgettable saga illuminates the empowering struggle of race and reinvention, of loyalty and family, and of finding your identity and the true freedom that comes with it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everything-we-keep-a-novel-by-kerry-lonsdale--65309534https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything We Keep: A Novel Series: #1 of Everything Author: Kerry Lonsdale Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. A luminous debut with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, and the pulse-racing repercussions of discovering the truth about the ones we hold dear and the lengths they will go to protect us. Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents’ restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James’s funeral—a funeral that leaves her more unsettled than at peace. As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James’s disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her question everything about the life they built together. And just below the surface is a truth that may set Aimee free…or shatter her forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269720Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything We Keep: A Novel Series: #1 of Everything Author: Kerry Lonsdale Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything We Keep: A Novel Series: #1 of Everything Author: Kerry Lonsdale Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. A luminous debut with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, and the pulse-racing repercussions of discovering the truth about the ones we hold dear and the lengths they will go to protect us. Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents’ restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James’s funeral—a funeral that leaves her more unsettled than at peace. As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James’s disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her question everything about the life they built together. And just below the surface is a truth that may set Aimee free…or shatter her forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nina-is-not-ok-by-shaparak-khorsandi--65309606https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nina is Not OK Author: Shaparak Khorsandi Narrator: Shaparak Khorsandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 28, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn't? Nina's mum isn't so sure. But she's busy with her new husband and five year old Katie. And Nina's almost an adult after all. And if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina's drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can't help piece together Saturday night. All Nina feels is a deep sense of shame, that something very bad has happened to her... A dark, funny - sometimes shocking - coming of age novel from one of the UK's leading comedians. NINA IS NOT O.K. will appeal to fans of Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham. © Shappi Khorsandi 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266370Thu, 28 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nina is Not OK Author: Shaparak Khorsandi Narrator: Shaparak Khorsandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nina is Not OK Author: Shaparak Khorsandi Narrator: Shaparak Khorsandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 28, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn't? Nina's mum isn't so sure. But she's busy with her new husband and five year old Katie. And Nina's almost an adult after all. And if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina's drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can't help piece together Saturday night. All Nina feels is a deep sense of shame, that something very bad has happened to her... A dark, funny - sometimes shocking - coming of age novel from one of the UK's leading comedians. NINA IS NOT O.K. will appeal to fans of Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham. © Shappi Khorsandi 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-angels-share-a-bourbon-kings-novel-by-j-r-ward--65309647https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Angels' Share: A Bourbon Kings Novel Series: #2 of The Bourbon Kings Author: J.R. Ward Narrator: Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series—a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a façade of privilege and prosperity, while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation…   In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society—just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder…   No one is above suspicion—especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward. The bad blood between him and his father is known far and wide, and he is aware that he could be named a suspect. As the investigation into the death intensifies, he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottle—as well as with his former horse trainer’s daughter. Meanwhile, the family’s financial future lies in the perfectly manicured hands of a business rival, a woman who wants Edward all to herself.   Everything has consequences; everybody has secrets. And few can be trusted. Then, at the very brink of the family’s demise, someone thought lost to them forever returns to the fold. Maxwell Bradford has come home. But is he a savior...or the worst of all the sinners?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268683Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Angels' Share: A Bourbon Kings Novel Series: #2 of The Bourbon Kings Author: J.R. Ward Narrator: Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Angels' Share: A Bourbon Kings Novel Series: #2 of The Bourbon Kings Author: J.R. Ward Narrator: Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series—a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a façade of privilege and prosperity, while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation…   In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society—just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder…   No one is above suspicion—especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward. The bad blood between him and his father is known far and wide, and he is aware that he could be named a suspect. As the investigation into the death intensifies, he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottle—as well as with his former horse trainer’s daughter. Meanwhile, the family’s financial future lies in the perfectly manicured hands of a business rival, a woman who wants Edward all to herself.   Everything has consequences; everybody has secrets. And few can be trusted. Then, at the very brink of the family’s demise, someone thought lost to them forever returns to the fold. Maxwell Bradford has come home. But is he a savior...or the worst of all the sinners?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heroes-of-the-frontier-by-dave-eggers--65309617https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heroes of the Frontier Author: Dave Eggers Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale — On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King… Deeply affecting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times  Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction  A captivating, often hilarious novel of family and wilderness from the bestselling author of The Circle, this is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.   Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization.   A tremendous new novel from the best-selling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268894Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heroes of the Frontier Author: Dave Eggers Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heroes of the Frontier Author: Dave Eggers Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale — On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King… Deeply affecting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times  Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction  A captivating, often hilarious novel of family and wilderness from the bestselling author of The Circle, this is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.   Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization.   A tremendous new novel from the best-selling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whitefern-by-v-c-andrews--65309602https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whitefern Series: #2 of The Audrina Series Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews’s strangest, most beloved books—and now a Lifetime movie! Whitefern swallowed Audrina’s childhood—and now the sprawling Victorian mansion threatens her adult life too… Audrina remembers a better time, when her husband, Arden, was a young man with a heart filled with devotion for her. He didn’t used to be this ambitious, expansive…this cruel. But then, the death of Aurdina’s father changed a great many things. When the reading of her father’s will reveals that Audrina herself will control fifty-one percent of the family brokerage—the halls of Whitefern again don’t feel safe. Arden’s protestations become frantic, nearly violent. And while Audrina didn’t anticipate running the family business, she’s curious to do so. And she can’t help but wonder what had made her father change his will at the last minute? What did he know about Arden that she didn’t? Trapped in the middle of it all: her fragile, simple sister—the beautiful, trusting Sylvia. Audrina promised her father she’d watch over the young woman. But after years of relative quiet, the dark days of Whitefern may have returned…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269321Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whitefern Series: #2 of The Audrina Series Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whitefern Series: #2 of The Audrina Series Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews’s strangest, most beloved books—and now a Lifetime movie! Whitefern swallowed Audrina’s childhood—and now the sprawling Victorian mansion threatens her adult life too… Audrina remembers a better time, when her husband, Arden, was a young man with a heart filled with devotion for her. He didn’t used to be this ambitious, expansive…this cruel. But then, the death of Aurdina’s father changed a great many things. When the reading of her father’s will reveals that Audrina herself will control fifty-one percent of the family brokerage—the halls of Whitefern again don’t feel safe. Arden’s protestations become frantic, nearly violent. And while Audrina didn’t anticipate running the family business, she’s curious to do so. And she can’t help but wonder what had made her father change his will at the last minute? What did he know about Arden that she didn’t? Trapped in the middle of it all: her fragile, simple sister—the beautiful, trusting Sylvia. Audrina promised her father she’d watch over the young woman. But after years of relative quiet, the dark days of Whitefern may have returned…]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-name-is-leon-by-kit-de-waal--65309600https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name Is Leon Author: Kit De Waal Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Taut, emotionally intense, and wholly believable, this beautiful and uplifting debut” (Kirkus Reviews) about a young black boy’s quest to reunite with his beloved white half-brother after they are separated in foster care is a sparkling novel perfect for fans of The Language of Flowers. Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and his beautiful, golden-haired baby brother. When Jake is born, Leon pokes his head in the crib and says, “I’m your brother. Big brother. My. Name. Is. Leon. I am eight and three quarters. I am a boy.” Jake will play with no one but Leon, and Leon is determined to save him from any pain and earn that sparkling baby laugh every chance he can. But Leon isn’t in control of this world where adults say one thing and mean another. When their mother falls victim to her inner demons, strangers suddenly take Jake away; after all, a white baby is easy to adopt, while a half-black, nine-year-old faces a less certain fate. Vowing to get Jake back by any means necessary, Leon’s own journey will carry him through the lives of a doting but ailing foster mother, Maureen; Maureen’s cranky and hilarious sister, Sylvia; a social worker Leon knows only as “The Zebra”; and a colorful community of local gardeners and West Indian political activists. Told through the perspective of young Leon, too innocent to entirely understand what has happened to him and baby Jake, but determined to do what he can to make things right. In the end, this is an uplifting story about the power of love, the unbreakable bond between brothers, and the truth about what ultimately makes a family. My Name Is Leon will capture your imagination and steal your heart with its “moving exploration of race and the foster-care system that offers precious insight into the mind of a child forced to grow up well before his time” (Booklist).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269320Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name Is Leon Author: Kit De Waal Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name Is Leon Author: Kit De Waal Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Taut, emotionally intense, and wholly believable, this beautiful and uplifting debut” (Kirkus Reviews) about a young black boy’s quest to reunite with his beloved white half-brother after they are separated in foster care is a sparkling novel perfect for fans of The Language of Flowers. Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and his beautiful, golden-haired baby brother. When Jake is born, Leon pokes his head in the crib and says, “I’m your brother. Big brother. My. Name. Is. Leon. I am eight and three quarters. I am a boy.” Jake will play with no one but Leon, and Leon is determined to save him from any pain and earn that sparkling baby laugh every chance he can. But Leon isn’t in control of this world where adults say one thing and mean another. When their mother falls victim to her inner demons, strangers suddenly take Jake away; after all, a white baby is easy to adopt, while a half-black, nine-year-old faces a less certain fate. Vowing to get Jake back by any means necessary, Leon’s own journey will carry him through the lives of a doting but ailing foster mother, Maureen; Maureen’s cranky and hilarious sister, Sylvia; a social worker Leon knows only as “The Zebra”; and a colorful community of local gardeners and West Indian political activists. Told through the perspective of young Leon, too innocent to entirely understand what has happened to him and baby Jake, but determined to do what he can to make things right. In the end, this is an uplifting story about the power of love, the unbreakable bond between brothers, and the truth about what ultimately makes a family. My Name Is Leon will capture your imagination and steal your heart with its “moving exploration of race and the foster-care system that offers precious insight into the mind of a child forced to grow up well before his time” (Booklist).]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/always-and-forever-by-soraya-lane--65309578https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always and Forever Author: Soraya Lane Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lisa and Matt can’t believe their luck. They have a dream house and a dream marriage, and very soon they’ll have a dream family too. But life is rarely that simple. When their beautiful life is rocked by tragedy, they are forced to make an unbearable choice. Suddenly the future they’ve built together looks fragile and exposed. With aching hearts and their love on the line, they set off on a road trip through the stunning Californian landscape, hoping that time—and distance from the life they thought perfect—will help them start again. Matt is desperate not to lose Lisa, but as they confront their grief in different ways, he may have lost her already. Where there is love there ought to be strength, but this love has been tested to its limits. Have they endured too much heartbreak for one couple to take? Or will a journey down memory lane put them back on the road to love, hope—and each other?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269705Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always and Forever Author: Soraya Lane Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always and Forever Author: Soraya Lane Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lisa and Matt can’t believe their luck. They have a dream house and a dream marriage, and very soon they’ll have a dream family too. But life is rarely that simple. When their beautiful life is rocked by tragedy, they are forced to make an unbearable choice. Suddenly the future they’ve built together looks fragile and exposed. With aching hearts and their love on the line, they set off on a road trip through the stunning Californian landscape, hoping that time—and distance from the life they thought perfect—will help them start again. Matt is desperate not to lose Lisa, but as they confront their grief in different ways, he may have lost her already. Where there is love there ought to be strength, but this love has been tested to its limits. Have they endured too much heartbreak for one couple to take? Or will a journey down memory lane put them back on the road to love, hope—and each other?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unseen-world-by-liz-moore--65309565https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unseen World Author: Liz Moore Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.98 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 16 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartbreaking and moving story about a daughter’s quest to discover the truth about her father’s hidden past Ada Sibelius is raised by David, a single father and head of a computer science lab in Boston. Homeschooled, she accompanies her loving father—brilliant, eccentric, socially inept—to work every day. By twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. At the same time that the lab begins to gain acclaim, David’s mind begins to falter and his mysterious past comes into question. When her father moves into a nursing home, Ada is taken in by one of David’s colleagues. She embarks on a mission to uncover her father’s secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. Eventually, Ada pioneers a type of software that enables her to make contact with her past and to reconcile the man she thought she knew with the truth. Praised for her ability to create quirky and unforgettable characters, Liz Moore has written a piercing story of a daughter’s quest to restore the legacy of the father she desperately loves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268979Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unseen World Author: Liz Moore Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unseen World Author: Liz Moore Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.98 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 16 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartbreaking and moving story about a daughter’s quest to discover the truth about her father’s hidden past Ada Sibelius is raised by David, a single father and head of a computer science lab in Boston. Homeschooled, she accompanies her loving father—brilliant, eccentric, socially inept—to work every day. By twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. At the same time that the lab begins to gain acclaim, David’s mind begins to falter and his mysterious past comes into question. When her father moves into a nursing home, Ada is taken in by one of David’s colleagues. She embarks on a mission to uncover her father’s secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. Eventually, Ada pioneers a type of software that enables her to make contact with her past and to reconcile the man she thought she knew with the truth. Praised for her ability to create quirky and unforgettable characters, Liz Moore has written a piercing story of a daughter’s quest to restore the legacy of the father she desperately loves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lions-and-lace-by-meagan-mckinney--65309557https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lions and Lace Series: #1 of Van Alen Sisters Author: Meagan McKinney Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Heiress Alana Van Alen has everything-But she is living a lie. To protect her sister, she plays society's game and attends dazzling balls and soirees-until a cunningly orchestrated act of revenge leaves her penniless and at the mercy of one of the city's most notorious gentlemen. Dubbed the Predator of Wall Street, Trevor Sheridan rose from abject poverty in Ireland to the pinnacle of power in Manhattan. Yet he's still shunned by the city's elite Four Hundred. Now he has parlayed his hunger for revenge into a scheme to destroy the rich and powerful. In the final phase of his plan, he will marry the pedigreed Alana Van Alen to gain the acceptance that has been denied to him for so long.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269349Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lions and Lace Series: #1 of Van Alen Sisters Author: Meagan McKinney Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lions and Lace Series: #1 of Van Alen Sisters Author: Meagan McKinney Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Heiress Alana Van Alen has everything-But she is living a lie. To protect her sister, she plays society's game and attends dazzling balls and soirees-until a cunningly orchestrated act of revenge leaves her penniless and at the mercy of one of the city's most notorious gentlemen. Dubbed the Predator of Wall Street, Trevor Sheridan rose from abject poverty in Ireland to the pinnacle of power in Manhattan. Yet he's still shunned by the city's elite Four Hundred. Now he has parlayed his hunger for revenge into a scheme to destroy the rich and powerful. In the final phase of his plan, he will marry the pedigreed Alana Van Alen to gain the acceptance that has been denied to him for so long.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/toby-a-novel-by-david-johnson--65309527https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toby: A Novel Author: David Johnson Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Symphony Nelson has weathered more than her share of hardships—in part thanks to the faithfulness and affection of her adopted puppy, Toby. Her formerly chaotic life seems to be settling down, until a peaceful walk in the woods leads Symphony and Toby to the reclusive cabin of Caleb Showalter, who knows more about her past than he’s telling. When an old friend resurfaces and expresses his affection, Symphony warily longs for love, and it is Toby that nudges her toward pursuing a reconnection. But when violence strikes at the hands of her possessive boyfriend, Symphony’s trust is shattered once again. Just when Symphony’s faith in humanity seems lost, Toby is injured in the woods, and she has no choice but to reach out to Caleb for help. Together, they face their fears and lost trust head-on. If they can save Toby, they might be able to let go of the past and to believe in the goodness of others—and themselves—once again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269715Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toby: A Novel Author: David Johnson Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toby: A Novel Author: David Johnson Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Symphony Nelson has weathered more than her share of hardships—in part thanks to the faithfulness and affection of her adopted puppy, Toby. Her formerly chaotic life seems to be settling down, until a peaceful walk in the woods leads Symphony and Toby to the reclusive cabin of Caleb Showalter, who knows more about her past than he’s telling. When an old friend resurfaces and expresses his affection, Symphony warily longs for love, and it is Toby that nudges her toward pursuing a reconnection. But when violence strikes at the hands of her possessive boyfriend, Symphony’s trust is shattered once again. Just when Symphony’s faith in humanity seems lost, Toby is injured in the woods, and she has no choice but to reach out to Caleb for help. Together, they face their fears and lost trust head-on. If they can save Toby, they might be able to let go of the past and to believe in the goodness of others—and themselves—once again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/children-of-the-tide-by-val-wood--65309574https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children Of The Tide Series: #3 of The Hungry Tide Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in Anlaby – the home of the wealthy Rayners. She knocks at the door, and shoves the baby at young James Rayner. The father was ‘young Mr Rayner’, and the mother is dead. Then she vanishes. The respectable shipping family of Hull are shattered. No one wants to take responsibility for the baby and it is about to be put into an orphanage when Sammi, James’s cousin, decides to take the baby back to her parents’ home on the Holderness coast. James is banished to London, and disaster begins to beset the three branches of the Rayners. The third novel in The Hungry Tide sequence, this epic, many-faceted story of three related families tells the triumphs and tragedies of their lives, as the whaling industry of Hull begins to decline, and the farmlands and homes continue to slip into the sea. If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268921Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children Of The Tide Series: #3 of The Hungry Tide Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 19 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children Of The Tide Series: #3 of The Hungry Tide Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in Anlaby – the home of the wealthy Rayners. She knocks at the door, and shoves the baby at young James Rayner. The father was ‘young Mr Rayner’, and the mother is dead. Then she vanishes. The respectable shipping family of Hull are shattered. No one wants to take responsibility for the baby and it is about to be put into an orphanage when Sammi, James’s cousin, decides to take the baby back to her parents’ home on the Holderness coast. James is banished to London, and disaster begins to beset the three branches of the Rayners. The third novel in The Hungry Tide sequence, this epic, many-faceted story of three related families tells the triumphs and tragedies of their lives, as the whaling industry of Hull begins to decline, and the farmlands and homes continue to slip into the sea. If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dissolute-duke-by-sophia-james--65309614https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dissolute Duke Series: #4 of The Wellingham Brothers Author: Sophia James Narrator: Carolyn Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The rumor is up and the banns are read: The Dissolute Duke has finally wed! With a name synonymous with sin and debauchery so shocking it is spoken of only in whispers, Taylen Ellesmere, Duke of Alderworth, is more surprised than anyone when he finds himself forced to marry! Before the ink is dry on the register, he turns his back on this sham of a marriage and leaves. Three years later, having barely survived the scandal, Lady Lucinda has placed one delicately shod foot back in the hallowed halls of the ton when her husband returns. He has an offer she can't refuse. And in exchange? Their wedding night!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268544Tue, 19 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dissolute Duke Series: #4 of The Wellingham Brothers Author: Sophia James Narrator: Carolyn Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dissolute Duke Series: #4 of The Wellingham Brothers Author: Sophia James Narrator: Carolyn Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The rumor is up and the banns are read: The Dissolute Duke has finally wed! With a name synonymous with sin and debauchery so shocking it is spoken of only in whispers, Taylen Ellesmere, Duke of Alderworth, is more surprised than anyone when he finds himself forced to marry! Before the ink is dry on the register, he turns his back on this sham of a marriage and leaves. Three years later, having barely survived the scandal, Lady Lucinda has placed one delicately shod foot back in the hallowed halls of the ton when her husband returns. He has an offer she can't refuse. And in exchange? Their wedding night!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/falling-by-jane-green--65309613https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Author: Jane Green Narrator: Jane Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House, Jemima J, and Sister Stardust presents a novel about the pleasure and meaning of finding a home—and family—where you least expect them...   When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents and expectations, she felt liberated, throwing herself into Manhattan life replete with a high-paying job, a gorgeous apartment, and a string of successful boyfriends. But the cutthroat world of finance and relentless pursuit of more began to take its toll. This wasn’t the life she wanted either.   On the move again, Emma settles in the picturesque waterfront town of Westport, Connecticut, a world apart from both England and Manhattan. It is here that she begins to confront what it is she really wants from her life. With no job, and knowing only one person in town, she channels her passion for creating beautiful spaces into remaking the dilapidated cottage she rents from Dominic, a local handyman who lives next door with his six-year-old son.   Unlike any man Emma has ever known, Dominic is confident, grounded, and committed to being present for his son whose mother fled shortly after he was born. They become friends, and slowly much more, as Emma finds herself feeling at home in a way she never has before.   But just as they start to imagine a life together as a family, fate intervenes in the most shocking of ways. For the first time, Emma has to stay and fight for what she loves, for the truth she has discovered about herself, or risk losing it all.   In a novel of changing seasons, shifting lives, and selfless love, a story unfolds—of one woman’s far-reaching journey to discover who she is truly meant to be...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267113Tue, 19 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Author: Jane Green Narrator: Jane Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Author: Jane Green Narrator: Jane Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House, Jemima J, and Sister Stardust presents a novel about the pleasure and meaning of finding a home—and family—where you least expect them...   When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents and expectations, she felt liberated, throwing herself into Manhattan life replete with a high-paying job, a gorgeous apartment, and a string of successful boyfriends. But the cutthroat world of finance and relentless pursuit of more began to take its toll. This wasn’t the life she wanted either.   On the move again, Emma settles in the picturesque waterfront town of Westport, Connecticut, a world apart from both England and Manhattan. It is here that she begins to confront what it is she really wants from her life. With no job, and knowing only one person in town, she channels her passion for creating beautiful spaces into remaking the dilapidated cottage she rents from Dominic, a local handyman who lives next door with his six-year-old son.   Unlike any man Emma has ever known, Dominic is confident, grounded, and committed to being present for his son whose mother fled shortly after he was born. They become friends, and slowly much more, as Emma finds herself feeling at home in a way she never has before.   But just as they start to imagine a life together as a family, fate intervenes in the most shocking of ways. For the first time, Emma has to stay and fight for what she loves, for the truth she has discovered about herself, or risk losing it all.   In a novel of changing seasons, shifting lives, and selfless love, a story unfolds—of one woman’s far-reaching journey to discover who she is truly meant to be...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dead-to-me-by-lesley-pearse--65309580https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268917 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead to Me Author: Lesley Pearse Narrator: Eve Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Dead to Me by Lesley Pearse, read by Eve Webster. A compellign enw story from international number one bestselling author Lesley Pearse When Ruby and Verity met as girls they came from different worlds. Verity was privately educated, living in a beautiful Hampstead home, while Ruby was being raised in extreme poverty. Nevertheless, they became firm friends. However, fortunes are not set in stone and soon the girls find their situations reversed. As Ruby goes up in the world, Verity encounters more and more tragedy, but still the girls remain a large part of each other's lives. That is, until one day in 1938 when Ruby says the terrible words 'You're dead to me' and it looks like their friendship might be over for good . . . Praise for Lesley Pearse 'Epic romantic drama set in post-war London' Heat Magazine 'A heart-warming and evocative tale that is a real delight to read' Sun 'A narrative that gallops along, this is quintessential Pearse that will delight her army of readers' Daily Mail 'Must have' Sunday Express 'Yet another great Lesley Pearse novel' Woman Magazine 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express 'Utterly riveting, brilliant' Closer 'Full of love, passion and heartbreak' Best 'Glorious, heartwarming' Woman & Home]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268917Thu, 14 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268917 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead to Me Author: Lesley Pearse Narrator: Eve Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 14, 2016 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268917 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead to Me Author: Lesley Pearse Narrator: Eve Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Dead to Me by Lesley Pearse, read by Eve Webster. A compellign enw story from international number one bestselling author Lesley Pearse When Ruby and Verity met as girls they came from different worlds. Verity was privately educated, living in a beautiful Hampstead home, while Ruby was being raised in extreme poverty. Nevertheless, they became firm friends. However, fortunes are not set in stone and soon the girls find their situations reversed. As Ruby goes up in the world, Verity encounters more and more tragedy, but still the girls remain a large part of each other's lives. That is, until one day in 1938 when Ruby says the terrible words 'You're dead to me' and it looks like their friendship might be over for good . . . Praise for Lesley Pearse 'Epic romantic drama set in post-war London' Heat Magazine 'A heart-warming and evocative tale that is a real delight to read' Sun 'A narrative that gallops along, this is quintessential Pearse that will delight her army of readers' Daily Mail 'Must have' Sunday Express 'Yet another great Lesley Pearse novel' Woman Magazine 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express 'Utterly riveting, brilliant' Closer 'Full of love, passion and heartbreak' Best 'Glorious, heartwarming' Woman & Home]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-runaway-wife-a-novel-by-elizabeth-birkelund--65309696https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Runaway Wife: A Novel Series: #3 of The Mapmakers Trilogy Author: Elizabeth Birkelund Narrator: Joseph Bouvot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Three beautiful French sisters entrust an American hiker with the mission of rescuing their mother high in the Alps.  But what if she doesn’t want to be found? Recently fired from his high-power finance job and dumped by his fiancée, Jim Olsen has come to the Swiss Alps to clear his head. At the charming Cabane des Audannes, he meets Clio, Thalia and Helene Castellane, who are on a quest of their own: their mother, Calliope, has fled to these mountains to escape her philandering politician husband’s most recent scandal. As snow threatens to descend upon the Alps, the women have come to bring their mother home. But the sisters are at the point of surrender; it is time for them to return to Paris. Buoyed by wine and inspired by their beauty, Jim impetuously volunteers to assume their search, but soon realizes that he is in over his head. The Alps are filled with beauty and danger, not the least of which is Calliope’s desire to stay hidden. And all the while Jim finds himself haunted by the memory of her daughters and conflicted in his desire for them. The Runaway Wife is a story of adventure, survival, and romance—and of a man’s discovery of a world outside his conventional life and a new vision of himself within it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263966Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Runaway Wife: A Novel Series: #3 of The Mapmakers Trilogy Author: Elizabeth Birkelund Narrator: Joseph Bouvot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Runaway Wife: A Novel Series: #3 of The Mapmakers Trilogy Author: Elizabeth Birkelund Narrator: Joseph Bouvot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Three beautiful French sisters entrust an American hiker with the mission of rescuing their mother high in the Alps.  