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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 Shad Kuhlmanhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/99ddcb193a5db247fb9e6bc30574939b.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-top-full-audiobooks-in-fiction-drama--6580832Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:23:47 +0000Shad KuhlmanShad Kuhlmanfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/686/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you want your children to access knowledge early? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, including categories like Ages 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/686/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you want your children to access knowledge early? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, including categories like Ages 5 & Under, Bedtime Stories, and Early Education, we bring your beloved child useful lessons. Get 3 free audiobooks right away for your child to start exploring. Audiobooks can be listened to on iPhone, iPad, Android, helping your child learn anytime, anywhere. Let's build the future for children together! 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/outer-banks-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65310927https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outer Banks Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place.”  — Cosmopolitan In her magnificent classic Outer Banks, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons brilliantly recalls a lost time of hope and dreams—of comradeship, love, secrets, and betrayal—and creates characters brimming with life who will live in the heart forever. In the uncertain ‘60s, four young women came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus: elegant Kate; sensitive, sensible Cecie; sexy, vibrant and richer-than-sin Ginger; and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. At Nag’s Head, North Carolina, over the course of two idyllic spring breaks, their bonds of friendship were strengthened into something rare and powerfully binding. Now, thirty years later, they are returning to the isolated strip of barrier islands, hoping to recapture what has been lost—the love, the enthusiasm, the passion—and to finally understand what pulled them apart and cast them adrift.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265806Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outer Banks Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outer Banks Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: C. J. Critt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place.”  — Cosmopolitan In her magnificent classic Outer Banks, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons brilliantly recalls a lost time of hope and dreams—of comradeship, love, secrets, and betrayal—and creates characters brimming with life who will live in the heart forever. In the uncertain ‘60s, four young women came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus: elegant Kate; sensitive, sensible Cecie; sexy, vibrant and richer-than-sin Ginger; and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. At Nag’s Head, North Carolina, over the course of two idyllic spring breaks, their bonds of friendship were strengthened into something rare and powerfully binding. Now, thirty years later, they are returning to the isolated strip of barrier islands, hoping to recapture what has been lost—the love, the enthusiasm, the passion—and to finally understand what pulled them apart and cast them adrift.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/along-the-broken-road-by-heather-burch--65310907https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Along the Broken Road Series: #1 of The Roads to River Rock Author: Heather Burch Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 16, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Armed with only a journal and a promise, soldier Ian Carlisle returns home to fulfill his friend’s dying wish: to find the man’s daughter and read her his journal, one page at a time. The woman he finds in River Rock, Missouri, is just as warmhearted, artistic, and feisty as her father described. Ian had fallen in love with Charlee McKinley before he even met her, but he has no idea if she’ll ever return his feelings. Charlee loved her father—but she didn’t like him very much. Regimental and strict, Major Mack never approved of his daughter’s choices. So when a down-on-his-luck soldier arrives on Charlee’s doorstep, she’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, but not her heart. It isn’t until he starts reading to her that the beautiful, touching words begin to unlock something deep inside. But when Ian reveals a secret that shakes Charlee to her core, will she close herself off to love out of fear?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230702Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Along the Broken Road Series: #1 of The Roads to River Rock Author: Heather Burch Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Along the Broken Road Series: #1 of The Roads to River Rock Author: Heather Burch Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 16, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Armed with only a journal and a promise, soldier Ian Carlisle returns home to fulfill his friend’s dying wish: to find the man’s daughter and read her his journal, one page at a time. The woman he finds in River Rock, Missouri, is just as warmhearted, artistic, and feisty as her father described. Ian had fallen in love with Charlee McKinley before he even met her, but he has no idea if she’ll ever return his feelings. Charlee loved her father—but she didn’t like him very much. Regimental and strict, Major Mack never approved of his daughter’s choices. So when a down-on-his-luck soldier arrives on Charlee’s doorstep, she’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, but not her heart. It isn’t until he starts reading to her that the beautiful, touching words begin to unlock something deep inside. But when Ian reveals a secret that shakes Charlee to her core, will she close herself off to love out of fear?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/things-you-won-t-say-a-novel-by-sarah-pekkanen--65310894https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things You Won't Say: A Novel Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 26, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this timely and provocative novel, internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen takes us inside a family in crisis and a marriage on the brink after a tragic shooting. How far would you go to save your family? Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his SIG Sauer and pulls on his heavy Magnum boots, Jamie Anderson tenses up. Then comes the call she has always dreaded: There’s been a shooting at police headquarters. Mike isn’t hurt, but his long-time partner is grievously injured. As weeks pass and her husband’s insomnia and disconnectedness mount, Jamie realizes he is an invisible casualty of the attack. Then the phone rings again. Another shooting—but this time Mike has pulled the trigger. But the shooting does more than just alter Jamie’s world. It’s about to change everything for two other women. Christie Simmons, Mike’s flamboyant ex, sees the tragedy as an opportunity for a second chance with Mike. And Jamie’s younger sister, Lou, must face her own losses to help the big sister who raised her. As the press descends and public cries of police brutality swell, Jamie tries desperately to hold together her family, no matter what it takes. In her characteristic exploration of true-to-life relationships, Sarah Pekkanen has written a complex, compelling, and openhearted novel—her best yet.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231341Tue, 26 May 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things You Won't Say: A Novel Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things You Won't Say: A Novel Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 26, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this timely and provocative novel, internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen takes us inside a family in crisis and a marriage on the brink after a tragic shooting. How far would you go to save your family? Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his SIG Sauer and pulls on his heavy Magnum boots, Jamie Anderson tenses up. Then comes the call she has always dreaded: There’s been a shooting at police headquarters. Mike isn’t hurt, but his long-time partner is grievously injured. As weeks pass and her husband’s insomnia and disconnectedness mount, Jamie realizes he is an invisible casualty of the attack. Then the phone rings again. Another shooting—but this time Mike has pulled the trigger. But the shooting does more than just alter Jamie’s world. It’s about to change everything for two other women. Christie Simmons, Mike’s flamboyant ex, sees the tragedy as an opportunity for a second chance with Mike. And Jamie’s younger sister, Lou, must face her own losses to help the big sister who raised her. As the press descends and public cries of police brutality swell, Jamie tries desperately to hold together her family, no matter what it takes. In her characteristic exploration of true-to-life relationships, Sarah Pekkanen has written a complex, compelling, and openhearted novel—her best yet.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-take-you-a-novel-by-eliza-kennedy--65310881https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Take You: A Novel Author: Eliza Kennedy Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man.      Lily’s fiancé Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no business getting married. Lily likes Will, but does she love him? Will loves Lily, but does he know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily’s nights—and mornings, and afternoons—of booze, laughter and questionable decisions become a growing reminder that the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet.      Unapologetically sexy with the ribald humor of Bridesmaids, this joyously provocative debut introduces a self-assured protagonist you won’t soon forget.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231215Tue, 05 May 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Take You: A Novel Author: Eliza Kennedy Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Take You: A Novel Author: Eliza Kennedy Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man.      Lily’s fiancé Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no business getting married. Lily likes Will, but does she love him? Will loves Lily, but does he know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily’s nights—and mornings, and afternoons—of booze, laughter and questionable decisions become a growing reminder that the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet.      Unapologetically sexy with the ribald humor of Bridesmaids, this joyously provocative debut introduces a self-assured protagonist you won’t soon forget.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-god-in-ruins-a-novel-by-kate-atkinson--65310879https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A God in Ruins: A Novel Series: #2 of Todd Family Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, 'one of the best novels I've read this century' (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war. 'He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.' Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy -- would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather -- as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have. An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A God in Ruins proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231319Tue, 05 May 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A God in Ruins: A Novel Series: #2 of Todd Family Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A God in Ruins: A Novel Series: #2 of Todd Family Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, 'one of the best novels I've read this century' (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war. 'He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.' Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy -- would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather -- as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have. An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A God in Ruins proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trail-of-broken-wings-by-sejal-badani--65310880https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trail of Broken Wings Author: Sejal Badani Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains unconscious. As his condition worsens, the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets. Told with forceful honesty, Trail of Broken Wings reveals the burden of shame and secrets, the toxicity of cruelty and aggression, and the exquisite, liberating power of speaking and owning truth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230532Fri, 01 May 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trail of Broken Wings Author: Sejal Badani Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trail of Broken Wings Author: Sejal Badani Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains unconscious. As his condition worsens, the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets. Told with forceful honesty, Trail of Broken Wings reveals the burden of shame and secrets, the toxicity of cruelty and aggression, and the exquisite, liberating power of speaking and owning truth.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/early-warning-a-novel-by-jane-smiley--65310938https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Early Warning: A Novel Series: #2 of The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post–World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and ’70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth—for some—of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam—leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation.  Capturing a transformative period through richly drawn characters we come to know and care deeply for, Early Warning continues Smiley’s extraordinary epic trilogy, a gorgeously told saga that began with Some Luck and will span a century in America. But it also stands entirely on its own as an engrossing story of the challenges—and rewards—of family and home, even in the most turbulent of times, all while showcasing a beloved writer at the height of her considerable powers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231435Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Early Warning: A Novel Series: #2 of The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Early Warning: A Novel Series: #2 of The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post–World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and ’70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth—for some—of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam—leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation.  Capturing a transformative period through richly drawn characters we come to know and care deeply for, Early Warning continues Smiley’s extraordinary epic trilogy, a gorgeously told saga that began with Some Luck and will span a century in America. But it also stands entirely on its own as an engrossing story of the challenges—and rewards—of family and home, even in the most turbulent of times, all while showcasing a beloved writer at the height of her considerable powers.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/let-me-love-you-again-by-anna-destefano--65310904https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Love You Again Series: #2 of An Echoes of the Heart Novel Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Selena Rosenthal left behind her high school sweetheart, who was the love of her life, seven years ago. Now, she and the once-rebellious Oliver Bowman are back in Chandlerville—after his foster father’s heart attack and Selena’s contentious divorce—to deal with her secrets, the recklessness that caused their breakup, and the almost-strangers they’ve become to each other and their families. As soon as his father is stronger, Oliver must return to the successful career that helps support a new generation of foster kids. But he’s falling for Selena again, her daughter has a hold on his heart, and he can’t imagine leaving behind his brothers and sisters once again. More attached by the day to their charming hometown and families, Selena and Oliver fall in love for the second time. Has fate brought Chandlerville’s prodigal children together again…this time forever?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230528Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Love You Again Series: #2 of An Echoes of the Heart Novel Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Love You Again Series: #2 of An Echoes of the Heart Novel Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Selena Rosenthal left behind her high school sweetheart, who was the love of her life, seven years ago. Now, she and the once-rebellious Oliver Bowman are back in Chandlerville—after his foster father’s heart attack and Selena’s contentious divorce—to deal with her secrets, the recklessness that caused their breakup, and the almost-strangers they’ve become to each other and their families. As soon as his father is stronger, Oliver must return to the successful career that helps support a new generation of foster kids. But he’s falling for Selena again, her daughter has a hold on his heart, and he can’t imagine leaving behind his brothers and sisters once again. More attached by the day to their charming hometown and families, Selena and Oliver fall in love for the second time. Has fate brought Chandlerville’s prodigal children together again…this time forever?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carry-her-heart-by-holly-jacobs--65310884https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carry Her Heart Series: #1 of Words of the Heart Author: Holly Jacobs Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Maybe we live our lives constantly becoming and rebecoming. Maybe we’re always in the process of metamorphosing into something new.” In her journal, writer Piper George notes the change of seasons. Each entry marks the passage of time since she became a teen mother and put her baby up for adoption. Her words flow together, painting a picture of loss, hope, and enduring love for the daughter she’s never forgotten. But one autumn, a new presence appears in its pages and in her life: her neighbor, Edward “Ned” Chesterfield. As winter thaws to spring, Piper and Ned develop a friendship that could be something more…if only Piper would open her heart. But the loss of her daughter has irrevocably shaped her life. And having given so much of herself away, she’s not sure if she can give Ned all that he deserves. But with him at her side, Piper just might learn that a heart’s love is never truly lost.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230526Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carry Her Heart Series: #1 of Words of the Heart Author: Holly Jacobs Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carry Her Heart Series: #1 of Words of the Heart Author: Holly Jacobs Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Maybe we live our lives constantly becoming and rebecoming. Maybe we’re always in the process of metamorphosing into something new.” In her journal, writer Piper George notes the change of seasons. Each entry marks the passage of time since she became a teen mother and put her baby up for adoption. Her words flow together, painting a picture of loss, hope, and enduring love for the daughter she’s never forgotten. But one autumn, a new presence appears in its pages and in her life: her neighbor, Edward “Ned” Chesterfield. As winter thaws to spring, Piper and Ned develop a friendship that could be something more…if only Piper would open her heart. But the loss of her daughter has irrevocably shaped her life. And having given so much of herself away, she’s not sure if she can give Ned all that he deserves. But with him at her side, Piper just might learn that a heart’s love is never truly lost.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-real-thing-by-brenda-jackson--65310898https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Thing Series: #28 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What happens when a pretend boyfriend wants more than make-believe? Find out in this Westmoreland novel from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson! No red-blooded man turns down the chance to escort gorgeous Trinity Matthews-and Adrian Westmoreland is definitely red-blooded. For her, he'll pretend to be her man. But keeping his hands to himself? That is impossible. A Westmoreland always keeps his word, but how long before Adrian turns this fake affair into something real?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231490Fri, 24 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Thing Series: #28 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Thing Series: #28 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What happens when a pretend boyfriend wants more than make-believe? Find out in this Westmoreland novel from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson! No red-blooded man turns down the chance to escort gorgeous Trinity Matthews-and Adrian Westmoreland is definitely red-blooded. For her, he'll pretend to be her man. But keeping his hands to himself? That is impossible. A Westmoreland always keeps his word, but how long before Adrian turns this fake affair into something real?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/double-the-trouble-by-maureen-child--65310896https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231172 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double the Trouble Author: Maureen Child Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 17, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this Billionaires & Babies novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child, one night leads to two babies! When Colton King ended his impetuous marriage to Penny Oaks after just twenty-four hours, it was out of sight, out of mind. But now, more than a year later, Colton discovers Penny's huge secret-actually two little secrets: a baby boy and a baby girl. Colton's only option is to lay claim to his twins. But soon he finds himself laying claim to Penny all over]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231172Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231172 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double the Trouble Author: Maureen Child Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 17, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231172 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double the Trouble Author: Maureen Child Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 17, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this Billionaires & Babies novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child, one night leads to two babies! When Colton King ended his impetuous marriage to Penny Oaks after just twenty-four hours, it was out of sight, out of mind. But now, more than a year later, Colton discovers Penny's huge secret-actually two little secrets: a baby boy and a baby girl. Colton's only option is to lay claim to his twins. But soon he finds himself laying claim to Penny all over]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/house-of-echoes-a-novel-by-brendan-duffy--65310932https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House of Echoes: A Novel Author: Brendan Duffy Narrator: George Newbern, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this enthralling and atmospheric thriller, one young family’s dream of a better life is about to become a nightmare. Ben and Caroline Tierney and their two young boys are hoping to start over. Ben has hit a dead end with his new novel, Caroline has lost her banking job, and eight-year-old Charlie is being bullied at his Manhattan school. When Ben inherits land in the village of Swannhaven, in a remote corner of upstate New York, the Tierneys believe it’s just the break they need, and they leave behind all they know to restore a sprawling estate. But as Ben uncovers Swannhaven’s chilling secrets and Charlie ventures deeper into the surrounding forest, strange things begin to happen. The Tierneys realize that their new home isn’t the fresh start they needed . . . and that the village’s haunting saga is far from over. House of Echoes is a novel that shows how sometimes the ties that bind us are the only things that can keep us whole. Praise for House of Echoes “Warning: Brendan Duffy’s debut novel is not for scaredy-cats. If you live for heart-racing chills, this thriller—about a young family that packs up their life in Manhattan for a spot in upstate New York (that turns out to be haunted, of course)—is already calling out your name.”—Refinery29 “Already drawing comparisons to Stephen King’s The Shining, Brendan Duffy’s debut novel offers chills without sacrificing character development. But be warned: you might want to leave the lights on for this one.”—Paste “Shades of The Shining are spattered through Brendan Duffy’s debut novel—a large isolated house, a young family, nutty and somewhat supernatural goings-on—but House of Echoes grounds itself in different ways for an enjoyable read.”—USA Today “An exquisite novel . . . expertly plotted, beautifully written . . . It’s complex, deft and, once you dive in, you want to stay in this often-scary world. . . . This is a book that deserves to be savored.”—The Star-Ledger “Duffy’s debut is a riveting blend of horror and family drama. The remote location, creepy townspeople and the village’s savage history produce a harrowing tale that keeps readers quickly turning the pages. As this complex family struggles with mental illness and their child’s isolation, their redemption comes in the revelation that they can survive anything together.”—RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)   “House of Echoes is one of those stories where you know something bad is going to happen, but you hope it won’t. It’s one you’ll remember long after reading the last page.”—New York Journal of Books]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231445Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House of Echoes: A Novel Author: Brendan Duffy Narrator: George Newbern, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House of Echoes: A Novel Author: Brendan Duffy Narrator: George Newbern, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this enthralling and atmospheric thriller, one young family’s dream of a better life is about to become a nightmare. Ben and Caroline Tierney and their two young boys are hoping to start over. Ben has hit a dead end with his new novel, Caroline has lost her banking job, and eight-year-old Charlie is being bullied at his Manhattan school. When Ben inherits land in the village of Swannhaven, in a remote corner of upstate New York, the Tierneys believe it’s just the break they need, and they leave behind all they know to restore a sprawling estate. But as Ben uncovers Swannhaven’s chilling secrets and Charlie ventures deeper into the surrounding forest, strange things begin to happen. The Tierneys realize that their new home isn’t the fresh start they needed . . . and that the village’s haunting saga is far from over. House of Echoes is a novel that shows how sometimes the ties that bind us are the only things that can keep us whole. Praise for House of Echoes “Warning: Brendan Duffy’s debut novel is not for scaredy-cats. If you live for heart-racing chills, this thriller—about a young family that packs up their life in Manhattan for a spot in upstate New York (that turns out to be haunted, of course)—is already calling out your name.”—Refinery29 “Already drawing comparisons to Stephen King’s The Shining, Brendan Duffy’s debut novel offers chills without sacrificing character development. But be warned: you might want to leave the lights on for this one.”—Paste “Shades of The Shining are spattered through Brendan Duffy’s debut novel—a large isolated house, a young family, nutty and somewhat supernatural goings-on—but House of Echoes grounds itself in different ways for an enjoyable read.”—USA Today “An exquisite novel . . . expertly plotted, beautifully written . . . It’s complex, deft and, once you dive in, you want to stay in this often-scary world. . . . This is a book that deserves to be savored.”—The Star-Ledger “Duffy’s debut is a riveting blend of horror and family drama. The remote location, creepy townspeople and the village’s savage history produce a harrowing tale that keeps readers quickly turning the pages. As this complex family struggles with mental illness and their child’s isolation, their redemption comes in the revelation that they can survive anything together.”—RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)   “House of Echoes is one of those stories where you know something bad is going to happen, but you hope it won’t. It’s one you’ll remember long after reading the last page.”—New York Journal of Books]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-james-miracle-tenth-anniversary-edition-by-jason-f-wright--65310900https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The James Miracle, Tenth Anniversary Edition Author: Jason F. Wright Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 14, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Originally written as a personal Christmas gift for his wife in 2004, The James Miracle isn’t just a novel—it’s a message. Sam and Holly Foster seem to enjoy near-perfect lives. Each claim a successful career and a legacy of goals set and achieved. Held above their possessions and accomplishments is their only child, James. He is the son they promised to raise together and the reason they come home each night. But when a life crisis jolts the Fosters from their comfortable routines, Sam and Holly find the foundation of their family tested to the breaking point until chance encounters—guided by a higher power—bring the couple back together.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231330Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The James Miracle, Tenth Anniversary Edition Author: Jason F. Wright Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The James Miracle, Tenth Anniversary Edition Author: Jason F. Wright Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 14, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Originally written as a personal Christmas gift for his wife in 2004, The James Miracle isn’t just a novel—it’s a message. Sam and Holly Foster seem to enjoy near-perfect lives. Each claim a successful career and a legacy of goals set and achieved. Held above their possessions and accomplishments is their only child, James. He is the son they promised to raise together and the reason they come home each night. But when a life crisis jolts the Fosters from their comfortable routines, Sam and Holly find the foundation of their family tested to the breaking point until chance encounters—guided by a higher power—bring the couple back together.