But what if she doesn’t want to be found? Recently fired from his high-power finance job and dumped by his fiancée, Jim Olsen has come to the Swiss Alps to clear his head. At the charming Cabane des Audannes, he meets Clio, Thalia and Helene Castellane, who are on a quest of their own: their mother, Calliope, has fled to these mountains to escape her philandering politician husband’s most recent scandal. As snow threatens to descend upon the Alps, the women have come to bring their mother home. But the sisters are at the point of surrender; it is time for them to return to Paris. Buoyed by wine and inspired by their beauty, Jim impetuously volunteers to assume their search, but soon realizes that he is in over his head. The Alps are filled with beauty and danger, not the least of which is Calliope’s desire to stay hidden. And all the while Jim finds himself haunted by the memory of her daughters and conflicted in his desire for them. The Runaway Wife is a story of adventure, survival, and romance—and of a man’s discovery of a world outside his conventional life and a new vision of himself within it.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/siracusa-by-delia-ephron--65309668https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Siracusa Author: Delia Ephron Narrator: Darren Goldstein, Katie Finneran, Talia Balsam, John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2016 Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 (Fiction) A Washington Post Bestseller • A Los Angeles Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • One of Vulture’s 100 Greatest Beach Books Ever • A People Magazine Summer Reading Pick • One of Elle, InStyle, and Marie Claire’s Best of July “Delia Ephron’s Siracusa is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must-read!”  —Sue Grafton, author of X  “Siracusa is an Italian aria, a Greek tragedy and a modern American master­piece written by Delia Ephron at the height of her powers. This is a story of two complicated marriages, one vulnerable child, and a trip to Italy that changes each of their lives forever. Secrets, lies, love raging, love dying, and the shame of unrealized potential are exposed in detail under the Sicilian sun. And, like the Moro blood oranges that grow there with abandon, the taste is both sour and sweet at once, but the bitterness that remains is not only haunting but unforgettable.”  —Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife  “Siracusa is an unusually crackling, tricky journey into the distant land of other people’s marriages: their secrets, paradoxes, weaknesses, and plea­sures. Delia Ephron writes like a warm-blooded Patricia Highsmith, her sto­ry’s treachery matched by a deep and easy feel for the various human, imperfect ways that people find themselves bound together, and sometimes painstakingly unbind themselves. An absorbing, tense, and original novel.”  —Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings  An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine—Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow. “From the beginning,” says Taylor, “it was a conspiracy for Lizzie and Finn to be together.” Told Rashomon-style in alternating points of view, the characters expose and stumble upon lies and infidelities past and present. Snow, ten years old and precociously drawn into a far more adult drama, becomes the catalyst for catastrophe as the novel explores collusion and betrayal in marriage. With her inimitable psychological astute­ness and uncanny understanding of the human heart, Ephron delivers a powerful meditation on marriage, friendship, and the meaning of travel. Set on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea, Siracusa unfolds with the pacing of a psychological thriller and delivers an unexpected final act that none will see coming.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268690Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Siracusa Author: Delia Ephron Narrator: Darren Goldstein, Katie Finneran, Talia Balsam, John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Siracusa Author: Delia Ephron Narrator: Darren Goldstein, Katie Finneran, Talia Balsam, John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2016 Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 (Fiction) A Washington Post Bestseller • A Los Angeles Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • One of Vulture’s 100 Greatest Beach Books Ever • A People Magazine Summer Reading Pick • One of Elle, InStyle, and Marie Claire’s Best of July “Delia Ephron’s Siracusa is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must-read!”  —Sue Grafton, author of X  “Siracusa is an Italian aria, a Greek tragedy and a modern American master­piece written by Delia Ephron at the height of her powers. This is a story of two complicated marriages, one vulnerable child, and a trip to Italy that changes each of their lives forever. Secrets, lies, love raging, love dying, and the shame of unrealized potential are exposed in detail under the Sicilian sun. And, like the Moro blood oranges that grow there with abandon, the taste is both sour and sweet at once, but the bitterness that remains is not only haunting but unforgettable.”  —Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife  “Siracusa is an unusually crackling, tricky journey into the distant land of other people’s marriages: their secrets, paradoxes, weaknesses, and plea­sures. Delia Ephron writes like a warm-blooded Patricia Highsmith, her sto­ry’s treachery matched by a deep and easy feel for the various human, imperfect ways that people find themselves bound together, and sometimes painstakingly unbind themselves. An absorbing, tense, and original novel.”  —Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings  An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine—Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow. “From the beginning,” says Taylor, “it was a conspiracy for Lizzie and Finn to be together.” Told Rashomon-style in alternating points of view, the characters expose and stumble upon lies and infidelities past and present. Snow, ten years old and precociously drawn into a far more adult drama, becomes the catalyst for catastrophe as the novel explores collusion and betrayal in marriage. With her inimitable psychological astute­ness and uncanny understanding of the human heart, Ephron delivers a powerful meditation on marriage, friendship, and the meaning of travel. Set on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea, Siracusa unfolds with the pacing of a psychological thriller and delivers an unexpected final act that none will see coming.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sarong-party-girls-a-novel-by-cheryl-lu-lien-tan--65309651https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sarong Party Girls: A Novel Author: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh—Western expat—husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose. As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore’s glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. Desperate to move up in Asia’s financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed? Vividly told in Singlish—colorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang—Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy, but her city of Singapore, to dazzling, dizzying life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263702Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sarong Party Girls: A Novel Author: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sarong Party Girls: A Novel Author: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh—Western expat—husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose. As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore’s glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. Desperate to move up in Asia’s financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed? Vividly told in Singlish—colorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang—Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy, but her city of Singapore, to dazzling, dizzying life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-light-of-paris-by-eleanor-brown--65309621https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light of Paris Author: Eleanor Brown Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “I adored The Light of Paris. It’s so lovely and big-hearted—it made me long for Paris.”—Jojo Moyes, New York Times-bestselling author of Me Before You and After You The miraculous novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Weird Sisters—a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike.   Madeleine is trapped—by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears—in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine’s memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been—elegant, reserved, perfect. But when Madeleine finds a diary detailing Margie’s bold, romantic trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets the grandmother she never knew: a dreamer who defied her strict, staid family and spent an exhilarating summer writing in cafés, living on her own, and falling for a charismatic artist. Despite her unhappiness, when Madeleine’s marriage is threatened, she panics, escaping to her hometown and staying with her critical, disapproving mother. In that unlikely place, shaken by the revelation of a long-hidden family secret and inspired by her grandmother’s bravery, Madeleine creates her own Parisian summer—reconnecting to her love of painting, cultivating a vibrant circle of creative friends, and finding a kindred spirit in a down-to-earth chef who reminds her to feed both her body and her heart. Margie and Madeleine’s stories intertwine to explore the joys and risks of living life on our own terms, of defying the rules that hold us back from our dreams, and of becoming the people we are meant to be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265825Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light of Paris Author: Eleanor Brown Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light of Paris Author: Eleanor Brown Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “I adored The Light of Paris. It’s so lovely and big-hearted—it made me long for Paris.”—Jojo Moyes, New York Times-bestselling author of Me Before You and After You The miraculous novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Weird Sisters—a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike.   Madeleine is trapped—by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears—in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine’s memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been—elegant, reserved, perfect. But when Madeleine finds a diary detailing Margie’s bold, romantic trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets the grandmother she never knew: a dreamer who defied her strict, staid family and spent an exhilarating summer writing in cafés, living on her own, and falling for a charismatic artist. Despite her unhappiness, when Madeleine’s marriage is threatened, she panics, escaping to her hometown and staying with her critical, disapproving mother. In that unlikely place, shaken by the revelation of a long-hidden family secret and inspired by her grandmother’s bravery, Madeleine creates her own Parisian summer—reconnecting to her love of painting, cultivating a vibrant circle of creative friends, and finding a kindred spirit in a down-to-earth chef who reminds her to feed both her body and her heart. Margie and Madeleine’s stories intertwine to explore the joys and risks of living life on our own terms, of defying the rules that hold us back from our dreams, and of becoming the people we are meant to be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-time-in-the-world-a-novel-by-caroline-angell--65309611https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Time in the World: A Novel Author: Caroline Angell Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable debut about a young woman's choice between the future she's always imagined and the people she's come to love. Charlotte, a gifted and superbly trained young musician, has been blindsided by a shocking betrayal in her promising career when she takes a babysitting job with the McLeans, a glamorous Upper East Side Manhattan family. At first, the nanny gig is just a way of tiding herself over until she has licked her wounds and figured out her next move as a composer in New York. But, as it turns out, Charlotte is naturally good with children and becomes as deeply fond of the two little boys as they are of her. When an unthinkable tragedy leaves the McLeans bereft, Charlotte is not the only one who realizes that she's the key to holding little George and Matty's world together. Suddenly, in addition to life's usual puzzles, such as sorting out which suitor is her best match, she finds herself with an impossible choice between her life-long dreams and the torn-apart family she's come to love. By turns hilarious, sexy, and wise, Caroline Angell's remarkable and generous debut is the story of a young woman's discovery of the things that matter most.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268930Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Time in the World: A Novel Author: Caroline Angell Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Time in the World: A Novel Author: Caroline Angell Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable debut about a young woman's choice between the future she's always imagined and the people she's come to love. Charlotte, a gifted and superbly trained young musician, has been blindsided by a shocking betrayal in her promising career when she takes a babysitting job with the McLeans, a glamorous Upper East Side Manhattan family. At first, the nanny gig is just a way of tiding herself over until she has licked her wounds and figured out her next move as a composer in New York. But, as it turns out, Charlotte is naturally good with children and becomes as deeply fond of the two little boys as they are of her. When an unthinkable tragedy leaves the McLeans bereft, Charlotte is not the only one who realizes that she's the key to holding little George and Matty's world together. Suddenly, in addition to life's usual puzzles, such as sorting out which suitor is her best match, she finds herself with an impossible choice between her life-long dreams and the torn-apart family she's come to love. By turns hilarious, sexy, and wise, Caroline Angell's remarkable and generous debut is the story of a young woman's discovery of the things that matter most.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brightness-falls-by-jay-mcinerney--65309604https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brightness Falls Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting.  As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell's wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s. From the literary chimeras and corporate raiders to those dispossessed by the pandemonium of money and power, Brightness Falls captures a rash era at its moment of reckoning and gives reality back to a time that now seems decidedly unreal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268888Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brightness Falls Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brightness Falls Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting.  As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell's wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s. From the literary chimeras and corporate raiders to those dispossessed by the pandemonium of money and power, Brightness Falls captures a rash era at its moment of reckoning and gives reality back to a time that now seems decidedly unreal.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-at-the-edge-of-night-a-novel-by-catherine-banner--65309603https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel Author: Catherine Banner Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A perfect summer read [that] brims with heart . . . Don’t be surprised if you keep turning the pages long into the night, spellbound by its magic.”—The Denver Post A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry of works by Isabel Allende. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Los Angeles Public Library • Kirkus Reviews “Captivating . . . [Catherine] Banner’s four-generation saga is set on an island near Sicily, where myths of saints get served up with limoncello at the Esposito family’s bar. . . . The island is fictional, but consider this dreamy summer read your passport.”—People   “A lusty page-turner that weaves romance, rivalry and the intricacies of family expectations into one glorious tale.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world’s troubles. At the center of the island’s life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his beautiful wife, Pina, whose fierce intelligence, grace, and unwavering love guide her every move. An indiscretion tests their marriage, and their children—three sons and an inquisitive daughter—grow up and struggle with both humanity’s cruelty and its capacity for love and mercy. Spanning nearly a century, through secrets and mysteries, trials and sacrifice, this beautiful and haunting novel follows the lives of the Esposito family and the other islanders who live and love on Castellamare: a cruel count and his bewitching wife, a priest who loves scandal, a prisoner of war turned poet, an outcast girl who becomes a pillar of strength, a wounded English soldier who emerges from the sea. The people of Castellamare are transformed by two world wars and a great recession, by the threat of fascism and their deep bonds of passion and friendship, and by bitter rivalries and the power of forgiveness. Catherine Banner has written an enthralling, character-rich novel, epic in scope but intimate in feeling. At times, the island itself seems alive, a mythical place where the earth heaves with stories—and this magical novel takes you there. Praise for The House at the Edge of Night “A gorgeous, sweeping story set over four generations . . . calls to mind Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Beautiful Ruins.”—Interview “Like pictures of a childhood summer, or a half-forgotten smell, this book is sweet and heady with nostalgia . . . [and] comforting as a quilt.”—NPR   “Rich and immersive, this book will take you away.”—Vox “A masterful piece of storytelling, infused with the miraculous (both in stories and in everyday life) while maintaining the difficult balance between the explainable versus the inexplicable . . . captivating and beautifully rendered.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265822Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel Author: Catherine Banner Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel Author: Catherine Banner Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A perfect summer read [that] brims with heart . . . Don’t be surprised if you keep turning the pages long into the night, spellbound by its magic.”—The Denver Post A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry of works by Isabel Allende. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Los Angeles Public Library • Kirkus Reviews “Captivating . . . [Catherine] Banner’s four-generation saga is set on an island near Sicily, where myths of saints get served up with limoncello at the Esposito family’s bar. . . . The island is fictional, but consider this dreamy summer read your passport.”—People   “A lusty page-turner that weaves romance, rivalry and the intricacies of family expectations into one glorious tale.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world’s troubles. At the center of the island’s life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his beautiful wife, Pina, whose fierce intelligence, grace, and unwavering love guide her every move. An indiscretion tests their marriage, and their children—three sons and an inquisitive daughter—grow up and struggle with both humanity’s cruelty and its capacity for love and mercy. Spanning nearly a century, through secrets and mysteries, trials and sacrifice, this beautiful and haunting novel follows the lives of the Esposito family and the other islanders who live and love on Castellamare: a cruel count and his bewitching wife, a priest who loves scandal, a prisoner of war turned poet, an outcast girl who becomes a pillar of strength, a wounded English soldier who emerges from the sea. The people of Castellamare are transformed by two world wars and a great recession, by the threat of fascism and their deep bonds of passion and friendship, and by bitter rivalries and the power of forgiveness. Catherine Banner has written an enthralling, character-rich novel, epic in scope but intimate in feeling. At times, the island itself seems alive, a mythical place where the earth heaves with stories—and this magical novel takes you there. Praise for The House at the Edge of Night “A gorgeous, sweeping story set over four generations . . . calls to mind Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Beautiful Ruins.”—Interview “Like pictures of a childhood summer, or a half-forgotten smell, this book is sweet and heady with nostalgia . . . [and] comforting as a quilt.”—NPR   “Rich and immersive, this book will take you away.”—Vox “A masterful piece of storytelling, infused with the miraculous (both in stories and in everyday life) while maintaining the difficult balance between the explainable versus the inexplicable . . . captivating and beautifully rendered.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ryan-s-hand-by-leila-meacham--65309601https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ryan's Hand Author: Leila Meacham Narrator: Kelly Lintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ... Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side through the most difficult time of her life and there's nothing she won't do for him, even now after his death. But inheriting Ryan's share of his family's ranch in west Texas and living there for a year? Cara doesn't understand what he was thinking. Still, she cannot, will not deny Ryan's last request...even if it means sharing a roof with his brooding, arrogant older brother. Jeth Langston doesn't trust Cara as far as he can throw her. Jeth is certain she prevented his baby brother from spending his last days at home. And he'll be damned if he lets this stranger take over the Langston family legacy too. Whatever the cost, he's determined to drive this beautiful outsider away-no matter how intriguing he finds her. But as the days grow longer and sunshine sweeps across the plains, Cara can't help but fall for the untamed land-and the man whose passion for it captures her, heart and soul. Can their love bloom wild and free on this Texas ranch?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268736Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ryan's Hand Author: Leila Meacham Narrator: Kelly Lintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ryan's Hand Author: Leila Meacham Narrator: Kelly Lintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ... Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side through the most difficult time of her life and there's nothing she won't do for him, even now after his death. But inheriting Ryan's share of his family's ranch in west Texas and living there for a year? Cara doesn't understand what he was thinking. Still, she cannot, will not deny Ryan's last request...even if it means sharing a roof with his brooding, arrogant older brother. Jeth Langston doesn't trust Cara as far as he can throw her. Jeth is certain she prevented his baby brother from spending his last days at home. And he'll be damned if he lets this stranger take over the Langston family legacy too. Whatever the cost, he's determined to drive this beautiful outsider away-no matter how intriguing he finds her. But as the days grow longer and sunshine sweeps across the plains, Cara can't help but fall for the untamed land-and the man whose passion for it captures her, heart and soul. Can their love bloom wild and free on this Texas ranch?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stranger-father-beloved-by-taylor-larsen--65309589https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stranger, Father, Beloved Author: Taylor Larsen Narrator: Corey Brill, Rebekkah Ross, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Huffington Post “2017 Hottest Reads of The Summer” Pick “Taylor Larsen creates a powerful and moving story about the fracturing of a family and its descent into chaos. A brilliant debut of self-delusion, and a perfectly flawed male character spiraling downward.” —Huffington Post An “emotionally intelligent family drama” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), in the tradition of Tom Perrotta’s Little Children, about a wealthy man who reaches a crossroads after a lifetime of repression, sending his family into a slow spiral towards a breakdown. When Michael James sees his wife Nancy chatting with a stranger at a party, his intuition tells him that he’s watching her with the man she should have married. He quickly begins a campaign to replace himself within his own family with this other man—who, to him, is worthier, better, and kinder—all so his faithful wife Nancy, his beautiful teenage daughter Ryan, and his young son Max can live the lives they deserve. While Michael pursues this man’s friendship, Ryan goes through a period of sexual awakening and rebellion and distances herself from her family, and the quiet, weak Nancy becomes increasingly befuddled and frustrated by the behaviors of her husband and daughter. As tension and uncertainty build in their home, the James family slowly unravels. With the quiet intensity of the film American Beauty and the emotional sensitivity of Lorrie Moore, Taylor Larsen creates a powerful and moving story about the fracturing of a family and its descent into chaos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266032Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stranger, Father, Beloved Author: Taylor Larsen Narrator: Corey Brill, Rebekkah Ross, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stranger, Father, Beloved Author: Taylor Larsen Narrator: Corey Brill, Rebekkah Ross, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Huffington Post “2017 Hottest Reads of The Summer” Pick “Taylor Larsen creates a powerful and moving story about the fracturing of a family and its descent into chaos. A brilliant debut of self-delusion, and a perfectly flawed male character spiraling downward.” —Huffington Post An “emotionally intelligent family drama” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), in the tradition of Tom Perrotta’s Little Children, about a wealthy man who reaches a crossroads after a lifetime of repression, sending his family into a slow spiral towards a breakdown. When Michael James sees his wife Nancy chatting with a stranger at a party, his intuition tells him that he’s watching her with the man she should have married. He quickly begins a campaign to replace himself within his own family with this other man—who, to him, is worthier, better, and kinder—all so his faithful wife Nancy, his beautiful teenage daughter Ryan, and his young son Max can live the lives they deserve. While Michael pursues this man’s friendship, Ryan goes through a period of sexual awakening and rebellion and distances herself from her family, and the quiet, weak Nancy becomes increasingly befuddled and frustrated by the behaviors of her husband and daughter. As tension and uncertainty build in their home, the James family slowly unravels. With the quiet intensity of the film American Beauty and the emotional sensitivity of Lorrie Moore, Taylor Larsen creates a powerful and moving story about the fracturing of a family and its descent into chaos.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/been-in-love-before-a-novel-by-bryan-mooney--65309582https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Been in Love Before: A Novel Author: Bryan Mooney Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Macgregor brothers—Robert, Eian, and Ryan—are all recently widowed and forced to live together in Ryan’s beach house in sunny Florida. To get them to reengage with the world, Ryan’s daughter, Mary Kate, signs them up for dance lessons and insists that each find a partner in time for her wedding. Robert, the eldest of the brothers, rediscovers an old friend who brings the spark back to his life. Eian, a former professional baseball player, takes another swing at love with the widow of his best friend. Ryan, the doctor in the family, hopes his beautiful new dance instructor can put the spring back in his step. But Mary Kate’s fiancé is a member of the rival Campbell clan, and as the wedding approaches, joyful anticipation turns into a heated family rivalry. Together the Macgregor brothers will dance their way through first-date jitters and plenty of wrong moves as they try to save the wedding—and restart their lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269201Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Been in Love Before: A Novel Author: Bryan Mooney Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Been in Love Before: A Novel Author: Bryan Mooney Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Macgregor brothers—Robert, Eian, and Ryan—are all recently widowed and forced to live together in Ryan’s beach house in sunny Florida. To get them to reengage with the world, Ryan’s daughter, Mary Kate, signs them up for dance lessons and insists that each find a partner in time for her wedding. Robert, the eldest of the brothers, rediscovers an old friend who brings the spark back to his life. Eian, a former professional baseball player, takes another swing at love with the widow of his best friend. Ryan, the doctor in the family, hopes his beautiful new dance instructor can put the spring back in his step. But Mary Kate’s fiancé is a member of the rival Campbell clan, and as the wedding approaches, joyful anticipation turns into a heated family rivalry. Together the Macgregor brothers will dance their way through first-date jitters and plenty of wrong moves as they try to save the wedding—and restart their lives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-singles-game-by-lauren-weisberger--65309581https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Singles Game Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Heather Lind Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. How far would you go to reach the top? When America’s sweetheart, Charlotte “Charlie” Silver, makes a pact with the devil, the infamously brutal coach Todd Feltner, Good Girl Charlie is banished. After all, no one ever wins big by playing nice. Charlie finds herself catapulted into a world of celebrity stylists, private parties, charity events on mega-yachts, and secret dates with Hollywood royalty. But in a world obsessed with good looks and hot shots, is Charlie willing to lose herself to win it all? A sexy and wickedly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high—and no one plays by the rules—“the book zooms along in the great tradition of summer reads” (The Washington Post).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268532Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Singles Game Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Heather Lind Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Singles Game Author: Lauren Weisberger Narrator: Heather Lind Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. How far would you go to reach the top? When America’s sweetheart, Charlotte “Charlie” Silver, makes a pact with the devil, the infamously brutal coach Todd Feltner, Good Girl Charlie is banished. After all, no one ever wins big by playing nice. Charlie finds herself catapulted into a world of celebrity stylists, private parties, charity events on mega-yachts, and secret dates with Hollywood royalty. But in a world obsessed with good looks and hot shots, is Charlie willing to lose herself to win it all? A sexy and wickedly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high—and no one plays by the rules—“the book zooms along in the great tradition of summer reads” (The Washington Post).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-baby-inheritance-a-little-surprise-for-the-boss-by-elizabeth-lane-maureen-child--65309608https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Baby Inheritance & A Little Surprise for the Boss Author: Elizabeth Lane, Maureen Child Narrator: Hollis Mccarthy, Gabrielle Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Baby Inheritance Is a family in the future for this wealthy bachelor? From USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child!  Divorce attorney to the stars Reed Hudson knows there's no such thing as happily-ever-after. But the red-headed stunner who walks into his office with an infant in her arms will put him to the test.  Lilah Strong just brought a baby girl to a man who splits up families for a living. Now he wants Lilah to stay on as temporary nanny to his niece. Reed Hudson's plush hotel suite is a world away from Lilah's rustic mountain home. Will their undeniable attraction end in heartbreak…or forever? A Little Surprise for the Boss A secret crush on the boss leads to keeping a little secret from the boss!  When Terri Hammond's innocent errand lands her in her boss's bed, she knows the jig is up! But despite a red-hot encounter, resort guru Buck Morgan wants to maintain the status quo. He can't be this turned on by his deceased best friend's sister—not after he promised to look after her. But his beautiful secretary isn't playing nice. She's taunting and teasing him to distraction! Terri has managed his business for the past ten years. Certainly he can trust her with his heart…if they can both forgive each other for the secrets they've been keeping…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265987Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Baby Inheritance & A Little Surprise for the Boss Author: Elizabeth Lane, Maureen Child Narrator: Hollis Mccarthy, Gabrielle Cendese Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Baby Inheritance & A Little Surprise for the Boss Author: Elizabeth Lane, Maureen Child Narrator: Hollis Mccarthy, Gabrielle Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Baby Inheritance Is a family in the future for this wealthy bachelor? From USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child!  Divorce attorney to the stars Reed Hudson knows there's no such thing as happily-ever-after. But the red-headed stunner who walks into his office with an infant in her arms will put him to the test.  Lilah Strong just brought a baby girl to a man who splits up families for a living. Now he wants Lilah to stay on as temporary nanny to his niece. Reed Hudson's plush hotel suite is a world away from Lilah's rustic mountain home. Will their undeniable attraction end in heartbreak…or forever? A Little Surprise for the Boss A secret crush on the boss leads to keeping a little secret from the boss!  When Terri Hammond's innocent errand lands her in her boss's bed, she knows the jig is up! But despite a red-hot encounter, resort guru Buck Morgan wants to maintain the status quo. He can't be this turned on by his deceased best friend's sister—not after he promised to look after her. But his beautiful secretary isn't playing nice. She's taunting and teasing him to distraction! Terri has managed his business for the past ten years. Certainly he can trust her with his heart…if they can both forgive each other for the secrets they've been keeping…]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/magic-a-novel-by-danielle-steel--65309596https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magic: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark—the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame . . . a new setting each time. Selected by secret invitation, the guests arrive dressed in white, with tables and chairs, white linens, flowers, fine china, sparkling crystal, and an elegant dinner. As the sun sets, thousands of candles are lit. And when the night is over, hundreds of white paper lanterns, each with a flame within, bearing everyone’s fervent wishes, are released into the sky. Amid this wondrous White Dinner, a group of close friends stands at the cusp of change. Jean-Philippe and Valerie Dumas are devoted to each other and their young children. He is a rising star in the financial world, she, an editor at French Vogue. But a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in China may lead to separation—and temptation. The epitome of a stylish power couple from Milan, Benedetta and Gregorio Mariani run a venerable Italian clothing empire. Gregorio projects strength, but has a weakness that will ignite a crisis in their company and their marriage. Chantal Giverny, an award-winning screenwriter, and Dharam Singh, one of India’s most successful tech entrepreneurs, are singles paired for the evening. They arrive as friends, but their paths will be set on dramatically different courses before the White Dinner ends. Spanning the globe, this breathtaking novel follows these indelible characters through a transformative year of successes and heartbreaks until the next White Dinner. From the world’s most beloved writer, here is a tale told with extraordinary tenderness and passion, as Danielle Steel explores what it really means to have magic in our lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268844Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magic: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magic: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark—the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame . . . a new setting each time. Selected by secret invitation, the guests arrive dressed in white, with tables and chairs, white linens, flowers, fine china, sparkling crystal, and an elegant dinner. As the sun sets, thousands of candles are lit. And when the night is over, hundreds of white paper lanterns, each with a flame within, bearing everyone’s fervent wishes, are released into the sky. Amid this wondrous White Dinner, a group of close friends stands at the cusp of change. Jean-Philippe and Valerie Dumas are devoted to each other and their young children. He is a rising star in the financial world, she, an editor at French Vogue. But a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in China may lead to separation—and temptation. The epitome of a stylish power couple from Milan, Benedetta and Gregorio Mariani run a venerable Italian clothing empire. Gregorio projects strength, but has a weakness that will ignite a crisis in their company and their marriage. Chantal Giverny, an award-winning screenwriter, and Dharam Singh, one of India’s most successful tech entrepreneurs, are singles paired for the evening. They arrive as friends, but their paths will be set on dramatically different courses before the White Dinner ends. Spanning the globe, this breathtaking novel follows these indelible characters through a transformative year of successes and heartbreaks until the next White Dinner. From the world’s most beloved writer, here is a tale told with extraordinary tenderness and passion, as Danielle Steel explores what it really means to have magic in our lives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-adventurist-a-novel-by-j-bradford-hipps--65309592https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adventurist: A Novel Author: J. Bradford Hipps Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the anonymous office park of a modern software company, whip-smart software engineer Henry Hurt is a man in the middle: of life, of career, and of self-assessment. Mired in his corporate responsibilities, Henry's deathless office existence is torpedoed by losing his mother. Overcome by 'the pall,' Henry seeks escape in a quest for love and purpose occasioned by a crisis in his company's fortunes. Dodging an Iago-like rival, he finds love with a colleague in his department, endangers his bond with his family, and finally confronts the single urgent question of his life. J. Bradford Hipps's The Adventurist is about relationships: Henry has complicated ones with his sister, Gretchen, who has stayed at home with their father; his lover Jane, a sleek and efficient mirror image of Henry; and a tantalizing potential girlfriend, Madison, the ultimate free spirit. But his relationship to his corporate and familial responsibilities may change his fortunes even more than the women in his life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266397Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adventurist: A Novel Author: J. Bradford Hipps Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adventurist: A Novel Author: J. Bradford Hipps Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the anonymous office park of a modern software company, whip-smart software engineer Henry Hurt is a man in the middle: of life, of career, and of self-assessment. Mired in his corporate responsibilities, Henry's deathless office existence is torpedoed by losing his mother. Overcome by 'the pall,' Henry seeks escape in a quest for love and purpose occasioned by a crisis in his company's fortunes. Dodging an Iago-like rival, he finds love with a colleague in his department, endangers his bond with his family, and finally confronts the single urgent question of his life. J. Bradford Hipps's The Adventurist is about relationships: Henry has complicated ones with his sister, Gretchen, who has stayed at home with their father; his lover Jane, a sleek and efficient mirror image of Henry; and a tantalizing potential girlfriend, Madison, the ultimate free spirit. But his relationship to his corporate and familial responsibilities may change his fortunes even more than the women in his life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unburnable-by-marie-elena-john--65309591https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unburnable Author: Marie-Elena John Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy woman whose life was told of in chanté mas songs sung during Carnival—songs about a village on a mountaintop littered with secrets, masquerades that supposedly fly and wreak havoc, and a man who suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead. After twenty years away, Lillian returns to her native island to face the demons of her past—and with the help of Teddy, a man who has loved her for many years, she may yet find a way to heal. Set in both contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica, Unburnable weaves together West Indian history, African culture, and American sensibilities. Richly textured and lushly rendered, Unburnable showcases a welcome and assured new voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268542Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unburnable Author: Marie-Elena John Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unburnable Author: Marie-Elena John Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy woman whose life was told of in chanté mas songs sung during Carnival—songs about a village on a mountaintop littered with secrets, masquerades that supposedly fly and wreak havoc, and a man who suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead. After twenty years away, Lillian returns to her native island to face the demons of her past—and with the help of Teddy, a man who has loved her for many years, she may yet find a way to heal. Set in both contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica, Unburnable weaves together West Indian history, African culture, and American sensibilities. Richly textured and lushly rendered, Unburnable showcases a welcome and assured new voice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-eagle-tree-by-ned-hayes--65309570https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eagle Tree Author: Ned Hayes Narrator: Will Ropp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Fourteen-year-old March Wong knows everything there is to know about trees. They are his passion and his obsession, even after his recent falls—and despite the state’s threat to take him away from his mother if she can’t keep him from getting hurt. But the young autistic boy cannot resist the captivating pull of the Pacific Northwest’s lush forests just outside his back door. One day, March is devastated to learn that the Eagle Tree—a monolithic Ponderosa Pine near his home in Olympia—is slated to be cut down by developers. Now, he will do anything in his power to save this beloved tree, including enlisting unlikely support from relatives, classmates, and even his bitter neighbor. In taking a stand, March will come face-to-face with some frightening possibilities: Even if he manages to save the Eagle Tree, is he risking himself and his mother to do it? Intertwining themes of humanity and ecology, The Eagle Tree eloquently explores what it means to be part of a family, a society, and the natural world that surrounds and connects us. Revised edition: This edition of The Eagle Tree includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268847Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eagle Tree Author: Ned Hayes Narrator: Will Ropp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eagle Tree Author: Ned Hayes Narrator: Will Ropp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Fourteen-year-old March Wong knows everything there is to know about trees. They are his passion and his obsession, even after his recent falls—and despite the state’s threat to take him away from his mother if she can’t keep him from getting hurt. But the young autistic boy cannot resist the captivating pull of the Pacific Northwest’s lush forests just outside his back door. One day, March is devastated to learn that the Eagle Tree—a monolithic Ponderosa Pine near his home in Olympia—is slated to be cut down by developers. Now, he will do anything in his power to save this beloved tree, including enlisting unlikely support from relatives, classmates, and even his bitter neighbor. In taking a stand, March will come face-to-face with some frightening possibilities: Even if he manages to save the Eagle Tree, is he risking himself and his mother to do it? Intertwining themes of humanity and ecology, The Eagle Tree eloquently explores what it means to be part of a family, a society, and the natural world that surrounds and connects us. Revised edition: This edition of The Eagle Tree includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-perfect-neighbors-a-novel-by-sarah-pekkanen--65309563https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Neighbors: A Novel Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling coauthor of the “creepy-crawly tale” (The New York Times Book Review) An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us questions just how well we really know our neighbors in this “deliciously fun beach read” (People) about an idyllic neighborhood whose sublime façade hides shocking secrets. Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on summer nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of being one of the safest neighborhoods in America. It’s also one of the most secret-filled. After a decade as a stay-at-home mom, Kellie Scott is back to work in an office. She’s adjusting to high heels, scrambling to cook dinner for her family, and—following years of feeling invisible—soaking in the dangerous attention of a handsome colleague. Kellie’s neighbor Susan Barrett begins every day with fresh resolutions: She won’t eat any carbs, she’ll go to bed at a reasonable hour, and she’ll stop stalking her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. Gigi Kennedy’s husband is running for political office, which means her old skeletons, ones she wants to keep hidden at any cost, are in danger of being dragged into the light. Then a new family moves into this peaceful cul-de-sac. Tessa Campbell seems pleasant enough, if a bit quiet. But soon it becomes clear that Tessa is hiding the most explosive secret of all—one with deadly consequences. Written in Sarah Pekkanen’s signature “gripping” (People) style, The Perfect Neighbors “transforms clichéd suburban troubles—from adolescent drama to infidelity—into a compelling, suspenseful tale” (Kirkus Reviews).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268520Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Neighbors: A Novel Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Neighbors: A Novel Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling coauthor of the “creepy-crawly tale” (The New York Times Book Review) An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us questions just how well we really know our neighbors in this “deliciously fun beach read” (People) about an idyllic neighborhood whose sublime façade hides shocking secrets. Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on summer nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of being one of the safest neighborhoods in America. It’s also one of the most secret-filled. After a decade as a stay-at-home mom, Kellie Scott is back to work in an office. She’s adjusting to high heels, scrambling to cook dinner for her family, and—following years of feeling invisible—soaking in the dangerous attention of a handsome colleague. Kellie’s neighbor Susan Barrett begins every day with fresh resolutions: She won’t eat any carbs, she’ll go to bed at a reasonable hour, and she’ll stop stalking her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. Gigi Kennedy’s husband is running for political office, which means her old skeletons, ones she wants to keep hidden at any cost, are in danger of being dragged into the light. Then a new family moves into this peaceful cul-de-sac. Tessa Campbell seems pleasant enough, if a bit quiet. But soon it becomes clear that Tessa is hiding the most explosive secret of all—one with deadly consequences. Written in Sarah Pekkanen’s signature “gripping” (People) style, The Perfect Neighbors “transforms clichéd suburban troubles—from adolescent drama to infidelity—into a compelling, suspenseful tale” (Kirkus Reviews).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-hundred-thousand-worlds-by-bob-proehl--65309665https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hundred Thousand Worlds Author: Bob Proehl Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints 'Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder.' —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way.  As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless twentysomething illustrator to a brilliant corporate comics writer stuggling with her industry's old-school ways to a group of cosplay women who provide a chorus of knowing commentary. For Alex, this world is a magical place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get closer to their destination, he begins to realize that the story his mother is telling him about their journey might have a very different ending than he imagined. A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a mother and son—and to the way the stories we create come to shape us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264497Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hundred Thousand Worlds Author: Bob Proehl Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hundred Thousand Worlds Author: Bob Proehl Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints 'Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder.' —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way.  As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless twentysomething illustrator to a brilliant corporate comics writer stuggling with her industry's old-school ways to a group of cosplay women who provide a chorus of knowing commentary. For Alex, this world is a magical place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get closer to their destination, he begins to realize that the story his mother is telling him about their journey might have a very different ending than he imagined. A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a mother and son—and to the way the stories we create come to shape us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-certain-age-a-novel-by-beatriz-williams--65309632https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Certain Age: A Novel Author: Beatriz Williams Narrator: Barbara Goodson, Adrienne Rusk, Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm. As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband. But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue—and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression . . . and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice. Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams’ fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby’s New York.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265750Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Certain Age: A Novel Author: Beatriz Williams Narrator: Barbara Goodson, Adrienne Rusk, Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Certain Age: A Novel Author: Beatriz Williams Narrator: Barbara Goodson, Adrienne Rusk, Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm. As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband. But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue—and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression . . . and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice. Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams’ fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby’s New York.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-could-be-beautiful-a-novel-by-swan-huntley--65309598https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Could Be Beautiful: A Novel Author: Swan Huntley Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything—and yet can trust no one. Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. She sees her personal trainer, she gets weekly massages, and occasionally she visits her mother and sister on the Upper East Side, but after two broken engagements and boyfriends who wanted only her money, she is haunted by the fear that she'll never have a family of her own. One night, at an art opening, Catherine meets William Stockton, a handsome man who shares her impeccable taste and love of beauty. He is educated, elegant, and even has a personal connection—his parents and Catherine's parents were friends years ago. But as he and Catherine grow closer, she begins to encounter strange signs, and her mother, Elizabeth (now suffering from Alzheimer's), seems to have only bad memories of William as a boy. In Elizabeth's old diary she finds an unnerving letter from a former nanny that cryptically reads: 'We cannot trust anyone . . . ' Is William lying about his past? And if so, is Catherine willing to sacrifice their beautiful life in order to find the truth? Featuring a fascinating heroine who longs for answers but is blinded by her own privilege, We Could Be Beautiful is a glittering, seductive, utterly surprising story of love, money, greed, and family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268688Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Could Be Beautiful: A Novel Author: Swan Huntley Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Could Be Beautiful: A Novel Author: Swan Huntley Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything—and yet can trust no one. Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. She sees her personal trainer, she gets weekly massages, and occasionally she visits her mother and sister on the Upper East Side, but after two broken engagements and boyfriends who wanted only her money, she is haunted by the fear that she'll never have a family of her own. One night, at an art opening, Catherine meets William Stockton, a handsome man who shares her impeccable taste and love of beauty. He is educated, elegant, and even has a personal connection—his parents and Catherine's parents were friends years ago. But as he and Catherine grow closer, she begins to encounter strange signs, and her mother, Elizabeth (now suffering from Alzheimer's), seems to have only bad memories of William as a boy. In Elizabeth's old diary she finds an unnerving letter from a former nanny that cryptically reads: 'We cannot trust anyone . . . ' Is William lying about his past? And if so, is Catherine willing to sacrifice their beautiful life in order to find the truth? Featuring a fascinating heroine who longs for answers but is blinded by her own privilege, We Could Be Beautiful is a glittering, seductive, utterly surprising story of love, money, greed, and family.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bourbon-thief-by-tiffany-reisz--65309584https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bourbon Thief Author: Tiffany Reisz Narrator: Kim Staunton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150–year–old mystery  When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen—a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and operated Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War, until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows… No one except Paris.  In the small hours of a Louisville morning, Paris unspools the lurid tale of Tamara Maddox, heiress to the distillery that became an empire. Theirs is a legacy of wealth and power, but also of lies, secrets and sins of omission. Why Paris wants the bottle of Red Thread remains a secret until the truth of her identity is at last revealed, and the century-old vengeance Tamara vowed against her family can finally be completed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266592Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bourbon Thief Author: Tiffany Reisz Narrator: Kim Staunton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bourbon Thief Author: Tiffany Reisz Narrator: Kim Staunton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150–year–old mystery  When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen—a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and operated Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War, until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows… No one except Paris.  In the small hours of a Louisville morning, Paris unspools the lurid tale of Tamara Maddox, heiress to the distillery that became an empire. Theirs is a legacy of wealth and power, but also of lies, secrets and sins of omission. Why Paris wants the bottle of Red Thread remains a secret until the truth of her identity is at last revealed, and the century-old vengeance Tamara vowed against her family can finally be completed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/summer-in-good-hope-by-cindy-kirk--65309561https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summer in Good Hope Series: #2 of A Good Hope Novel Author: Cindy Kirk Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A widow at twenty-six, Primrose Bloom returns to idyllic Good Hope, Wisconsin, with her two rambunctious young boys, seeking the beauty of the lakeside landscape and the comfort of home. After the loss of her husband and her job, all she’s looking for is peace. Prim is resolved not to date again until her boys are in college, but her will starts crumbling whenever she’s around her former high school debate partner, Max Brody—who just happens to live in the charming cottage next door. Max has reservations of his own about giving love a second chance and is determined to keep his distance. But when the two pair up to work on the town’s Fourth of July celebration, the fireworks over Green Bay aren’t the only sparks flying. Are Prim and the small-town boy she left behind perfectly wrong for each other…or perfectly right?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266658Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summer in Good Hope Series: #2 of A Good Hope Novel Author: Cindy Kirk Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summer in Good Hope Series: #2 of A Good Hope Novel Author: Cindy Kirk Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A widow at twenty-six, Primrose Bloom returns to idyllic Good Hope, Wisconsin, with her two rambunctious young boys, seeking the beauty of the lakeside landscape and the comfort of home. After the loss of her husband and her job, all she’s looking for is peace. Prim is resolved not to date again until her boys are in college, but her will starts crumbling whenever she’s around her former high school debate partner, Max Brody—who just happens to live in the charming cottage next door. Max has reservations of his own about giving love a second chance and is determined to keep his distance. But when the two pair up to work on the town’s Fourth of July celebration, the fireworks over Green Bay aren’t the only sparks flying. Are Prim and the small-town boy she left behind perfectly wrong for each other…or perfectly right?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-one-home-a-new-beginnings-novel-by-debbie-macomber--65309569https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last One Home: A New Beginnings Novel Series: #1 of New Beginnings Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 23, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The first ever stand-alone novel from international bestseller Debbie Macomber, author of Blossom Street Brides and Rose Harbor in Bloom. A story about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love. Twelve years ago, Cassie Carter chose the wrong man, and one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now, hoping to leave her past behind, Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don’t live too far away, she doesn’t expect to see them. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with raising her two children. And Nichole, the youngest, is a stay-at-home mum whose husband indulges her every whim. But one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering the hope of reconciliation. As Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities – making amends with her sisters, finding love once more – she realises the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266903Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last One Home: A New Beginnings Novel Series: #1 of New Beginnings Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last One Home: A New Beginnings Novel Series: #1 of New Beginnings Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 23, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The first ever stand-alone novel from international bestseller Debbie Macomber, author of Blossom Street Brides and Rose Harbor in Bloom. A story about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love. Twelve years ago, Cassie Carter chose the wrong man, and one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now, hoping to leave her past behind, Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don’t live too far away, she doesn’t expect to see them. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with raising her two children. And Nichole, the youngest, is a stay-at-home mum whose husband indulges her every whim. But one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering the hope of reconciliation. As Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities – making amends with her sisters, finding love once more – she realises the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/by-the-numbers-by-jen-lancaster--65309669https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By The Numbers Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Best of Enemies serves up a hilarious new novel of the “sandwich generation.”   Actuary Penny Sinclair has a head for business, and she always makes rational decisions. Knowing that 60% of spouses cheat and 50% of marriages end in divorce, she wasn’t too surprised when her husband had an affair. (That he did so with a woman their daughter’s age? Well, that part did sting a bit.) She just made sure she got everything in the divorce, including their lovely old Victorian house. And as soon as her younger daughter has her hipster-fabulous wedding in the backyard, she’s trading it in for a condo in downtown Chicago...   Well within the average market time in her area, Penny gets an offer on the house. But then life happens. Her children, her parents and her ex come flying back to the nest, all in need of Penny’s emotional—and financial—support. Spread thin, Penny becomes the poster child for the “sandwich generation,” when all she really wanted to do was make managing director, buy a white couch, and maybe go on a Match.com date...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264605Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By The Numbers Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By The Numbers Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Best of Enemies serves up a hilarious new novel of the “sandwich generation.”   Actuary Penny Sinclair has a head for business, and she always makes rational decisions. Knowing that 60% of spouses cheat and 50% of marriages end in divorce, she wasn’t too surprised when her husband had an affair. (That he did so with a woman their daughter’s age? Well, that part did sting a bit.) She just made sure she got everything in the divorce, including their lovely old Victorian house. And as soon as her younger daughter has her hipster-fabulous wedding in the backyard, she’s trading it in for a condo in downtown Chicago...   Well within the average market time in her area, Penny gets an offer on the house. But then life happens. Her children, her parents and her ex come flying back to the nest, all in need of Penny’s emotional—and financial—support. Spread thin, Penny becomes the poster child for the “sandwich generation,” when all she really wanted to do was make managing director, buy a white couch, and maybe go on a Match.com date...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-11-inheritance-by-julian-fellowes--65309653https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 11: Inheritance Series: #11 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 16, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The final episode -- but will justice prevail? Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263341Thu, 16 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 11: Inheritance Series: #11 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 11: Inheritance Series: #11 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 16, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The final episode -- but will justice prevail? Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-a-novel-by-natashia-deon--65309654https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Novel Author: Natashia Deón Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For a runaway slave in the 1840s South, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic master. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she leaves behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There, amid a revolving door of gamblers, prostitutes, and drunks, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often. The product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Having been taken in as an infant by a free slave named Charles, Josey has never known her mother, who was murdered at her birth. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey—and her lost mother—for years to come. Deftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi—who narrates the entire novel, unable to leave her daughter alone in the land of the living—Grace is a sweeping, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom, love, and motherhood, told in a dazzling and original voice and set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265079Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Novel Author: Natashia Deón Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Novel Author: Natashia Deón Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For a runaway slave in the 1840s South, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic master. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she leaves behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There, amid a revolving door of gamblers, prostitutes, and drunks, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often. The product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Having been taken in as an infant by a free slave named Charles, Josey has never known her mother, who was murdered at her birth. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey—and her lost mother—for years to come. Deftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi—who narrates the entire novel, unable to leave her daughter alone in the land of the living—Grace is a sweeping, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom, love, and motherhood, told in a dazzling and original voice and set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-in-exile-by-ayse-kulin--65309628https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in Exile Author: Ayşe Kulin Narrator: Adriana Sevahn Nichols Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul returns with a tale of love defying all boundaries. Sabahat, a beautiful young Muslim woman, is known in her family for her intelligence, drive, and stubbornness. She believes there is more in store for her life than a good marriage and convinces her parents to let her pursue her education, rare for young Turkish women in the 1920s. But no one—least of all Sabahat herself—expects that in the course of her studies she will fall for a handsome Armenian student named Aram. After precious moments alone together, their love begins to blossom. Try as she might to simplify her life and move on, Sabahat has no choice but to follow her heart’s desire. But Aram is Christian, and neither family approves. With only hope to guide their way, they defy age-old traditions, cross into dangerous territory, and risk everything to find their way back to each other. One of Turkey’s most beloved authors brings us an evocative story of two star-crossed lovers inspired by her own family’s history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266416Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in Exile Author: Ayşe Kulin Narrator: Adriana Sevahn Nichols Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in Exile Author: Ayşe Kulin Narrator: Adriana Sevahn Nichols Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul returns with a tale of love defying all boundaries. Sabahat, a beautiful young Muslim woman, is known in her family for her intelligence, drive, and stubbornness. She believes there is more in store for her life than a good marriage and convinces her parents to let her pursue her education, rare for young Turkish women in the 1920s. But no one—least of all Sabahat herself—expects that in the course of her studies she will fall for a handsome Armenian student named Aram. After precious moments alone together, their love begins to blossom. Try as she might to simplify her life and move on, Sabahat has no choice but to follow her heart’s desire. But Aram is Christian, and neither family approves. With only hope to guide their way, they defy age-old traditions, cross into dangerous territory, and risk everything to find their way back to each other. One of Turkey’s most beloved authors brings us an evocative story of two star-crossed lovers inspired by her own family’s history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/here-s-to-us-by-elin-hilderbrand--65309622https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here's to Us Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.96 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Three romantic rivals in one crowded house equals plenty of room for jealousy in this surprising and heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe—a celebrity chef with an insatiable appetite for life—and a passionate dislike of one another. All three are remarkable, spirited women, but they couldn't be more different. Laurel: Deacon's high school sweetheart and an effortlessly beautiful social worker; Belinda: a high-maintenance Hollywood diva; and Scarlett: a sexy southern belle floating by on her family money and her fabulous looks. They've established a delicate understanding over the years—they avoid each other at all costs. But their fragile detente threatens to come crashing down after Deacon's tragic death on his favorite place on earth: a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage. Deacon's final wish was for his makeshift family to assemble on his beloved Nantucket to say good-bye. Begrudgingly, Laurel, Belinda, and Scarlett gather on the island as once again, as in each of their marriages, they're left to pick up Deacon's mess. Now they're trapped in the crowded cottage where they all made their own memories—a house that they now share in more ways than one—along with the children they raised with Deacon, and his best friend. Laurel, Belinda, and Scarlett each had an unbreakable bond with Deacon—and they all have secrets to hide.  Before the weekend is over, there are enough accusations, lies, tears, and drama to turn even the best of friends—let alone three women who married the same man—into adversaries. As his unlikely family says good-bye to the man who brought them together—for better or worse—will they be able to put aside their differences long enough to raise a glass in Deacon's honor?