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-color-of-secrets-by-lindsay-jayne-ashford--65310892https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Color of Secrets Author: Lindsay Jayne Ashford Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever… In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in the heat of an English summer, she meets Bill, a black American GI. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, neither can deny the love that overcomes them in the frantic weeks that follow, when every day could be their last. After Eva discovers she’s pregnant, Bill is shipped off to join the D-day fight, leaving her alone in a bigoted world. As her mixed-race daughter, Louisa, grows up, how far will Eva go to keep her safe and bury the past? And how far will Louisa go to uncover the truth? Revised edition: Previously published as With Love and Crocodiles: The Untold Story of a War Bride, this edition of The Color of Secrets includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230506Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Color of Secrets Author: Lindsay Jayne Ashford Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Color of Secrets Author: Lindsay Jayne Ashford Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever… In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in the heat of an English summer, she meets Bill, a black American GI. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, neither can deny the love that overcomes them in the frantic weeks that follow, when every day could be their last. After Eva discovers she’s pregnant, Bill is shipped off to join the D-day fight, leaving her alone in a bigoted world. As her mixed-race daughter, Louisa, grows up, how far will Eva go to keep her safe and bury the past? And how far will Louisa go to uncover the truth? Revised edition: Previously published as With Love and Crocodiles: The Untold Story of a War Bride, this edition of The Color of Secrets includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/captive-of-the-border-lord-by-blythe-gifford--65310899https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive of the Border Lord Series: #2 of Brunson Clan Author: Blythe Gifford Narrator: Cathleen McCarron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: To marry him will be to betray her family Bessie, the selfless sister of the powerful but stubborn Brunson clan, has sacrificed herself for her family's honour and is at the mercy of the court of King James. Ill-suited to court life, she must confront their mortal enemy, Lord Thomas Carwell, dressed in nothing but borrowed finery and pride. Underneath the relentless gaze of her captor she's enticed not only by him but also by the opulence of a world far removed from her own. When the furious King demands her brother's head, Carwell is the only one to whom she can turn. But she must pay the ultimate price for his protection The Brunson Clan The family who will kneel to no one...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230761Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive of the Border Lord Series: #2 of Brunson Clan Author: Blythe Gifford Narrator: Cathleen McCarron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive of the Border Lord Series: #2 of Brunson Clan Author: Blythe Gifford Narrator: Cathleen McCarron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: To marry him will be to betray her family Bessie, the selfless sister of the powerful but stubborn Brunson clan, has sacrificed herself for her family's honour and is at the mercy of the court of King James. Ill-suited to court life, she must confront their mortal enemy, Lord Thomas Carwell, dressed in nothing but borrowed finery and pride. Underneath the relentless gaze of her captor she's enticed not only by him but also by the opulence of a world far removed from her own. When the furious King demands her brother's head, Carwell is the only one to whom she can turn. But she must pay the ultimate price for his protection The Brunson Clan The family who will kneel to no one...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-children-s-crusade-a-novel-by-ann-packer--65310944https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children's Crusade: A Novel Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Santino Fontana, Marin Ireland, Thomas Sadoski, Frederick Weller, Cotter Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” (Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of his future family, Bill buys the property and proposes to Penny Greenway, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life appeals to him. In less than a decade they have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, overwhelmed and undersatisfied, chafing at the conventions confining her. Years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence sets off a struggle over the family’s future. One by one, they tell their stories, which reveal Packer’s “great compassion for her characters, with their ancient injuries, their blundering desires. The way she tangles their perspectives perfectly, painfully captures the tumult of selves within a family” (MORE Magazine). Reviewers have praised Ann Packer’s “brilliant ear for character” (The New York Times Book Review) and her “naturalist’s vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented” (The New Yorker). Her talents are on dazzling display in The Children’s Crusade, “an absorbing novel that celebrates family even as it catalogs its damages” (People, Book of the Week). This is a “superb storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle), Ann Packer’s most deeply affecting book yet, “tragic and utterly engrossing” (O, The Oprah Magazine).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230166Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children's Crusade: A Novel Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Santino Fontana, Marin Ireland, Thomas Sadoski, Frederick Weller, Cotter Smith Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children's Crusade: A Novel Author: Ann Packer Narrator: Santino Fontana, Marin Ireland, Thomas Sadoski, Frederick Weller, Cotter Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” (Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of his future family, Bill buys the property and proposes to Penny Greenway, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life appeals to him. In less than a decade they have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, overwhelmed and undersatisfied, chafing at the conventions confining her. Years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence sets off a struggle over the family’s future. One by one, they tell their stories, which reveal Packer’s “great compassion for her characters, with their ancient injuries, their blundering desires. The way she tangles their perspectives perfectly, painfully captures the tumult of selves within a family” (MORE Magazine). Reviewers have praised Ann Packer’s “brilliant ear for character” (The New York Times Book Review) and her “naturalist’s vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented” (The New Yorker). Her talents are on dazzling display in The Children’s Crusade, “an absorbing novel that celebrates family even as it catalogs its damages” (People, Book of the Week). This is a “superb storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle), Ann Packer’s most deeply affecting book yet, “tragic and utterly engrossing” (O, The Oprah Magazine).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beautiful-broken-promises-by-kimberly-lauren--65310886https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Broken Promises Series: #3 of Broken Author: Kimberly Lauren Narrator: Eva Kantor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lane Parker has suffered a terrible loss: a loss he can’t get over, not even years later. Burdened by secrets he won’t tell his closest friends and focused on only one goal, he finally gets the phone call he’s been waiting for. Luck gives him a precious second chance to get back what was taken from him—and he’ll use all his strength to make sure that the tragedy never happens again. Raegan Hayes is a spirited fighter and survivor—and she’s furious at Lane, her former employer, after their paths cross at a police station and he accuses her of betrayal. Now, they both must move forward to get past the tragic incident that tore them apart long ago. But the more time Lane spends with the beautiful Raegan, the more he becomes drawn to her…and the more his passion overpowers his hostility. Can a new beginning transform their relationship from suspicion-filled to steamy? Revised edition: This edition of Beautiful Broken Promises includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230482Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Broken Promises Series: #3 of Broken Author: Kimberly Lauren Narrator: Eva Kantor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Broken Promises Series: #3 of Broken Author: Kimberly Lauren Narrator: Eva Kantor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lane Parker has suffered a terrible loss: a loss he can’t get over, not even years later. Burdened by secrets he won’t tell his closest friends and focused on only one goal, he finally gets the phone call he’s been waiting for. Luck gives him a precious second chance to get back what was taken from him—and he’ll use all his strength to make sure that the tragedy never happens again. Raegan Hayes is a spirited fighter and survivor—and she’s furious at Lane, her former employer, after their paths cross at a police station and he accuses her of betrayal. Now, they both must move forward to get past the tragic incident that tore them apart long ago. But the more time Lane spends with the beautiful Raegan, the more he becomes drawn to her…and the more his passion overpowers his hostility. Can a new beginning transform their relationship from suspicion-filled to steamy? Revised edition: This edition of Beautiful Broken Promises includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bliss-and-the-art-of-forever-by-alison-kent--65310882https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bliss and the Art of Forever Series: #4 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now that she’s committed to leaving Hope Springs, she’s falling for the wrong man…but he just might give her all the right reasons to stay. Two years after her husband’s death, kindergarten teacher Brooklyn Harvey is leaving Hope Springs for her in-laws’ vineyard in Italy—with no plans of coming back. That is, until she meets a disarmingly sexy biker-turned-chocolatier. He might be the man of her dreams, but he’s also the father of one of her students; as such, he’s strictly off-limits. Callum Drake knows a good thing when he sees one, and he doesn’t want to let Brooklyn get away, even if his rival for her affection is the ghost of her dead husband. He’ll do whatever it takes to win her over, including making chocolates concocted just for her—chocolates that evoke memories of their time together. But can he create a second love bright enough to pull her, and her heart, out of living in the past?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230478Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bliss and the Art of Forever Series: #4 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bliss and the Art of Forever Series: #4 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now that she’s committed to leaving Hope Springs, she’s falling for the wrong man…but he just might give her all the right reasons to stay. Two years after her husband’s death, kindergarten teacher Brooklyn Harvey is leaving Hope Springs for her in-laws’ vineyard in Italy—with no plans of coming back. That is, until she meets a disarmingly sexy biker-turned-chocolatier. He might be the man of her dreams, but he’s also the father of one of her students; as such, he’s strictly off-limits. Callum Drake knows a good thing when he sees one, and he doesn’t want to let Brooklyn get away, even if his rival for her affection is the ghost of her dead husband. He’ll do whatever it takes to win her over, including making chocolates concocted just for her—chocolates that evoke memories of their time together. But can he create a second love bright enough to pull her, and her heart, out of living in the past?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miracle-at-augusta-by-peter-de-jonge-james-patterson--65310923https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at Augusta Author: Peter De Jonge, James Patterson Narrator: Henry Leyva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 6, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success--and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption arrives in an unexpected form: a teenage outcast with troubles of his own--and a natural golf swing. As this unlikely duo sets out to achieve the impossible on the world's most revered golf course, Travis is about to learn that sometimes the greatest miracles of all take place when no one is watching.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229919Mon, 06 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at Augusta Author: Peter De Jonge, James Patterson Narrator: Henry Leyva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at Augusta Author: Peter De Jonge, James Patterson Narrator: Henry Leyva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 6, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success--and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption arrives in an unexpected form: a teenage outcast with troubles of his own--and a natural golf swing. As this unlikely duo sets out to achieve the impossible on the world's most revered golf course, Travis is about to learn that sometimes the greatest miracles of all take place when no one is watching.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beneath-the-stetson-by-janice-maynard--65310893https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beneath the Stetson Series: #8 of Texas Cattleman's Club: The Missing Mogul Author: Janice Maynard Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 3, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this Texas Cattleman's Club tale, USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard brings you the sexiest single dad in Royal, Texas! Millionaire rancher Gil Addison does not need Bailey Collins. She is far from the sweet homemaker he thought he wanted. But she is a beautiful woman with a badge, hot on the heels of a kidnapper in Gil's club. And Gil is hot for her! Bailey can't let her career get sidetracked by the cowboy and his son. She's here to do a job, not find a family. Bailey won't stop till she gets her man in cuffs . Trouble is, Gil won't stop till he gets this woman in his bed!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230570Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beneath the Stetson Series: #8 of Texas Cattleman's Club: The Missing Mogul Author: Janice Maynard Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beneath the Stetson Series: #8 of Texas Cattleman's Club: The Missing Mogul Author: Janice Maynard Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 3, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this Texas Cattleman's Club tale, USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard brings you the sexiest single dad in Royal, Texas! Millionaire rancher Gil Addison does not need Bailey Collins. She is far from the sweet homemaker he thought he wanted. But she is a beautiful woman with a badge, hot on the heels of a kidnapper in Gil's club. And Gil is hot for her! Bailey can't let her career get sidetracked by the cowboy and his son. She's here to do a job, not find a family. Bailey won't stop till she gets her man in cuffs . Trouble is, Gil won't stop till he gets this woman in his bed!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sweet-water-a-novel-by-christina-baker-kline--65310921https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Water: A Novel Author: Christina Baker Kline Narrator: Amy Rubinate, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 31, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about buried secrets and the redemptive power of forgiveness—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more. Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York City.  When she receives a call from a magistrate in Sweetwater, TN, telling her she has inherited sixty acres of land from her grandfather, whom she never knew, she takes it as a sign: it’s time for a change.  She moves into the house where her mother, Ellen, was born—and where she died tragically when Cassie was three. From the moment she arrives in Sweetwater, Cassie is overwhelmed by the indelible mark her mother’s memory had left behind.  As she delves into the thicket of mystery that surrounds her mother’s death, Cassie begins to understand the desperate measures the human heart is capable of.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230183Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Water: A Novel Author: Christina Baker Kline Narrator: Amy Rubinate, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Water: A Novel Author: Christina Baker Kline Narrator: Amy Rubinate, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 31, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about buried secrets and the redemptive power of forgiveness—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more. Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York City.  When she receives a call from a magistrate in Sweetwater, TN, telling her she has inherited sixty acres of land from her grandfather, whom she never knew, she takes it as a sign: it’s time for a change.  She moves into the house where her mother, Ellen, was born—and where she died tragically when Cassie was three. From the moment she arrives in Sweetwater, Cassie is overwhelmed by the indelible mark her mother’s memory had left behind.  As she delves into the thicket of mystery that surrounds her mother’s death, Cassie begins to understand the desperate measures the human heart is capable of.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-reunion-of-ghosts-a-novel-by-judith-claire-mitchell--65310934https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Reunion Of Ghosts: A Novel Author: Judith Claire Mitchell Narrator: William Charlton, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST “The Alter sisters are mordant, wry, and crystalline in wit and vision; it is a tremendous pleasure to rocket through generations of their family histories with them.” —Lauren Groff, New York Timesbestselling author of Fates and Furies, The Monsters of Templeton, and Arcadia In the waning days of 1999, the last of the Alters—three damaged but wisecracking sisters who share an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side—decide it’s time to close the circle of the family curse by taking their own lives. But first, Lady, Vee, and Delph must explain the origins of that curse and how it has manifested throughout the preceding generations. Unspooling threads of history, personal memory, and family lore, they weave a mesmerizing account that stretches back a century to their great-grandfather, a brilliant scientist whose professional triumph became the terrible legacy that defines them. A suicide note crafted by three bright, funny women, A Reunion of Ghosts is the final chapter of a saga lifetimes in the making—one that is inexorably intertwined with the story of the twentieth century itself. “Mitchell explores the mixed-blessing bonds of family with wry wit. This original tale is black comedy at its best.”—People Book of the Week “A rich portrait of a complicated family, at turns violent and hilarious.”—Emma Straub, New York Timesbestselling author]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230024Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Reunion Of Ghosts: A Novel Author: Judith Claire Mitchell Narrator: William Charlton, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Reunion Of Ghosts: A Novel Author: Judith Claire Mitchell Narrator: William Charlton, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST “The Alter sisters are mordant, wry, and crystalline in wit and vision; it is a tremendous pleasure to rocket through generations of their family histories with them.” —Lauren Groff, New York Timesbestselling author of Fates and Furies, The Monsters of Templeton, and Arcadia In the waning days of 1999, the last of the Alters—three damaged but wisecracking sisters who share an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side—decide it’s time to close the circle of the family curse by taking their own lives. But first, Lady, Vee, and Delph must explain the origins of that curse and how it has manifested throughout the preceding generations. Unspooling threads of history, personal memory, and family lore, they weave a mesmerizing account that stretches back a century to their great-grandfather, a brilliant scientist whose professional triumph became the terrible legacy that defines them. A suicide note crafted by three bright, funny women, A Reunion of Ghosts is the final chapter of a saga lifetimes in the making—one that is inexorably intertwined with the story of the twentieth century itself. “Mitchell explores the mixed-blessing bonds of family with wry wit. This original tale is black comedy at its best.”—People Book of the Week “A rich portrait of a complicated family, at turns violent and hilarious.”—Emma Straub, New York Timesbestselling author]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-precious-one-a-novel-by-marisa-de-los-santos--65310925https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Precious One: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Arielle DeLisle, Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me, Love Walked In, and Falling Together comes a captivating novel about friendship, family, second chances, and the redemptive power of love. In all her life, Eustacia “Taisy” Cleary has given her heart to only three men: her first love, Ben Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson Cleary—professor, inventor, philanderer, self-made millionaire, brilliant man, breathtaking jerk: her father. Seventeen years ago, Wilson ditched his first family for Caroline, a beautiful young sculptor. In all that time, Taisy’s family has seen Wilson, Caroline, and their daughter, Willow, only once. Why then, is Wilson calling Taisy now, inviting her for an extended visit, encouraging her to meet her pretty sister—a teenager who views her with jealousy, mistrust, and grudging admiration? Why, now, does Wilson want Taisy to help him write his memoir? Told in alternating voices—Taisy’s strong, unsparing observations and Willow’s naive, heartbreakingly earnest yearnings—The Precious One is an unforgettable novel of family secrets, lost love, and dangerous obsession, a captivating tale with the deep characterization, piercing emotional resonance, and heartfelt insight that are the hallmarks of Marisa de los Santos’s beloved works.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230023Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Precious One: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Arielle DeLisle, Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Precious One: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Arielle DeLisle, Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me, Love Walked In, and Falling Together comes a captivating novel about friendship, family, second chances, and the redemptive power of love. In all her life, Eustacia “Taisy” Cleary has given her heart to only three men: her first love, Ben Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson Cleary—professor, inventor, philanderer, self-made millionaire, brilliant man, breathtaking jerk: her father. Seventeen years ago, Wilson ditched his first family for Caroline, a beautiful young sculptor. In all that time, Taisy’s family has seen Wilson, Caroline, and their daughter, Willow, only once. Why then, is Wilson calling Taisy now, inviting her for an extended visit, encouraging her to meet her pretty sister—a teenager who views her with jealousy, mistrust, and grudging admiration? Why, now, does Wilson want Taisy to help him write his memoir? Told in alternating voices—Taisy’s strong, unsparing observations and Willow’s naive, heartbreakingly earnest yearnings—The Precious One is an unforgettable novel of family secrets, lost love, and dangerous obsession, a captivating tale with the deep characterization, piercing emotional resonance, and heartfelt insight that are the hallmarks of Marisa de los Santos’s beloved works.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wednesday-group-a-novel-by-sylvia-true--65310908https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wednesday Group: A Novel Author: Sylvia True Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Gail. Hannah. Bridget. Lizzy. Flavia. Each of them has a shameful secret, and each is about to find out that she is not alone... Gail, a prominent Boston judge, keeps receiving letters from her husband's latest girlfriend, while her husband, a theology professor, claims he's nine-months sober from sex with grad students. Hannah, a homemaker, catches her husband having sex with a male prostitute in a public restroom. Bridget, a psychiatric nurse at a state hospital, is sure she has a loving, doting spouse, until she learns that he is addicted to chat rooms and match-making websites. Lizzy, a high school teacher, is married to a porn addict, who is withdrawn and uninterested in sex with her. Flavia was working at the Boston Public library when someone brought her an article that stated her husband had been arrested for groping a teenage girl on the subway. He must face court, and Flavia must decide if she wants to stay with him. Finally, Kathryn, the young psychologist running the group, has as much at stake as all of the others. As the women share never-before-uttered secrets and bond over painful truths, they work on coming to terms with their husbands' addictions and developing healthy boundaries for themselves. Meanwhile, their outside lives become more and more intertwined, until, finally, a series of events forces each woman to face her own denial, betrayal and uncertain future head-on. From author Sylvia True comes The Wednesday Group, a captivating, moving novel about friendship, marriage, and the bonds that connect us all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229004Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wednesday Group: A Novel Author: Sylvia True Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: March 24,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wednesday Group: A Novel Author: Sylvia True Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Gail. Hannah. Bridget. Lizzy. Flavia. Each of them has a shameful secret, and each is about to find out that she is not alone... Gail, a prominent Boston judge, keeps receiving letters from her husband's latest girlfriend, while her husband, a theology professor, claims he's nine-months sober from sex with grad students. Hannah, a homemaker, catches her husband having sex with a male prostitute in a public restroom. Bridget, a psychiatric nurse at a state hospital, is sure she has a loving, doting spouse, until she learns that he is addicted to chat rooms and match-making websites. Lizzy, a high school teacher, is married to a porn addict, who is withdrawn and uninterested in sex with her. Flavia was working at the Boston Public library when someone brought her an article that stated her husband had been arrested for groping a teenage girl on the subway. He must face court, and Flavia must decide if she wants to stay with him. Finally, Kathryn, the young psychologist running the group, has as much at stake as all of the others. As the women share never-before-uttered secrets and bond over painful truths, they work on coming to terms with their husbands' addictions and developing healthy boundaries for themselves. Meanwhile, their outside lives become more and more intertwined, until, finally, a series of events forces each woman to face her own denial, betrayal and uncertain future head-on. From author Sylvia True comes The Wednesday Group, a captivating, moving novel about friendship, marriage, and the bonds that connect us all.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tai-pan-the-epic-novel-of-the-founding-of-hong-kong-by-james-clavell--65310888https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tai-Pan: The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong Series: #2 of The Asian Saga Author: James Clavell Narrator: Gildart Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.89 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, “grand entertainment…packed with action…with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.” East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final page.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231311Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tai-Pan: The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong Series: #2 of The Asian Saga Author: James Clavell Narrator: Gildart Jackson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tai-Pan: The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong Series: #2 of The Asian Saga Author: James Clavell Narrator: Gildart Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.89 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, “grand entertainment…packed with action…with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.” East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final page.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/zane-by-brenda-jackson--65310911https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zane Series: #25 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson-- the first of a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands who are impossible to resist: Zane, Canyon and Stern. No woman walks away from Zane Westmoreland. But when Channing Hastings does just that, it leaves the rancher reeling-- and then she returns to town, engaged! Zane will do whatever it takes to show her that there is no man for her but him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230206Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zane Series: #25 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zane Series: #25 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson-- the first of a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands who are impossible to resist: Zane, Canyon and Stern. No woman walks away from Zane Westmoreland. But when Channing Hastings does just that, it leaves the rancher reeling-- and then she returns to town, engaged! Zane will do whatever it takes to show her that there is no man for her but him.