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264672Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here's to Us Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here's to Us Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.96 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Three romantic rivals in one crowded house equals plenty of room for jealousy in this surprising and heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe—a celebrity chef with an insatiable appetite for life—and a passionate dislike of one another. All three are remarkable, spirited women, but they couldn't be more different. Laurel: Deacon's high school sweetheart and an effortlessly beautiful social worker; Belinda: a high-maintenance Hollywood diva; and Scarlett: a sexy southern belle floating by on her family money and her fabulous looks. They've established a delicate understanding over the years—they avoid each other at all costs. But their fragile detente threatens to come crashing down after Deacon's tragic death on his favorite place on earth: a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage. Deacon's final wish was for his makeshift family to assemble on his beloved Nantucket to say good-bye. Begrudgingly, Laurel, Belinda, and Scarlett gather on the island as once again, as in each of their marriages, they're left to pick up Deacon's mess. Now they're trapped in the crowded cottage where they all made their own memories—a house that they now share in more ways than one—along with the children they raised with Deacon, and his best friend. Laurel, Belinda, and Scarlett each had an unbreakable bond with Deacon—and they all have secrets to hide.  Before the weekend is over, there are enough accusations, lies, tears, and drama to turn even the best of friends—let alone three women who married the same man—into adversaries. As his unlikely family says good-bye to the man who brought them together—for better or worse—will they be able to put aside their differences long enough to raise a glass in Deacon's honor?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-10-the-past-comes-back-by-julian-fellowes--65309624https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 10: The Past Comes Back Series: #10 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 9, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The full truth of what happened that night at the Duchess of Richmond's ball is revealed. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263345Thu, 09 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 10: The Past Comes Back Series: #10 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 10: The Past Comes Back Series: #10 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 9, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The full truth of what happened that night at the Duchess of Richmond's ball is revealed. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/homegoing-a-novel-by-yaa-gyasi--65309676https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homegoing: A novel Author: Yaa Gyasi Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 216 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 53 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR's Debut Novel of the Year One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016 One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016 “Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates  The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.             Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.  Includes a PDF of the Family Tree]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263864Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homegoing: A novel Author: Yaa Gyasi Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homegoing: A novel Author: Yaa Gyasi Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 216 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 53 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR's Debut Novel of the Year One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016 One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016 “Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates  The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.             Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.  Includes a PDF of the Family Tree]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unbreak-my-heart-by-nicole-jacquelyn--65309663https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbreak My Heart Series: #1 of Fostering Love Author: Nicole Jacquelyn Narrator: Alastair Haynesbridge, Charlotte North Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A 'heartbreaking, heartwarming' (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author) love story that asks the question: what do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes. After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it . . . liking her. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves - with or without Shane. . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265730Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbreak My Heart Series: #1 of Fostering Love Author: Nicole Jacquelyn Narrator: Alastair Haynesbridge, Charlotte North Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbreak My Heart Series: #1 of Fostering Love Author: Nicole Jacquelyn Narrator: Alastair Haynesbridge, Charlotte North Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A 'heartbreaking, heartwarming' (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author) love story that asks the question: what do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes. After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it . . . liking her. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves - with or without Shane. . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-almost-forgot-about-you-a-novel-by-terry-mcmillan--65309638https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel Author: Terry McMillan Narrator: Terry McMillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 93 Ratings of Narrator: 4.09 of Total 35 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning. In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love. Georgia’s bravery reminds us that it’s never too late to become the person you want to be, and that taking chances, with your life and your heart, are always worthwhile.   Big-hearted, genuine, and universal, I Almost Forgot About You shows what can happen when you face your fears, take a chance, and open yourself up to life, love, and the possibility of a new direction. It’s everything you’ve always loved about Terry McMillan.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264611Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel Author: Terry McMillan Narrator: Terry McMillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel Author: Terry McMillan Narrator: Terry McMillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 93 Ratings of Narrator: 4.09 of Total 35 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning. In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love. Georgia’s bravery reminds us that it’s never too late to become the person you want to be, and that taking chances, with your life and your heart, are always worthwhile.   Big-hearted, genuine, and universal, I Almost Forgot About You shows what can happen when you face your fears, take a chance, and open yourself up to life, love, and the possibility of a new direction. It’s everything you’ve always loved about Terry McMillan.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wintering-by-peter-geye--65309635https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wintering Author: Peter Geye Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations’ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota—instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He’d done this once before, more than thirty years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme—winter already coming on, in these woods, on these waters—as a reenactment of the ancient voyageurs’ journeys of discovery. It’s certainly something Gus has never forgotten, nor the Devil’s Maw of a river, a variety of beloved (possibly fantastical) maps, the ice floes and waterfalls (neither especially appealing from a canoe), a magnificent bear, the endless portages, a magical abandoned shack, Thanksgiving and Christmas improvised at the far end of the earth, the brutal cold and sheer beauty of it all. And men hunting other men. Now—with his father pronounced dead—Gus relates their adventure in vivid detail to Berit Lovig, who’d spent much of her life waiting for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled over the last two decades. So, a middle-aged man rectifying his personal history, an aging lady wrestling with her own and with the entire saga of a town and region they’d helped to form and were in turn relentlessly, unforgettably formed by.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264704Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wintering Author: Peter Geye Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wintering Author: Peter Geye Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations’ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota—instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He’d done this once before, more than thirty years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme—winter already coming on, in these woods, on these waters—as a reenactment of the ancient voyageurs’ journeys of discovery. It’s certainly something Gus has never forgotten, nor the Devil’s Maw of a river, a variety of beloved (possibly fantastical) maps, the ice floes and waterfalls (neither especially appealing from a canoe), a magnificent bear, the endless portages, a magical abandoned shack, Thanksgiving and Christmas improvised at the far end of the earth, the brutal cold and sheer beauty of it all. And men hunting other men. Now—with his father pronounced dead—Gus relates their adventure in vivid detail to Berit Lovig, who’d spent much of her life waiting for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled over the last two decades. So, a middle-aged man rectifying his personal history, an aging lady wrestling with her own and with the entire saga of a town and region they’d helped to form and were in turn relentlessly, unforgettably formed by.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/they-may-not-mean-to-but-they-do-a-novel-by-cathleen-schine--65309630https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They may Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel Author: Cathleen Schine Narrator: Cynthia Darlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old. Cathleen Schine's They May Not Mean To, but They Do is a tender, sometimes hilarious intergenerational story about searching for where you belong as your family changes with age. When Aaron dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. They didn't count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids. With sympathy, humor, and truth, Schine explores the intrusion of old age into a large and loving family. They May Not Mean To, but They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263873Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They may Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel Author: Cathleen Schine Narrator: Cynthia Darlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They may Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel Author: Cathleen Schine Narrator: Cynthia Darlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old. Cathleen Schine's They May Not Mean To, but They Do is a tender, sometimes hilarious intergenerational story about searching for where you belong as your family changes with age. When Aaron dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. They didn't count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids. With sympathy, humor, and truth, Schine explores the intrusion of old age into a large and loving family. They May Not Mean To, but They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-albert-vuelve-a-casa-la-historia-en-cierto-modo-real-de-un-hombre-su-esposa-y-su-caiman-by-homer-hickam--65309618https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Albert vuelve a casa: La historia, en cierto modo real, de un hombre, su esposa y su caimAn. Author: Homer Hickam Narrator: Alberto Santillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Una historia emocionalmente evocadora acerca de un hombre, una mujer y un caimán es un emotivo tributo al amor, del autor best seller del New York Times de las galardonadas memorias Rocket Boys: la base de la película Cielo de Octubre. Elsie Lavender y Homer Hickam (el padre del autor) eran compañeros de clase en la secundaria en los campos de carbón de West Virginia, graduándose justo cuando comenzaba la Gran depresión. Cuando Homer pidió le propuso matrimonio, Elsie partió para Orlando donde congenió con un actor bailarín llamado Buddy Ebsen (sí, ese Buddy Ebsen). Pero cuando Buddy se mudó para Nueva York, los sueños de Elsie de una vida con él se hicieron trizas, y eventualmente regresó a los campos de carbón, y se casó con Homer. Insatisfecha como esposa de un minero, Elsie recordaba sus despreocupados días con Buddy cada día debido a su inusual regalo de boda: un caimán llamado Albert al que crió en el único baño que había en la casa. Cuando Albert asustó a Homer al agarrarle los pantalones, le dio a Elsie un ultimátum: «¡Yo o ese caimán!». Después de pensarlo un poco, Elsie llegó a la conclusión de que había una sola cosa que hacer: llevar a Albert a casa. Este es el relato divertido, dulce y a veces trágico de una joven pareja y un caimán especial en una loca aventura de mil millas de distancia. Contado con la calidez y el sencillo encanto que hizo de Rocket Boys un querido best seller, el divertido relato de Homer Hickam es el mejor testamento a esa extraña y maravillosa emoción que de modo inadecuado llamamos amor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267138Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Albert vuelve a casa: La historia, en cierto modo real, de un hombre, su esposa y su caimAn. Author: Homer Hickam Narrator: Alberto...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Albert vuelve a casa: La historia, en cierto modo real, de un hombre, su esposa y su caimAn. Author: Homer Hickam Narrator: Alberto Santillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Una historia emocionalmente evocadora acerca de un hombre, una mujer y un caimán es un emotivo tributo al amor, del autor best seller del New York Times de las galardonadas memorias Rocket Boys: la base de la película Cielo de Octubre. Elsie Lavender y Homer Hickam (el padre del autor) eran compañeros de clase en la secundaria en los campos de carbón de West Virginia, graduándose justo cuando comenzaba la Gran depresión. Cuando Homer pidió le propuso matrimonio, Elsie partió para Orlando donde congenió con un actor bailarín llamado Buddy Ebsen (sí, ese Buddy Ebsen). Pero cuando Buddy se mudó para Nueva York, los sueños de Elsie de una vida con él se hicieron trizas, y eventualmente regresó a los campos de carbón, y se casó con Homer. Insatisfecha como esposa de un minero, Elsie recordaba sus despreocupados días con Buddy cada día debido a su inusual regalo de boda: un caimán llamado Albert al que crió en el único baño que había en la casa. Cuando Albert asustó a Homer al agarrarle los pantalones, le dio a Elsie un ultimátum: «¡Yo o ese caimán!». Después de pensarlo un poco, Elsie llegó a la conclusión de que había una sola cosa que hacer: llevar a Albert a casa. Este es el relato divertido, dulce y a veces trágico de una joven pareja y un caimán especial en una loca aventura de mil millas de distancia. Contado con la calidez y el sencillo encanto que hizo de Rocket Boys un querido best seller, el divertido relato de Homer Hickam es el mejor testamento a esa extraña y maravillosa emoción que de modo inadecuado llamamos amor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-9-the-past-is-a-foreign-country-by-julian-fellowes--65309655https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 9: The Past is a Foreign Country Series: #9 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: June 2, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Some documents are discovered that threaten the future of more than one family. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263344Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 9: The Past is a Foreign Country Series: #9 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 9: The Past is a Foreign Country Series: #9 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: June 2, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Some documents are discovered that threaten the future of more than one family. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-name-is-leon-now-a-major-bbc-two-film-by-kit-de-waal--65309634https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name Is Leon: Now a Major BBC Two Film Author: Kit De Waal Narrator: Lenny Henry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD & THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE Now a major BBC film starring Sir Lenny Henry, Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams and Christopher Eccleston. It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one home, but have they found another? Maureen feeds and looks after them. She has wild red hair and mutters swearwords under her breath when she thinks they can't hear. She claims everything will be okay. But will they ever see their mother again? Who are the couple who secretly visit Jake? Between the street violence and the street parties, Leon must find a way to reunite his family . . . 'Startlingly funny. Balances the gritty with the feel good' Observer 'Vivid and endearing - a very powerful book' Emma Healey, bestselling author of Elizabeth is Missing 'Authentic and beautiful, urgent and honest, this novel makes room in your heart' Chris Cleave, bestselling author of The Other Hand © Kit de Waal 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265429Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name Is Leon: Now a Major BBC Two Film Author: Kit De Waal Narrator: Lenny Henry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name Is Leon: Now a Major BBC Two Film Author: Kit De Waal Narrator: Lenny Henry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD & THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE Now a major BBC film starring Sir Lenny Henry, Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams and Christopher Eccleston. It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one home, but have they found another? Maureen feeds and looks after them. She has wild red hair and mutters swearwords under her breath when she thinks they can't hear. She claims everything will be okay. But will they ever see their mother again? Who are the couple who secretly visit Jake? Between the street violence and the street parties, Leon must find a way to reunite his family . . . 'Startlingly funny. Balances the gritty with the feel good' Observer 'Vivid and endearing - a very powerful book' Emma Healey, bestselling author of Elizabeth is Missing 'Authentic and beautiful, urgent and honest, this novel makes room in your heart' Chris Cleave, bestselling author of The Other Hand © Kit de Waal 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-house-for-happy-mothers-a-novel-by-amulya-malladi--65309616https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House for Happy Mothers: A Novel Author: Amulya Malladi Narrator: Deepa Samuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A stunning new novel—full of wit and warmth—from the bestselling author of The Mango Season. In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two children in a tiny hut, she and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads—but she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her only asset—her womb—to a childless couple overseas. To the dismay of friends and family, Priya places her faith in a woman she’s never met to make her dreams of motherhood come true. Together, the two women discover the best and the worst that India’s rising surrogacy industry has to offer, bridging continents and cultures to bring a new life into the world—and renewed hope to each other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265776Wed, 01 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House for Happy Mothers: A Novel Author: Amulya Malladi Narrator: Deepa Samuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House for Happy Mothers: A Novel Author: Amulya Malladi Narrator: Deepa Samuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A stunning new novel—full of wit and warmth—from the bestselling author of The Mango Season. In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two children in a tiny hut, she and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads—but she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her only asset—her womb—to a childless couple overseas. To the dismay of friends and family, Priya places her faith in a woman she’s never met to make her dreams of motherhood come true. Together, the two women discover the best and the worst that India’s rising surrogacy industry has to offer, bridging continents and cultures to bring a new life into the world—and renewed hope to each other.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-re-all-damaged-by-matthew-norman--65309597https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We're All Damaged Author: Matthew Norman Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street. We’re All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend’s wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn’t technically his. But before long he needs to go back to Omaha to say good-bye to his dying grandfather. Back home, Andy is confronted with his past, which includes his ex, his ex’s new boyfriend, his right-wing talk-radio-host mother, his parents’ crumbling marriage, and his still-angry best friend. As if these old problems weren’t enough, Andy encounters an entirely new complication: Daisy. She has fifteen tattoos, no job, and her own difficult past. But she claims she is the only person who can help Andy be happy again, if only she weren’t hiding a huge secret that will mess things up even more. Andy Carter needs a second chance at life, and Daisy—and the person Daisy pushes Andy to become—may be his last chance to set things right.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265774Wed, 01 Jun 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We're All Damaged Author: Matthew Norman Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 1, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We're All Damaged Author: Matthew Norman Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street. We’re All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend’s wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn’t technically his. But before long he needs to go back to Omaha to say good-bye to his dying grandfather. Back home, Andy is confronted with his past, which includes his ex, his ex’s new boyfriend, his right-wing talk-radio-host mother, his parents’ crumbling marriage, and his still-angry best friend. As if these old problems weren’t enough, Andy encounters an entirely new complication: Daisy. She has fifteen tattoos, no job, and her own difficult past. But she claims she is the only person who can help Andy be happy again, if only she weren’t hiding a huge secret that will mess things up even more. Andy Carter needs a second chance at life, and Daisy—and the person Daisy pushes Andy to become—may be his last chance to set things right.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/modern-lovers-by-emma-straub--65309671https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Lovers Author: Emma Straub Narrator: Jen Tullock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.15 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “It’s ‘Friends’ meets ‘Almost Famous’ meets the beach read you’ll be recommending all summer.” –TheSkimm From the author of the New York Times bestsellers All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college— and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in.  Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring. Back in the band's heyday, Elizabeth put on a snarl over her Midwestern smile, Andrew let his unwashed hair grow past his chin, and Zoe was the lesbian all the straight women wanted to sleep with. Now nearing fifty, they all live within shouting distance in the same neighborhood deep in gentrified Brooklyn, and the trappings of the adult world seem to have arrived with ease. But the summer that their children reach maturity (and start sleeping together), the fabric of the adult lives suddenly begins to unravel, and the secrets and revelations that are finally let loose—about themselves, and about the famous fourth band member who soared and fell without them—can never be reclaimed. Straub packs wisdom and insight and humor together in a satisfying book about neighbors and nosiness, ambition and pleasure, the excitement of youth, the shock of middle age, and the fact that our passions—be they food, or friendship, or music—never go away, they just evolve and grow along with us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263463Tue, 31 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Lovers Author: Emma Straub Narrator: Jen Tullock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Lovers Author: Emma Straub Narrator: Jen Tullock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.15 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “It’s ‘Friends’ meets ‘Almost Famous’ meets the beach read you’ll be recommending all summer.” –TheSkimm From the author of the New York Times bestsellers All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college— and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in.  Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring. Back in the band's heyday, Elizabeth put on a snarl over her Midwestern smile, Andrew let his unwashed hair grow past his chin, and Zoe was the lesbian all the straight women wanted to sleep with. Now nearing fifty, they all live within shouting distance in the same neighborhood deep in gentrified Brooklyn, and the trappings of the adult world seem to have arrived with ease. But the summer that their children reach maturity (and start sleeping together), the fabric of the adult lives suddenly begins to unravel, and the secrets and revelations that are finally let loose—about themselves, and about the famous fourth band member who soared and fell without them—can never be reclaimed. Straub packs wisdom and insight and humor together in a satisfying book about neighbors and nosiness, ambition and pleasure, the excitement of youth, the shock of middle age, and the fact that our passions—be they food, or friendship, or music—never go away, they just evolve and grow along with us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saving-abby-by-steena-holmes--65309631https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Abby Series: #1 of Forever Abby Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All children’s book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be a mother. After six years of trying to conceive, she and her husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be pregnant with a child of their own. Yet once they give up hope, the couple gets the miracle they’ve been waiting for. For the first few months of her pregnancy, Claire and Josh are living on cloud nine. But when she begins to experience debilitating headaches, blurred vision, and even fainting spells, the soon-to-be mother goes to the doctor and receives a terrifying diagnosis. Since any treatment could put their unborn baby’s life at risk, the Turners must carefully weigh their limited options. And as her symptoms worsen, Claire will have to make an impossible decision: Save her own life, or save her child’s? USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Steena Holmes brings us an unforgettable story of one woman’s courage and love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264633Tue, 31 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Abby Series: #1 of Forever Abby Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Abby Series: #1 of Forever Abby Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All children’s book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be a mother. After six years of trying to conceive, she and her husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be pregnant with a child of their own. Yet once they give up hope, the couple gets the miracle they’ve been waiting for. For the first few months of her pregnancy, Claire and Josh are living on cloud nine. But when she begins to experience debilitating headaches, blurred vision, and even fainting spells, the soon-to-be mother goes to the doctor and receives a terrifying diagnosis. Since any treatment could put their unborn baby’s life at risk, the Turners must carefully weigh their limited options. And as her symptoms worsen, Claire will have to make an impossible decision: Save her own life, or save her child’s? USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Steena Holmes brings us an unforgettable story of one woman’s courage and love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rules-of-love-grammar-by-mary-simses--65309623https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rules of Love & Grammar Author: Mary Simses Narrator: Khristine Hvam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A woman finds love and closure, and rediscovers herself, when she returns to her roots in the enchanting new novel from the author of The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café. Newly jobless, newly single, and suddenly apartmentless, writer Grace Hammond has come unmoored. A grammar whiz who's brilliant at correcting other people's errors, she hasn't yet found quite the right set of rules for fixing her own mistakes. Desperate to escape the city and her trifecta of problems, Grace hits pause and retreats to her Connecticut hometown. What begins as a short visit with her parents quickly becomes a far more meaningful stay, though, as she discovers that the answers to what her future holds might be found by making peace with -- and even embracing -- the past. As Grace sets out to change her ways and come to terms, finally, with the tragedy that took her older sister's life so many years ago, she rekindles a romance with her high school sweetheart, Peter, now a famous Hollywood director who's filming a movie in town. Sparks also fly at the local bike shop, where Grace's penchant for pointing out what's wrong rattles the owner's ruggedly handsome schoolteacher son, Mitch. Torn between the promise of a glamorous life and the allure of the familiar, Grace must decide what truly matters -- and whether it's time for her to throw away the rule book and bravely follow her heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265712Tue, 31 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rules of Love & Grammar Author: Mary Simses Narrator: Khristine Hvam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rules of Love & Grammar Author: Mary Simses Narrator: Khristine Hvam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A woman finds love and closure, and rediscovers herself, when she returns to her roots in the enchanting new novel from the author of The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café. Newly jobless, newly single, and suddenly apartmentless, writer Grace Hammond has come unmoored. A grammar whiz who's brilliant at correcting other people's errors, she hasn't yet found quite the right set of rules for fixing her own mistakes. Desperate to escape the city and her trifecta of problems, Grace hits pause and retreats to her Connecticut hometown. What begins as a short visit with her parents quickly becomes a far more meaningful stay, though, as she discovers that the answers to what her future holds might be found by making peace with -- and even embracing -- the past. As Grace sets out to change her ways and come to terms, finally, with the tragedy that took her older sister's life so many years ago, she rekindles a romance with her high school sweetheart, Peter, now a famous Hollywood director who's filming a movie in town. Sparks also fly at the local bike shop, where Grace's penchant for pointing out what's wrong rattles the owner's ruggedly handsome schoolteacher son, Mitch. Torn between the promise of a glamorous life and the allure of the familiar, Grace must decide what truly matters -- and whether it's time for her to throw away the rule book and bravely follow her heart.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-summer-long-a-novel-by-dorothea-benton-frank--65309607https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Summer Long: A Novel Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.62 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Dorothea Benton Frank novels are filled with smart and witty fiction that every reader wants on their bookshelf: soulful, edgy stories about realistic characters familiar to us all that explore the most deeply felt moments of life with wry humor and heart. All Summer Long follows one charming New York couple – prominent interior designer Olivia Ritchie and her husband Nicholas Seymour, an English professor and true southern gentleman.  They are seemingly polar opposites, yet magnetically drawn together and in love for more than fourteen years. As they prepare to relocate to Charleston, S.C., Olivia, the ultimate New Yorker, has reservations about the promise she made to retire in the Lowcountry, where Nick wants to return home and lead a more peaceful life.  They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace and downsizing.  Nick is ecstatic.  Olivia is not.   She can’t let Nick know that their finances are not what he thought.   Her client list is evaporating, their monetary reserves are dwindling and maybe that house she picked out on Sullivans Island needs too much work.  Thank God, for her assistant, Roni Larini, her right (and sometimes left) hand.  As they find themselves pondering the next step of their lives, Olivia and Nick travel with her billionaire clients and their friends and are swept up into the world of the ultra-rich and explore the globe with a cast of zany eccentrics over one tumultuous, hot summer. All as Olivia grapples with what lies ahead for her and Nick. This is a story of how plans evolve and lives change in unexpected ways, how even those who have everything are still looking for something more.  Even the most successful people can often struggle to keep things together.  All Summer Long asks the ultimate question: can money buy happiness?  From Sullivans Island to Necker Island to Nantucket to the beaches of Southern Spain, we’ll come to recognize the many faces of true love, love that deepens and endures but only because one woman makes a tremendous leap of faith. And that leap changes everything.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265686Tue, 31 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Summer Long: A Novel Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Summer Long: A Novel Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.62 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Dorothea Benton Frank novels are filled with smart and witty fiction that every reader wants on their bookshelf: soulful, edgy stories about realistic characters familiar to us all that explore the most deeply felt moments of life with wry humor and heart. All Summer Long follows one charming New York couple – prominent interior designer Olivia Ritchie and her husband Nicholas Seymour, an English professor and true southern gentleman.  They are seemingly polar opposites, yet magnetically drawn together and in love for more than fourteen years. As they prepare to relocate to Charleston, S.C., Olivia, the ultimate New Yorker, has reservations about the promise she made to retire in the Lowcountry, where Nick wants to return home and lead a more peaceful life.  They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace and downsizing.  Nick is ecstatic.  Olivia is not.   She can’t let Nick know that their finances are not what he thought.   Her client list is evaporating, their monetary reserves are dwindling and maybe that house she picked out on Sullivans Island needs too much work.  Thank God, for her assistant, Roni Larini, her right (and sometimes left) hand.  