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-baby-between-friends-by-kathie-denosky--65310910https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Baby Between Friends Series: #2 of Good, the Bad and the Texan Author: Kathie Denosky Narrator: David Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What Are Best Friends For? More than anything, Summer Patterson wants a baby. What she doesn't want is a husband. Thankfully, her best friend, Ryder McClain, makes the perfect sperm donor. Ryder is loyal, undeniably sexy and the one man she trusts-- the only reason she agrees to conceive their baby naturally. When baby-making nights with Summer blaze like the West Texas sun, Ryder feels the heat. He never expected Summer to say yes to sharing his bed. Now he's falling for her-- and the prospect of fatherhood-- while hiding a secret that could destroy her faith in him forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230190Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Baby Between Friends Series: #2 of Good, the Bad and the Texan Author: Kathie Denosky Narrator: David Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Baby Between Friends Series: #2 of Good, the Bad and the Texan Author: Kathie Denosky Narrator: David Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What Are Best Friends For? More than anything, Summer Patterson wants a baby. What she doesn't want is a husband. Thankfully, her best friend, Ryder McClain, makes the perfect sperm donor. Ryder is loyal, undeniably sexy and the one man she trusts-- the only reason she agrees to conceive their baby naturally. When baby-making nights with Summer blaze like the West Texas sun, Ryder feels the heat. He never expected Summer to say yes to sharing his bed. Now he's falling for her-- and the prospect of fatherhood-- while hiding a secret that could destroy her faith in him forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-cowboy-to-come-home-to-by-donna-alward--65310906https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cowboy to Come Home To Series: #4 of Cadence Creek Cowboys Author: Donna Alward Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Friendship? Melissa Stone has done a fine job of avoiding her former best friend Cooper Ford. She was devastated when she discovered her husband was cheating on her, and felt doubly betrayed that Cooper had known all along ... Forgiveness But she can't ignore him forever-- especially now that they're working together on a charity project! And as she and Cooper get closer again, she confides in him her plans to start a family-- alone. Fatherhood! Cooper wants to be there for her this time-- but would he really consider being the father of her baby ?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230194Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cowboy to Come Home To Series: #4 of Cadence Creek Cowboys Author: Donna Alward Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cowboy to Come Home To Series: #4 of Cadence Creek Cowboys Author: Donna Alward Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Friendship? Melissa Stone has done a fine job of avoiding her former best friend Cooper Ford. She was devastated when she discovered her husband was cheating on her, and felt doubly betrayed that Cooper had known all along ... Forgiveness But she can't ignore him forever-- especially now that they're working together on a charity project! And as she and Cooper get closer again, she confides in him her plans to start a family-- alone. Fatherhood! Cooper wants to be there for her this time-- but would he really consider being the father of her baby ?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/she-s-having-the-boss-s-baby-by-kate-carlisle--65310903https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Having the Boss's Baby Series: #2 of Island Paradise Author: Kate Carlisle Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All Systems Are Go! Ovulation cycle? Check. Estrogen level? Check. Nothing can stop Ellie Sterling's baby-making attempt at the fertility clinic. Nothing but her CEO boss-- and good friend-- who offers her an alternative to leaving their island headquarters: let's make a baby the old-fashioned way. It isn't that Aidan Sutherland wants to be a baby daddy; he just doesn't want to lose his senior VP. But Aidan's plans for romance and candlelight quickly turn business into pleasure. After one night with his pal Ellie, the bikini-chasing billionaire is dazed, confused and-- could it be-- in love?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230204Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Having the Boss's Baby Series: #2 of Island Paradise Author: Kate Carlisle Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Having the Boss's Baby Series: #2 of Island Paradise Author: Kate Carlisle Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All Systems Are Go! Ovulation cycle? Check. Estrogen level? Check. Nothing can stop Ellie Sterling's baby-making attempt at the fertility clinic. Nothing but her CEO boss-- and good friend-- who offers her an alternative to leaving their island headquarters: let's make a baby the old-fashioned way. It isn't that Aidan Sutherland wants to be a baby daddy; he just doesn't want to lose his senior VP. But Aidan's plans for romance and candlelight quickly turn business into pleasure. After one night with his pal Ellie, the bikini-chasing billionaire is dazed, confused and-- could it be-- in love?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/his-instant-heir-by-katherine-garbera--65310902https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Instant Heir Series: #1 of Baby Business Author: Katherine Garbera Narrator: Celeste Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her Baby Business trilogy, USA TODAY bestselling author Katherine Garbera starts with just one night Cari Chandler can't forget Declan Montrose. Their baby is a living reminder. The baby she hasn't told him about. The no-commitment billionaire-- and her family's sworn enemy-- walked out of her life the morning after. But now he's back with a vengeance! Taking over her company is the last step to victory in their families' long feud. But Cari's more than collateral damage to Dec. He wants-- needs-- to seduce her again and again. Until he finds out she's hidden something more precious than her company. His son. And Dec intends to claim him no matter the cost.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230200Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Instant Heir Series: #1 of Baby Business Author: Katherine Garbera Narrator: Celeste Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Instant Heir Series: #1 of Baby Business Author: Katherine Garbera Narrator: Celeste Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her Baby Business trilogy, USA TODAY bestselling author Katherine Garbera starts with just one night Cari Chandler can't forget Declan Montrose. Their baby is a living reminder. The baby she hasn't told him about. The no-commitment billionaire-- and her family's sworn enemy-- walked out of her life the morning after. But now he's back with a vengeance! Taking over her company is the last step to victory in their families' long feud. But Cari's more than collateral damage to Dec. He wants-- needs-- to seduce her again and again. Until he finds out she's hidden something more precious than her company. His son. And Dec intends to claim him no matter the cost.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/canyon-by-brenda-jackson--65310891https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Canyon Series: #26 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson comes a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands: Years ago, Canyon Westmoreland let misunderstandings come between him and Keisha Ashford. But when Keisha returns to town with a two-year-old son, it's time to settle things once and for all. A blazing attraction still burns between them, and this time around, nothing will stop Canyon from claiming what is his; his woman and his child!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230193Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Canyon Series: #26 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 59 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Canyon Series: #26 of Westmoreland Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Avery Glymph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson comes a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands: Years ago, Canyon Westmoreland let misunderstandings come between him and Keisha Ashford. But when Keisha returns to town with a two-year-old son, it's time to settle things once and for all. A blazing attraction still burns between them, and this time around, nothing will stop Canyon from claiming what is his; his woman and his child!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/til-the-well-runs-dry-by-lauren-francis-sharma--65311006https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Til the Well Runs Dry Author: Lauren Francis-Sharma Narrator: Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lauren Francis-Sharma's 'Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman, the risks and rewards in Marcia's life amplify forever. On an island rich with laughter, Calypso, Carnival, cricket, beaches and salty air, sweet fruits and spicy stews, the novel follows Marcia and Farouk from their amusing and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcia's secret, entangle the couple and their children in a scandal, and endanger the future for all of them. 'Til the Well Runs Dry tells the twinned stories of a spirited woman's love for one man and her bottomless devotion to her children. For readers who cherish the previously untold stories of women's lives, here is a story of grit and imperfection and love that has not been told before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230433Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Til the Well Runs Dry Author: Lauren Francis-Sharma Narrator: Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Til the Well Runs Dry Author: Lauren Francis-Sharma Narrator: Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lauren Francis-Sharma's 'Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman, the risks and rewards in Marcia's life amplify forever. On an island rich with laughter, Calypso, Carnival, cricket, beaches and salty air, sweet fruits and spicy stews, the novel follows Marcia and Farouk from their amusing and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcia's secret, entangle the couple and their children in a scandal, and endanger the future for all of them. 'Til the Well Runs Dry tells the twinned stories of a spirited woman's love for one man and her bottomless devotion to her children. For readers who cherish the previously untold stories of women's lives, here is a story of grit and imperfection and love that has not been told before.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/delicious-foods-a-novel-by-james-hannaham--65310952https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delicious Foods: A Novel Author: James Hannaham Narrator: James Hannaham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival. Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company named Delicious Foods shuttles her to a remote farm, where she is held captive, performing hard labor in the fields to pay off the supposed debt for her food, lodging, and the constant stream of drugs the farm provides to her and the other unfortunates imprisoned there. In Delicious Foods, James Hannaham tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. Through Darlene's haunted struggle to reunite with Eddie, through the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, and through the irreverent and mischievous voice of the drug that narrates Darlene's travails, Hannaham's daring and shape-shifting prose infuses this harrowing experience with grace and humor. The desperate circumstances that test the unshakeable bond between this mother and son unfold into myth, and Hannaham's treatment of their ordeal spills over with compassion. Along the way we experience a tale at once contemporary and historical that wrestles with timeless questions of love and freedom, forgiveness and redemption, tenacity and the will to survive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228695Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delicious Foods: A Novel Author: James Hannaham Narrator: James Hannaham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delicious Foods: A Novel Author: James Hannaham Narrator: James Hannaham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival. Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company named Delicious Foods shuttles her to a remote farm, where she is held captive, performing hard labor in the fields to pay off the supposed debt for her food, lodging, and the constant stream of drugs the farm provides to her and the other unfortunates imprisoned there. In Delicious Foods, James Hannaham tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. Through Darlene's haunted struggle to reunite with Eddie, through the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, and through the irreverent and mischievous voice of the drug that narrates Darlene's travails, Hannaham's daring and shape-shifting prose infuses this harrowing experience with grace and humor. The desperate circumstances that test the unshakeable bond between this mother and son unfold into myth, and Hannaham's treatment of their ordeal spills over with compassion. Along the way we experience a tale at once contemporary and historical that wrestles with timeless questions of love and freedom, forgiveness and redemption, tenacity and the will to survive.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-white-rose-by-jean-hanff-korelitz--65310917https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Rose Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel. At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. When Marian's cousin, the snobbish Barton, announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian's department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their lives woefully entangled, and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it's always a gift. From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook, The White Rose is at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss's beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier, and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230084Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Rose Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Rose Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel. At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. When Marian's cousin, the snobbish Barton, announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian's department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their lives woefully entangled, and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it's always a gift. From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook, The White Rose is at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss's beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier, and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sagas-of-ragnar-lodbrok-by-ben-waggoner--65310915https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok Author: Ben Waggoner Narrator: Ray Chase Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Although based on historical persons from the ninth century, Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons are the subjects of compelling legends dating from the Viking era. Warriors, raiders, and rulers, Ragnar and his sons inspired unknown writers to set down their stories over seven centuries ago. This volume presents new and original translations of the three major Old Norse texts that tell Ragnar’s story: The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, The Tale of Ragnar’s Sons, and The Sögubrot. Ragnar’s death song, the “Krákumál,” completes the story. Extensive notes and commentary are provided, helping listeners enter the world of these timeless stories of Viking adventure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230563Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok Author: Ben Waggoner Narrator: Ray Chase Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok Author: Ben Waggoner Narrator: Ray Chase Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Although based on historical persons from the ninth century, Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons are the subjects of compelling legends dating from the Viking era. Warriors, raiders, and rulers, Ragnar and his sons inspired unknown writers to set down their stories over seven centuries ago. This volume presents new and original translations of the three major Old Norse texts that tell Ragnar’s story: The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, The Tale of Ragnar’s Sons, and The Sögubrot. Ragnar’s death song, the “Krákumál,” completes the story. Extensive notes and commentary are provided, helping listeners enter the world of these timeless stories of Viking adventure.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-forgotten-daughter-by-renita-d-silva--65310970https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forgotten Daughter Author: Renita D'Silva Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'You were adopted.' These three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parents' will, tear Nisha's carefully ordered world apart. Raised in England by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks. Now, with the scrawled address of an Indian convent, she begins a search for the mother and family she never knew and the awakening of long forgotten childhood memories. The secrets, culture, and people that Nisha discover will change her life forever. And, as her eyes are opened to a side of herself she didn't know existed, Nisha realizes that she must also seek answers to the hardest question of all—why? Weaving together the stories of Nisha, Shilpa, and Devi, The Forgotten Daughter explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional themes of motherhood, loss, and identity—ultimately asking the question, what would you do out of love for your children?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230273Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forgotten Daughter Author: Renita D'Silva Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forgotten Daughter Author: Renita D'Silva Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'You were adopted.' These three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parents' will, tear Nisha's carefully ordered world apart. Raised in England by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks. Now, with the scrawled address of an Indian convent, she begins a search for the mother and family she never knew and the awakening of long forgotten childhood memories. The secrets, culture, and people that Nisha discover will change her life forever. And, as her eyes are opened to a side of herself she didn't know existed, Nisha realizes that she must also seek answers to the hardest question of all—why? Weaving together the stories of Nisha, Shilpa, and Devi, The Forgotten Daughter explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional themes of motherhood, loss, and identity—ultimately asking the question, what would you do out of love for your children?]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lacy-eye-by-jessica-treadway--65310937https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lacy Eye Author: Jessica Treadway Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter. Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally 'come into her own.' When she brings her new boyfriend, Rud, to her sister's wedding, her parents try to suppress their troubling impressions of him for Dawn's sake. Not long after, Hanna and Joe suffer a savage attack at home, resulting in Joe's death and Hanna's severe injury and memory loss. Rud is convicted of the crime, and the community speculates that Dawn may also have been involved. When Rud wins an appeal and Dawn returns to live in the family home, Hanna resolves to recall that traumatic night so she can testify in the retrial, exonerate her daughter, and keep her husband's murderer in jail. But as those memories resurface, Hanna faces the question of whether she knows her own daughter-and whether she ever did.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228544Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lacy Eye Author: Jessica Treadway Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lacy Eye Author: Jessica Treadway Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter. Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally 'come into her own.' When she brings her new boyfriend, Rud, to her sister's wedding, her parents try to suppress their troubling impressions of him for Dawn's sake. Not long after, Hanna and Joe suffer a savage attack at home, resulting in Joe's death and Hanna's severe injury and memory loss. Rud is convicted of the crime, and the community speculates that Dawn may also have been involved. When Rud wins an appeal and Dawn returns to live in the family home, Hanna resolves to recall that traumatic night so she can testify in the retrial, exonerate her daughter, and keep her husband's murderer in jail. But as those memories resurface, Hanna faces the question of whether she knows her own daughter-and whether she ever did.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/small-mercies-a-novel-by-eddie-joyce--65310933https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Mercies: A Novel Author: Eddie Joyce Narrator: Scott Aiello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “An intimate family portrait.” —The New York Times   “Eddie Joyce’s terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty.” —Richard Russo   “An inside look at one Staten Island family’s struggle with grief . . . [A] poignant, deeply affecting tale.”  —Martha Stewart Living, a Book Club selection   “[A] terrific debut novel. . . . Joyce layers . . . different characters’ perspectives nimbly and skillfully, infusing his portrait of a messy, complicated, loving family with heartfelt emotion.” —Sara Vilkomerson, Entertainment Weekly, A-   A startling and tender portrait of one family’s struggle to make peace with their son’s death An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce’s debut novel masterfully depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby—the Amendola family’s youngest son—everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter’s unexpected death. Bobby’s mother, Gail; his widow, Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the misfit; and his father, Michael, have all dealt with their grief in different ways. But as the family gathers together for Bobby Jr.’s birthday party, they must each find a way to accept a new man in Tina’s life while reconciling their feelings for their lost loved one. In unflinching but lyrical prose, Joyce shows us one mother’s struggle to keep her family together and preserve the memory of her son. Following Gail as she moves from the corner offices of white-shoe Manhattan law firms to the blue-collar gin mills of the outer boroughs, Small Mercies reveals a different New York, one that exists in the hearts and minds of its inhabitants. Presented through multiple points of view, Small Mercies explores the conflicts and deep attachments that exist within families. Heart-wrenching and profoundly relatable, Joyce’s debut is a love letter to Staten Island and a deeply affecting portrait of an American family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229851Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Mercies: A Novel Author: Eddie Joyce Narrator: Scott Aiello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Mercies: A Novel Author: Eddie Joyce Narrator: Scott Aiello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “An intimate family portrait.” —The New York Times   “Eddie Joyce’s terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty.” —Richard Russo   “An inside look at one Staten Island family’s struggle with grief . . . [A] poignant, deeply affecting tale.”  —Martha Stewart Living, a Book Club selection   “[A] terrific debut novel. . . . Joyce layers . . . different characters’ perspectives nimbly and skillfully, infusing his portrait of a messy, complicated, loving family with heartfelt emotion.” —Sara Vilkomerson, Entertainment Weekly, A-   A startling and tender portrait of one family’s struggle to make peace with their son’s death An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce’s debut novel masterfully depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby—the Amendola family’s youngest son—everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter’s unexpected death. Bobby’s mother, Gail; his widow, Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the misfit; and his father, Michael, have all dealt with their grief in different ways. But as the family gathers together for Bobby Jr.’s birthday party, they must each find a way to accept a new man in Tina’s life while reconciling their feelings for their lost loved one. In unflinching but lyrical prose, Joyce shows us one mother’s struggle to keep her family together and preserve the memory of her son. Following Gail as she moves from the corner offices of white-shoe Manhattan law firms to the blue-collar gin mills of the outer boroughs, Small Mercies reveals a different New York, one that exists in the hearts and minds of its inhabitants. Presented through multiple points of view, Small Mercies explores the conflicts and deep attachments that exist within families. Heart-wrenching and profoundly relatable, Joyce’s debut is a love letter to Staten Island and a deeply affecting portrait of an American family.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-one-home-a-novel-by-debbie-macomber--65310926https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last One Home: A Novel Series: #1 of New Beginnings Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring standalone novel about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love. Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close—until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her parents’ hearts. To make matters worse, Cassie had always been their father’s favorite—a sentiment that weighed heavily on her sisters and made Cassie’s actions even harder to bear. Now thirty-one, Cassie is back in Washington, living in Seattle with her daughter and hoping to leave her past behind. After ending a difficult marriage, Cassie is back on her own two feet, the pieces of her life slowly but surely coming together. Despite the strides Cassie’s made, she hasn’t been able to make peace with her sisters. 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 mom whose husband indulges her every whim. Then one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering what Cassie thinks may be a chance to reconcile. And as Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities—making amends with her sisters, finding love once more—she realizes the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start. A wonderful novel of perseverance and trust, and an exciting journey through life’s challenges and joys, Last One Home is Debbie Macomber at the height of her talents. Praise for Last One Home “Fans of bestselling author Macomber will not be disappointed by this compelling stand-alone novel.”—Library Journal “Family, forgiveness and second chances are the themes in Macomber’s latest stand-alone novel. No one writes better women’s contemporary fiction, and Last One Home is another wonderful example. Always inspiring and heartwarming, this is a read you will cherish.”—RT Book Reviews “Tender, real, and full of hope.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers “Once again, Ms. Macomber has woven a charming tale dealing with facing life’s hard knocks, begging forgiveness, and gaining self-confidence.”—Reader to Reader “Macomber never disappoints me. . . . She always manages to leave me with a warming of the soul and fuzzy feelings that stays for days.”—Fresh Fiction]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228961Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last One Home: A Novel Series: #1 of New Beginnings Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last One Home: A Novel Series: #1 of New Beginnings Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring standalone novel about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love. Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close—until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her parents’ hearts. To make matters worse, Cassie had always been their father’s favorite—a sentiment that weighed heavily on her sisters and made Cassie’s actions even harder to bear. Now thirty-one, Cassie is back in Washington, living in Seattle with her daughter and hoping to leave her past behind. After ending a difficult marriage, Cassie is back on her own two feet, the pieces of her life slowly but surely coming together. Despite the strides Cassie’s made, she hasn’t been able to make peace with her sisters. 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 mom whose husband indulges her every whim. Then one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering what Cassie thinks may be a chance to reconcile. And as Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities—making amends with her sisters, finding love once more—she realizes the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start. A wonderful novel of perseverance and trust, and an exciting journey through life’s challenges and joys, Last One Home is Debbie Macomber at the height of her talents. Praise for Last One Home “Fans of bestselling author Macomber will not be disappointed by this compelling stand-alone novel.”—Library Journal “Family, forgiveness and second chances are the themes in Macomber’s latest stand-alone novel. No one writes better women’s contemporary fiction, and Last One Home is another wonderful example. Always inspiring and heartwarming, this is a read you will cherish.”—RT Book Reviews “Tender, real, and full of hope.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers “Once again, Ms. Macomber has woven a charming tale dealing with facing life’s hard knocks, begging forgiveness, and gaining self-confidence.”—Reader to Reader “Macomber never disappoints me. . . . She always manages to leave me with a warming of the soul and fuzzy feelings that stays for days.”—Fresh Fiction]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-or-death-by-michael-robotham--65310922https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life or Death Author: Michael Robotham Narrator: John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent ten years in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went missing. During that time he has suffered repeated beatings, stabbings and threats by inmates and guards, all desperate to answer the same question: where's the money? On the day before Audie is due to be released, he suddenly vanishes. Now everybody is searching for him -- the police, FBI, gangsters and other powerful figures -- but Audie isn't running to save his own life. Instead, he's trying to save someone else's. Michael Robotham has created the ultimate underdog hero, an honorable criminal shrouded in mystery and ready to lead readers on a remarkable chase.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229806Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life or Death Author: Michael Robotham Narrator: John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life or Death Author: Michael Robotham Narrator: John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent ten years in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went missing. During that time he has suffered repeated beatings, stabbings and threats by inmates and guards, all desperate to answer the same question: where's the money? On the day before Audie is due to be released, he suddenly vanishes. Now everybody is searching for him -- the police, FBI, gangsters and other powerful figures -- but Audie isn't running to save his own life. Instead, he's trying to save someone else's. Michael Robotham has created the ultimate underdog hero, an honorable criminal shrouded in mystery and ready to lead readers on a remarkable chase.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-heroes-welcome-a-novel-by-louisa-young--65310918https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heroes' Welcome: A Novel Author: Louisa Young Narrator: Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: April 1919. Six months have passed since the armistice that ended the Great War. But new battles face those who have survived. Only 23, former soldier Riley Purefoy and his bride, Nadine Waveney, have their whole lives ahead of them. But Riley’s injuries from the war have created awkward tensions between the couple, scars that threaten to shatter their marriage before it has truly begun. Peter and Julia Locke are facing their own trauma. Peter has become a recluse, losing himself in drink to forget the horrors of the war. Desperate to reach her husband, Julia tries to soothe his bitterness, but their future together is uncertain. Drawn together in the aftermath of the war, the couples become tightly intertwined. Haunted by loss, guilt, and dark memories, contending with uncertainty, anger, and pain, they are left with the question: is love strong enough to help them move forward? The incandescent follow up to the international bestseller My Dear I Want to Tell You, The Heroes’ Welcome is a powerful and intimate novel chronicling the turbulence of 1919—a year of perilous beginnings, disturbing realities, and glimmerings of hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228939Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heroes' Welcome: A Novel Author: Louisa Young Narrator: Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heroes' Welcome: A Novel Author: Louisa Young Narrator: Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: April 1919. Six months have passed since the armistice that ended the Great War. But new battles face those who have survived. Only 23, former soldier Riley Purefoy and his bride, Nadine Waveney, have their whole lives ahead of them. But Riley’s injuries from the war have created awkward tensions between the couple, scars that threaten to shatter their marriage before it has truly begun. Peter and Julia Locke are facing their own trauma. Peter has become a recluse, losing himself in drink to forget the horrors of the war. Desperate to reach her husband, Julia tries to soothe his bitterness, but their future together is uncertain. Drawn together in the aftermath of the war, the couples become tightly intertwined. Haunted by loss, guilt, and dark memories, contending with uncertainty, anger, and pain, they are left with the question: is love strong enough to help them move forward? The incandescent follow up to the international bestseller My Dear I Want to Tell You, The Heroes’ Welcome is a powerful and intimate novel chronicling the turbulence of 1919—a year of perilous beginnings, disturbing realities, and glimmerings of hope.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-love-song-of-miss-queenie-hennessy-a-novel-by-rachel-joyce--65310961https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: A Novel Author: Rachel Joyce Narrator: Celia Imrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold’s cross-country journey. “This lovely book is full of joy. Much more than the story of a woman’s enduring love for an ordinary, flawed man, it’s an ode to messy, imperfect, glorious, unsung humanity.”—The Washington Post A runaway international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed its unassuming hero on an incredible journey as he traveled the length of England on foot—a journey spurred by a simple letter from his old friend Queenie Hennessy, writing from a hospice to say goodbye. Harold believed that as long as he kept walking, Queenie would live. What he didn’t know was that his decision to walk had caused her both alarm and fear. How could she wait? What would she say? Forced to confront the past, Queenie realizes she must write again. In this poignant parallel story to Harold’s saga, acclaimed author Rachel Joyce brings Queenie Hennessy’s voice into sharp focus. Setting pen to paper, Queenie makes a journey of her own, a journey that is even bigger than Harold’s; one word after another, she promises to confess long-buried truths—about her modest childhood, her studies at Oxford, the heartbreak that brought her to Kingsbridge and to loving Harold, her friendship with his son, the solace she has found in a garden by the sea. And, finally, the devastating secret she has kept from Harold for all these years. A wise, tender, layered novel that gathers tremendous emotional force, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy underscores the resilience of the human spirit, beautifully illuminating the small yet pivotal moments that can change a person’s life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228581Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: A Novel Author: Rachel Joyce Narrator: Celia Imrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: A Novel Author: Rachel Joyce Narrator: Celia Imrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold’s cross-country journey. “This lovely book is full of joy. Much more than the story of a woman’s enduring love for an ordinary, flawed man, it’s an ode to messy, imperfect, glorious, unsung humanity.”—The Washington Post A runaway international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed its unassuming hero on an incredible journey as he traveled the length of England on foot—a journey spurred by a simple letter from his old friend Queenie Hennessy, writing from a hospice to say goodbye. Harold believed that as long as he kept walking, Queenie would live. What he didn’t know was that his decision to walk had caused her both alarm and fear. How could she wait? What would she say? Forced to confront the past, Queenie realizes she must write again. In this poignant parallel story to Harold’s saga, acclaimed author Rachel Joyce brings Queenie Hennessy’s voice into sharp focus. Setting pen to paper, Queenie makes a journey of her own, a journey that is even bigger than Harold’s; one word after another, she promises to confess long-buried truths—about her modest childhood, her studies at Oxford, the heartbreak that brought her to Kingsbridge and to loving Harold, her friendship with his son, the solace she has found in a garden by the sea. And, finally, the devastating secret she has kept from Harold for all these years. A wise, tender, layered novel that gathers tremendous emotional force, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy underscores the resilience of the human spirit, beautifully illuminating the small yet pivotal moments that can change a person’s life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-reluctant-midwife-a-hope-river-novel-by-patricia-harman--65310935https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reluctant Midwife: A Hope River Novel Author: Patricia Harman Narrator: Heather Henderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit. The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy. Though she is happy to be back in Hope River, time and experience have tempered Becky’s cheerfulness-as tragedy has destroyed the vibrant spirit of her former employer Dr Isaac Blum, who has accompanied her. Patience too has changed. Married and expecting a baby herself, she is relying on Becky to keep the mothers of Hope River safe. But becoming a midwife and ushering precious new life into the world is not Becky’s only challenge. Her skills and courage will be tested when a calamitous forest fire blazes through a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. And she must find a way to bring Isaac back to life and rediscover the hope they both need to go on. Full of humor and compassion, The Reluctant Midwife is a moving tribute to the power of optimism and love to overcome the most trying circumstances and times, and is sure to please fans of the poignant Call the Midwife series.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228818Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reluctant Midwife: A Hope River Novel Author: Patricia Harman Narrator: Heather Henderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reluctant Midwife: A Hope River Novel Author: Patricia Harman Narrator: Heather Henderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit. The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy. Though she is happy to be back in Hope River, time and experience have tempered Becky’s cheerfulness-as tragedy has destroyed the vibrant spirit of her former employer Dr Isaac Blum, who has accompanied her. Patience too has changed. Married and expecting a baby herself, she is relying on Becky to keep the mothers of Hope River safe. But becoming a midwife and ushering precious new life into the world is not Becky’s only challenge. Her skills and courage will be tested when a calamitous forest fire blazes through a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. And she must find a way to bring Isaac back to life and rediscover the hope they both need to go on. Full of humor and compassion, The Reluctant Midwife is a moving tribute to the power of optimism and love to overcome the most trying circumstances and times, and is sure to please fans of the poignant Call the Midwife series.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-home-front-by-margaret-vandenburg--65310941https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Home Front Author: Margaret Vandenburg Narrator: Tom Taylorson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Barrons like to think of themselves as a typical American family. Never mind the fact that Todd drops bombs on Afghan targets one minute and sits down to dinner with his wife and kids the next. A drone pilot stationed in Nevada, he manages to compartmentalize the conflicting demands of combat and family life—until their son, Max, is diagnosed with autism. His wife, Rose, deploys an army of specialists, surfing the outer limits of the web for a miracle cure. Meanwhile, Max clings to compulsive isolation and order—wearing the same tan clothes, eating the same round foods, lining up trucks or Legos or whatever else needs to be lined up—to fend off the chaos of normalcy. Unhinged by their son's prognosis, Rose resorts to New Age magical thinking to cope with her own sense of losing control. Todd feels curiously indifferent, watching his wife and son retreat further and further into la-la land. It's a familiar feeling, symptomatic of his 'Chair Force' job waging virtual war. The Barrons continue to drift apart until a gifted behavioral therapist intervenes, reviving the dream of discovering a common language. The Home Front is both deeply personal and culturally relevant, a family portrait of the uncanny connection between autism, drone warfare, and virtual reality. Without a real diagnosis of the problem, the prognosis isn't good.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229027Sat, 28 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Home Front Author: Margaret Vandenburg Narrator: Tom Taylorson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Home Front Author: Margaret Vandenburg Narrator: Tom Taylorson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Barrons like to think of themselves as a typical American family. Never mind the fact that Todd drops bombs on Afghan targets one minute and sits down to dinner with his wife and kids the next. A drone pilot stationed in Nevada, he manages to compartmentalize the conflicting demands of combat and family life—until their son, Max, is diagnosed with autism. His wife, Rose, deploys an army of specialists, surfing the outer limits of the web for a miracle cure. Meanwhile, Max clings to compulsive isolation and order—wearing the same tan clothes, eating the same round foods, lining up trucks or Legos or whatever else needs to be lined up—to fend off the chaos of normalcy. Unhinged by their son's prognosis, Rose resorts to New Age magical thinking to cope with her own sense of losing control. Todd feels curiously indifferent, watching his wife and son retreat further and further into la-la land. It's a familiar feeling, symptomatic of his 'Chair Force' job waging virtual war. The Barrons continue to drift apart until a gifted behavioral therapist intervenes, reviving the dream of discovering a common language. The Home Front is both deeply personal and culturally relevant, a family portrait of the uncanny connection between autism, drone warfare, and virtual reality. Without a real diagnosis of the problem, the prognosis isn't good.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-perfect-homecoming-by-julia-london--65310974https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Homecoming Series: #3 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London delivers another stand-alone, heartwarming love story in her Pine River series. Emma Tyler’s cool exterior and penchant for sarcasm keep most people from getting too close…and an unusual compulsion drives her to steal from the few men who do. When her trophy-collecting habit goes too far, she quits her ritzy event-planning job in Los Angeles and runs away to Pine River, hiding with her estranged half-sisters at Homecoming Ranch and caring for Leo Kendrick, her ailing friend. Thrillseekers Anonymous founder Cooper Jessup has his hands full with work and his brother’s looming prison release date. But when a client asks him to track down Emma Tyler to retrieve a stolen memento, Cooper can’t turn down the money…or the chance to see the beautiful Emma again. When Cooper comes to collect the item, Emma refuses to admit the horrible truth. This handsome man may see right through her steely veneer, but can he get close enough to show her how love and honesty can heal a troubled heart?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226105Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Homecoming Series: #3 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Homecoming Series: #3 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London delivers another stand-alone, heartwarming love story in her Pine River series. Emma Tyler’s cool exterior and penchant for sarcasm keep most people from getting too close…and an unusual compulsion drives her to steal from the few men who do. When her trophy-collecting habit goes too far, she quits her ritzy event-planning job in Los Angeles and runs away to Pine River, hiding with her estranged half-sisters at Homecoming Ranch and caring for Leo Kendrick, her ailing friend. Thrillseekers Anonymous founder Cooper Jessup has his hands full with work and his brother’s looming prison release date. But when a client asks him to track down Emma Tyler to retrieve a stolen memento, Cooper can’t turn down the money…or the chance to see the beautiful Emma again. When Cooper comes to collect the item, Emma refuses to admit the horrible truth. This handsome man may see right through her steely veneer, but can he get close enough to show her how love and honesty can heal a troubled heart?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/prodigal-son-a-novel-by-danielle-steel--65310928https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prodigal Son: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 90 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 21 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Twin boys grow up in the same family, in the same town. Dramatically different, they become bitter enemies, even as children: one good, one bad. One leaves his peaceful hometown, but when all else fails, the prodigal son returns, twenty years later. The reunion of brothers, sweet and healing at first, exposes shattering revelations of good and evil. #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells a brilliant, suspenseful story of suspicion, betrayal, and a life-and-death struggle for survival. Which twin is good and which is evil, as the tables turn again and again? PRODIGAL SON In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for—his wealth, his property, his livelihood as a star investment banker. And then it gets worse. The stock market crash not only plunges Peter into joblessness, it causes a rift in his marriage that he cannot repair. Stripped of everything, he has only one place to retreat: a lakeside cottage he inherited from his parents, who left most of their modest estate to Peter’s twin. With no other choice, the prodigal son goes home. A beloved small-town doctor, a devoted family man, and a pillar of his community, Michael McDowell serves others without regard to personal gain. Only Peter knows how Michael manipulated their parents when the boys were young, ultimately driving Peter away. At first, he dreads seeing Michael again. But, to his surprise, their reunion is tender and real. Only later, as Peter mulls over his late mother’s journals, does the truth begin to emerge, as realization and panic set in. Who is his twin? Is the façade real, or does something terrifying lie beneath? Imagination or a reality too terrifying to believe? In a race for time, Peter throws caution to the winds to find the truth. What he discovers will change their lives, the lives of their children, and an entire town forever. Powerful, poignant, and filled with complex and layered characters, Prodigal Son is a riveting novel of secrets, salvation, and redemption from master storyteller Danielle Steel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229044Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prodigal Son: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 24,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prodigal Son: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 90 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 21 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Twin boys grow up in the same family, in the same town. Dramatically different, they become bitter enemies, even as children: one good, one bad. One leaves his peaceful hometown, but when all else fails, the prodigal son returns, twenty years later. The reunion of brothers, sweet and healing at first, exposes shattering revelations of good and evil. #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells a brilliant, suspenseful story of suspicion, betrayal, and a life-and-death struggle for survival. Which twin is good and which is evil, as the tables turn again and again? PRODIGAL SON In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for—his wealth, his property, his livelihood as a star investment banker. And then it gets worse. The stock market crash not only plunges Peter into joblessness, it causes a rift in his marriage that he cannot repair. Stripped of everything, he has only one place to retreat: a lakeside cottage he inherited from his parents, who left most of their modest estate to Peter’s twin. With no other choice, the prodigal son goes home. A beloved small-town doctor, a devoted family man, and a pillar of his community, Michael McDowell serves others without regard to personal gain. Only Peter knows how Michael manipulated their parents when the boys were young, ultimately driving Peter away. At first, he dreads seeing Michael again. But, to his surprise, their reunion is tender and real. Only later, as Peter mulls over his late mother’s journals, does the truth begin to emerge, as realization and panic set in. Who is his twin? Is the façade real, or does something terrifying lie beneath? Imagination or a reality too terrifying to believe? In a race for time, Peter throws caution to the winds to find the truth. What he discovers will change their lives, the lives of their children, and an entire town forever. Powerful, poignant, and filled with complex and layered characters, Prodigal Son is a riveting novel of secrets, salvation, and redemption from master storyteller Danielle Steel.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blue-stars-a-novel-by-emily-gray-tedrowe--65310943https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Stars: A Novel Author: Emily Gray Tedrowe Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 1 minute Release date: February 17, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Emily Gray Tedrowe's Blue Stars is an extraordinary novel about ordinary people, a graceful and gritty portrayal of what it's like for the women whose husbands and sons are deployed in Iraq. Blue Stars brings to life the realities of the modern day home front: how to get through the daily challenges of motherhood and holding down a job while bearing the stress and uncertainty of war, when everything can change in an instant. It tells the story of Ellen, a Midwestern literature professor, who is drawn into the war when her legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine; and of Lacey, a proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while her husband is deployed. Ellen and Lacey cope with the fear and stress of a loved one at war while trying to get by in a society that often ignores or misunderstands what war means to women today. When Michael and Eddie are injured in Iraq, Ellen and Lacey's lives become intertwined in Walter Reed Army Hospital, where each woman must live while caring for her wounded soldier. They form an alliance, and an unlikely friendship, while helping each other survive the dislocated world of the army hospital. Whether that means fighting for proper care for their men, sharing a six-pack, or coping with irrevocable loss, Ellen and Lacey pool their strengths to make it through. In the end, both women are changed, not only by the war and its fallout, but by each other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228645Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Stars: A Novel Author: Emily Gray Tedrowe Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 1 minute Release date: February 17,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Stars: A Novel Author: Emily Gray Tedrowe Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 1 minute Release date: February 17, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Emily Gray Tedrowe's Blue Stars is an extraordinary novel about ordinary people, a graceful and gritty portrayal of what it's like for the women whose husbands and sons are deployed in Iraq. Blue Stars brings to life the realities of the modern day home front: how to get through the daily challenges of motherhood and holding down a job while bearing the stress and uncertainty of war, when everything can change in an instant. It tells the story of Ellen, a Midwestern literature professor, who is drawn into the war when her legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine; and of Lacey, a proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while her husband is deployed. Ellen and Lacey cope with the fear and stress of a loved one at war while trying to get by in a society that often ignores or misunderstands what war means to women today. When Michael and Eddie are injured in Iraq, Ellen and Lacey's lives become intertwined in Walter Reed Army Hospital, where each woman must live while caring for her wounded soldier. They form an alliance, and an unlikely friendship, while helping each other survive the dislocated world of the army hospital. Whether that means fighting for proper care for their men, sharing a six-pack, or coping with irrevocable loss, Ellen and Lacey pool their strengths to make it through. In the end, both women are changed, not only by the war and its fallout, but by each other.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-absent-mind-by-eric-rill--65310942https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Absent Mind Author: Eric Rill Narrator: Mel Foster, Sandra Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Seventy-one, and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul struggles to make peace with his disconnected family before Alzheimer’s consumes his sanity. His ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion are laid bare, as well as the thoughts and feelings of his loved ones: his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed…caring, yet angry; his daughter, Florence, compassionate, yet proper and reserved; his son, Joey, self-centered and narcissistic, seemingly indifferent to his family’s challenges; and his doctor, an Alzheimer’s specialist, who cares for Saul until his final days. From the beginning Saul and his family know how it has to end, because no one has ever outsmarted Alzheimer’s. But as they navigate the meandering road that will eventually bring Saul’s demise, they leave behind their once disconnected lives and come together to weather their difficult journey. Heartfelt and moving, this lauded novel, winner of 2014 gold medals from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Readers’ Favorite Book Awards, and the Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Fiction, will appeal to fans of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice or Nicholas Sparks’s The Notebook. Best Book Of 2014 —Alzheimer’s Weekly Revised edition: This edition of An Absent Mind includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228378Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Absent Mind Author: Eric Rill Narrator: Mel Foster, Sandra Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 17,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Absent Mind Author: Eric Rill Narrator: Mel Foster, Sandra Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Seventy-one, and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul struggles to make peace with his disconnected family before Alzheimer’s consumes his sanity. His ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion are laid bare, as well as the thoughts and feelings of his loved ones: his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed…caring, yet angry; his daughter, Florence, compassionate, yet proper and reserved; his son, Joey, self-centered and narcissistic, seemingly indifferent to his family’s challenges; and his doctor, an Alzheimer’s specialist, who cares for Saul until his final days. From the beginning Saul and his family know how it has to end, because no one has ever outsmarted Alzheimer’s. But as they navigate the meandering road that will eventually bring Saul’s demise, they leave behind their once disconnected lives and come together to weather their difficult journey. Heartfelt and moving, this lauded novel, winner of 2014 gold medals from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Readers’ Favorite Book Awards, and the Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Fiction, will appeal to fans of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice or Nicholas Sparks’s The Notebook. Best Book Of 2014 —Alzheimer’s Weekly Revised edition: This edition of An Absent Mind includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lunch-with-buddha-by-roland-merullo--65310983https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lunch with Buddha Series: #2 of Breakfast with Buddha Author: Roland Merullo Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A novel about family, open-minded spirituality, and the American road, Lunch with Buddha accompanies the characters from Breakfast with Buddha as they move further along the path toward lasting peace of mind. Facing one of life's greatest emotional challenges, Otto Ringling takes comfort in a loving family and offbeat lessons from the eccentric spiritual teacher Volya Rinpoche. Funny at times, heartbreaking at others, Lunch with Buddha offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the life we live now.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228864Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lunch with Buddha Series: #2 of Breakfast with Buddha Author: Roland Merullo Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lunch with Buddha Series: #2 of Breakfast with Buddha Author: Roland Merullo Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A novel about family, open-minded spirituality, and the American road, Lunch with Buddha accompanies the characters from Breakfast with Buddha as they move further along the path toward lasting peace of mind. Facing one of life's greatest emotional challenges, Otto Ringling takes comfort in a loving family and offbeat lessons from the eccentric spiritual teacher Volya Rinpoche. Funny at times, heartbreaking at others, Lunch with Buddha offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the life we live now.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-spool-of-blue-thread-a-novel-by-anne-tyler--65310929https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spool of Blue Thread: A novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 20 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize  “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor. Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226418Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spool of Blue Thread: A novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spool of Blue Thread: A novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 20 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize  “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor. Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-the-doves-disappeared-a-novel-by-sofi-oksanen--65310924https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Doves Disappeared: A Novel Author: Sofi Oksanen Narrator: Enn Reitel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 1 minute Release date: February 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Purge (“a stirring and humane work of art” —The New Republic) comes a riveting, chillingly relevant new novel of occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Eastern Europe. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army—Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime . . . 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland’s, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth . . . Great acts of deception and heroism collide in this masterful story of surveillance, passion, and betrayal, as Sofi Oksanen brings to life the frailty—and the resilience—of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228588Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Doves Disappeared: A Novel Author: Sofi Oksanen Narrator: Enn Reitel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 1 minute Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Doves Disappeared: A Novel Author: Sofi Oksanen Narrator: Enn Reitel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 1 minute Release date: February 10, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Purge (“a stirring and humane work of art” —The New Republic) comes a riveting, chillingly relevant new novel of occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Eastern Europe. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army—Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime . . . 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland’s, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth . . . Great acts of deception and heroism collide in this masterful story of surveillance, passion, and betrayal, as Sofi Oksanen brings to life the frailty—and the resilience—of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miracle-at-the-higher-grounds-cafe-by-max-lucado--65310909https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe Author: Max Lucado Narrator: Ben Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What if you could ask God anything? What would you ask, and how would He answer?  Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter of the Higher Grounds Café, an old-fashioned coffee shop in dire need of reinvention. But when her courage, expert planning, and out-of-this-world cupcakes fail to pay the bills, this newly single mom finds herself desperate for help. Better yet, a miracle.  Then a curious stranger lands on Chelsea’s doorstep, and with him, an even more curious string of events. Soon, customers are flocking to the Higher Grounds Café, and not just for the cupcakes and cappuccino. They’ve come for the internet connection to the divine. Now the café has become the go-to place for people in search of answers to life’s biggest questions.  When a catastrophe strikes and her ex comes calling, Chelsea begins to wonder if the whole universe is conspiring against her quest to make it on her own. After a shocking discovery opens her eyes to the unseen world around her, Chelsea finds the courage to ask God a question of her own—and heaven answers in a most unexpected way.  “Max Lucado’s remarkable gift of storytelling brings the pages to life in his novel Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café. This highly relatable story of working through heartache and standing firm on your faith is intertwined with a good dose of humor and overflowing with biblical truth. This message will stay with you long after you’ve read the last page.” —Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times bestselling author of The Best Yes and It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way  “Step inside the Higher Grounds Café, a place brimming with whop, a heaping helping of comfort food, and a direct line to heaven. Where faith lives, all things are possible, for a family, a community, and one woman who wasn’t sure she had the courage to believe again.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours  “Now, here is the in-depth breakdown on why YOU will love it: First of all, Max Lucado is the best. Of course, angels, miracles and neighborhood cafés are also at the top of the list. Most of us love stories and according to statistics, 54% of us actually love coffee. So, there! Read Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café immediately. It’s a story by Max Lucado about an angel and the miracle performed for some folks (who drink coffee) in a cool neighborhood café. Can a book even get any better than this? I don’t think so.” —Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Noticer and The Traveler’s Gift  - Full-length inspirational novel - USA TODAY bestseller - Includes discussion questions for book clubs]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228410Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe Author: Max Lucado Narrator: Ben Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe Author: Max Lucado Narrator: Ben Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What if you could ask God anything? What would you ask, and how would He answer?  Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter of the Higher Grounds Café, an old-fashioned coffee shop in dire need of reinvention. But when her courage, expert planning, and out-of-this-world cupcakes fail to pay the bills, this newly single mom finds herself desperate for help. Better yet, a miracle.  Then a curious stranger lands on Chelsea’s doorstep, and with him, an even more curious string of events. Soon, customers are flocking to the Higher Grounds Café, and not just for the cupcakes and cappuccino. They’ve come for the internet connection to the divine. Now the café has become the go-to place for people in search of answers to life’s biggest questions.  When a catastrophe strikes and her ex comes calling, Chelsea begins to wonder if the whole universe is conspiring against her quest to make it on her own. After a shocking discovery opens her eyes to the unseen world around her, Chelsea finds the courage to ask God a question of her own—and heaven answers in a most unexpected way.  “Max Lucado’s remarkable gift of storytelling brings the pages to life in his novel Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café. This highly relatable story of working through heartache and standing firm on your faith is intertwined with a good dose of humor and overflowing with biblical truth. This message will stay with you long after you’ve read the last page.” —Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times bestselling author of The Best Yes and It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way  “Step inside the Higher Grounds Café, a place brimming with whop, a heaping helping of comfort food, and a direct line to heaven. Where faith lives, all things are possible, for a family, a community, and one woman who wasn’t sure she had the courage to believe again.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours  “Now, here is the in-depth breakdown on why YOU will love it: First of all, Max Lucado is the best. Of course, angels, miracles and neighborhood cafés are also at the top of the list. Most of us love stories and according to statistics, 54% of us actually love coffee. So, there! Read Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café immediately. It’s a story by Max Lucado about an angel and the miracle performed for some folks (who drink coffee) in a cool neighborhood café. Can a book even get any better than this? I don’t think so.” —Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Noticer and The Traveler’s Gift  - Full-length inspirational novel - USA TODAY bestseller - Includes discussion questions for book clubs]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ps-i-love-you-a-novel-by-cecelia-ahern--65310901https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: PS, I Love You: A Novel Author: Cecelia Ahern Narrator: Amy Creighton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a New York Times bestselling author, a recent widow falls in love with life again, thanks to the help of her guardian angel–her late husband. Now a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Holly and Gerry were childhood sweethearts–soulmates. And then the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her, leaving her a bundle of notes signed ‘PS, I Love You’. One for each month of the year. The man who knows her better than anyone is set out to teach her that life goes on.   With the help of her friends and family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, and dancing–life is for living, she’s realizing–and it helps if there's an angel watching over you.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229910Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: PS, I Love You: A Novel Author: Cecelia Ahern Narrator: Amy Creighton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: PS, I Love You: A Novel Author: Cecelia Ahern Narrator: Amy Creighton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a New York Times bestselling author, a recent widow falls in love with life again, thanks to the help of her guardian angel–her late husband. Now a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Holly and Gerry were childhood sweethearts–soulmates. And then the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her, leaving her a bundle of notes signed ‘PS, I Love You’. One for each month of the year. The man who knows her better than anyone is set out to teach her that life goes on.   With the help of her friends and family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, and dancing–life is for living, she’s realizing–and it helps if there's an angel watching over you.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/christopher-s-diary-echoes-of-dollanganger-by-v-c-andrews--65310989https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Picking up where Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth leaves off, Kristin Masterwood and her boyfriend up the ante—by going into her attic to re-enact scenes described in Christopher Dollanganger’s journal. Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge—the discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light and obsesses a new generation. With Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind both now major Lifetime TV events, the first new Dollanganger stories in nearly thirty years is a timely look at the events in the attic—from teenage Christopher’s point of view. Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and his younger siblings—Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie—were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother’s greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden—until now. Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father’s construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family. Accompanying her dad to the “forbidden territory,” they find a leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy about her reading it, but as she devours the teen’s story page by page, his shattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakes Kristin’s every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses a dangerous line…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226735Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Picking up where Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth leaves off, Kristin Masterwood and her boyfriend up the ante—by going into her attic to re-enact scenes described in Christopher Dollanganger’s journal. Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge—the discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light and obsesses a new generation. With Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind both now major Lifetime TV events, the first new Dollanganger stories in nearly thirty years is a timely look at the events in the attic—from teenage Christopher’s point of view. Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and his younger siblings—Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie—were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother’s greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden—until now. Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father’s construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family. Accompanying her dad to the “forbidden territory,” they find a leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy about her reading it, but as she devours the teen’s story page by page, his shattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakes Kristin’s every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses a dangerous line…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-some-other-world-maybe-by-shari-goldhagen--65310916https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Some Other World, Maybe Author: Shari Goldhagen Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last-ditch effort to connect with the girl he's had a crush on for years. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick without interruption from her vapid almost-friends - a seemingly silly indiscretion with shocking consequences. And in suburban Chicago, Phoebe and Ollie simply want to have a nice first date and maybe fool around in the dark, if everyone they know could just stop getting in the way. Over the next two decades, these unforgettable characters crisscross the globe, becoming entwined by friendship, sex, ambition, fame and tragedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228574Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Some Other World, Maybe Author: Shari Goldhagen Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Some Other World, Maybe Author: Shari Goldhagen Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last-ditch effort to connect with the girl he's had a crush on for years. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick without interruption from her vapid almost-friends - a seemingly silly indiscretion with shocking consequences. And in suburban Chicago, Phoebe and Ollie simply want to have a nice first date and maybe fool around in the dark, if everyone they know could just stop getting in the way. Over the next two decades, these unforgettable characters crisscross the globe, becoming entwined by friendship, sex, ambition, fame and tragedy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/munich-airport-a-novel-by-greg-baxter--65310905https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Munich Airport: A Novel Author: Greg Baxter Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of The Apartment comes a powerful, poetic, and haunting exploration of loss, love, and isolation. An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin apartment-from starvation. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet and returned to America. Greg Baxter's bold, mesmeric novel tells the story of these three people over the course of three weeks, as they wait for Miriam's body to be released, grieve over her incomprehensible death, and try to possess a share of her suffering--and her yearning and grace. With prose that is tense, precise, and at times highly lyrical, Munich Airport is a novel for our time, a work of richness, gravity, and even dark humor. Following his acclaimed American debut, Munich Airport marks the establishment of Greg Baxter as an important new voice in literature, one who has already drawn comparisons to masters such as Kafka, Camus, and Murakami.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225995Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Munich Airport: A Novel Author: Greg Baxter Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Munich Airport: A Novel Author: Greg Baxter Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of The Apartment comes a powerful, poetic, and haunting exploration of loss, love, and isolation. An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin apartment-from starvation. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet and returned to America. Greg Baxter's bold, mesmeric novel tells the story of these three people over the course of three weeks, as they wait for Miriam's body to be released, grieve over her incomprehensible death, and try to possess a share of her suffering--and her yearning and grace. With prose that is tense, precise, and at times highly lyrical, Munich Airport is a novel for our time, a work of richness, gravity, and even dark humor. Following his acclaimed American debut, Munich Airport marks the establishment of Greg Baxter as an important new voice in literature, one who has already drawn comparisons to masters such as Kafka, Camus, and Murakami.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lost-found-by-brooke-davis--65310987https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost & Found Author: Brooke Davis Narrator: Helen Walsh, Nicolette McKenzie, Nigel Carrington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 22, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is looking Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie’s father, leaves her in the big ladies’ underwear department of a local store and never returns. Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house—or spoken to another human being—since she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule. Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife’s skin. Now that she’s gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karl’s been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he’s on the lam. Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie’s mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225952Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost & Found Author: Brooke Davis Narrator: Helen Walsh, Nicolette McKenzie, Nigel Carrington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost & Found Author: Brooke Davis Narrator: Helen Walsh, Nicolette McKenzie, Nigel Carrington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 22, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is looking Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie’s father, leaves her in the big ladies’ underwear department of a local store and never returns. Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house—or spoken to another human being—since she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule. Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife’s skin. Now that she’s gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karl’s been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he’s on the lam. Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie’s mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/of-marriageable-age-by-sharon-maas--65310984https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Of Marriageable Age Author: Sharon Maas Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 1 minute Release date: January 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding story of forbidden love. Three continents, three decades, three very disparate lives: Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in Madras. But the traditional customs of her Brahmin family clash against English upper-class prejudice, threatening her love for the privileged son of the house. Nataraj, raised as the son of an idealistic doctor in rural South India, finds life in London heady, with girls and grass easily available . . . until he is summoned back home to face raw reality. Saroj, her fire hidden by outward reserve, comes of age in Guyana, South America. When her strict, orthodox Hindu father goes one step too far, she finally rebels against him and even against her gentle, apparently docile Ma. But Ma harbors a deep secret, one that binds these three disparate lives and hurtles them toward a truth that could destroy their world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228549Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Of Marriageable Age Author: Sharon Maas Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 1 minute Release date: January 20, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Of Marriageable Age Author: Sharon Maas Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 1 minute Release date: January 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding story of forbidden love. Three continents, three decades, three very disparate lives: Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in Madras. But the traditional customs of her Brahmin family clash against English upper-class prejudice, threatening her love for the privileged son of the house. Nataraj, raised as the son of an idealistic doctor in rural South India, finds life in London heady, with girls and grass easily available . . . until he is summoned back home to face raw reality. Saroj, her fire hidden by outward reserve, comes of age in Guyana, South America. When her strict, orthodox Hindu father goes one step too far, she finally rebels against him and even against her gentle, apparently docile Ma. But Ma harbors a deep secret, one that binds these three disparate lives and hurtles them toward a truth that could destroy their world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/see-how-small-a-novel-by-scott-blackwood--65310957https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: See How Small: A Novel Author: Scott Blackwood Narrator: Rengin Altay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose 'that's as fine as any being written by an American author today' (Ben Fountain). One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. See How Small tells the stories of the survivors -- family, witnesses, and suspects -- who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, human connection tenuous. Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls. They watch over the town and make occasional visitations, trying to connect with and prod to life those they left behind. 'See how small a thing it is that keeps us apart,' they say. A master of compression and lyrical precision, Scott Blackwood has surpassed himself with this haunting, beautiful, and enormously powerful new novel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226136Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: See How Small: A Novel Author: Scott Blackwood Narrator: Rengin Altay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: See How Small: A Novel Author: Scott Blackwood Narrator: Rengin Altay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose 'that's as fine as any being written by an American author today' (Ben Fountain). One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. See How Small tells the stories of the survivors -- family, witnesses, and suspects -- who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, human connection tenuous. Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls. They watch over the town and make occasional visitations, trying to connect with and prod to life those they left behind. 'See how small a thing it is that keeps us apart,' they say. A master of compression and lyrical precision, Scott Blackwood has surpassed himself with this haunting, beautiful, and enormously powerful new novel.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-father-s-wives-a-novel-by-mike-greenberg--65310939https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Father's Wives: A Novel Author: Mike Greenberg Narrator: Andy Paris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The co-host of ESPN’s Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man’s search to understand himself, his marriage, and his father. Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career, great kids and Claire, his smart, gorgeous, sophisticated wife. But there is one thing Jonathan never had: a relationship with his father. Percival Sweetwater III has been absent from his son’s life since Jonathan was nine years old. A five-term U.S. senator, now dead, Percy was beloved by presidents, his constituents, and women alike, especially the five women who married him after Jonathan’s mother. Jonathan hasn’t thought about Percy or the hole he left in his life for years. Dedicated to Claire and his family, he’s nothing like his serial monogamist father. But then Jonathan discovers evidence that everything in his marriage may not be as perfect as he thought. Hurt and uncertain what to do, he knows that the only way to move forward is to go back. On this quest for understanding—about himself, about manhood, about marriage—Jonathan decides to track down his father’s five ex-wives. His journey will take him from cosmopolitan cities to the mile-high mountains to a tropical island—and ultimately back to confront the one thing Jonathan has that his father never did: home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226213Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Father's Wives: A Novel Author: Mike Greenberg Narrator: Andy Paris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Father's Wives: A Novel Author: Mike Greenberg Narrator: Andy Paris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 20, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The co-host of ESPN’s Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man’s search to understand himself, his marriage, and his father. Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career, great kids and Claire, his smart, gorgeous, sophisticated wife. But there is one thing Jonathan never had: a relationship with his father. Percival Sweetwater III has been absent from his son’s life since Jonathan was nine years old. A five-term U.S. senator, now dead, Percy was beloved by presidents, his constituents, and women alike, especially the five women who married him after Jonathan’s mother. Jonathan hasn’t thought about Percy or the hole he left in his life for years. Dedicated to Claire and his family, he’s nothing like his serial monogamist father. But then Jonathan discovers evidence that everything in his marriage may not be as perfect as he thought. Hurt and uncertain what to do, he knows that the only way to move forward is to go back. On this quest for understanding—about himself, about manhood, about marriage—Jonathan decides to track down his father’s five ex-wives. His journey will take him from cosmopolitan cities to the mile-high mountains to a tropical island—and ultimately back to confront the one thing Jonathan has that his father never did: home.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/let-the-great-world-spin-a-novel-by-colum-mccann--65310962https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel Author: Colum McCann Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 16, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal. Praise for Let the Great World Spin “This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There’s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.”—Dave Eggers “Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . It’s a novel rooted firmly in time and place. It vividly captures New York at its worst and best. But it transcends all that. In the end, it’s a novel about families—the ones we’re born into and the ones we make for ourselves.”—USA Today “The first great 9/11 novel . . . We are all dancing on the wire of history, and even on solid ground we breathe the thinnest of air.”—Esquire “Mesmerizing . . . a Joycean look at the lives of New Yorkers changed by a single act on a single day . . . Colum McCann’s marvelously rich novel . . . weaves a portrait of a city and a moment, dizzyingly satisfying to read and difficult to put down.”—The Seattle Times “Vibrantly whole . . . With a series of spare, gorgeously wrought vignettes, Colum McCann brings 1970s New York to life. . . . And as always, McCann’s heart-stoppingly simple descriptions wow.”—Entertainment Weekly “An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your balance you need to know how to fall.”—O: The Oprah Magazine]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228424Fri, 16 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel Author: Colum McCann Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 16 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel Author: Colum McCann Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 16, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal. Praise for Let the Great World Spin “This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There’s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.”—Dave Eggers “Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . It’s a novel rooted firmly in time and place. It vividly captures New York at its worst and best. But it transcends all that. In the end, it’s a novel about families—the ones we’re born into and the ones we make for ourselves.”—USA Today “The first great 9/11 novel . . . We are all dancing on the wire of history, and even on solid ground we breathe the thinnest of air.”—Esquire “Mesmerizing . . . a Joycean look at the lives of New Yorkers changed by a single act on a single day . . . Colum McCann’s marvelously rich novel . . . weaves a portrait of a city and a moment, dizzyingly satisfying to read and difficult to put down.”—The Seattle Times “Vibrantly whole . . . With a series of spare, gorgeously wrought vignettes, Colum McCann brings 1970s New York to life. . . . And as always, McCann’s heart-stoppingly simple descriptions wow.”—Entertainment Weekly “An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your balance you need to know how to fall.”—O: The Oprah Magazine]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hall-of-small-mammals-stories-by-thomas-pierce--65310959https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hall of Small Mammals: Stories Author: Thomas Pierce Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 8, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller. The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, the people in these stories are struggling to understand the absurdity and the magnitude of what it means to exist in a family, to exist in the world. In “Shirley Temple Three,” a mother must shoulder her son’s burden—a cloned and resurrected wooly mammoth who wreaks havoc on her house, sanity, and faith. In “The Real Alan Gass,” a physicist in search of a mysterious particle called the “daisy” spends her days with her boyfriend, Walker, and her nights with the husband who only exists in the world of her dreams, Alan Gass.  