As they find themselves pondering the next step of their lives, Olivia and Nick travel with her billionaire clients and their friends and are swept up into the world of the ultra-rich and explore the globe with a cast of zany eccentrics over one tumultuous, hot summer. All as Olivia grapples with what lies ahead for her and Nick. This is a story of how plans evolve and lives change in unexpected ways, how even those who have everything are still looking for something more.  Even the most successful people can often struggle to keep things together.  All Summer Long asks the ultimate question: can money buy happiness?  From Sullivans Island to Necker Island to Nantucket to the beaches of Southern Spain, we’ll come to recognize the many faces of true love, love that deepens and endures but only because one woman makes a tremendous leap of faith. And that leap changes everything.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-8-an-income-for-life-by-julian-fellowes--65309694https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 8: An Income for Life Series: #8 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: May 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Information comes to light that could prove both dangerous and useful to a man with ambition. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263212Thu, 26 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 8: An Income for Life Series: #8 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 8: An Income for Life Series: #8 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: May 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Information comes to light that could prove both dangerous and useful to a man with ambition. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/happy-family-by-tracy-barone--65309689https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy Family Author: Tracy Barone Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One of these things is not like the other. That's how Cheri Matzner felt growing up in her adoptive family, and it's what continues to define her as she tries to start a family of her own. Funny and fierce, desperate for connection yet pushing it away with both hands, she needs to jump-start a marriage in danger of flatlining and save her career from scandal. But Cheri is still contending with a complicated relationship with her parents -- her aging Italian bombshell of a mother and a distant father who looms large, even in death -- unaware of the sacrifices they made to be together or of the difficult truths and lies in their marriage. When tragedy unravels Cheri's well-designed defenses, she is thrust into an odyssey of acceptance that brings her full circle back to her dramatic origins. Sometimes it takes half a lifetime to come of age. To be able to glimpse our parents beyond their roles as our parents. To uncover the many versions of truth within our family stories and within our own. And to laugh at it all just a little bit sooner.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264598Tue, 24 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy Family Author: Tracy Barone Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy Family Author: Tracy Barone Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One of these things is not like the other. That's how Cheri Matzner felt growing up in her adoptive family, and it's what continues to define her as she tries to start a family of her own. Funny and fierce, desperate for connection yet pushing it away with both hands, she needs to jump-start a marriage in danger of flatlining and save her career from scandal. But Cheri is still contending with a complicated relationship with her parents -- her aging Italian bombshell of a mother and a distant father who looms large, even in death -- unaware of the sacrifices they made to be together or of the difficult truths and lies in their marriage. When tragedy unravels Cheri's well-designed defenses, she is thrust into an odyssey of acceptance that brings her full circle back to her dramatic origins. Sometimes it takes half a lifetime to come of age. To be able to glimpse our parents beyond their roles as our parents. To uncover the many versions of truth within our family stories and within our own. And to laugh at it all just a little bit sooner.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-too-shall-pass-a-novel-by-milena-busquets--65309661https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Too Shall Pass: A Novel Author: Milena Busquets Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An irresistible, vivid, and wise story of one woman's reckoning with loss and love Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has no idea what her future will look like.   To ease her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of scenery. Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to Cadaqués, on the coast, accompanied by her two sons, two ex-husbands, and two best friends, and makes a plan to meet her married lover for a few stolen moments as well. Surrounded by those she loves most, she spends the summer in an impossibly beautiful place, finding ways to reconnect and understand what it means to truly, happily live on her own terms, just as her mother would have wanted.   A refreshingly frank and ruefully funny portrait of a grieving daughter, THIS TOO SHALL PASS explores how our deepest relationships are changed by tragedy, with bonds often becoming stronger in ways we never expected.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263607Tue, 24 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Too Shall Pass: A Novel Author: Milena Busquets Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Too Shall Pass: A Novel Author: Milena Busquets Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An irresistible, vivid, and wise story of one woman's reckoning with loss and love Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has no idea what her future will look like.   To ease her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of scenery. Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to Cadaqués, on the coast, accompanied by her two sons, two ex-husbands, and two best friends, and makes a plan to meet her married lover for a few stolen moments as well. Surrounded by those she loves most, she spends the summer in an impossibly beautiful place, finding ways to reconnect and understand what it means to truly, happily live on her own terms, just as her mother would have wanted.   A refreshingly frank and ruefully funny portrait of a grieving daughter, THIS TOO SHALL PASS explores how our deepest relationships are changed by tragedy, with bonds often becoming stronger in ways we never expected.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/leaving-blythe-river-a-novel-by-catherine-ryan-hyde--65309633https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leaving Blythe River: A Novel Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Will Ropp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he’s barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly it’s up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he’s his father’s only hope. With the help of three locals—a fearless seventy-year-old widow, a pack guide, and a former actor with limited outdoor skills—he heads into the wild. The days that follow transform Ethan’s world. Hail, punishing sun, swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him wondering if he’s been fooled yet again: Is his father out here at all? As the situation grows increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this quest has become about more than finding his dad. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of nature revealing human nature—the trickiest terrain. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his father—if he finds him alive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264488Tue, 24 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leaving Blythe River: A Novel Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Will Ropp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leaving Blythe River: A Novel Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Will Ropp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he’s barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly it’s up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he’s his father’s only hope. With the help of three locals—a fearless seventy-year-old widow, a pack guide, and a former actor with limited outdoor skills—he heads into the wild. The days that follow transform Ethan’s world. Hail, punishing sun, swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him wondering if he’s been fooled yet again: Is his father out here at all? As the situation grows increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this quest has become about more than finding his dad. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of nature revealing human nature—the trickiest terrain. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his father—if he finds him alive.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/charmingly-yours-by-liz-talley--65309609https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charmingly Yours Series: #1 of A Morning Glory Novel Author: Liz Talley Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Rosemary Reynolds, life in tiny Morning Glory, Mississippi, is just like the fabric store she runs: it seems she’s always waiting around for someone else to make the first stitch. Then a dear childhood friend passes away, leaving behind a gift that sends Rosemary on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Despite her mother’s protests, Rosemary heads to New York City for a stay in her cousin’s trendy SoHo loft. On her first day in town, a wrong turn leads her to Little Italy…and into the arms of handsome, outgoing Sal Genovese. Sal’s mother wants him to marry a longtime family friend, but to him, Rosemary is a breath of fresh country air, and he’s happy to show her a good time. Soon, Rosemary is swept up in a world she thought only existed in movies. To turn a two-week fling into a forever thing, she and Sal will have to make every moment count.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264476Tue, 24 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charmingly Yours Series: #1 of A Morning Glory Novel Author: Liz Talley Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charmingly Yours Series: #1 of A Morning Glory Novel Author: Liz Talley Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Rosemary Reynolds, life in tiny Morning Glory, Mississippi, is just like the fabric store she runs: it seems she’s always waiting around for someone else to make the first stitch. Then a dear childhood friend passes away, leaving behind a gift that sends Rosemary on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Despite her mother’s protests, Rosemary heads to New York City for a stay in her cousin’s trendy SoHo loft. On her first day in town, a wrong turn leads her to Little Italy…and into the arms of handsome, outgoing Sal Genovese. Sal’s mother wants him to marry a longtime family friend, but to him, Rosemary is a breath of fresh country air, and he’s happy to show her a good time. Soon, Rosemary is swept up in a world she thought only existed in movies. To turn a two-week fling into a forever thing, she and Sal will have to make every moment count.]]>245cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-7-a-man-of-business-by-julian-fellowes--65309599https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263211 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 7: A Man of Business Series: #7 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: May 19, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spurned son plots his revenge. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263211Thu, 19 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263211 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 7: A Man of Business Series: #7 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263211 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 7: A Man of Business Series: #7 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: May 19, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spurned son plots his revenge. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/anatomy-of-a-soldier-a-novel-by-harry-parker--65309648https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263471 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anatomy of a Soldier: A novel Author: Harry Parker Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 17, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Anatomy of a Soldier is a stunning first novel—of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism—that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable. But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive. The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.  List of Narrators: Peter Altschuler Paul Boehmer Jonathan Cowley Susan Duerden Jayne Entwistle Jean Gilpin Kirby Heyborne Gildart Jackson John Lee Bruce Mann Katharine McEwan Rob Shapiro Nicholas Guy Smith Steve West]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263471Tue, 17 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263471 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anatomy of a Soldier: A novel Author: Harry Parker Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 17, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263471 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anatomy of a Soldier: A novel Author: Harry Parker Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 17, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Anatomy of a Soldier is a stunning first novel—of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism—that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable. But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive. The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.  List of Narrators: Peter Altschuler Paul Boehmer Jonathan Cowley Susan Duerden Jayne Entwistle Jean Gilpin Kirby Heyborne Gildart Jackson John Lee Bruce Mann Katharine McEwan Rob Shapiro Nicholas Guy Smith Steve West]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-after-party-a-novel-by-anton-disclafani--65309620https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The After Party: A Novel Author: Anton DiSclafani Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 17, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A vintage version of 'Gossip Girl' meets bigger hair.' —The Skimm 'DiSclafani’s story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail.' —People From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship – in all its intimate agony and joy – set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation.  Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man wants her; every woman wants to be her. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But when Joan’s radical behavior escalates the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, ultimately forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is.    A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263646Tue, 17 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The After Party: A Novel Author: Anton DiSclafani Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The After Party: A Novel Author: Anton DiSclafani Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 17, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A vintage version of 'Gossip Girl' meets bigger hair.' —The Skimm 'DiSclafani’s story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail.' —People From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship – in all its intimate agony and joy – set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation.  Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man wants her; every woman wants to be her. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But when Joan’s radical behavior escalates the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, ultimately forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is.    A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-6-a-spy-in-our-midst-by-julian-fellowes--65309681https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 6: A Spy in our Midst Series: #6 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 15 minutes Release date: May 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One man's good fortune sends rumors spreading through London society -- what is the secret behind his success? Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262266Thu, 12 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 6: A Spy in our Midst Series: #6 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 6: A Spy in our Midst Series: #6 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 15 minutes Release date: May 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One man's good fortune sends rumors spreading through London society -- what is the secret behind his success? Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-immortal-crown-saga-of-kings-book-one-by-kieth-merrill--65309657https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Crown: Saga of Kings, Book One Series: #1 of The Saga of Kings Series Author: Kieth Merrill Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed director and producer Kieth Merrill comes an epic, high fantasy saga and the quest to fulfill the prophecy. A thousand years ago, the Navigator crossed the great deep in ships lit with sixteen stones touched by Oum’ilah, the God of Gods. Over time the stones were scattered and a prophecy arose declaring that a “child of no man” would gather them again, obtain immortality, and reign forever as god and king of Kandelarr. Two religious groups have sprung up around the prophecy, each with their own champion: the sorceress of the cult of she-dragon has chosen Drakkor, a warrior and mercenary. After surviving a series of rigorous tests to prove his worth, he is given one of the stones and begins his quest to fulfill the prophecy. He swears to return all sixteen stones to the sorceress, but the truth is he will let nothing stop him from claiming immortality for himself. The Oracle of Oum’ilah has placed his faith in Ashar, a young postulant studying the Way of the Navigator on the Mountain of God. But when Ashar discovers he is a direct descendant of the Navigator himself, the Oracle reveals that it is his destiny to fulfill the prophecy and reunite the sixteen stones for good. But he must hurry before Drakkor claims the stones and corrupts them. Meanwhile, miles away, a slave named Ereon Qhuin dreams of freedom. Abandoned at birth, his only possession is a strange stone that his mentor, the blacksmith Rusthammer, promises is the key to Qhuin’s destiny and freedom. A mercenary, a postulant, and a slave—which one is truly the child of prophecy?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263663Thu, 12 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Crown: Saga of Kings, Book One Series: #1 of The Saga of Kings Series Author: Kieth Merrill Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Crown: Saga of Kings, Book One Series: #1 of The Saga of Kings Series Author: Kieth Merrill Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed director and producer Kieth Merrill comes an epic, high fantasy saga and the quest to fulfill the prophecy. A thousand years ago, the Navigator crossed the great deep in ships lit with sixteen stones touched by Oum’ilah, the God of Gods. Over time the stones were scattered and a prophecy arose declaring that a “child of no man” would gather them again, obtain immortality, and reign forever as god and king of Kandelarr. Two religious groups have sprung up around the prophecy, each with their own champion: the sorceress of the cult of she-dragon has chosen Drakkor, a warrior and mercenary. After surviving a series of rigorous tests to prove his worth, he is given one of the stones and begins his quest to fulfill the prophecy. He swears to return all sixteen stones to the sorceress, but the truth is he will let nothing stop him from claiming immortality for himself. The Oracle of Oum’ilah has placed his faith in Ashar, a young postulant studying the Way of the Navigator on the Mountain of God. But when Ashar discovers he is a direct descendant of the Navigator himself, the Oracle reveals that it is his destiny to fulfill the prophecy and reunite the sixteen stones for good. But he must hurry before Drakkor claims the stones and corrupts them. Meanwhile, miles away, a slave named Ereon Qhuin dreams of freedom. Abandoned at birth, his only possession is a strange stone that his mentor, the blacksmith Rusthammer, promises is the key to Qhuin’s destiny and freedom. A mercenary, a postulant, and a slave—which one is truly the child of prophecy?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-loney-by-andrew-michael-hurley--65309674https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Loney Author: Andrew Michael Hurley Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The eerie, suspenseful debut novel hailed by Stephen King as “an amazing piece of fiction” and taking the world by storm When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine. But not all of the locals were pleased to see visitors in the area. And when the two brothers found their lives entangling with a glamorous couple staying at a nearby house, they became involved in more troubling rites. Smith feels he is the only one who knows the truth, and he must bear the burden of his knowledge—no matter the cost. Proclaimed by London’s Sunday Telegraph as a “modern classic,” The Loney marks the arrival of an important new voice in fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262962Tue, 10 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Loney Author: Andrew Michael Hurley Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Loney Author: Andrew Michael Hurley Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The eerie, suspenseful debut novel hailed by Stephen King as “an amazing piece of fiction” and taking the world by storm When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine. But not all of the locals were pleased to see visitors in the area. And when the two brothers found their lives entangling with a glamorous couple staying at a nearby house, they became involved in more troubling rites. Smith feels he is the only one who knows the truth, and he must bear the burden of his knowledge—no matter the cost. Proclaimed by London’s Sunday Telegraph as a “modern classic,” The Loney marks the arrival of an important new voice in fiction.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-pursuit-of-his-wife-twins-for-the-texan-by-charlene-sands-kristi-gold--65309673https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of His Wife & Twins for the Texan Author: Charlene Sands, Kristi Gold Narrator: Callie Dalton, Jeremy York Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Pursuit of His Wife They married for convenience. Will they stay together for the baby…or for love?  Nasira Edwards has come to Royal, Texas, to escape her past and stop her brother from making a terrible mistake. But her own marital mistake has tracked her down. Her husband, shipping magnate Sebastian Edwards, has followed her across the ocean and he refuses to leave Texas without his wife.  Sebastian knows their convenient marriage isn't about love. That's the way it has to be. But the passion between them is as hot as ever. And he's come west to coax the beauty back into his bed—while keeping his emotions in check. Then Nasira reveals she's pregnant… Twins for the Texan Twins…and another baby on the way for this cowboy from USA TODAY bestselling author Charlene Sands!  After Wyatt Brandt rescues Brooke McKay en route to a Texas wedding, they spend one hot night together before going their separate ways. Now Brooke's back with news she isn't sure the wealthy rancher is ready to hear—especially when she discovers he's already a father…of twins!  Being a single dad is a full-time job Wyatt can't do alone. He doesn't expect the ideal nanny to be the beauty who briefly shared his bed. But he accepts her help gladly—not knowing her little secret will change his family forever…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262850Tue, 10 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of His Wife & Twins for the Texan Author: Charlene Sands, Kristi Gold Narrator: Callie Dalton, Jeremy York Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of His Wife & Twins for the Texan Author: Charlene Sands, Kristi Gold Narrator: Callie Dalton, Jeremy York Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Pursuit of His Wife They married for convenience. Will they stay together for the baby…or for love?  Nasira Edwards has come to Royal, Texas, to escape her past and stop her brother from making a terrible mistake. But her own marital mistake has tracked her down. Her husband, shipping magnate Sebastian Edwards, has followed her across the ocean and he refuses to leave Texas without his wife.  Sebastian knows their convenient marriage isn't about love. That's the way it has to be. But the passion between them is as hot as ever. And he's come west to coax the beauty back into his bed—while keeping his emotions in check. Then Nasira reveals she's pregnant… Twins for the Texan Twins…and another baby on the way for this cowboy from USA TODAY bestselling author Charlene Sands!  After Wyatt Brandt rescues Brooke McKay en route to a Texas wedding, they spend one hot night together before going their separate ways. Now Brooke's back with news she isn't sure the wealthy rancher is ready to hear—especially when she discovers he's already a father…of twins!  Being a single dad is a full-time job Wyatt can't do alone. He doesn't expect the ideal nanny to be the beauty who briefly shared his bed. But he accepts her help gladly—not knowing her little secret will change his family forever…]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/by-helen-s-hand-by-amalia-carosella--65309658https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By Helen's Hand Series: #2 of Helen of Sparta Author: Amalia Carosella Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: With divine beauty comes dangerous power. Helen believed she could escape her destiny and save her people from utter destruction. After defying her family and betraying her intended husband, she found peace with her beloved Theseus, the king of Athens and son of Poseidon. But peace did not last long. Cruelly separated from Theseus by the gods, and uncertain whether he will live or die, Helen is forced to return to Sparta. In order to avoid marriage to Menelaus, a powerful prince unhinged by desire, Helen assembles an array of suitors to compete for her hand. As the men circle like vultures, Helen dreams again of war—and of a strange prince, meant to steal her away. Every step she takes to protect herself and her people seems to bring destruction nearer. Without Theseus’s strength to support her, can Helen thwart the gods and stop her nightmare from coming to pass?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263822Tue, 10 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By Helen's Hand Series: #2 of Helen of Sparta Author: Amalia Carosella Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By Helen's Hand Series: #2 of Helen of Sparta Author: Amalia Carosella Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: With divine beauty comes dangerous power. Helen believed she could escape her destiny and save her people from utter destruction. After defying her family and betraying her intended husband, she found peace with her beloved Theseus, the king of Athens and son of Poseidon. But peace did not last long. Cruelly separated from Theseus by the gods, and uncertain whether he will live or die, Helen is forced to return to Sparta. In order to avoid marriage to Menelaus, a powerful prince unhinged by desire, Helen assembles an array of suitors to compete for her hand. As the men circle like vultures, Helen dreams again of war—and of a strange prince, meant to steal her away. Every step she takes to protect herself and her people seems to bring destruction nearer. Without Theseus’s strength to support her, can Helen thwart the gods and stop her nightmare from coming to pass?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-miracle-on-monhegan-island-a-novel-by-elizabeth-kelly--65309619https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Miracle on Monhegan Island: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Kelly Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling, award-winning author of The Last Summer of the Camperdowns returns with another rollicking, summertime family saga. Maine’s rugged, picturesque Monhegan Island is home to weathered lobster fishermen and curious tourists, a genial if sleepy group. But when Spark Monahan―rakish prodigal son―returns unannounced to the dilapidated family home, his arrival launches a summer the likes of which this quiet town has never seen. During Spark’s absence, his young son Hally has been cared for by what remains of the Monahan family: Spark’s gentle brother Hugh and their shrewd, fork-tongued father Pastor Ragnar. Pastor Ragnar has led them with an iron will and a unique religious ideology, while Hugh has been busy mending the scars of a tumultuous family history. Spark’s reentry into the family is rocky; even as adolescent Hally warms to his father’s flair for mischief, he struggles to define himself against this new paternal figure. Testing the limits with one dangerous prank after another, Hally suddenly stuns the entire island when he claims to have had a spiritual vision. Though Spark remains permanently dubious about the alleged apparition, Pastor Ragnar pounces on the chance to revive his flagging church. Hally is shoved into the spotlight, and in the frenzy that follows, each man in the family fights for independence, understanding, and ultimately forgiveness against the tide of a phenomenon reaching far beyond the slippery slopes of their remote island home. Their unforgettable saga is told by the character best suited to sniff out the family’s uneasy secrets: Spark’s charismatic, fiercely loyal dog, Ned. Never at a loss for a quip on the stormy affairs of the Monahan family, Ned tells their larger-than-life story with humor and love from his uniquely privileged perspective. An uproarious tale of an eccentric family of fathers and sons, The Miracle of Monhegan Island is another delightful summer blockbuster from Elizabeth Kelly.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263648Tue, 10 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Miracle on Monhegan Island: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Kelly Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Miracle on Monhegan Island: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Kelly Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling, award-winning author of The Last Summer of the Camperdowns returns with another rollicking, summertime family saga. Maine’s rugged, picturesque Monhegan Island is home to weathered lobster fishermen and curious tourists, a genial if sleepy group. But when Spark Monahan―rakish prodigal son―returns unannounced to the dilapidated family home, his arrival launches a summer the likes of which this quiet town has never seen. During Spark’s absence, his young son Hally has been cared for by what remains of the Monahan family: Spark’s gentle brother Hugh and their shrewd, fork-tongued father Pastor Ragnar. Pastor Ragnar has led them with an iron will and a unique religious ideology, while Hugh has been busy mending the scars of a tumultuous family history. Spark’s reentry into the family is rocky; even as adolescent Hally warms to his father’s flair for mischief, he struggles to define himself against this new paternal figure. Testing the limits with one dangerous prank after another, Hally suddenly stuns the entire island when he claims to have had a spiritual vision. Though Spark remains permanently dubious about the alleged apparition, Pastor Ragnar pounces on the chance to revive his flagging church. Hally is shoved into the spotlight, and in the frenzy that follows, each man in the family fights for independence, understanding, and ultimately forgiveness against the tide of a phenomenon reaching far beyond the slippery slopes of their remote island home. Their unforgettable saga is told by the character best suited to sniff out the family’s uneasy secrets: Spark’s charismatic, fiercely loyal dog, Ned. Never at a loss for a quip on the stormy affairs of the Monahan family, Ned tells their larger-than-life story with humor and love from his uniquely privileged perspective. An uproarious tale of an eccentric family of fathers and sons, The Miracle of Monhegan Island is another delightful summer blockbuster from Elizabeth Kelly.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-5-the-assignation-by-julian-fellowes--65309682https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 5: The Assignation Series: #5 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 11 minutes Release date: May 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The gambling dens of London and a secret assignation provide the backdrop for indiscretions large and small. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262265Thu, 05 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 5: The Assignation Series: #5 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 5: The Assignation Series: #5 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 11 minutes Release date: May 5, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The gambling dens of London and a secret assignation provide the backdrop for indiscretions large and small. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-good-girl-a-novel-by-allison-leotta--65309690https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Good Girl: A Novel Series: #5 of Anna Curtis Series Author: Allison Leotta Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Allison Leotta, the “highly entertaining storyteller” (George Pelecanos) who writes “in a style that’s as real as it gets” (USA TODAY), a ripped-from-the-headlines novel featuring prosecutor Anna Curtis at the center of a national story involving campus rape and the disappearance of a young woman. Emma, a freshman at a Michigan university, has gone missing. She was last seen leaving a bar near the prestigious and secretive fraternity known on campus as “the rape factory.” The main suspect is Dylan Brooks, the son of one of the most powerful politicians in the state. But so far the only clues are pieced-together surveillance footage of Emma leaving the bar that night…and Dylan running down the street after her. When Anna discovers the video diary Emma kept over her first few months at college, it exposes the history she had with Dylan: she had accused him of rape before disappearing. Emma’s disappearance gets media attention and support from Title IX activists across the country, but Anna’s investigation hits a wall. Now Anna is looking for something, anything she can use to find Emma alive. But without a body or any physical evidence, she’s under threat from people who tell her to think hard before she ruins the name of an “innocent young man.” Inspired by real-life stories, The Last Good Girl shines a light on campus rape and the powerful emotional dynamics that affect the families of the men and women on both sides.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262992Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Good Girl: A Novel Series: #5 of Anna Curtis Series Author: Allison Leotta Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Good Girl: A Novel Series: #5 of Anna Curtis Series Author: Allison Leotta Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Allison Leotta, the “highly entertaining storyteller” (George Pelecanos) who writes “in a style that’s as real as it gets” (USA TODAY), a ripped-from-the-headlines novel featuring prosecutor Anna Curtis at the center of a national story involving campus rape and the disappearance of a young woman. Emma, a freshman at a Michigan university, has gone missing. She was last seen leaving a bar near the prestigious and secretive fraternity known on campus as “the rape factory.” The main suspect is Dylan Brooks, the son of one of the most powerful politicians in the state. But so far the only clues are pieced-together surveillance footage of Emma leaving the bar that night…and Dylan running down the street after her. When Anna discovers the video diary Emma kept over her first few months at college, it exposes the history she had with Dylan: she had accused him of rape before disappearing. Emma’s disappearance gets media attention and support from Title IX activists across the country, but Anna’s investigation hits a wall. Now Anna is looking for something, anything she can use to find Emma alive. But without a body or any physical evidence, she’s under threat from people who tell her to think hard before she ruins the name of an “innocent young man.” Inspired by real-life stories, The Last Good Girl shines a light on campus rape and the powerful emotional dynamics that affect the families of the men and women on both sides.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everybody-s-fool-a-novel-by-richard-russo--65309688https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everybody's Fool: A Novel Series: #2 of North Bath Trilogy Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A New York Times 2016 Notable Book An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. Everybody’s Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can’t help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so human.   Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends . . . Sully’s son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who’s obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might’ve been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident . . . Bath’s mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing . . . and then there’s Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there’s Charice Bond—a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer’s office—as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. A crowning achievement—“like hopping on the last empty barstool surrounded by old friends” (Entertainment Weekly)—from one of the greatest storytellers of our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263627Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everybody's Fool: A Novel Series: #2 of North Bath Trilogy Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everybody's Fool: A Novel Series: #2 of North Bath Trilogy Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A New York Times 2016 Notable Book An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. Everybody’s Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can’t help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so human.   Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends . . . Sully’s son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who’s obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might’ve been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident . . . Bath’s mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing . . . and then there’s Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there’s Charice Bond—a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer’s office—as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. A crowning achievement—“like hopping on the last empty barstool surrounded by old friends” (Entertainment Weekly)—from one of the greatest storytellers of our time.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/relativity-by-antonia-hayes--65309678https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relativity Author: Antonia Hayes Narrator: Antonia Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A “beautifully written, heartbreaking” (S. J. Watson) debut novel about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it, and the father he has never met who has unexpectedly returned. “Original, compassionate, cleverly plotted, and genuinely difficult to put down.” –Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project Twelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney, Australia. Claire, a former professional ballerina, has been a wonderful parent to Ethan, but he’s becoming increasingly curious about his father’s absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her talented, vulnerable son—and of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls ill, tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy, her tightly-held world is split open. Thousands of miles away on the western coast of Australia, Mark is trying to forget about the events that tore his family apart, but an unexpected call forces him to confront his past and return home. When Ethan secretly intercepts a letter from Mark to Claire, he unleashes long-suppressed forces that—like gravity—pull the three together again, testing the limits of love and forgiveness. Told from the alternating points of view of Ethan and each of his parents, Relativity is a poetic and soul-searing exploration of unbreakable bonds, irreversible acts, the limits of science, and the magnitude of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263226Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relativity Author: Antonia Hayes Narrator: Antonia Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relativity Author: Antonia Hayes Narrator: Antonia Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A “beautifully written, heartbreaking” (S. J. Watson) debut novel about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it, and the father he has never met who has unexpectedly returned. “Original, compassionate, cleverly plotted, and genuinely difficult to put down.” –Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project Twelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney, Australia. Claire, a former professional ballerina, has been a wonderful parent to Ethan, but he’s becoming increasingly curious about his father’s absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her talented, vulnerable son—and of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls ill, tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy, her tightly-held world is split open. Thousands of miles away on the western coast of Australia, Mark is trying to forget about the events that tore his family apart, but an unexpected call forces him to confront his past and return home. When Ethan secretly intercepts a letter from Mark to Claire, he unleashes long-suppressed forces that—like gravity—pull the three together again, testing the limits of love and forgiveness. Told from the alternating points of view of Ethan and each of his parents, Relativity is a poetic and soul-searing exploration of unbreakable bonds, irreversible acts, the limits of science, and the magnitude of love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eleven-hours-by-pamela-erens--65309672https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleven Hours Author: Pamela Erens Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lore arrives at the hospital alone—no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward—herself on the verge of showing—is patient with the young woman. She knows what it’s like to worry that something might go wrong, and she understands the distress when it does. She knows as well as anyone the severe challenge of childbirth, what it does to the mind and the body.  Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that’s waiting for her. Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so intense an experience: for Lore, of the father of her child and her former best friend; for Franckline, of the family in Haiti from which she’s exiled. At turns urgent and lyrical, Erens’s novel is a visceral portrait of childbirth, and a vivid rendering of the way we approach motherhood—with fear and joy, anguish and awe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263234Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleven Hours Author: Pamela Erens Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleven Hours Author: Pamela Erens Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lore arrives at the hospital alone—no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward—herself on the verge of showing—is patient with the young woman. She knows what it’s like to worry that something might go wrong, and she understands the distress when it does. She knows as well as anyone the severe challenge of childbirth, what it does to the mind and the body.  Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that’s waiting for her. Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so intense an experience: for Lore, of the father of her child and her former best friend; for Franckline, of the family in Haiti from which she’s exiled. At turns urgent and lyrical, Erens’s novel is a visceral portrait of childbirth, and a vivid rendering of the way we approach motherhood—with fear and joy, anguish and awe.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-lowcountry-wedding-by-mary-alice-monroe--65309652https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lowcountry Wedding Series: #4 of Lowcountry Summer Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s fourth novel in the “distinct, complex, and endearing” (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Carolina lowcountry. Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding—or two!—in storied Sullivan’s Island. A centuries-old plantation, an avenue of ancient oaks dripping moss, a sand dune at sunset… it’s all picture perfect, and half-sisters Dora, Carson, and Harper, and their grandmother Marietta “Mamaw” Muir couldn’t be more excited. Wedding dresses are picked, venues booked, and delectable cakes tasted. What could possibly go wrong? The answer, the Muir clan is soon to find out, is everything. Carson loves Blake, but struggles with giving up her independence. Harper questions if a prenuptial agreement will help or hurt the future of her marriage, and a newly unfettered Dora is uncertain whether she really wants to walk down the aisle again. Just when it seems things couldn’t get more complicated for the Muir sisters, a stranger arrives bearing a long-held family secret that has the potential to upset even the most carefully laid-out wedding plans. With the weddings mere weeks away, the invitations sent out, and the family in tumult, Mamaw and her Summer Girls discover the enduring and powerful bonds of family, and realize that, no matter how different each bride might be, she can still have her perfect wedding.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263225Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lowcountry Wedding Series: #4 of Lowcountry Summer Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lowcountry Wedding Series: #4 of Lowcountry Summer Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s fourth novel in the “distinct, complex, and endearing” (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Carolina lowcountry. Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding—or two!—in storied Sullivan’s Island. A centuries-old plantation, an avenue of ancient oaks dripping moss, a sand dune at sunset… it’s all picture perfect, and half-sisters Dora, Carson, and Harper, and their grandmother Marietta “Mamaw” Muir couldn’t be more excited. Wedding dresses are picked, venues booked, and delectable cakes tasted. What could possibly go wrong? The answer, the Muir clan is soon to find out, is everything. Carson loves Blake, but struggles with giving up her independence. Harper questions if a prenuptial agreement will help or hurt the future of her marriage, and a newly unfettered Dora is uncertain whether she really wants to walk down the aisle again. Just when it seems things couldn’t get more complicated for the Muir sisters, a stranger arrives bearing a long-held family secret that has the potential to upset even the most carefully laid-out wedding plans. With the weddings mere weeks away, the invitations sent out, and the family in tumult, Mamaw and her Summer Girls discover the enduring and powerful bonds of family, and realize that, no matter how different each bride might be, she can still have her perfect wedding.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/imagine-me-gone-by-adam-haslett--65309650https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imagine Me Gone Author: Adam Haslett Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. 'Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization'-Wall Street Journal 'Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone , Haslett has reached another level.'-New York Times Book Review]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262788Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imagine Me Gone Author: Adam Haslett Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imagine Me Gone Author: Adam Haslett Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. 'Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization'-Wall Street Journal 'Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone , Haslett has reached another level.'-New York Times Book Review]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/zero-k-by-don-delillo--65309646https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero K Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: Thomas Sadoski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld” (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body. “We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?” These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.” Don DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) new novel weighs the darkness of the world—terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague—against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, “the intimate touch of earth and sun.” “One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” (The New York Times Book Review), Zero K is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262726Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero K Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: Thomas Sadoski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero K Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: Thomas Sadoski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld” (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body. “We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?” These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.” Don DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) new novel weighs the darkness of the world—terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague—against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, “the intimate touch of earth and sun.” “One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” (The New York Times Book Review), Zero K is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-working-a-novel-by-lisa-owens--65309641https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Working: A Novel Author: Lisa Owens Narrator: Tuppence Middleton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses comes a “a pin-sharp, utterly addictive debut” (Vogue U.K.) told in vignettes that speak to a new generation not trying to have it all but hoping to make sense of it all. “Everyone’s been talking about this book. . . . Charming and funny, this read is simply delightful.”—Bustle “A deadpan comic debut for the procrastination generation.”—The Guardian Claire Flannery has just quit her office job, hoping to take some time to discover her real passion. The problem is, she’s not exactly sure how to go about finding it. Without the distractions of a regular routine, Claire confronts the best and worst parts of herself: the generous, attentive part that visits her grandmother for tea and cooks special meals for her boyfriend, Luke, and the part that she feels will never measure up and makes regrettable comments after too many glasses of wine. What emerges is a candid, moving portrait of a clear-eyed heroine trying to forge her own way, a wholly relatable character whose imperfections and uncanny observations highlight what makes us all different and yet inescapably linked. Praise for Not Working “Ruefully funny . . . features a kind of millennial Bridget Jones whose red wine–and–TED Talk–fueled pursuit of a higher purpose in life leads to hard truths and hangovers.”—Vogue “In this laugh-out-loud debut, Claire Flannery is a lost soul who quits her day job to discover her true passion. In taking a hard look at her own character, Claire finds that her loveable qualities are sometimes squashed by mistakes, like the evenings she blurts inappropriate remarks after too many glasses of wine. [Lisa] Owens’s story is a smart, relatable and delicious debut.”—Harper’s Bazaar   “It’s no mean feat to fashion a novel out of the stuff of everyday life. . . . Fortunately, Owens is quite a writer. . . . Not Working works because there is lots going on beneath its placid, ordinary surface. . . . With this funny, serious debut, Lisa Owens has proved that she’s one to watch.”—The New Statesman “There are sharp observations about generational change, particularly on the topic of work. . . . The novel is a light read but it raises some timely issues. . . . A secure job with a future is not that easy to find, as Claire’s comic and compelling tale serves to show. This book offers a form of catharsis for anyone who has felt that they are not quite doing their job right. . . . It is soothing to find you are not the only one noodling along in your career.”—Financial Times “Stellar . . . [Owens has an] ability to take the potentially trite problem-of-the-privileged trope and deftly craft it into readable fun.”—Publishers Weekly “Owens offers a millennial take on the traditional British chick-lit heroine. . . . Claire is a realistically awkward character who will appeal to readers looking for a less-angsty take on the new adult trend.”—Booklist “A novel as insightful about the contemporary dilemmas facing young professionals as it is sharp, incisive and laugh-out-loud funny.”—The Observer “Lots of people say they laugh out loud when they read a book they love. But in the case of Not Working, I really did laugh out loud, often and raucously.”—Elisabeth Egan, author of A Window Opens]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263643Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Working: A Novel Author: Lisa Owens Narrator: Tuppence Middleton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Working: A Novel Author: Lisa Owens Narrator: Tuppence Middleton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses comes a “a pin-sharp, utterly addictive debut” (Vogue U.K.) told in vignettes that speak to a new generation not trying to have it all but hoping to make sense of it all. “Everyone’s been talking about this book. . . . Charming and funny, this read is simply delightful.”—Bustle “A deadpan comic debut for the procrastination generation.”—The Guardian Claire Flannery has just quit her office job, hoping to take some time to discover her real passion. The problem is, she’s not exactly sure how to go about finding it. Without the distractions of a regular routine, Claire confronts the best and worst parts of herself: the generous, attentive part that visits her grandmother for tea and cooks special meals for her boyfriend, Luke, and the part that she feels will never measure up and makes regrettable comments after too many glasses of wine. What emerges is a candid, moving portrait of a clear-eyed heroine trying to forge her own way, a wholly relatable character whose imperfections and uncanny observations highlight what makes us all different and yet inescapably linked. Praise for Not Working “Ruefully funny . . . features a kind of millennial Bridget Jones whose red wine–and–TED Talk–fueled pursuit of a higher purpose in life leads to hard truths and hangovers.”—Vogue “In this laugh-out-loud debut, Claire Flannery is a lost soul who quits her day job to discover her true passion. In taking a hard look at her own character, Claire finds that her loveable qualities are sometimes squashed by mistakes, like the evenings she blurts inappropriate remarks after too many glasses of wine. [Lisa] Owens’s story is a smart, relatable and delicious debut.”—Harper’s Bazaar   “It’s no mean feat to fashion a novel out of the stuff of everyday life. . . . Fortunately, Owens is quite a writer. . . . Not Working works because there is lots going on beneath its placid, ordinary surface. . . . With this funny, serious debut, Lisa Owens has proved that she’s one to watch.”—The New Statesman “There are sharp observations about generational change, particularly on the topic of work. . . . The novel is a light read but it raises some timely issues. . . . A secure job with a future is not that easy to find, as Claire’s comic and compelling tale serves to show. This book offers a form of catharsis for anyone who has felt that they are not quite doing their job right. . . . It is soothing to find you are not the only one noodling along in your career.”—Financial Times “Stellar . . . [Owens has an] ability to take the potentially trite problem-of-the-privileged trope and deftly craft it into readable fun.”—Publishers Weekly “Owens offers a millennial take on the traditional British chick-lit heroine. . . . Claire is a realistically awkward character who will appeal to readers looking for a less-angsty take on the new adult trend.”—Booklist “A novel as insightful about the contemporary dilemmas facing young professionals as it is sharp, incisive and laugh-out-loud funny.”—The Observer “Lots of people say they laugh out loud when they read a book they love. But in the case of Not Working, I really did laugh out loud, often and raucously.”—Elisabeth Egan, author of A Window Opens]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-apartment-a-novel-by-danielle-steel--65309626https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Apartment: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A memorable ensemble cast of four young women who share a beautiful loft apartment in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen and experience the glamour and challenges of city life, love, and career in this irresistible contemporary story.Four young women’s lives intersect in the apartment they’ve shared in Hell’s Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different as they are from one another, the women had become a family by choice. But while their lives had proceeded smoothly in the years they’d lived together, new relationships, job opportunities, and surprising circumstances will test the strength of their bond in and outside the loft that had become their home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263845Tue, 03 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Apartment: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 3,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Apartment: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A memorable ensemble cast of four young women who share a beautiful loft apartment in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen and experience the glamour and challenges of city life, love, and career in this irresistible contemporary story.Four young women’s lives intersect in the apartment they’ve shared in Hell’s Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different as they are from one another, the women had become a family by choice. But while their lives had proceeded smoothly in the years they’d lived together, new relationships, job opportunities, and surprising circumstances will test the strength of their bond in and outside the loft that had become their home.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-healer-by-ellin-carsta--65309637https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Healer Series: #1 of The Secret Healer Author: Ellin Carsta Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the fourteenth century, opportunities for women are limited to the home. But spirited young Madlen finds her calling as assistant to the city’s trusted midwife, Clara. Working alongside Clara, Madlen develops a surprisingly soothing technique and quickly becomes a talented healer. After Clara’s tragic death, Madlen alone rushes to assist the birth of a local nobleman’s child. But rather than the joy of birth, Madlen walks into an accusation of murder and witchcraft because of her extraordinary gifts. Forced to flee her own town, she establishes a new identity in the home of her aunt. Yet even though it endangers her life, she cannot resist the urge to help the sick patients who seek out her miraculous treatment. When she meets handsome Johannes—an investigator hired by the Church to bring her to justice for sacrilegious acts—she becomes drawn to the very man that could destroy her. Will Madlen’s gifts bring about her downfall? Or can love and reason prevail in a time of fearful superstition?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263803Sun, 01 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Healer Series: #1 of The Secret Healer Author: Ellin Carsta Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Healer Series: #1 of The Secret Healer Author: Ellin Carsta Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the fourteenth century, opportunities for women are limited to the home. But spirited young Madlen finds her calling as assistant to the city’s trusted midwife, Clara. Working alongside Clara, Madlen develops a surprisingly soothing technique and quickly becomes a talented healer. After Clara’s tragic death, Madlen alone rushes to assist the birth of a local nobleman’s child. But rather than the joy of birth, Madlen walks into an accusation of murder and witchcraft because of her extraordinary gifts. Forced to flee her own town, she establishes a new identity in the home of her aunt. Yet even though it endangers her life, she cannot resist the urge to help the sick patients who seek out her miraculous treatment. When she meets handsome Johannes—an investigator hired by the Church to bring her to justice for sacrilegious acts—she becomes drawn to the very man that could destroy her. Will Madlen’s gifts bring about her downfall? Or can love and reason prevail in a time of fearful superstition?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deliver-her-a-novel-by-patricia-perry-donovan--65309636https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deliver Her: A Novel Author: Patricia Perry Donovan Narrator: James Foster, Emily Foster, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: On the night of Alex Carmody’s sixteenth birthday, she and her best friend, Cass, are victims of a terrible car accident. Alex survives; Cass doesn’t. Consumed by grief, Alex starts cutting school and partying, growing increasingly detached. The future she’d planned with her friend is now meaningless to her. Meg Carmody is heartbroken for her daughter, even as she’s desperate to get Alex’s life back on track. The Birches, a boarding school in New Hampshire, promises to do just that, yet Alex refuses to go. But when Meg finds a bag of pills hidden in the house, she makes a fateful call to a transporter whose company specializes in shuttling troubled teens to places like The Birches, under strict supervision. Meg knows Alex will feel betrayed—as will her estranged husband, who knows nothing of Meg’s plans for their daughter. When the transport goes wrong—and Alex goes missing—Meg must face the consequences of her decision and her deception. But the hunt for Alex reveals that Meg is not the only one keeping secrets.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263844Sun, 01 May 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deliver Her: A Novel Author: Patricia Perry Donovan Narrator: James Foster, Emily Foster, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deliver Her: A Novel Author: Patricia Perry Donovan Narrator: James Foster, Emily Foster, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 1, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: On the night of Alex Carmody’s sixteenth birthday, she and her best friend, Cass, are victims of a terrible car accident. Alex survives; Cass doesn’t. Consumed by grief, Alex starts cutting school and partying, growing increasingly detached. The future she’d planned with her friend is now meaningless to her. Meg Carmody is heartbroken for her daughter, even as she’s desperate to get Alex’s life back on track. The Birches, a boarding school in New Hampshire, promises to do just that, yet Alex refuses to go. But when Meg finds a bag of pills hidden in the house, she makes a fateful call to a transporter whose company specializes in shuttling troubled teens to places like The Birches, under strict supervision. Meg knows Alex will feel betrayed—as will her estranged husband, who knows nothing of Meg’s plans for their daughter. When the transport goes wrong—and Alex goes missing—Meg must face the consequences of her decision and her deception. But the hunt for Alex reveals that Meg is not the only one keeping secrets.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-4-at-home-in-belgrave-square-by-julian-fellowes--65309644https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 4: At Home in Belgrave Square Series: #4 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: April 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A dashing young man appears at Lady Brockenhurst's soiree -- but who is he and why is he so favored by their hostess? Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262264Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 4: At Home in Belgrave Square Series: #4 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 4: At Home in Belgrave Square Series: #4 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: April 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A dashing young man appears at Lady Brockenhurst's soiree -- but who is he and why is he so favored by their hostess? Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/matt-by-r-c-ryan--65309687https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Matt Series: #1 of The Malloys of Montana Author: R.C. Ryan Narrator: Loretta Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Him Away From Her Raised beneath the big Montana sky, Matt Malloy was never meant to be a jet-setting businessman. But he'll do anything to protect the family ranch he shares with his brothers. Coming home after a two-week trip to Italy, Matt wants nothing more than to shed his suit and tie for a well-worn pair of jeans and ride his horse up to the cabin for some alone time. The last thing he needs is a big-city lawyer invading his privacy-even if she is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen . . . Vanessa Kettering has devoted her life to her work. As a passionate animal rights defender, she doesn't have room for anything else. But from the moment she meets Matt, she's taken with this rugged cowboy's lazy smile and tender touch. When a raging storm traps them inside his cabin for the night, one steamy kiss leads to another, sweeping them away with a force that's as wild and untamed as the land he loves. But when the morning light comes, will she lose her heart?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262679Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Matt Series: #1 of The Malloys of Montana Author: R.C. Ryan Narrator: Loretta Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Matt Series: #1 of The Malloys of Montana Author: R.C. Ryan Narrator: Loretta Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Him Away From Her Raised beneath the big Montana sky, Matt Malloy was never meant to be a jet-setting businessman. But he'll do anything to protect the family ranch he shares with his brothers. Coming home after a two-week trip to Italy, Matt wants nothing more than to shed his suit and tie for a well-worn pair of jeans and ride his horse up to the cabin for some alone time. The last thing he needs is a big-city lawyer invading his privacy-even if she is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen . . . Vanessa Kettering has devoted her life to her work. As a passionate animal rights defender, she doesn't have room for anything else. But from the moment she meets Matt, she's taken with this rugged cowboy's lazy smile and tender touch. When a raging storm traps them inside his cabin for the night, one steamy kiss leads to another, sweeping them away with a force that's as wild and untamed as the land he loves. But when the morning light comes, will she lose her heart?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/burying-the-honeysuckle-girls-by-emily-carpenter--65309685https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Author: Emily Carpenter Narrator: Kate Orsini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she’s not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history…and the part she’s meant to play in it. Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman’s emotional journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263188Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Author: Emily Carpenter Narrator: Kate Orsini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Author: Emily Carpenter Narrator: Kate Orsini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she’s not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history…and the part she’s meant to play in it. Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman’s emotional journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-drowning-girls-by-paula-treick-deboard--65309677https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drowning Girls Author: Paula Treick Deboard Narrator: David Atlas, Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated community like The Palms. Ever since she and her family moved in, she's felt like an outsider amongst the Stepford-like wives and their obnoxiously spoiled children. Still, she's determined to make it work—if not for herself, then for her husband, Phil, who landed them this lavish home in the first place, and for her daughter, Danielle, who's about to enter high school.Yet underneath the glossy veneer of The Palms, life is far from idyllic. In a place where reputation is everything, Liz soon discovers that even the friendliest residents can't be trusted—and almost everyone has secrets they'd do anything to protect. So when the gorgeous girl next door befriends Danielle, Liz can't help but find sophisticated Kelsey's interest in her shy and slightly nerdy daughter a bit suspicious.But while Kelsey quickly becomes a fixture in the McGinnis home, Liz's relationships with both Danielle and Phil grow strained. Now even her own family seems to be hiding things, and it's not long before their dream of living the high life quickly spirals out of control.…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263190Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drowning Girls Author: Paula Treick Deboard Narrator: David Atlas, Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drowning Girls Author: Paula Treick Deboard Narrator: David Atlas, Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated community like The Palms. Ever since she and her family moved in, she's felt like an outsider amongst the Stepford-like wives and their obnoxiously spoiled children. Still, she's determined to make it work—if not for herself, then for her husband, Phil, who landed them this lavish home in the first place, and for her daughter, Danielle, who's about to enter high school.Yet underneath the glossy veneer of The Palms, life is far from idyllic. In a place where reputation is everything, Liz soon discovers that even the friendliest residents can't be trusted—and almost everyone has secrets they'd do anything to protect. So when the gorgeous girl next door befriends Danielle, Liz can't help but find sophisticated Kelsey's interest in her shy and slightly nerdy daughter a bit suspicious.But while Kelsey quickly becomes a fixture in the McGinnis home, Liz's relationships with both Danielle and Phil grow strained. Now even her own family seems to be hiding things, and it's not long before their dream of living the high life quickly spirals out of control.…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/godpretty-in-the-tobacco-field-by-kim-michele-richardson--65309660https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: GodPretty in the Tobacco Field Author: Kim Michele Richardson Narrator: Katie Schorr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Atmospheric and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field is Coal Miner’s Daughter meets Winter’s Bone in a gripping tale of tender love and loss Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact—just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he’s given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it’s something to do with the paper fortune-tellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it’s because of Rainey Ford, an African American neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field, and with whom she has a kinship, despite her uncle’s worrisome shadow and the town’s disapproval. RubyLyn’s predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she’s imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263239Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: GodPretty in the Tobacco Field Author: Kim Michele Richardson Narrator: Katie Schorr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: GodPretty in the Tobacco Field Author: Kim Michele Richardson Narrator: Katie Schorr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Atmospheric and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field is Coal Miner’s Daughter meets Winter’s Bone in a gripping tale of tender love and loss Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact—just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he’s given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it’s something to do with the paper fortune-tellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it’s because of Rainey Ford, an African American neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field, and with whom she has a kinship, despite her uncle’s worrisome shadow and the town’s disapproval. RubyLyn’s predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she’s imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/his-darling-bride-by-anna-destefano--65309656https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Darling Bride Series: #3 of Echoes of the Heart Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bethany Darling doesn’t kiss men at first sight…until she falls into the arms of a handsome cowboy bartender. A mysterious stranger, Mike helps scare off Bethany’s obnoxious ex-boyfriend. Mike’s touch feels like coming home. But Bethany’s so not interested. Between stalled-out dreams of becoming a painter, troubles reconnecting with her sprawling foster family, and the happy chaos of her sister’s upcoming wedding, Bethany’s already in over her head. But each time she and Mike stumble across each other in small-town Chandlerville…sparks fly. A famous photographer hiding under a Stetson, Mike Taylor recognizes Bethany as a kindred artistic spirit. Together they rekindle her passion for painting—and she inspires him in unexpected, undeniable ways. Then when Mike’s own past threatens to tear apart his present, Bethany becomes his safe place to turn. Can these two wandering souls finally trust their hearts? Or will they run from the forever love they never expected to find?