Like the daisy particle itself—“forever locked in a curious state of existence and nonexistence, sliding back and forth between the two”—the stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals are exquisite, mysterious, and inextricably connected. From this enchanting primordial soup, Pierce’s voice emerges—a distinct and charming testament of the New South, melding contemporary concerns with their prehistoric roots to create a hilarious, deeply moving symphony of stories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226204Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hall of Small Mammals: Stories Author: Thomas Pierce Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hall of Small Mammals: Stories Author: Thomas Pierce Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 8, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller. The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, the people in these stories are struggling to understand the absurdity and the magnitude of what it means to exist in a family, to exist in the world. In “Shirley Temple Three,” a mother must shoulder her son’s burden—a cloned and resurrected wooly mammoth who wreaks havoc on her house, sanity, and faith. In “The Real Alan Gass,” a physicist in search of a mysterious particle called the “daisy” spends her days with her boyfriend, Walker, and her nights with the husband who only exists in the world of her dreams, Alan Gass.  Like the daisy particle itself—“forever locked in a curious state of existence and nonexistence, sliding back and forth between the two”—the stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals are exquisite, mysterious, and inextricably connected. From this enchanting primordial soup, Pierce’s voice emerges—a distinct and charming testament of the New South, melding contemporary concerns with their prehistoric roots to create a hilarious, deeply moving symphony of stories.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-wisdom-of-the-earth-by-christopher-scotton--65310955https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth Author: Christopher Scotton Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down.' -- John Grisham 'A page-turner.' -- New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the 'company' and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225994Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth Author: Christopher Scotton Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth Author: Christopher Scotton Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down.' -- John Grisham 'A page-turner.' -- New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the 'company' and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/her-a-novel-by-harriet-lane--65310951https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her: A Novel Author: Harriet Lane Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: You don't remember her -- but she remembers you. Two different women; two different worlds. On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina is sophisticated and assured, a successful artist who seems to have it all under control. And yet, when the two women meet, they are irresistibly drawn to each other. As the friendship develops, as Emma gratefully invites Nina into her life, it emerges that someone is playing games-and the stakes could not be higher. What, exactly, does Nina see in Emma? What does she want? And how far will she go in pursuit of it? A gripping novel about friendship and identity, about the wild hopes and worst fears of parenthood, about the small and easily forgotten moments that come to define a life, Her is unputdownable-compelling and hauntingly discomfiting.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225996Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her: A Novel Author: Harriet Lane Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her: A Novel Author: Harriet Lane Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: You don't remember her -- but she remembers you. Two different women; two different worlds. On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina is sophisticated and assured, a successful artist who seems to have it all under control. And yet, when the two women meet, they are irresistibly drawn to each other. As the friendship develops, as Emma gratefully invites Nina into her life, it emerges that someone is playing games-and the stakes could not be higher. What, exactly, does Nina see in Emma? What does she want? And how far will she go in pursuit of it? A gripping novel about friendship and identity, about the wild hopes and worst fears of parenthood, about the small and easily forgotten moments that come to define a life, Her is unputdownable-compelling and hauntingly discomfiting.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/silver-thaw-by-catherine-anderson--65310949https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silver Thaw Series: #1 of Mystic Creek Author: Catherine Anderson Narrator: Kate Turnbull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4.13 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Coulter and Harrigan Family novels comes a brand-new contemporary romance series about first love, second chances, and hope reborn. After years of living in fear of her husband, Amanda Banning has left him and moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon, for a fresh start. But she's having a tough time providing for herself and her six-year-old daughter. Writing her secret yearnings on slips of paper and sending them into the wind helps her cling to the hope that things will get better.and that she can find happiness again. Jeb Sterling has no idea that the handwritten messages he finds scattered across his land are the first hints that his life is about to change. Nor does he understand why he feels so compelled to help Amanda Banning and her daughter when a cold snap leaves them temporarily homeless. Maybe he's inspired by Amanda's courage or perhaps by her beautiful brown eyes. Either way, the man who once renounced love suddenly finds himself willing to do anything for the pair. Amanda seems to have given up on her dreams, but Jeb refuses to quit until he makes her every wish come true]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226226Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silver Thaw Series: #1 of Mystic Creek Author: Catherine Anderson Narrator: Kate Turnbull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silver Thaw Series: #1 of Mystic Creek Author: Catherine Anderson Narrator: Kate Turnbull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4.13 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Coulter and Harrigan Family novels comes a brand-new contemporary romance series about first love, second chances, and hope reborn. After years of living in fear of her husband, Amanda Banning has left him and moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon, for a fresh start. But she's having a tough time providing for herself and her six-year-old daughter. Writing her secret yearnings on slips of paper and sending them into the wind helps her cling to the hope that things will get better.and that she can find happiness again. Jeb Sterling has no idea that the handwritten messages he finds scattered across his land are the first hints that his life is about to change. Nor does he understand why he feels so compelled to help Amanda Banning and her daughter when a cold snap leaves them temporarily homeless. Maybe he's inspired by Amanda's courage or perhaps by her beautiful brown eyes. Either way, the man who once renounced love suddenly finds himself willing to do anything for the pair. Amanda seems to have given up on her dreams, but Jeb refuses to quit until he makes her every wish come true]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/after-the-war-is-over-a-novel-by-jennifer-robson--65310930https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the War is Over: A Novel Author: Jennifer Robson Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The International bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom—in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed. After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances, two messages arrive that will change her life. One, from a radical young newspaper editor, offers her a chance to speak out for those who cannot. The other pulls her back to her past, and to a man she has tried, and failed, to forget. Edward Neville-Ashford, her former employer and the brother of Charlotte’s dearest friend, is now the new Earl of Cumberland—and a shadow of the man he once was. Yet under his battle wounds and haunted eyes Charlotte sees glimpses of the charming boy who long ago claimed her foolish heart. She wants to help him, but dare she risk her future for a man who can never be hers? As Britain seethes with unrest and post-war euphoria flattens into bitter disappointment, Charlotte must confront long-held insecurities to find her true voice . . . and the courage to decide if the life she has created is the one she truly wants.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225916Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the War is Over: A Novel Author: Jennifer Robson Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the War is Over: A Novel Author: Jennifer Robson Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The International bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom—in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed. After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances, two messages arrive that will change her life. One, from a radical young newspaper editor, offers her a chance to speak out for those who cannot. The other pulls her back to her past, and to a man she has tried, and failed, to forget. Edward Neville-Ashford, her former employer and the brother of Charlotte’s dearest friend, is now the new Earl of Cumberland—and a shadow of the man he once was. Yet under his battle wounds and haunted eyes Charlotte sees glimpses of the charming boy who long ago claimed her foolish heart. She wants to help him, but dare she risk her future for a man who can never be hers? As Britain seethes with unrest and post-war euphoria flattens into bitter disappointment, Charlotte must confront long-held insecurities to find her true voice . . . and the courage to decide if the life she has created is the one she truly wants.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/before-i-go-by-colleen-oakley--65310883https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before I Go Author: Colleen Oakley Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A People and US Weekly Pick “An impressive feat…an immensely entertaining, moving, and believable read” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), this debut novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You revolves around a young woman with breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a new wife for her husband before she passes away. Twenty-seven-year-old Daisy already beat breast cancer four years ago. How can this be happening to her again? On the eve of what was supposed to be a triumphant “Cancerversary” with her husband Jack to celebrate four years of being cancer-free, Daisy suffers a devastating blow: her doctor tells her that the cancer is back, but this time it’s an aggressive stage four diagnosis. She may have as few as four months left to live. Death is a frightening prospect—but not because she’s afraid for herself. She’s terrified of what will happen to her brilliant but otherwise charmingly helpless husband when she’s no longer there to take care of him. It’s this fear that keeps her up at night, until she stumbles on the solution: she has to find him another wife. With a singular determination, Daisy scouts local parks and coffee shops and online dating sites looking for Jack’s perfect match. But the further she gets on her quest, the more she questions the sanity of her plan. As the thought of her husband with another woman becomes all too real, Daisy’s forced to decide what’s more important in the short amount of time she has left: her husband’s happiness—or her own?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226199Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before I Go Author: Colleen Oakley Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before I Go Author: Colleen Oakley Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A People and US Weekly Pick “An impressive feat…an immensely entertaining, moving, and believable read” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), this debut novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You revolves around a young woman with breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a new wife for her husband before she passes away. Twenty-seven-year-old Daisy already beat breast cancer four years ago. How can this be happening to her again? On the eve of what was supposed to be a triumphant “Cancerversary” with her husband Jack to celebrate four years of being cancer-free, Daisy suffers a devastating blow: her doctor tells her that the cancer is back, but this time it’s an aggressive stage four diagnosis. She may have as few as four months left to live. Death is a frightening prospect—but not because she’s afraid for herself. She’s terrified of what will happen to her brilliant but otherwise charmingly helpless husband when she’s no longer there to take care of him. It’s this fear that keeps her up at night, until she stumbles on the solution: she has to find him another wife. With a singular determination, Daisy scouts local parks and coffee shops and online dating sites looking for Jack’s perfect match. But the further she gets on her quest, the more she questions the sanity of her plan. As the thought of her husband with another woman becomes all too real, Daisy’s forced to decide what’s more important in the short amount of time she has left: her husband’s happiness—or her own?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bishop-s-wife-by-mette-ivie-harrison--65310960https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bishop’s Wife Series: #1 of The Linda Wallheim Novels Author: Mette Ivie Harrison Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop’s Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons and a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward’s designated spiritual father, and that makes Linda the ward’s unofficial mother whose days are filled with comfort visits, community service, and informal counseling. But Linda is increasingly troubled by the church’s patriarchal structure and secrecy, especially as a disturbing situation takes shape in the ward. One cold winter morning, a neighbor, Jared Helm, appears on the Wallheims’ doorstep with his five-year-old daughter, claiming that his wife, Carrie, disappeared in the middle of the night, leaving behind everything she owns. The circumstances surrounding Carrie’s disappearance become more suspicious the more Linda learns about them, and she becomes convinced that Jared has murdered his wife and painted himself as an abandoned husband. Kurt asks Linda not to get involved in the unfolding family saga, but she has become obsessed with Carrie’s fate—and with the well-being of her vulnerable young daughter. She cannot let the matter rest until she finds out the truth. Is she wrong to go against her husband, the bishop, when her inner convictions are so strong?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225950Tue, 30 Dec 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bishop’s Wife Series: #1 of The Linda Wallheim Novels Author: Mette Ivie Harrison Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bishop’s Wife Series: #1 of The Linda Wallheim Novels Author: Mette Ivie Harrison Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop’s Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons and a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward’s designated spiritual father, and that makes Linda the ward’s unofficial mother whose days are filled with comfort visits, community service, and informal counseling. But Linda is increasingly troubled by the church’s patriarchal structure and secrecy, especially as a disturbing situation takes shape in the ward. One cold winter morning, a neighbor, Jared Helm, appears on the Wallheims’ doorstep with his five-year-old daughter, claiming that his wife, Carrie, disappeared in the middle of the night, leaving behind everything she owns. The circumstances surrounding Carrie’s disappearance become more suspicious the more Linda learns about them, and she becomes convinced that Jared has murdered his wife and painted himself as an abandoned husband. Kurt asks Linda not to get involved in the unfolding family saga, but she has become obsessed with Carrie’s fate—and with the well-being of her vulnerable young daughter. She cannot let the matter rest until she finds out the truth. Is she wrong to go against her husband, the bishop, when her inner convictions are so strong?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/these-girls-by-sarah-pekkanen--65310945https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Girls Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen examines the lives of three women working and living together in New York City and shows that family secrets may shape us all, but it’s the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Family secrets may shape us all, but it’s the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance. Cate has just been named the features editor of Gloss, a high-end lifestyle magazine. It’s a professional coup, but her new job comes with more complications than Cate ever anticipated. Her roommate Renee will do anything to nab the plum job of beauty editor at Gloss. But snide comments about Renee’s weight send her into an emotional tailspin. Soon she is taking black market diet pills—despite the racing heartbeat and trembling hands that signal she’s heading for real danger. Then there’s Abby, whom they take in as a third roommate. Once a joyful graduate student working as a nanny part time, she abruptly fled a seemingly happy life in the D.C. suburbs. No one knows what shattered Abby—or why she left everything she once loved behind. Pekkanen’s most compelling, true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate the complications of careers and love—and find the lifeline they need in each other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225867Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Girls Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 23, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Girls Author: Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen examines the lives of three women working and living together in New York City and shows that family secrets may shape us all, but it’s the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Family secrets may shape us all, but it’s the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance. Cate has just been named the features editor of Gloss, a high-end lifestyle magazine. It’s a professional coup, but her new job comes with more complications than Cate ever anticipated. Her roommate Renee will do anything to nab the plum job of beauty editor at Gloss. But snide comments about Renee’s weight send her into an emotional tailspin. Soon she is taking black market diet pills—despite the racing heartbeat and trembling hands that signal she’s heading for real danger. Then there’s Abby, whom they take in as a third roommate. Once a joyful graduate student working as a nanny part time, she abruptly fled a seemingly happy life in the D.C. suburbs. No one knows what shattered Abby—or why she left everything she once loved behind. Pekkanen’s most compelling, true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate the complications of careers and love—and find the lifeline they need in each other.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/best-kept-secret-a-novel-by-amy-hatvany--65310948https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Kept Secret: A Novel Author: Amy Hatvany Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A timely and captivating novel about a mother whose life spirals out of control when she descends into alcoholism, and her battle to get sober and regain custody of her beloved son. Cadence didn’t sit down one night and decide that downing two bottles of wine was a brilliant idea. Her drinking snuck up on her—as a way to sleep, to help her relax after a long day, to relieve some of the stress of the painful divorce that’s left her struggling to make ends meet with her five-year old son, Charlie. It wasn’t always like this. Just a few years ago, Cadence seemed to have it all—a successful husband, an adorable son, and a promising career as a freelance journalist. But with the demise of her marriage, her carefully constructed life begins to spiral out of control. Suddenly she is all alone trying to juggle the demands of work and motherhood. Logically, Cadence knows that she is drinking too much, and every day begins with renewed promises to herself that she will stop. But within a few hours, driven by something she doesn’t understand, she is reaching for the bottle—even when it means not playing with her son because she is too tired, or dropping him off at preschool late, again. And even when one calamitous night it means leaving him alone to pick up more wine at the grocery store. It’s only when her ex-husband shows up at her door to take Charlie away that Cadence realizes her best kept secret has been discovered…. Heartbreaking, haunting, and ultimately life-affirming, Best Kept Secret is more than just the story of Cadence—it’s a story of how the secrets we hold closest are the ones that can most tear us apart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225861Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Kept Secret: A Novel Author: Amy Hatvany Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 16,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Kept Secret: A Novel Author: Amy Hatvany Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A timely and captivating novel about a mother whose life spirals out of control when she descends into alcoholism, and her battle to get sober and regain custody of her beloved son. Cadence didn’t sit down one night and decide that downing two bottles of wine was a brilliant idea. Her drinking snuck up on her—as a way to sleep, to help her relax after a long day, to relieve some of the stress of the painful divorce that’s left her struggling to make ends meet with her five-year old son, Charlie. It wasn’t always like this. Just a few years ago, Cadence seemed to have it all—a successful husband, an adorable son, and a promising career as a freelance journalist. But with the demise of her marriage, her carefully constructed life begins to spiral out of control. Suddenly she is all alone trying to juggle the demands of work and motherhood. Logically, Cadence knows that she is drinking too much, and every day begins with renewed promises to herself that she will stop. But within a few hours, driven by something she doesn’t understand, she is reaching for the bottle—even when it means not playing with her son because she is too tired, or dropping him off at preschool late, again. And even when one calamitous night it means leaving him alone to pick up more wine at the grocery store. It’s only when her ex-husband shows up at her door to take Charlie away that Cadence realizes her best kept secret has been discovered…. Heartbreaking, haunting, and ultimately life-affirming, Best Kept Secret is more than just the story of Cadence—it’s a story of how the secrets we hold closest are the ones that can most tear us apart.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-language-of-hoofbeats-by-catherine-ryan-hyde--65310975https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Hoofbeats Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When a troubled girl steals a horse, her foster moms are thrown together with their reluctant neighbor in this award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of the heartbreak and healing power of family. New to a small town, Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the troubled Star. However, they quickly butt heads with their neighbor, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle and is incensed when Star befriends her spirited horse, Comet. Haunted by past tragedy and unable to properly care for Comet, Clem nevertheless resents the bond Star soon shares with the horse. When Star disappears with Comet, the neighbors are thrown together—far too close together. But as the search for the pair wears on, both families must learn to put aside their animosity and confront the choices they’ve made and the scars they carry. Plumbing the depths of regret and forgiveness, The Language of Hoofbeats explores the strange alchemy that transforms a group of people into a family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224197Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Hoofbeats Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Hoofbeats Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When a troubled girl steals a horse, her foster moms are thrown together with their reluctant neighbor in this award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of the heartbreak and healing power of family. New to a small town, Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the troubled Star. However, they quickly butt heads with their neighbor, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle and is incensed when Star befriends her spirited horse, Comet. Haunted by past tragedy and unable to properly care for Comet, Clem nevertheless resents the bond Star soon shares with the horse. When Star disappears with Comet, the neighbors are thrown together—far too close together. But as the search for the pair wears on, both families must learn to put aside their animosity and confront the choices they’ve made and the scars they carry. Plumbing the depths of regret and forgiveness, The Language of Hoofbeats explores the strange alchemy that transforms a group of people into a family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/disconnected-by-jennifer-weiner--65310947https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disconnected Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Jess Weixler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From #1 bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a haunting tale of addiction and obligation, secrets and redemption. Now available on CD and as an audio download for the first time! Shannon Will is nearing thirty and has already made six trips to rehab (not that anyone’s counting). But this time, she swears, will be different. She’ll clean up her act, go to meetings, find a sponsor, and make a clean break with her past—starting with a new phone number. But old ties aren’t so easy to sever. When Shannon’s new phone starts getting messages she was never meant to see, Shannon has to decide whether to risk getting involved, or stay safely disconnected. Gripping, suspenseful, and smart, Disconnected is a riveting tale of addiction and obligation, secrets and redemption.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223690Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disconnected Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Jess Weixler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disconnected Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Jess Weixler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From #1 bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a haunting tale of addiction and obligation, secrets and redemption. Now available on CD and as an audio download for the first time! Shannon Will is nearing thirty and has already made six trips to rehab (not that anyone’s counting). But this time, she swears, will be different. She’ll clean up her act, go to meetings, find a sponsor, and make a clean break with her past—starting with a new phone number. But old ties aren’t so easy to sever. When Shannon’s new phone starts getting messages she was never meant to see, Shannon has to decide whether to risk getting involved, or stay safely disconnected. Gripping, suspenseful, and smart, Disconnected is a riveting tale of addiction and obligation, secrets and redemption.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-amber-keeper-by-freda-lightfoot--65311000https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Amber Keeper Author: Freda Lightfoot Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness. English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother’s death. Estranged from her turbulent family for many years, Abbie is heartbroken to hear that they blame her for the tragedy. Determined to uncover her mother’s past, Abbie approaches her beloved grandmother, Millie, in search of answers. As the old woman recounts her own past, Abbie is transported back to the grandeur of the Russian Empire in 1911 with tales of her grandmother’s life as a governess and the revolution that exploded around her. As Abbie struggles to reconcile with her family, and to support herself and her child, she realizes that those long-ago events created aftershocks that threaten to upset the fragile peace she longs to create.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221745Mon, 01 Dec 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Amber Keeper Author: Freda Lightfoot Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Amber Keeper Author: Freda Lightfoot Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness. English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother’s death. Estranged from her turbulent family for many years, Abbie is heartbroken to hear that they blame her for the tragedy. Determined to uncover her mother’s past, Abbie approaches her beloved grandmother, Millie, in search of answers. As the old woman recounts her own past, Abbie is transported back to the grandeur of the Russian Empire in 1911 with tales of her grandmother’s life as a governess and the revolution that exploded around her. As Abbie struggles to reconcile with her family, and to support herself and her child, she realizes that those long-ago events created aftershocks that threaten to upset the fragile peace she longs to create.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-his-brother-s-place-by-elizabeth-lane--65310931https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223474 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In His Brother's Place Author: Elizabeth Lane Narrator: Anna Salinas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'I want the boy.' For three years Angie Montoya hid her son from her late fiance's family until his brother tracked them down. Now Jordan Cooper demands she move to his Santa Fe ranch-- the boy's birthright. But how can Angie live with the man who called her a gold digger the man whose one kiss she's never forgotten? Racked by guilt since his twin's death, Jordan seeks redemption by raising his nephew. But Angie resurrects a hunger in him that only she can satisfy. Jordan knows he can have her on one condition-- that she never learns the truth about him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223474Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223474 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In His Brother's Place Author: Elizabeth Lane Narrator: Anna Salinas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223474 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In His Brother's Place Author: Elizabeth Lane Narrator: Anna Salinas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'I want the boy.' For three years Angie Montoya hid her son from her late fiance's family until his brother tracked them down. Now Jordan Cooper demands she move to his Santa Fe ranch-- the boy's birthright. But how can Angie live with the man who called her a gold digger the man whose one kiss she's never forgotten? Racked by guilt since his twin's death, Jordan seeks redemption by raising his nephew. But Angie resurrects a hunger in him that only she can satisfy. Jordan knows he can have her on one condition-- that she never learns the truth about him.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/three-daughters-a-novel-by-consuelo-saah-baehr--65310999https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Daughters: A Novel Author: Consuelo Saah Baehr Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the fertile hills of a tiny village near Jerusalem to the elegant townhouses of Georgetown, Three Daughters is a historical saga that chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of Palestinian Christian women. Born in rural Palestine, just before the dawn of the twentieth century, Miriam adores her father and is certain his love will protect her, but she soon finds that tradition overrides love. Uprooted by war, Miriam enters a world where the old constraints slip away with thrilling and disastrous results. Miriam’s rebellious daughter, Nadia, is thrilled with the opportunity for a modern life that her elite education provides. But when she falls in love with an outsider, the clan reins her back with a shocking finality. Nijmeh, Nadia's daughter, is an only child and the path her father, the sheik, sets for her is fraught with difficulties, yet it prepares her for her ultimate journey to America, where she finds her future. Each woman, in her own time and in her own way, experiences a world in transition through war and social change...and each must stretch the bounds of her loyalty, her courage, and her heart. Revised edition: Previously published as Daughters, this edition of Three Daughters includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221334Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Daughters: A Novel Author: Consuelo Saah Baehr Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Daughters: A Novel Author: Consuelo Saah Baehr Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the fertile hills of a tiny village near Jerusalem to the elegant townhouses of Georgetown, Three Daughters is a historical saga that chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of Palestinian Christian women. Born in rural Palestine, just before the dawn of the twentieth century, Miriam adores her father and is certain his love will protect her, but she soon finds that tradition overrides love. Uprooted by war, Miriam enters a world where the old constraints slip away with thrilling and disastrous results. Miriam’s rebellious daughter, Nadia, is thrilled with the opportunity for a modern life that her elite education provides. But when she falls in love with an outsider, the clan reins her back with a shocking finality. Nijmeh, Nadia's daughter, is an only child and the path her father, the sheik, sets for her is fraught with difficulties, yet it prepares her for her ultimate journey to America, where she finds her future. Each woman, in her own time and in her own way, experiences a world in transition through war and social change...and each must stretch the bounds of her loyalty, her courage, and her heart. Revised edition: Previously published as Daughters, this edition of Three Daughters includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shadow-of-the-ancients-by-pierre-grimbert--65310956https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221052 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadow of the Ancients Series: #3 of Secret of Ji Author: Pierre Grimbert Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 11, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Romine’s Deep Tower to the Grand Temple in Ithare, from the Murky Mountains to the Warrior’s Vale, the heirs continue their desperate quest—whose outcome will decide the fate of the Upper Kingdoms. Will they have to recklessly desecrate one of the gods’ most jealously guarded secrets? Every discovery condemns them. Armies gather, conspirators reveal themselves, schemes are unveiled. The heirs’ time is short. Unraveling the mysteries of Nol and the emissaries will bring the heirs behind the Curtain, deep into the Eastern Kingdoms. Only there, if they can survive the most dangerous of the guardians, will they find what really hides in the shadow of the ancients.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221052Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221052 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadow of the Ancients Series: #3 of Secret of Ji Author: Pierre Grimbert Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221052 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadow of the Ancients Series: #3 of Secret of Ji Author: Pierre Grimbert Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 11, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Romine’s Deep Tower to the Grand Temple in Ithare, from the Murky Mountains to the Warrior’s Vale, the heirs continue their desperate quest—whose outcome will decide the fate of the Upper Kingdoms. Will they have to recklessly desecrate one of the gods’ most jealously guarded secrets? Every discovery condemns them. Armies gather, conspirators reveal themselves, schemes are unveiled. The heirs’ time is short. Unraveling the mysteries of Nol and the emissaries will bring the heirs behind the Curtain, deep into the Eastern Kingdoms. Only there, if they can survive the most dangerous of the guardians, will they find what really hides in the shadow of the ancients.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stillwater-rising-by-steena-holmes--65310950https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stillwater Rising Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 11, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: After losing her son in an elementary school shooting that devastates the tight-knit community of Stillwater Bay, Jennifer Crowne finds herself unable to settle back into her role of perfect stay-at-home mom and committee organizer. Meanwhile, her best friend, Mayor Charlotte Stone, struggles to keep the town together, and Charlotte’s husband, the school principal, may not be the hero everyone thinks him to be. As they try to heal from this irrevocable trauma, Jenn and Charlotte find themselves at a crossroads—within the town and within their friendship. For Jenn, broken and grieving, there is no going back, and she demands that the school be closed so that she can bury the past. Yet Charlotte is equally desperate to hold the town together, fighting the school closure and helping the shooter’s mother regain her place in the community. Jenn and Charlotte’s relationship is put to the ultimate test as each weighs her own interests against the bonds of their friendship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221345Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stillwater Rising Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 11, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stillwater Rising Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 11, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: After losing her son in an elementary school shooting that devastates the tight-knit community of Stillwater Bay, Jennifer Crowne finds herself unable to settle back into her role of perfect stay-at-home mom and committee organizer. Meanwhile, her best friend, Mayor Charlotte Stone, struggles to keep the town together, and Charlotte’s husband, the school principal, may not be the hero everyone thinks him to be. As they try to heal from this irrevocable trauma, Jenn and Charlotte find themselves at a crossroads—within the town and within their friendship. For Jenn, broken and grieving, there is no going back, and she demands that the school be closed so that she can bury the past. Yet Charlotte is equally desperate to hold the town together, fighting the school closure and helping the shooter’s mother regain her place in the community. Jenn and Charlotte’s relationship is put to the ultimate test as each weighs her own interests against the bonds of their friendship.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-quite-forever-by-catherine-bybee--65310940https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Quite Forever Series: #4 of Not Quite Author: Catherine Bybee Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The touching and heartwarming fourth novel in the wildly popular Not Quite series from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee. Romance author Dakota Laurens believes that happily-ever-afters exist only between the covers of her sexy novels. But to her surprise, she finds a real-life hero when she meets a handsome emergency room doctor. The outspoken author feels an instant and intense attraction to Dr. Walt Eddy, and the feeling is mutual. When the globetrotting doctor pulls a disappearing act on Dakota, she’s prepared to write him off…until fate brings a blindsiding twist to her story. Still scarred from a past tragedy, Walt may have disappeared on Dakota, but now he’s determined to win her back. For the first time in years, he knows he’s ready for a new chance at love. Yet between Dakota’s doubts and two sets of meddling parents, can the once-blissful couple finally create the bright, loving future they desperately want?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221352Tue, 04 Nov 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Quite Forever Series: #4 of Not Quite Author: Catherine Bybee Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Quite Forever Series: #4 of Not Quite Author: Catherine Bybee Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The touching and heartwarming fourth novel in the wildly popular Not Quite series from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee. Romance author Dakota Laurens believes that happily-ever-afters exist only between the covers of her sexy novels. But to her surprise, she finds a real-life hero when she meets a handsome emergency room doctor. The outspoken author feels an instant and intense attraction to Dr. Walt Eddy, and the feeling is mutual. When the globetrotting doctor pulls a disappearing act on Dakota, she’s prepared to write him off…until fate brings a blindsiding twist to her story. Still scarred from a past tragedy, Walt may have disappeared on Dakota, but now he’s determined to win her back. For the first time in years, he knows he’s ready for a new chance at love. Yet between Dakota’s doubts and two sets of meddling parents, can the once-blissful couple finally create the bright, loving future they desperately want?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fallow-season-of-hugo-hunter-by-craig-lancaster--65310996https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter Author: Craig Lancaster Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 1, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of 600 Hours of Edward comes the story of two small-town characters whose fates are inextricably linked. Hugo Hunter, a would-be boxing champion, is thirty-seven, soft around the middle, and broke—his glory days long gone. Raised by his beloved grandmother, he is rough around the edges but has a kind heart. Watching Hugo ringside for nearly twenty years, sportswriter Mark Westerly has struggled to keep a professional distance while he’s served alternately as Hugo’s friend, mentor, and conscience. As Hugo lands on the ropes again, Mark steps in to try to save him and, along the way, gets an unexpected second chance of his own when he meets the gentle and lovely Lainie. In this moving tale of human folly and kindness, can two people who’ve lived so long under the weight of their pasts finally find redemption?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220715Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter Author: Craig Lancaster Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter Author: Craig Lancaster Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 1, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of 600 Hours of Edward comes the story of two small-town characters whose fates are inextricably linked. Hugo Hunter, a would-be boxing champion, is thirty-seven, soft around the middle, and broke—his glory days long gone. Raised by his beloved grandmother, he is rough around the edges but has a kind heart. Watching Hugo ringside for nearly twenty years, sportswriter Mark Westerly has struggled to keep a professional distance while he’s served alternately as Hugo’s friend, mentor, and conscience. As Hugo lands on the ropes again, Mark steps in to try to save him and, along the way, gets an unexpected second chance of his own when he meets the gentle and lovely Lainie. In this moving tale of human folly and kindness, can two people who’ve lived so long under the weight of their pasts finally find redemption?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-glassblower-by-petra-durst-benning--65310976https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glassblower Series: #1 of The Glassblower Trilogy Author: Petra Durst-Benning Narrator: Kristin Watson Heintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daughters must learn to fend for themselves. While feisty Johanna takes a practical approach to looking for work, Ruth follows her heart, aiming to catch the eye of a handsome young villager. But it is dreamy, quiet Marie who has always been the most captivated by the magic—and sparkling possibilities—of the craft of glassblowing. As the spirited sisters work together to forge a brighter future for themselves on their own terms, they learn not only how to thrive in a man’s world, but how to remain true to themselves—and their hearts—in the process.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220716Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glassblower Series: #1 of The Glassblower Trilogy Author: Petra Durst-Benning Narrator: Kristin Watson Heintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glassblower Series: #1 of The Glassblower Trilogy Author: Petra Durst-Benning Narrator: Kristin Watson Heintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daughters must learn to fend for themselves. While feisty Johanna takes a practical approach to looking for work, Ruth follows her heart, aiming to catch the eye of a handsome young villager. But it is dreamy, quiet Marie who has always been the most captivated by the magic—and sparkling possibilities—of the craft of glassblowing. As the spirited sisters work together to forge a brighter future for themselves on their own terms, they learn not only how to thrive in a man’s world, but how to remain true to themselves—and their hearts—in the process.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pegasus-a-novel-by-danielle-steel--65310971https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pegasus: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel delivers one of her strongest books to date with this trans-generational narrative that draws inspiration from her own family history. Opening on the cusp of World War II and following an aristocratic German family who seeks refuge in America-with their magnificent Lipizzaner horses-this rich historical novel speaks to the transformative power of love and family.Late 1930's Germany: Best friends Alex von Hemmerle and Nicolas von Bingen, titled childhood friends with neighboring estates, are witnessing the rise of Nazism when Nick's father reveals the long-buried secret of his son's partial Jewish ancestry. Warned by highly placed friends to flee, the only treasures Nick and his sons can take are two dazzling Lipizzaner horses, gifts from Alex. These powerful and majestic creatures become their ticket to a new life waiting across the ocean-one in which a job has been promised to Nick with the famous Ringling Brothers Circus. While Alex and his daughter face escalating danger in war torn Europe, Nick struggles to adjust to life in the circus…until a graceful young high wire walker manages to steal his heart. Spanning multiple generations and continents, this is a rich, involving story of transformation, perseverance, fate, love, and loss, tied together by two families who were never meant to stay apart and the magnificent stallion that will link them forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220718Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pegasus: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pegasus: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel delivers one of her strongest books to date with this trans-generational narrative that draws inspiration from her own family history. Opening on the cusp of World War II and following an aristocratic German family who seeks refuge in America-with their magnificent Lipizzaner horses-this rich historical novel speaks to the transformative power of love and family.Late 1930's Germany: Best friends Alex von Hemmerle and Nicolas von Bingen, titled childhood friends with neighboring estates, are witnessing the rise of Nazism when Nick's father reveals the long-buried secret of his son's partial Jewish ancestry. Warned by highly placed friends to flee, the only treasures Nick and his sons can take are two dazzling Lipizzaner horses, gifts from Alex. These powerful and majestic creatures become their ticket to a new life waiting across the ocean-one in which a job has been promised to Nick with the famous Ringling Brothers Circus. While Alex and his daughter face escalating danger in war torn Europe, Nick struggles to adjust to life in the circus…until a graceful young high wire walker manages to steal his heart. Spanning multiple generations and continents, this is a rich, involving story of transformation, perseverance, fate, love, and loss, tied together by two families who were never meant to stay apart and the magnificent stallion that will link them forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/us-a-novel-by-david-nicholls--65310966https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us: A Novel Author: David Nicholls Narrator: David Haig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a PBS Masterpiece television miniseries starring Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves “I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After.” — Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You  David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny novel about what holds marriages and families together—and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date . . . and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger. It is a moving meditation on the demands of marriage and parenthood, the regrets of abandoning youth for middle age, and the intricate relationship between the heart and the head.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221713Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us: A Novel Author: David Nicholls Narrator: David Haig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us: A Novel Author: David Nicholls Narrator: David Haig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a PBS Masterpiece television miniseries starring Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves “I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After.” — Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You  David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny novel about what holds marriages and families together—and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date . . . and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger. It is a moving meditation on the demands of marriage and parenthood, the regrets of abandoning youth for middle age, and the intricate relationship between the heart and the head.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/christopher-s-diary-secrets-of-foxworth-by-v-c-andrews--65310963https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light in this riveting novel from V.C. Andrews, the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind, both major Lifetime TV events. Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and his younger siblings—Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie—were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother’s greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden—until now. Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father’s construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family. Accompanying her dad to the “forbidden territory,” they find a leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy about her reading it, but as she devours the teen’s story page by page, his shattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakes Kristin’s every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses a dangerous line…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223147Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Rebekkah Ross, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light in this riveting novel from V.C. Andrews, the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind, both major Lifetime TV events. Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and his younger siblings—Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie—were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother’s greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden—until now. Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father’s construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family. Accompanying her dad to the “forbidden territory,” they find a leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy about her reading it, but as she devours the teen’s story page by page, his shattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakes Kristin’s every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses a dangerous line…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/together-for-christmas-by-carol-rivers--65310967https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Together for Christmas Author: Carol Rivers Narrator: Helen Dickens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: August 1914, London. Britain has just declared war on Germany, and the whole country seems to be in uproar. Flora, Hilda and Will, who grew up together in St Boniface orphanage sit in the sunshine in Hyde Park on a rare day off, discussing the impending war and the changes it will bring to their lives. Will means to go off to fight, Hilda hopes to better her current lot in life as a maid at the charitable institute, Hailing House, but Flora is content with her job as assistant to the Isle of Dogs' kindly Doctor Tapper. Taking a vow, they pledge to always be there for each other, come what may. It soon becomes clear that the war will not be over by Christmas, as so many thought, and the first zeppelin raids bring casualties flooding into the surgery where Flora works. Tragedy strikes in the trenches, too, and Will returns home with physical and mental wounds too deep for Flora to be able to nurse back to health. In the meantime, Hilda has taken herself away from London to work as a maid at the sumptuous house of Adelphi. But it is not long before she finds herself out of her depth. And the consequences of her choices will lead to a shocking discovery that will change the course of the three orphans lives forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223389Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Together for Christmas Author: Carol Rivers Narrator: Helen Dickens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Together for Christmas Author: Carol Rivers Narrator: Helen Dickens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: August 1914, London. Britain has just declared war on Germany, and the whole country seems to be in uproar. Flora, Hilda and Will, who grew up together in St Boniface orphanage sit in the sunshine in Hyde Park on a rare day off, discussing the impending war and the changes it will bring to their lives. Will means to go off to fight, Hilda hopes to better her current lot in life as a maid at the charitable institute, Hailing House, but Flora is content with her job as assistant to the Isle of Dogs' kindly Doctor Tapper. Taking a vow, they pledge to always be there for each other, come what may. It soon becomes clear that the war will not be over by Christmas, as so many thought, and the first zeppelin raids bring casualties flooding into the surgery where Flora works. Tragedy strikes in the trenches, too, and Will returns home with physical and mental wounds too deep for Flora to be able to nurse back to health. In the meantime, Hilda has taken herself away from London to work as a maid at the sumptuous house of Adelphi. But it is not long before she finds herself out of her depth. And the consequences of her choices will lead to a shocking discovery that will change the course of the three orphans lives forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/winter-street-by-elin-hilderbrand--65310993https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Street Series: #1 of Winter Street Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises. Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And Bart, the youngest and only child of Kelley's second marriage to Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the Marines. As Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus (or the guy who's playing Santa at the inn's annual party), utter chaos descends. With the three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart unreachable in Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley's ex-wife, nightly news anchor Margaret Quinn, to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn. Before the mulled cider is gone, the delightfully dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle, an unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling, in this heart-warming novel about coming home for the holidays. Follow the Quinn family through the entire Winter Street Series: - Winter Street - Winter Stroll - Winter Storms - Winter Solstice]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218355Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Street Series: #1 of Winter Street Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Street Series: #1 of Winter Street Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises. Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And Bart, the youngest and only child of Kelley's second marriage to Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the Marines. As Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus (or the guy who's playing Santa at the inn's annual party), utter chaos descends. With the three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart unreachable in Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley's ex-wife, nightly news anchor Margaret Quinn, to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn. Before the mulled cider is gone, the delightfully dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle, an unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling, in this heart-warming novel about coming home for the holidays. Follow the Quinn family through the entire Winter Street Series: - Winter Street - Winter Stroll - Winter Storms - Winter Solstice]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/leaving-time-a-novel-by-jodi-picoult--65310978https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leaving Time: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Abigail Revasch, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Deakins, Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 220 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 19 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Throughout her blockbuster career, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that “not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us” (The Boston Globe). Now, in her highly anticipated new book, she has delivered her most affecting novel yet—and one unlike anything she’s written before.   For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.   Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest. The first is Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons—only to later doubt her gifts. The second is Virgil Stanhope, a jaded private detective who originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers.   As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish. A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers. “The Elephant” from NATURAL HISTORY by Dan Chiasson, copyright ©2005 by Dan Chiasson. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. 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/218542Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leaving Time: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Abigail Revasch, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Deakins, Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leaving Time: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Abigail Revasch, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Deakins, Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 220 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 19 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Throughout her blockbuster career, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that “not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us” (The Boston Globe). Now, in her highly anticipated new book, she has delivered her most affecting novel yet—and one unlike anything she’s written before.   For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.   Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest. The first is Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons—only to later doubt her gifts. The second is Virgil Stanhope, a jaded private detective who originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers.   As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish. A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers. “The Elephant” from NATURAL HISTORY by Dan Chiasson, copyright ©2005 by Dan Chiasson. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. 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]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spoiled-brats-including-the-story-that-inspired-the-major-motion-picture-an-american-pickle-starring-seth-rogen-stories-by-simon-rich--65310968https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen): Stories Author: Simon Rich Narrator: Simon Rich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price. From 'one of the funniest writers in America' comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists -- and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way. A hardworking immigrant is preserved for a century in pickle brine. A helicopter mom strives to educate her demon son. And a family of hamsters struggles to survive in a private-school homeroom. Surreal, shrewd, and surprisingly warm, these stories are as resonant as they are hilarious.