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263185Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Darling Bride Series: #3 of Echoes of the Heart Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Darling Bride Series: #3 of Echoes of the Heart Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bethany Darling doesn’t kiss men at first sight…until she falls into the arms of a handsome cowboy bartender. A mysterious stranger, Mike helps scare off Bethany’s obnoxious ex-boyfriend. Mike’s touch feels like coming home. But Bethany’s so not interested. Between stalled-out dreams of becoming a painter, troubles reconnecting with her sprawling foster family, and the happy chaos of her sister’s upcoming wedding, Bethany’s already in over her head. But each time she and Mike stumble across each other in small-town Chandlerville…sparks fly. A famous photographer hiding under a Stetson, Mike Taylor recognizes Bethany as a kindred artistic spirit. Together they rekindle her passion for painting—and she inspires him in unexpected, undeniable ways. Then when Mike’s own past threatens to tear apart his present, Bethany becomes his safe place to turn. Can these two wandering souls finally trust their hearts? Or will they run from the forever love they never expected to find?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hungry-tide-by-val-wood--65309643https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hungry Tide Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 24, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty, disease and crime. When her father, Will, is involved in a terrible accident at work, their lives became even harder. But Will’s good deeds of the past pay off as John Rayner decides to rescue the Fosters. John provides them with work and a house on the estate owned by his wealthy family. It is at this new home on the crumbling coastline of Holderness that Sarah is born – and grows into a bright and beautiful girl, and a great source of strength to those around her. As John grows closer to Sarah, he becomes increasingly aware of his love for her. But could these two very different people ever make their love story truly work? If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262625Sun, 24 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hungry Tide Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 24, 2016 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hungry Tide Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 24, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty, disease and crime. When her father, Will, is involved in a terrible accident at work, their lives became even harder. But Will’s good deeds of the past pay off as John Rayner decides to rescue the Fosters. John provides them with work and a house on the estate owned by his wealthy family. It is at this new home on the crumbling coastline of Holderness that Sarah is born – and grows into a bright and beautiful girl, and a great source of strength to those around her. As John grows closer to Sarah, he becomes increasingly aware of his love for her. But could these two very different people ever make their love story truly work? If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/five-rivers-met-on-a-wooded-plain-by-barney-norris--65309667https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Author: Barney Norris Narrator: Linda Bassett, James Doherty, Hasan Dixon, Claire Skinner, Joe Jameson, Christopher Benjamin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.' One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower – all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief, disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262833Thu, 21 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Author: Barney Norris Narrator: Linda Bassett, James Doherty, Hasan Dixon, Claire Skinner, Joe Jameson, Christopher...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Author: Barney Norris Narrator: Linda Bassett, James Doherty, Hasan Dixon, Claire Skinner, Joe Jameson, Christopher Benjamin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.' One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower – all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief, disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-3-family-ties-by-julian-fellowes--65309615https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 3: Family Ties Series: #3 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 7 minutes Release date: April 21, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lord and Lady Brockenhurst play host to some troublesome relatives while the Trenchards receive an unexpected invitation. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262245Thu, 21 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 3: Family Ties Series: #3 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 3: Family Ties Series: #3 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 7 minutes Release date: April 21, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lord and Lady Brockenhurst play host to some troublesome relatives while the Trenchards receive an unexpected invitation. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/doing-it-over-by-catherine-bybee--65309692https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doing It Over Series: #1 of A Most Likely To Novel Author: Catherine Bybee Narrator: Cristina Panfilio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Voted Most Likely to Succeed, Melanie Bartlett ended up anything but. The down-on-her-luck single mom wants a complete do-over—is that too much to ask? With her family long gone from River Bend, strong, independent Mel is as surprised as anyone to end up in the quaint small town she once called home. But with her friends, Jo and Zoe, by her side, and a comfortable room at Miss Gina’s quirky bed-and-breakfast, she just might have turned the corner on a new life. Wyatt Gibson never liked the big city. River Bend suits the ruggedly handsome builder just fine. Wyatt knows he’s home, even if that means being charmed by the appearance of Melanie and her spunky, adorable daughter. Is Wyatt’s calm devotion—even amid a coming storm—enough to convince Mel she may have found a home to call her own, a family that never leaves, and a true love to last a lifetime?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262935Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doing It Over Series: #1 of A Most Likely To Novel Author: Catherine Bybee Narrator: Cristina Panfilio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doing It Over Series: #1 of A Most Likely To Novel Author: Catherine Bybee Narrator: Cristina Panfilio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Voted Most Likely to Succeed, Melanie Bartlett ended up anything but. The down-on-her-luck single mom wants a complete do-over—is that too much to ask? With her family long gone from River Bend, strong, independent Mel is as surprised as anyone to end up in the quaint small town she once called home. But with her friends, Jo and Zoe, by her side, and a comfortable room at Miss Gina’s quirky bed-and-breakfast, she just might have turned the corner on a new life. Wyatt Gibson never liked the big city. River Bend suits the ruggedly handsome builder just fine. Wyatt knows he’s home, even if that means being charmed by the appearance of Melanie and her spunky, adorable daughter. Is Wyatt’s calm devotion—even amid a coming storm—enough to convince Mel she may have found a home to call her own, a family that never leaves, and a true love to last a lifetime?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-excellent-lombards-by-jane-hamilton--65309680https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Excellent Lombards Author: Jane Hamilton Narrator: Erin Cottrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A new classic from the author of Oprah's Book Club picks A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth. "This is the book Jane Hamilton was born to write... [it is] magnificent." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that some family members end up staying on the farm and others must leave. Change is inevitable, and threats of urbanization, disinheritance, and college applications shake the foundation of Frankie's roots. As Frankie is forced to shed her childhood fantasies and face the possibility of losing the idyllic future she had envisioned for her family, she must decide whether loving something means clinging tightly or letting go. "Everything you could ask for in a coming-of-age novel-- funny, insightful, observant, saturated with hope and melancholy." —Tom Perotta, author ofLittle Childrenand The Leftovers "Tender, eccentric, wickedly funny and sage...gives full voice to Jane Hamilton's storytelling gifts." - Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262257Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Excellent Lombards Author: Jane Hamilton Narrator: Erin Cottrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Excellent Lombards Author: Jane Hamilton Narrator: Erin Cottrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A new classic from the author of Oprah's Book Club picks A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth. "This is the book Jane Hamilton was born to write... [it is] magnificent." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that some family members end up staying on the farm and others must leave. Change is inevitable, and threats of urbanization, disinheritance, and college applications shake the foundation of Frankie's roots. As Frankie is forced to shed her childhood fantasies and face the possibility of losing the idyllic future she had envisioned for her family, she must decide whether loving something means clinging tightly or letting go. "Everything you could ask for in a coming-of-age novel-- funny, insightful, observant, saturated with hope and melancholy." —Tom Perotta, author ofLittle Childrenand The Leftovers "Tender, eccentric, wickedly funny and sage...gives full voice to Jane Hamilton's storytelling gifts." - Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-we-fall-a-novel-by-rochelle-b-weinstein--65309666https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where We Fall: A Novel Author: Rochelle B. Weinstein Narrator: Scott Merriman, Whitney Dykhouse, Kate Rudd, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: By all accounts, Abby Holden has it all. She’s the mother of a beautiful teenager and the wife of a beloved high school football coach. And all it took to achieve her charmed life was her greatest act of betrayal. Coach Ryan can coax his team to victory, but he can’t seem to make his wife, Abby, happy. Her struggles with depression have marred their marriage and taken a toll on their daughter, Juliana. Although this isn’t the life he’s dreamed of, he’s determined to heal the rifts in his family. Chasing waterfalls and documenting their beauty has led photographer Lauren Sheppard all around the world. Now it has brought her back home to the mountains of North Carolina—back to the scene of her devastating heartbreak. For the first time in seventeen years, a trio of once-inseparable friends find themselves confronting past loves, hurts, and the rapid rush of a current that still pulls them together…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262934Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where We Fall: A Novel Author: Rochelle B. Weinstein Narrator: Scott Merriman, Whitney Dykhouse, Kate Rudd, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where We Fall: A Novel Author: Rochelle B. Weinstein Narrator: Scott Merriman, Whitney Dykhouse, Kate Rudd, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: By all accounts, Abby Holden has it all. She’s the mother of a beautiful teenager and the wife of a beloved high school football coach. And all it took to achieve her charmed life was her greatest act of betrayal. Coach Ryan can coax his team to victory, but he can’t seem to make his wife, Abby, happy. Her struggles with depression have marred their marriage and taken a toll on their daughter, Juliana. Although this isn’t the life he’s dreamed of, he’s determined to heal the rifts in his family. Chasing waterfalls and documenting their beauty has led photographer Lauren Sheppard all around the world. Now it has brought her back home to the mountains of North Carolina—back to the scene of her devastating heartbreak. For the first time in seventeen years, a trio of once-inseparable friends find themselves confronting past loves, hurts, and the rapid rush of a current that still pulls them together…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eligible-a-modern-retelling-of-pride-and-prejudice-by-curtis-sittenfeld--65309664https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice Series: #4 of Austen Project Author: Curtis Sittenfeld Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 51 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 16 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK) This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help—and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master’s degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won’t discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane’s fortieth birthday fast approaches. Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip’s friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. . . . And yet, first impressions can be deceiving. Praise for Eligible “Even the most ardent Austenite will soon find herself seduced.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Blissful . . . Sittenfeld modernizes the classic in such a stylish, witty way you’d guess even Jane Austen would be pleased.”—People (book of the week) “[A] sparkling, fresh contemporary retelling.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Sittenfeld] is the ideal modern-day reinterpreter. Her special skill lies not just in her clear, clean writing, but in her general amusement about the world, her arch, pithy, dropped-mike observations about behavior, character and motivation. She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-contradiction and absurdity ten miles away. She’s the one you want to leave the party with, so she can explain what really happened. . . . Not since Clueless, which transported Emma to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted. . . . Sittenfeld writes so well—her sentences are so good and her story so satisfying. . . . As a reader, let me just say: Three cheers for Curtis Sittenfeld and her astute, sharp and ebullient anthropological interest in the human condition.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review “A clever, uproarious evolution of Austen’s story.”—The Denver Post “If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it. . . . Sittenfeld makes an already irresistible story even more beguiling and charming.”—Elle “A playful, wickedly smart retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.”—BuzzFeed “Sittenfeld is an obvious choice to re-create Jane Austen’s comedy of manners. [She] is a master at dissecting social norms to reveal the truths of human nature underneath.”—The Millions “A hugely entertaining and surprisingly unpredictable book, bursting with wit and charm.”—The Irish Times “An unputdownable retelling of the beloved classic.”—PopSugar]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262948Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice Series: #4 of Austen Project Author: Curtis Sittenfeld Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice Series: #4 of Austen Project Author: Curtis Sittenfeld Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 51 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 16 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK) This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help—and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master’s degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won’t discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane’s fortieth birthday fast approaches. Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip’s friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. . . . And yet, first impressions can be deceiving. Praise for Eligible “Even the most ardent Austenite will soon find herself seduced.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Blissful . . . Sittenfeld modernizes the classic in such a stylish, witty way you’d guess even Jane Austen would be pleased.”—People (book of the week) “[A] sparkling, fresh contemporary retelling.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Sittenfeld] is the ideal modern-day reinterpreter. Her special skill lies not just in her clear, clean writing, but in her general amusement about the world, her arch, pithy, dropped-mike observations about behavior, character and motivation. She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-contradiction and absurdity ten miles away. She’s the one you want to leave the party with, so she can explain what really happened. . . . Not since Clueless, which transported Emma to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted. . . . Sittenfeld writes so well—her sentences are so good and her story so satisfying. . . . As a reader, let me just say: Three cheers for Curtis Sittenfeld and her astute, sharp and ebullient anthropological interest in the human condition.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review “A clever, uproarious evolution of Austen’s story.”—The Denver Post “If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it. . . . Sittenfeld makes an already irresistible story even more beguiling and charming.”—Elle “A playful, wickedly smart retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.”—BuzzFeed “Sittenfeld is an obvious choice to re-create Jane Austen’s comedy of manners. [She] is a master at dissecting social norms to reveal the truths of human nature underneath.”—The Millions “A hugely entertaining and surprisingly unpredictable book, bursting with wit and charm.”—The Irish Times “An unputdownable retelling of the beloved classic.”—PopSugar]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sister-dear-by-laura-mcneill--65309649https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sister Dear Author: Laura Mcneill Narrator: Clifton Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this domestic, psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and The Woman in the Window, one woman wants nothing more than to prove her innocence. But those closest to her will do anything to keep the truth from surfacing. Convicted of a crime she didn’t commit, Allie watched a decade of her life vanish—time that can never be recovered. Now, out on parole, Allie is determined to clear her name, rebuild her life, and reconnect with the daughter she barely knows. But Allie’s return home shatters the quaint, coastal community of Brunswick, Georgia. Even her own daughter Caroline, now a teenager, bristles at Allie’s claims of innocence. Refusing defeat, a stronger, smarter Allie launches a battle for the truth, digging deeply into the past even if it threatens her parole status, personal safety, and the already fragile bond with family. As her commitment to finding the truth intensifies, what Allie ultimately uncovers is far worse than she imagined. Her own sister has been hiding a dark secret—one that holds the key to Allie’s freedom. “Will have you flipping pages late into the night”—Deep South Magazine]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262116Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sister Dear Author: Laura Mcneill Narrator: Clifton Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sister Dear Author: Laura Mcneill Narrator: Clifton Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this domestic, psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and The Woman in the Window, one woman wants nothing more than to prove her innocence. But those closest to her will do anything to keep the truth from surfacing. Convicted of a crime she didn’t commit, Allie watched a decade of her life vanish—time that can never be recovered. Now, out on parole, Allie is determined to clear her name, rebuild her life, and reconnect with the daughter she barely knows. But Allie’s return home shatters the quaint, coastal community of Brunswick, Georgia. Even her own daughter Caroline, now a teenager, bristles at Allie’s claims of innocence. Refusing defeat, a stronger, smarter Allie launches a battle for the truth, digging deeply into the past even if it threatens her parole status, personal safety, and the already fragile bond with family. As her commitment to finding the truth intensifies, what Allie ultimately uncovers is far worse than she imagined. Her own sister has been hiding a dark secret—one that holds the key to Allie’s freedom. “Will have you flipping pages late into the night”—Deep South Magazine]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-2-a-chance-encounter-by-julian-fellowes--65309697https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 2: A Chance Encounter Series: #2 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: April 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An invitation to afternoon tea results in some startling revelations. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262244Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 2: A Chance Encounter Series: #2 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 2: A Chance Encounter Series: #2 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: April 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An invitation to afternoon tea results in some startling revelations. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julian-fellowes-s-belgravia-episode-1-dancing-into-battle-by-julian-fellowes--65309686https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 1: Dancing into Battle Series: #1 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: April 14, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two families meet at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball. From this moment on, their stories will be linked by a secret. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized instalments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262243Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 1: Dancing into Battle Series: #1 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 1: Dancing into Battle Series: #1 of Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: April 14, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two families meet at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball. From this moment on, their stories will be linked by a secret. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized instalments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-had-to-be-fate-by-tamra-baumann--65309627https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Had to Be Fate Series: #3 of An It Had to Be Novel Author: Tamra Baumann Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Falling for a bad-boy rock star is the last thing single mother Casey Anderson-Bovier should do. Embroiled in a custody battle with her ex, Casey is fighting to raise her boys in their quaint Colorado hometown—a secret haven for celebrities. But when it comes to her hotel’s newest guest, Casey can’t connect the dots. Is Zane Steele the out-of-control rocker plastered all over the media, or the captivating man with a killer smile who’s charming her and her two boys? Zane has a good reason for letting the world believe the worst of him—and that’s a secret he’s sure he can never share…until he meets Casey. After years of having fans fall at his feet, he’s found the one woman who brings him to his knees. Casey is beautiful and intriguing—and thoroughly justified in not trusting him one bit, especially with her family at stake. But the only way to be together is to convince her to take a chance on him, on fate, and on their crazy, unexpected love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262686Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Had to Be Fate Series: #3 of An It Had to Be Novel Author: Tamra Baumann Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Had to Be Fate Series: #3 of An It Had to Be Novel Author: Tamra Baumann Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Falling for a bad-boy rock star is the last thing single mother Casey Anderson-Bovier should do. Embroiled in a custody battle with her ex, Casey is fighting to raise her boys in their quaint Colorado hometown—a secret haven for celebrities. But when it comes to her hotel’s newest guest, Casey can’t connect the dots. Is Zane Steele the out-of-control rocker plastered all over the media, or the captivating man with a killer smile who’s charming her and her two boys? Zane has a good reason for letting the world believe the worst of him—and that’s a secret he’s sure he can never share…until he meets Casey. After years of having fans fall at his feet, he’s found the one woman who brings him to his knees. Casey is beautiful and intriguing—and thoroughly justified in not trusting him one bit, especially with her family at stake. But the only way to be together is to convince her to take a chance on him, on fate, and on their crazy, unexpected love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miller-s-valley-a-novel-by-anna-quindlen--65309679https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miller's Valley: A Novel Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A novel about family and the secrets that we keep—a young woman learning to love and leave home and realizing that, maybe, she never quite left. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and Rise and Shine.This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again.As a young girl in Miller’s Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too.As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen’s novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.A deeply moving, inspiring story of a young woman learning to love and leave, the place and family from which she comes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262434Tue, 05 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miller's Valley: A Novel Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miller's Valley: A Novel Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A novel about family and the secrets that we keep—a young woman learning to love and leave home and realizing that, maybe, she never quite left. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and Rise and Shine.This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again.As a young girl in Miller’s Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too.As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen’s novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.A deeply moving, inspiring story of a young woman learning to love and leave, the place and family from which she comes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-light-of-the-fireflies-by-paul-pen--65309675https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light of the Fireflies Author: Paul Pen Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From bestselling Spanish author Paul Pen comes a haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone’s been acting very strangely. The boy begins to wonder why they never say who the father is, about what happened before his own birth, about why they’re shut away. A few days ago, some fireflies arrived in the basement. His grandma said, There’s no creature more amazing than one that can make its own light. That light makes the boy want to escape, to know the outside world. Problem is, all the doors are locked. And he doesn’t know how to get out…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262189Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light of the Fireflies Author: Paul Pen Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light of the Fireflies Author: Paul Pen Narrator: Scott Merriman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From bestselling Spanish author Paul Pen comes a haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone’s been acting very strangely. The boy begins to wonder why they never say who the father is, about what happened before his own birth, about why they’re shut away. A few days ago, some fireflies arrived in the basement. His grandma said, There’s no creature more amazing than one that can make its own light. That light makes the boy want to escape, to know the outside world. Problem is, all the doors are locked. And he doesn’t know how to get out…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/change-of-heart-a-novel-by-jodi-picoult--65309695https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Change of Heart: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Stafford Clark-Price, Nicole Poole, Jim Frangione, Jennifer Ikeda, Danielle Ferland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author and “master of the craft of storytelling” (Associated Press) weaves a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s chance at salvation. One moment June Nealon is happily looking forward to years of love and laughter with her family. The next, she is facing a future as empty as her heart as she waits for a miracle. For Shay Bourne, life has no more surprises, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, his life is changed by one last chance for redemption through June’s young daughter, Claire. But between June and Shay lies an ocean of bitter regrets and a mother’s rage. Would you give up revenge against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy’s dying wish? Soul-stirring and haunting, Change of Heart is “another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner” (Publishers Weekly) from Jodi Picoult.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261758Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Change of Heart: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Stafford Clark-Price, Nicole Poole, Jim Frangione, Jennifer Ikeda, Danielle Ferland Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Change of Heart: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Stafford Clark-Price, Nicole Poole, Jim Frangione, Jennifer Ikeda, Danielle Ferland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author and “master of the craft of storytelling” (Associated Press) weaves a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s chance at salvation. One moment June Nealon is happily looking forward to years of love and laughter with her family. The next, she is facing a future as empty as her heart as she waits for a miracle. For Shay Bourne, life has no more surprises, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, his life is changed by one last chance for redemption through June’s young daughter, Claire. But between June and Shay lies an ocean of bitter regrets and a mother’s rage. Would you give up revenge against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy’s dying wish? Soul-stirring and haunting, Change of Heart is “another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner” (Publishers Weekly) from Jodi Picoult.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-here-to-home-by-marie-bostwick--65309691https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/260017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Here to Home Series: #1 of The Too Much, Texas Series Author: Marie Bostwick Narrator: Kathleen Early Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick welcomes listeners to the quirky, unforgettable town of Too Much, Texas, in a heartwarming, richly satisfying story about friendship and moving forward. Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet charms of Too Much to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She’s relieved to be moving back to her hometown—and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented cohost and color consultant, and who happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dell’s new boss hopes to attract a different demographic—by bringing in a younger cohost. What Holly Silva knows about quilting wouldn’t fill a thimble, but she’s smart and ambitious. Her career hinges on outshining the formidable Mary Dell in order to earn her own show. Yet as Holly adapts to small-town living and begins a new romance, Mary Dell considers rekindling an old one, and the two find unlikely kinship. For as Mary Dell knows, the women of Too Much have a knack for untangling the knottiest problems when they work together. And sometimes the pattern for happiness is as simple and surprising as it is beautiful.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/260017Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/260017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Here to Home Series: #1 of The Too Much, Texas Series Author: Marie Bostwick Narrator: Kathleen Early Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/260017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Here to Home Series: #1 of The Too Much, Texas Series Author: Marie Bostwick Narrator: Kathleen Early Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick welcomes listeners to the quirky, unforgettable town of Too Much, Texas, in a heartwarming, richly satisfying story about friendship and moving forward. Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet charms of Too Much to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She’s relieved to be moving back to her hometown—and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented cohost and color consultant, and who happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dell’s new boss hopes to attract a different demographic—by bringing in a younger cohost. What Holly Silva knows about quilting wouldn’t fill a thimble, but she’s smart and ambitious. Her career hinges on outshining the formidable Mary Dell in order to earn her own show. Yet as Holly adapts to small-town living and begins a new romance, Mary Dell considers rekindling an old one, and the two find unlikely kinship. For as Mary Dell knows, the women of Too Much have a knack for untangling the knottiest problems when they work together. And sometimes the pattern for happiness is as simple and surprising as it is beautiful.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nineteen-minutes-a-novel-by-jodi-picoult--65309684https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nineteen Minutes: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 246 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 40 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261762Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nineteen Minutes: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nineteen Minutes: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 246 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 40 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-sister-s-keeper-a-novel-by-jodi-picoult--65309645https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Barbara Mcculloh, Jennifer Ikeda, Tom Stechschulte, Andy Paris, Carol Monda, Julia Gibson, Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 212 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this riveting story that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person. Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister’s Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child’s life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261754Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Barbara Mcculloh, Jennifer Ikeda, Tom Stechschulte, Andy Paris, Carol Monda, Julia Gibson,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Barbara Mcculloh, Jennifer Ikeda, Tom Stechschulte, Andy Paris, Carol Monda, Julia Gibson, Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 212 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this riveting story that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person. Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister’s Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child’s life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vanishing-acts-by-jodi-picoult--65309639https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanishing Acts Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Robert Ramierez, Jim Jenner, Sharon Washington, Julia Gibson, Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of modern classics such as My Sister’s Keeper and Small Great Things weaves a “richly textured and engaging” (The Boston Globe) tale that explores what happens when a young woman’s past—a past she didn’t even know she had—catches up to her just in time to threaten her future. How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can’t recall…until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that irrevocably changes her life. With Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult explores how life might not always turn out the way we imagined; how the people we love and trust can suddenly change before our very eyes; how vanished memories can evolve into threat. Featuring characters that “resonate with authenticity” (People), Vanishing Acts masterfully explores a serious topic with understanding, insight, and compassion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261800Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanishing Acts Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Robert Ramierez, Jim Jenner, Sharon Washington, Julia Gibson, Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanishing Acts Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Robert Ramierez, Jim Jenner, Sharon Washington, Julia Gibson, Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of modern classics such as My Sister’s Keeper and Small Great Things weaves a “richly textured and engaging” (The Boston Globe) tale that explores what happens when a young woman’s past—a past she didn’t even know she had—catches up to her just in time to threaten her future. How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can’t recall…until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that irrevocably changes her life. With Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult explores how life might not always turn out the way we imagined; how the people we love and trust can suddenly change before our very eyes; how vanished memories can evolve into threat. Featuring characters that “resonate with authenticity” (People), Vanishing Acts masterfully explores a serious topic with understanding, insight, and compassion.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tenth-circle-a-novel-by-jodi-picoult--65309625https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tenth Circle: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime—or if your mistakes are carried forever. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her father’s life... Comic book artist Daniel Stone would do anything to protect his daughter. But when a single act of violence shatters her innocence, seemingly mild-mannered Daniel’s convictions are put to the test—while his own shockingly tumultuous past, hidden even from his family, comes to light. Now, everything Trixie’s ever believed about her hero, her father, seems to be a lie as Daniel ventures to hell and back, seeking revenge. Will the price be the bond they share? Revealing an “exceptional, unflinching, and utterly chilling” (The Washington Post) portrait of today’s youth culture, Jodi Picoult pulls readers inside a shattered family facing the toughest questions of morality and forgiveness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261756Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tenth Circle: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tenth Circle: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime—or if your mistakes are carried forever. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her father’s life... Comic book artist Daniel Stone would do anything to protect his daughter. But when a single act of violence shatters her innocence, seemingly mild-mannered Daniel’s convictions are put to the test—while his own shockingly tumultuous past, hidden even from his family, comes to light. Now, everything Trixie’s ever believed about her hero, her father, seems to be a lie as Daniel ventures to hell and back, seeking revenge. Will the price be the bond they share? Revealing an “exceptional, unflinching, and utterly chilling” (The Washington Post) portrait of today’s youth culture, Jodi Picoult pulls readers inside a shattered family facing the toughest questions of morality and forgiveness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/closer-home-by-kerry-anne-king--65309662https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closer Home Author: Kerry Anne King Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Lise Redding’s estranged sister, country-pop star Callie Redfern, is killed during a publicity stunt, the small-town music teacher is dragged from her quiet life into the spotlight. Lise hadn’t spoken with Callie in ten years, ever since Callie’s betrayal split them apart, so she’s shocked to discover that she’s inherited her sister’s massive estate. Not only that, but Lise is now the guardian of her sixteen-year-old niece, Ariel, to whom she’s practically a stranger. Overwhelmed by grief and her new responsibilities, Lise thinks things couldn’t get worse. But overnight she becomes the paparazzi’s latest obsession. Suddenly she and her longtime friend Dale are plastered over the front pages of the tabloids. Desperate to escape both the media and her memories, Lise sets off with Ariel on a search for the girl’s father. Yet instead of granting Lise a reprieve, the quest brings her face-to-face with long-buried secrets. Only by learning to forgive will she be able to find her way back home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262038Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closer Home Author: Kerry Anne King Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closer Home Author: Kerry Anne King Narrator: Teri Clark Linden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Lise Redding’s estranged sister, country-pop star Callie Redfern, is killed during a publicity stunt, the small-town music teacher is dragged from her quiet life into the spotlight. Lise hadn’t spoken with Callie in ten years, ever since Callie’s betrayal split them apart, so she’s shocked to discover that she’s inherited her sister’s massive estate. Not only that, but Lise is now the guardian of her sixteen-year-old niece, Ariel, to whom she’s practically a stranger. Overwhelmed by grief and her new responsibilities, Lise thinks things couldn’t get worse. But overnight she becomes the paparazzi’s latest obsession. Suddenly she and her longtime friend Dale are plastered over the front pages of the tabloids. Desperate to escape both the media and her memories, Lise sets off with Ariel on a search for the girl’s father. Yet instead of granting Lise a reprieve, the quest brings her face-to-face with long-buried secrets. Only by learning to forgive will she be able to find her way back home.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/as-close-to-us-as-breathing-a-novel-by-elizabeth-poliner--65309683https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Close to Us as Breathing: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Poliner Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by 'a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely' (Edward P. Jones). In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named 'Bagel Beach,' has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. During the weekdays, freedom reigns. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss for members of this close-knit clan. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was twelve years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath, of expanding lives painfully collapsed. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others? Elizabeth Poliner is a masterful storyteller, a brilliant observer of human nature, and in As Close to Us as Breathing she has created an unforgettable meditation on grief, guilt, and the boundaries of identity and love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261031Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Close to Us as Breathing: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Poliner Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Close to Us as Breathing: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Poliner Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by 'a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely' (Edward P. Jones). In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named 'Bagel Beach,' has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. During the weekdays, freedom reigns. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss for members of this close-knit clan. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was twelve years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath, of expanding lives painfully collapsed. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others? Elizabeth Poliner is a masterful storyteller, a brilliant observer of human nature, and in As Close to Us as Breathing she has created an unforgettable meditation on grief, guilt, and the boundaries of identity and love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/forgiveness-be-damned-a-gripping-thriller-with-an-emotional-twist-by-l-m-wasylciw--65309568https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgiveness Be Damned: A gripping thriller with an emotional twist Author: L. M. Wasylciw Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Tommy Belanger was raised in a dysfunctional family, plagued with abject poverty, incest, alcohol and child abuse. His life was filled with grief, hunger and horror. The family had been moved from one poverty-stricken two-bedroom shack to another. Always hoping for a better tomorrow. Landing in a home the mirror image of the one they had escaped. Tommy hated how that lifestyle affected him and his siblings and he detested his father more and more as the years slipped away. Tommy soon realized that it would take a miracle to escape such a life and was terrified that the apple would not fall far from the proverbial tree. What readers are saying about Forgiveness Be Damned: “A must have for your library. This is an amazing story! It’s a story unlike any I have ever read. So well written, you will not put it down until it is finished.” “Really liked it. This is the moving story of a man who grew up in a miserably poor family in the Prairies of Canada.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269072Fri, 04 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgiveness Be Damned: A gripping thriller with an emotional twist Author: L. M. Wasylciw Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgiveness Be Damned: A gripping thriller with an emotional twist Author: L. M. Wasylciw Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Tommy Belanger was raised in a dysfunctional family, plagued with abject poverty, incest, alcohol and child abuse. His life was filled with grief, hunger and horror. The family had been moved from one poverty-stricken two-bedroom shack to another. Always hoping for a better tomorrow. Landing in a home the mirror image of the one they had escaped. Tommy hated how that lifestyle affected him and his siblings and he detested his father more and more as the years slipped away. Tommy soon realized that it would take a miracle to escape such a life and was terrified that the apple would not fall far from the proverbial tree. What readers are saying about Forgiveness Be Damned: “A must have for your library. This is an amazing story! It’s a story unlike any I have ever read. So well written, you will not put it down until it is finished.” “Really liked it. This is the moving story of a man who grew up in a miserably poor family in the Prairies of Canada.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stella-who-alone-and-powerless-homeless-but-not-helpless-by-l-m-wasylciw--65309550https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stella Who?: Alone and powerless - homeless but not helpless Author: L. M. Wasylciw Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 4, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Stella wandered the streets of Victoria, BC, cold, wet and hungry - living a life of misery. It had been many years since she adapted to street-life. On most days, Stella would rather have been dead, yet she struggled along, hidden in the wide open, taking her place within the nameless, faceless and placeless tribe of the homeless. Faced with constant hunger, Stella begged, knowing that her very existence was based on the generosity of strangers. She hung her head in sorrow and shame, rattling a single coin in a tin can and trying her best to forget the very reason she was there. Stella never spoke of her past, determined to keep her life-story a secret. Attempting to remain invisible, she pushed her trolley filled with junk, moving from alcove to park bench then back again, doing what it took in order to survive, always hoping to remain anonymous. Homeless people were once called hobos, those who hopped the rails, often looking for day-jobs. Homelessness has become a social issue that stems from a multitude of concerns: drug addiction, illness and poverty, plus so much more. It is projected that there are tens of thousands of sick, wet, cold and hungry homeless Canadians, seeking warmth and food on any given day. What readers are saying about Stella Who?: “The author LM Wasylciw, really brought the character of Stella to life, making you think about all the homeless people out there, and wondering what their story's are. Great reading.” “Really enjoyed Stella Who? but with Ashenee Come Home you really hit your stride. Well done. Great stories and excellent social commentary.” “Well done. A well written story. I liked the juxtaposition of Good King Wenceslas. It was less direct than the Christmas Carol but it certainly was appreciated. In general, I find the reflective quality of the work very interesting.” “Sella's character is so real and captivates the reader from beginning to end. Such a good book that hit very close to home.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274466Fri, 04 Mar 2016 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stella Who?: Alone and powerless - homeless but not helpless Author: L. M. Wasylciw Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stella Who?: Alone and powerless - homeless but not helpless Author: L. M. Wasylciw Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 4, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Stella wandered the streets of Victoria, BC, cold, wet and hungry - living a life of misery. It had been many years since she adapted to street-life. On most days, Stella would rather have been dead, yet she struggled along, hidden in the wide open, taking her place within the nameless, faceless and placeless tribe of the homeless. Faced with constant hunger, Stella begged, knowing that her very existence was based on the generosity of strangers. She hung her head in sorrow and shame, rattling a single coin in a tin can and trying her best to forget the very reason she was there. Stella never spoke of her past, determined to keep her life-story a secret. Attempting to remain invisible, she pushed her trolley filled with junk, moving from alcove to park bench then back again, doing what it took in order to survive, always hoping to remain anonymous. Homeless people were once called hobos, those who hopped the rails, often looking for day-jobs. Homelessness has become a social issue that stems from a multitude of concerns: drug addiction, illness and poverty, plus so much more. It is projected that there are tens of thousands of sick, wet, cold and hungry homeless Canadians, seeking warmth and food on any given day. What readers are saying about Stella Who?: “The author LM Wasylciw, really brought the character of Stella to life, making you think about all the homeless people out there, and wondering what their story's are. Great reading.” “Really enjoyed Stella Who? but with Ashenee Come Home you really hit your stride. Well done. Great stories and excellent social commentary.” “Well done. A well written story. I liked the juxtaposition of Good King Wenceslas. It was less direct than the Christmas Carol but it certainly was appreciated. In general, I find the reflective quality of the work very interesting.” “Sella's character is so real and captivates the reader from beginning to end. Such a good book that hit very close to home.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-to-stay-by-terri-osburn--65309530https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home to Stay Series: #3 of An Anchor Island Novel Author: Terri Osburn Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 1, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Willow Parsons’s two new best friends are getting married, putting her squarely on the sidelines of romance—which suits her just fine. After the nightmarish situation she escaped from, featuring the ultimate Mr. Wrong, she is more than happy to spend her days slinging drinks in Dempsey’s Bar & Grill, and her nights alone. But her Anchor Island refuge has just one catch: muscle-bound charmer Randy Navarro. Everyone in town knows that Randy, owner of the local fitness club, is a giant teddy bear. Everyone, it seems, except for Willow. He’s convinced that her avoidance is more than just playing hard to get, and is determined to uncover the secrets that shadow her lovely eyes. But when old fears are dragged into the light, can Randy get Willow to stay and fight for their love…or will she take flight, leaving him and Anchor Island behind? Home to Stay is a charming, romantic tale about following your heart to find where you belong.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273056Thu, 01 May 2014 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home to Stay Series: #3 of An Anchor Island Novel Author: Terri Osburn Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home to Stay Series: #3 of An Anchor Island Novel Author: Terri Osburn Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 1, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Willow Parsons’s two new best friends are getting married, putting her squarely on the sidelines of romance—which suits her just fine. After the nightmarish situation she escaped from, featuring the ultimate Mr. Wrong, she is more than happy to spend her days slinging drinks in Dempsey’s Bar & Grill, and her nights alone. But her Anchor Island refuge has just one catch: muscle-bound charmer Randy Navarro. Everyone in town knows that Randy, owner of the local fitness club, is a giant teddy bear. Everyone, it seems, except for Willow. He’s convinced that her avoidance is more than just playing hard to get, and is determined to uncover the secrets that shadow her lovely eyes. But when old fears are dragged into the light, can Randy get Willow to stay and fight for their love…or will she take flight, leaving him and Anchor Island behind? Home to Stay is a charming, romantic tale about following your heart to find where you belong.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beneath-the-patchwork-moon-by-alison-kent--65309543https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beneath the Patchwork Moon Series: #2 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 11, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Hope Springs, Texas, every first love deserves a second chance. Luna Meadows wove a successful career out of creating the sumptuous, richly hued scarves that adorn Hollywood’s elite. Now she wants to give back to her hometown of Hope Springs, Texas, by creating a community arts center on the property that once belonged to her best friend: a talented musician named Sierra who perished in a car crash at age eighteen. As Luna sorts through the personal belongings left in the Caffey family’s former home, she confronts her own guilt and memories. But when Angelo Caffey—Sierra’s brother and Luna’s first love—returns unexpectedly, Luna must also face the pain of their long-ago relationship. Headstrong, handsome Angelo walked away from Hope Springs—and Luna—eight years ago. But this time, he’s staying until he gets his answers. Still haunted by Sierra’s mysterious accident, he demands to know the secrets Luna has harbored all these years. But will revealing the truth leave Luna heartbroken? Or can she finally bury the past and help Angelo come home for good?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273053Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beneath the Patchwork Moon Series: #2 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beneath the Patchwork Moon Series: #2 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 11, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Hope Springs, Texas, every first love deserves a second chance. Luna Meadows wove a successful career out of creating the sumptuous, richly hued scarves that adorn Hollywood’s elite. Now she wants to give back to her hometown of Hope Springs, Texas, by creating a community arts center on the property that once belonged to her best friend: a talented musician named Sierra who perished in a car crash at age eighteen. As Luna sorts through the personal belongings left in the Caffey family’s former home, she confronts her own guilt and memories. But when Angelo Caffey—Sierra’s brother and Luna’s first love—returns unexpectedly, Luna must also face the pain of their long-ago relationship. Headstrong, handsome Angelo walked away from Hope Springs—and Luna—eight years ago. But this time, he’s staying until he gets his answers. Still haunted by Sierra’s mysterious accident, he demands to know the secrets Luna has harbored all these years. But will revealing the truth leave Luna heartbroken? Or can she finally bury the past and help Angelo come home for good?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/breakfast-at-darcy-s-by-ali-mcnamara--65309670https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakfast At Darcy's Author: Ali McNamara Narrator: Beth Chalmers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 19, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Darcy McCall loses her beloved Aunt Molly, she doesn't expect any sort of inheritance - let alone a small island. Located off the west coast of Ireland, Tara hasn't been lived on for years, but according to Molly's will Darcy must stay there for twelve months in order to fully inherit, and she needs to persuade a village full of people to settle there, too. Darcy has to leave behind her independent city life and swap stylish heels for muddy wellies. Between sorting everything from the plumbing to the pub, Darcy meets confident Conor and ever-grumpy Dermot - but who will make her feel really at home?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263586Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakfast At Darcy's Author: Ali McNamara Narrator: Beth Chalmers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 19,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakfast At Darcy's Author: Ali McNamara Narrator: Beth Chalmers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 19, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Darcy McCall loses her beloved Aunt Molly, she doesn't expect any sort of inheritance - let alone a small island. Located off the west coast of Ireland, Tara hasn't been lived on for years, but according to Molly's will Darcy must stay there for twelve months in order to fully inherit, and she needs to persuade a village full of people to settle there, too. Darcy has to leave behind her independent city life and swap stylish heels for muddy wellies. Between sorting everything from the plumbing to the pub, Darcy meets confident Conor and ever-grumpy Dermot - but who will make her feel really at home?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/picture-perfect-a-totally-gripping-and-emotional-book-club-novel-by-jodi-picoult--65309605https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Picture Perfect: a totally gripping and emotional book club novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Megan Dodds Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 29, 2009 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The compelling Number One bestseller from the author of MY SISTER'S KEEPER and KEEPING FAITH. A woman wakes to find herself in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She doesn't know what she's doing there - or even who she is. She is rescued by a police officer, himself a newcomer to Los Angeles. After days of waiting, she is taken by complete surprise when she is finally identified by Alex Rivers, Hollywood's biggest movie star - and her husband. Cassie is dazzled and bewildered by the fairytale in which she suddenly finds herself. But everything is not quite right, and there is something dark and disturbing behind this glamorous facade. It is only as her memory gradually returns that her picture perfect life comes crumbling down, and Cassie is faced with choices she never dreamed she would have to make. (P)2009 Hodder & Stoughton]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265847Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Picture Perfect: a totally gripping and emotional book club novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Megan Dodds Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Picture Perfect: a totally gripping and emotional book club novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Megan Dodds Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 29, 2009 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The compelling Number One bestseller from the author of MY SISTER'S KEEPER and KEEPING FAITH. A woman wakes to find herself in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She doesn't know what she's doing there - or even who she is. She is rescued by a police officer, himself a newcomer to Los Angeles. After days of waiting, she is taken by complete surprise when she is finally identified by Alex Rivers, Hollywood's biggest movie star - and her husband. Cassie is dazzled and bewildered by the fairytale in which she suddenly finds herself. But everything is not quite right, and there is something dark and disturbing behind this glamorous facade. It is only as her memory gradually returns that her picture perfect life comes crumbling down, and Cassie is faced with choices she never dreamed she would have to make. (P)2009 Hodder & Stoughton]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trouble-man-by-travis-hunter--65309594https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trouble Man Author: Travis Hunter Narrator: Mark damon Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 28, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An Essence best-selling author, Travis Hunter is acclaimed for the way he honestly confronts the issues facing African-American men. Jermaine Banks is a pot dealer in Philadelphia, father to a three-year-old boy, and committed partner to his pregnant girlfriend. As he approaches his 30th birthday and suffers the loss of a close friend to gang violence, he realizes it's time for some changes. Being a good father, and possibly husband, means finding a legitimate job and getting his family away from the ghetto. Can he stop being a trouble man?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270881Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trouble Man Author: Travis Hunter Narrator: Mark damon Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 28, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trouble Man Author: Travis Hunter Narrator: Mark damon Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 28, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An Essence best-selling author, Travis Hunter is acclaimed for the way he honestly confronts the issues facing African-American men. Jermaine Banks is a pot dealer in Philadelphia, father to a three-year-old boy, and committed partner to his pregnant girlfriend. As he approaches his 30th birthday and suffers the loss of a close friend to gang violence, he realizes it's time for some changes. Being a good father, and possibly husband, means finding a legitimate job and getting his family away from the ghetto. Can he stop being a trouble man?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fair-and-tender-ladies-by-lee-smith--65309595https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fair and Tender Ladies Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Kate Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Author of many novels and short stories, best-selling writer Lee Smith has received numerous awards for her works, including two O Henry Awards. Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians in each syllable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268607Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fair and Tender Ladies Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Kate Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 11, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fair and Tender Ladies Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Kate Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Author of many novels and short stories, best-selling writer Lee Smith has received numerous awards for her works, including two O Henry Awards. Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians in each syllable.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/family-linen-by-lee-smith--65309552https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Linen Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Linda Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 11, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lee Smith is one of today's most critically acclaimed authors writing about contemporary life in the South. In Family Linen, with a remarkable economy of description and dialogue, Smith sketches eccentric, yet familiar characters moving through a family drama that resonates with both tension and humor. Sybil Hess, a polished, Southern apartment manager has visited a hypnotist in a desperate attempt to discover the source of her blinding headaches. But in one session, a mysterious, Gothic childhood memory plays before her eyes. Now Sybil is racing against time to find an answer to one urgent question. Is her quiet, genteel mother a murderer? Stretching between Sybil and the truth is a loony tangle of sibling rivalry, family lore, and jealousy. Lee Smith's darkly comic, richly textured novel will enchant you. It is a tale told by many voices: Southern dowagers and whiskey-tippling uncles, polyester-clad housewives, and MTV-eyed teenagers. Narrator Linda Stephens' performance draws you into the company of this truly unforgettable family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268761Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Linen Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Linda Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 11, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Linen Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Linda Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 11, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lee Smith is one of today's most critically acclaimed authors writing about contemporary life in the South. In Family Linen, with a remarkable economy of description and dialogue, Smith sketches eccentric, yet familiar characters moving through a family drama that resonates with both tension and humor. Sybil Hess, a polished, Southern apartment manager has visited a hypnotist in a desperate attempt to discover the source of her blinding headaches. But in one session, a mysterious, Gothic childhood memory plays before her eyes. Now Sybil is racing against time to find an answer to one urgent question. Is her quiet, genteel mother a murderer? Stretching between Sybil and the truth is a loony tangle of sibling rivalry, family lore, and jealousy. Lee Smith's darkly comic, richly textured novel will enchant you. It is a tale told by many voices: Southern dowagers and whiskey-tippling uncles, polyester-clad housewives, and MTV-eyed teenagers. Narrator Linda Stephens' performance draws you into the company of this truly unforgettable family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/club-sandwich-by-lisa-samson--65309555https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Club Sandwich Author: Lisa Samson Narrator: Barbara McCulloh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Author Lisa Samson is the Christy Award-winning author of Songbird, which touched the hearts of readers across the country. In Club Sandwich, Samson introduces a likeable cast of women struggling to be everything for everybody, all the time. Feeling overwhelmed, Ivy Schneider reaches out into the community hoping that she might find other women like herself to talk to. Soon, a group whose members dub themselves 'Club Sandwich' begins to offer each other spiritual guidance and support.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270670Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Club Sandwich Author: Lisa Samson Narrator: Barbara McCulloh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Club Sandwich Author: Lisa Samson Narrator: Barbara McCulloh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Author Lisa Samson is the Christy Award-winning author of Songbird, which touched the hearts of readers across the country. In Club Sandwich, Samson introduces a likeable cast of women struggling to be everything for everybody, all the time. Feeling overwhelmed, Ivy Schneider reaches out into the community hoping that she might find other women like herself to talk to. Soon, a group whose members dub themselves 'Club Sandwich' begins to offer each other spiritual guidance and support.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-mountain-breakdown-by-lee-smith--65309546https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Mountain Breakdown Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Linda Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 16, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A consummate storyteller in the Southern tradition, Lee Smith tugs at her listeners' heart strings with this haunting narrative that reads like a country ballad. Touching, funny, and sad, its down-to-earth characters are somehow familiar and endearing as they do their best to meet the demands of daily life. Her mother's pride and joy, young Crystal Spangler has a keen intellect, the body of a beauty queen, and the heart of a poet. When she leaves Appalachia to attend college and follow her dreams, she faces a dazzling future. But something lurking in the shadow of Black Mountain is calling her back, something that will change her life forever. With passion, warmth, and insight, narrator Linda Stephens gradually reveals the rich irony inherent in this compelling novel. Her expressive, lyrical voice ensures the listener a delightfully vivid listening experience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269777Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:11:30 +0000Gertrude HagenesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Mountain Breakdown Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Linda Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 16,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Mountain Breakdown Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Linda Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 16, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A consummate storyteller in the Southern tradition, Lee Smith tugs at her listeners' heart strings with this haunting narrative that reads like a country ballad. Touching, funny, and sad, its down-to-earth characters are somehow familiar and endearing as they do their best to meet the demands of daily life. Her mother's pride and joy, young Crystal Spangler has a keen intellect, the body of a beauty queen, and the heart of a poet. When she leaves Appalachia to attend college and follow her dreams, she faces a dazzling future. But something lurking in the shadow of Black Mountain is calling her back, something that will change her life forever. With passion, warmth, and insight, narrator Linda Stephens gradually reveals the rich irony inherent in this compelling novel. Her expressive, lyrical voice ensures the listener a delightfully vivid listening experience.]]>185cleanfull