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221142Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen): Stories Author: Simon Rich Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen): Stories Author: Simon Rich Narrator: Simon Rich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price. From 'one of the funniest writers in America' comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists -- and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way. A hardworking immigrant is preserved for a century in pickle brine. A helicopter mom strives to educate her demon son. And a family of hamsters struggles to survive in a private-school homeroom. Surreal, shrewd, and surprisingly warm, these stories are as resonant as they are hilarious.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-pastry-murder-a-lucy-stone-mystery-by-leslie-meier--65310954https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Pastry Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery Series: #21 of Lucy Stone Author: Leslie Meier Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Tinker's Cove is abuzz with excitement when Norah, the queen of daytime TV, comes to town and selects Lucy and her pals to be featured in her 'Women Who Make a Difference' episode. In recognition for their charitable work, the ladies and their husbands are awarded a dream vacation in Paris, complete with classes at Le Cooking School with renowned pastry chef Larry Bruneau. But their bon voyage is cut short when Lucy discovers the chef in a pool of blood on the second day of class... If she's going to enjoy her vacation, she'll have to unpack her sleuthing skills and clear her name. But will she be able to track down a killer more elusive than the perfect macaron?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223533Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Pastry Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery Series: #21 of Lucy Stone Author: Leslie Meier Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Pastry Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery Series: #21 of Lucy Stone Author: Leslie Meier Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Tinker's Cove is abuzz with excitement when Norah, the queen of daytime TV, comes to town and selects Lucy and her pals to be featured in her 'Women Who Make a Difference' episode. In recognition for their charitable work, the ladies and their husbands are awarded a dream vacation in Paris, complete with classes at Le Cooking School with renowned pastry chef Larry Bruneau. But their bon voyage is cut short when Lucy discovers the chef in a pool of blood on the second day of class... If she's going to enjoy her vacation, she'll have to unpack her sleuthing skills and clear her name. But will she be able to track down a killer more elusive than the perfect macaron?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-there-s-smoke-short-story-and-larger-than-life-novella-by-jodi-picoult--65310946https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where There's Smoke (Short Story) and Larger Than Life (Novella) Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Where There's Smoke: Bestselling author Jodi Picoult is a masterful storyteller, who “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). Now, in this original short story, Picoult introduces Serenity Jones, one of the fascinating characters from her eagerly awaited new novel, Leaving Time.   Even as a child, Serenity Jones knew she possessed unusual psychic gifts. Now, decades later, she’s an acclaimed medium and host of her own widely viewed TV show, where she delivers messages to the living from loved ones who have passed. Lately, though, her efforts to boost ratings and garner fame have compromised her clairvoyant instincts. When Serenity books a young war widow to appear as a guest, the episode quickly unravels, stirring up a troubling controversy. And as she tries to undo the damage—to both her reputation and her show—Serenity finds that pride comes at a high price.   Larger Than Life: From Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and My Sister’s Keeper, comes a gripping and beautifully written novella. Set in the wilds of Africa, Larger Than Life introduces Alice, the unforgettable character at the center of Picoult’s anticipated new novel, Leaving Time.    A researcher studying memory in elephants, Alice is fascinated by the bonds between mother and calf—the mother’s powerful protective instincts and her newborn’s unwavering loyalty. Living on a game reserve in Botswana, Alice is able to view the animals in their natural habitat—while following an important rule: She must only observe and never interfere. Then she finds an orphaned young elephant in the bush and cannot bear to leave the helpless baby behind. Thinking back on her own childhood, and on her shifting relationship with her mother, Alice risks her career to care for the calf. Yet what she comes to understand is the depth of a parent’s love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218545Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where There's Smoke (Short Story) and Larger Than Life (Novella) Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where There's Smoke (Short Story) and Larger Than Life (Novella) Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Where There's Smoke: Bestselling author Jodi Picoult is a masterful storyteller, who “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). Now, in this original short story, Picoult introduces Serenity Jones, one of the fascinating characters from her eagerly awaited new novel, Leaving Time.   Even as a child, Serenity Jones knew she possessed unusual psychic gifts. Now, decades later, she’s an acclaimed medium and host of her own widely viewed TV show, where she delivers messages to the living from loved ones who have passed. Lately, though, her efforts to boost ratings and garner fame have compromised her clairvoyant instincts. When Serenity books a young war widow to appear as a guest, the episode quickly unravels, stirring up a troubling controversy. And as she tries to undo the damage—to both her reputation and her show—Serenity finds that pride comes at a high price.   Larger Than Life: From Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and My Sister’s Keeper, comes a gripping and beautifully written novella. Set in the wilds of Africa, Larger Than Life introduces Alice, the unforgettable character at the center of Picoult’s anticipated new novel, Leaving Time.    A researcher studying memory in elephants, Alice is fascinated by the bonds between mother and calf—the mother’s powerful protective instincts and her newborn’s unwavering loyalty. Living on a game reserve in Botswana, Alice is able to view the animals in their natural habitat—while following an important rule: She must only observe and never interfere. Then she finds an orphaned young elephant in the bush and cannot bear to leave the helpless baby behind. Thinking back on her own childhood, and on her shifting relationship with her mother, Alice risks her career to care for the calf. Yet what she comes to understand is the depth of a parent’s love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/some-luck-a-novel-by-jane-smiley--65311054https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Some Luck: A Novel Series: #1 of The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.  On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart. Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis; later still, a girl you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.    Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218335Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Some Luck: A Novel Series: #1 of The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Some Luck: A Novel Series: #1 of The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.  On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart. Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis; later still, a girl you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.    Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brood-by-chase-novak--65311045https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brood Author: Chase Novak Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers, Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy in the sequel to Chase Novak's novel, Breed. Thirteen years ago, a radical fertility doctor helped bring Adam and Alice Twisden into the world. The treatment came at a great cost: it turned the twins' parents into barbarous animals and threatens to transform the children, too. As Adam and Alice find themselves on the brink of maturity, they starve themselves in a desperate attempt to stop their bodies from changing. Will they succumb to the same bodily horrors that destroyed their parents? Their aunt, Cynthia, who has always wanted to be a mother, oversees renovations to the Twisden family's Upper East Side residence-violently torn apart by the children's parents -- and struggles to give her niece and nephew the unconditional love and stable home life they never had. Meanwhile, in the world outside, the forces of good and evil collide as a troop of wild teenagers, growing steadily in number, threatens to invade the calm refuge Cynthia is so determined to construct behind the safety of the Twisdens' walls. As New York City transforms into a battleground, Adam and Alice will have to decide where their loyalties lie. They are determined to lead normal lives -- and yet their unnatural urges, which grow ever stronger by the day, can only be stifled for so long...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218294Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brood Author: Chase Novak Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers, Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brood Author: Chase Novak Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers, Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy in the sequel to Chase Novak's novel, Breed. Thirteen years ago, a radical fertility doctor helped bring Adam and Alice Twisden into the world. The treatment came at a great cost: it turned the twins' parents into barbarous animals and threatens to transform the children, too. As Adam and Alice find themselves on the brink of maturity, they starve themselves in a desperate attempt to stop their bodies from changing. Will they succumb to the same bodily horrors that destroyed their parents? Their aunt, Cynthia, who has always wanted to be a mother, oversees renovations to the Twisden family's Upper East Side residence-violently torn apart by the children's parents -- and struggles to give her niece and nephew the unconditional love and stable home life they never had. Meanwhile, in the world outside, the forces of good and evil collide as a troop of wild teenagers, growing steadily in number, threatens to invade the calm refuge Cynthia is so determined to construct behind the safety of the Twisdens' walls. As New York City transforms into a battleground, Adam and Alice will have to decide where their loyalties lie. They are determined to lead normal lives -- and yet their unnatural urges, which grow ever stronger by the day, can only be stifled for so long...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sweetness-of-honey-by-alison-kent--65310965https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweetness of Honey Series: #3 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Welcome to Hope Springs, Texas, where redemption grows…and where love blooms. Dark-haired beauty Indiana Keller buys a property in Hope Springs, Texas, for three reasons: to expand her vegetable business, to harvest and sell delicious honey from the property’s established bee colony, and to reunite with her estranged siblings. But her older brother Tennessee keeps his distance, even after Indiana hires his construction crew to fix up her cottage. It’s almost as if he shares her guilt over the disappearance of Dakota, their missing brother… While Indiana tries to reconnect with Ten and find Dakota, two local men begin vying for her heart. Handsome, laid-back Will Bowman has a checkered past, but now he’s determined to get what he wants out of life…and he wants Indiana. Meanwhile, refined Oliver Gatlin can’t fight his own attraction to Indiana, especially since his brother also fell victim to tragic circumstances. Amid the raw natural beauty of Hope Springs, can Indiana’s broken heart finally heal enough to love?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218392Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweetness of Honey Series: #3 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweetness of Honey Series: #3 of A Hope Springs Novel Author: Alison Kent Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Welcome to Hope Springs, Texas, where redemption grows…and where love blooms. Dark-haired beauty Indiana Keller buys a property in Hope Springs, Texas, for three reasons: to expand her vegetable business, to harvest and sell delicious honey from the property’s established bee colony, and to reunite with her estranged siblings. But her older brother Tennessee keeps his distance, even after Indiana hires his construction crew to fix up her cottage. It’s almost as if he shares her guilt over the disappearance of Dakota, their missing brother… While Indiana tries to reconnect with Ten and find Dakota, two local men begin vying for her heart. Handsome, laid-back Will Bowman has a checkered past, but now he’s determined to get what he wants out of life…and he wants Indiana. Meanwhile, refined Oliver Gatlin can’t fight his own attraction to Indiana, especially since his brother also fell victim to tragic circumstances. Amid the raw natural beauty of Hope Springs, can Indiana’s broken heart finally heal enough to love?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nora-webster-a-novel-by-colm-toibin--65310953https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nora Webster: A Novel Author: Colm Toibin Narrator: Fiona Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 2015 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin). Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220823Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nora Webster: A Novel Author: Colm Toibin Narrator: Fiona Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nora Webster: A Novel Author: Colm Toibin Narrator: Fiona Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 2015 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin). Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reunion-a-novel-by-hannah-pittard--65310914https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reunion: A Novel Author: Hannah Pittard Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The author of the highly acclaimed The Fates Will Find Their Way returns with a novel about a far-flung family reunited for one weekend by their father's death. Five minutes before her flight is set to take off, Kate Pulaski, failed screenwriter and newly failed wife with scarcely a hundred dollars to her name, learns that her estranged father has killed himself. More shocked than saddened by the news, she gives in to her siblings' request that she join them, along with her many half-siblings and most of her father's five former wives, in Atlanta, their birthplace, for a final farewell. Written with huge heart and bracing wit, Reunion takes place over the following four days, as family secrets are revealed, personal foibles are exposed, and Kate -- an inveterate liar looking for a way to come clean-slowly begins to acknowledge the overwhelming similarities between herself and the man she never thought she'd claim as an influence, much less a father. Hannah Pittard's 'engaging and vigorous' prose masterfully illuminates the problems that can divide modern families--and the ties that prove impossible to break. (Chicago Tribune)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220495Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reunion: A Novel Author: Hannah Pittard Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reunion: A Novel Author: Hannah Pittard Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The author of the highly acclaimed The Fates Will Find Their Way returns with a novel about a far-flung family reunited for one weekend by their father's death. Five minutes before her flight is set to take off, Kate Pulaski, failed screenwriter and newly failed wife with scarcely a hundred dollars to her name, learns that her estranged father has killed himself. More shocked than saddened by the news, she gives in to her siblings' request that she join them, along with her many half-siblings and most of her father's five former wives, in Atlanta, their birthplace, for a final farewell. Written with huge heart and bracing wit, Reunion takes place over the following four days, as family secrets are revealed, personal foibles are exposed, and Kate -- an inveterate liar looking for a way to come clean-slowly begins to acknowledge the overwhelming similarities between herself and the man she never thought she'd claim as an influence, much less a father. Hannah Pittard's 'engaging and vigorous' prose masterfully illuminates the problems that can divide modern families--and the ties that prove impossible to break. (Chicago Tribune)]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/white-horses-by-alice-hoffman--65310980https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Horses Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Alice Hoffman, the bestselling author of such beloved novels as Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven, has written a powerful story of love that shows why she has been called a 'born storyteller' (Entertainment Weekly). When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the grown-up Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come true.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220643Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Horses Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 1, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Horses Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Alice Hoffman, the bestselling author of such beloved novels as Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven, has written a powerful story of love that shows why she has been called a 'born storyteller' (Entertainment Weekly). When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the grown-up Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come true.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-moonlight-palace-by-liz-rosenberg--65310969https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moonlight Palace Author: Liz Rosenberg Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British. Now Agnes is seventeen and her family has fallen into genteel poverty, surviving on her grandfather’s pension and the meager income they receive from a varied cast of boarders. As outside forces conspire to steal the palace out from under them, Agnes struggles to save her family and finds bravery, love, and loyalty in the most unexpected places. The Moonlight Palace is a coming-of-age tale rich with historical detail and unforgettable characters set against the backdrop of dazzling 1920s Singapore.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218389Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moonlight Palace Author: Liz Rosenberg Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moonlight Palace Author: Liz Rosenberg Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British. Now Agnes is seventeen and her family has fallen into genteel poverty, surviving on her grandfather’s pension and the meager income they receive from a varied cast of boarders. As outside forces conspire to steal the palace out from under them, Agnes struggles to save her family and finds bravery, love, and loyalty in the most unexpected places. The Moonlight Palace is a coming-of-age tale rich with historical detail and unforgettable characters set against the backdrop of dazzling 1920s Singapore.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/seeds-of-yesterday-by-v-c-andrews--65311023https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seeds of Yesterday Series: #4 of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.79 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Four of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They escaped their mother’s hellish trap years ago, but a cruel history of lies and deceit has come full circle… The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family’s darkest secrets. Now, with three grown children and even a new last name, the pair seem to have outlived a twisted legacy. But on their son Bart’s twenty-fifth birthday, when the spiteful and disturbed young man claims his rightful inheritance, the full, shattering truth of their tainted past will be revealed at Foxworth Hall—the place where the nightmare began, and where Christopher and Cathy were once just innocent flowers in the attic…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220487Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seeds of Yesterday Series: #4 of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 6 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seeds of Yesterday Series: #4 of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.79 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Four of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They escaped their mother’s hellish trap years ago, but a cruel history of lies and deceit has come full circle… The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family’s darkest secrets. Now, with three grown children and even a new last name, the pair seem to have outlived a twisted legacy. But on their son Bart’s twenty-fifth birthday, when the spiteful and disturbed young man claims his rightful inheritance, the full, shattering truth of their tainted past will be revealed at Foxworth Hall—the place where the nightmare began, and where Christopher and Cathy were once just innocent flowers in the attic…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/another-dawn-by-sandra-brown--65311011https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Dawn Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1800s Texas, an innocent young woman must learn to love again after a painful betrayal . . . but the seeds of greed and desire harvest a scandal when she falls for the toughest cowhand in the west.Betrayal ruined Banner Coleman's wedding day -- and on her wedding night she was a jilted bride. But now, her innocence and pain have touched the heart of Jake Langston, a close family friend. Grappling with emotions that surprise them both, Jake and Banner are caught up in a scandal that could shatter a friendship and a family. But theirs isn't the only affair stirring up trouble in this rough cattle town. Twenty years ago the seeds of greed and desire were sown, and now the Texas landscape will once more reap the wild harvest of a man's hunger and a woman's enduring love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218056Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Dawn Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Dawn Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1800s Texas, an innocent young woman must learn to love again after a painful betrayal . . . but the seeds of greed and desire harvest a scandal when she falls for the toughest cowhand in the west.Betrayal ruined Banner Coleman's wedding day -- and on her wedding night she was a jilted bride. But now, her innocence and pain have touched the heart of Jake Langston, a close family friend. Grappling with emotions that surprise them both, Jake and Banner are caught up in a scandal that could shatter a friendship and a family. But theirs isn't the only affair stirring up trouble in this rough cattle town. Twenty years ago the seeds of greed and desire were sown, and now the Texas landscape will once more reap the wild harvest of a man's hunger and a woman's enduring love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-breath-by-kimberly-belle--65310991https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Breath Author: Kimberly Belle Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal, Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a remarkable new voice in suspenseful women's fiction comes an emotionally searing drama about a woman who risks her life to discover the devastating truth about her family.…Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe for a living. It's the perfect lifestyle to keep her far away from her own personal ground zero. Sixteen years ago, Gia's father was imprisoned for brutally killing her stepmother. Now he's come home to die of cancer, and she's responsible for his care—and coming to terms with his guilt.Gia reluctantly resumes the role of daughter to the town's most infamous murderer, a part complete with protesters on the lawn and death threats that are turning tragedy into front-page news. Returning to life in small-town Tennessee involves rebuilding relationships that distance and turmoil have strained, though finding an emotional anchor in the attractive hometown bartender is certainly helping Gia cope.As the past unravels before her, Gia will find herself torn between the stories that her family, their friends and neighbors, and even her long-departed stepmother have believed to be real all these years. But in the end, the truth—and all the lies that came before—may have deadlier consequences than she could have ever anticipated.…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218382Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Breath Author: Kimberly Belle Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal, Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Breath Author: Kimberly Belle Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal, Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a remarkable new voice in suspenseful women's fiction comes an emotionally searing drama about a woman who risks her life to discover the devastating truth about her family.…Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe for a living. It's the perfect lifestyle to keep her far away from her own personal ground zero. Sixteen years ago, Gia's father was imprisoned for brutally killing her stepmother. Now he's come home to die of cancer, and she's responsible for his care—and coming to terms with his guilt.Gia reluctantly resumes the role of daughter to the town's most infamous murderer, a part complete with protesters on the lawn and death threats that are turning tragedy into front-page news. Returning to life in small-town Tennessee involves rebuilding relationships that distance and turmoil have strained, though finding an emotional anchor in the attractive hometown bartender is certainly helping Gia cope.As the past unravels before her, Gia will find herself torn between the stories that her family, their friends and neighbors, and even her long-departed stepmother have believed to be real all these years. But in the end, the truth—and all the lies that came before—may have deadlier consequences than she could have ever anticipated.…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/here-in-my-heart-a-novella-by-anna-destefano--65310988https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here in My Heart: A Novella Series: #1 of An Echoes of the Heart Novella Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Live and work together, or lose everything that matters… The ultimatum tilts Dru Hampton’s contented life in Chandlerville, Georgia, on its ear. The man that Vivian, her cantankerous boss and benefactor, wants Dru to partner with—live with—is Brad Douglas, who’s let Dru down every way a man can. Sheriff’s deputy Brad Douglas has come a long way since his rebellious youth. He’s back home to care for Vivian, his ill grandmother. He’s stayed out of Dru’s way all these years to make up for the hurt he once caused her. Now, the delightfully mischievous Vivian’s dying wish is for them to rebuild at least a working relationship together…and she’s betting on them rediscovering much more. The family business and the Douglas home that Dru and Brad both cherish will be sold if they don’t resolve their differences. Can these childhood sweethearts make up and reclaim each other’s hearts before it’s too late?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218374Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here in My Heart: A Novella Series: #1 of An Echoes of the Heart Novella Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here in My Heart: A Novella Series: #1 of An Echoes of the Heart Novella Author: Anna DeStefano Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Live and work together, or lose everything that matters… The ultimatum tilts Dru Hampton’s contented life in Chandlerville, Georgia, on its ear. The man that Vivian, her cantankerous boss and benefactor, wants Dru to partner with—live with—is Brad Douglas, who’s let Dru down every way a man can. Sheriff’s deputy Brad Douglas has come a long way since his rebellious youth. He’s back home to care for Vivian, his ill grandmother. He’s stayed out of Dru’s way all these years to make up for the hurt he once caused her. Now, the delightfully mischievous Vivian’s dying wish is for them to rebuild at least a working relationship together…and she’s betting on them rediscovering much more. The family business and the Douglas home that Dru and Brad both cherish will be sold if they don’t resolve their differences. Can these childhood sweethearts make up and reclaim each other’s hearts before it’s too late?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-high-divide-by-lin-enger--65310998https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The High Divide Author: Lin Enger Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 4.3 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota's western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he's headed. It doesn't take long for Gretta's young sons, Eli and Danny, to set off after him, following the scant clues they can find, jumping trains to get where they need to go, and ending up in the rugged badlands of Montana. Short on money and beleaguered by a treacherous landlord, Gretta has no choice but to seek out her sons and her husband as well, leading her to the doorstep of a woman who seems intent on making Ulysses her own. While out in the Western wilderness, the boys find that the closer they come to Ulysses's trail, the greater the perils that confront them—until each is faced with a choice about whom they will defend, and who they will become. Enger's breathtaking portrait of the vast plains land- scape is matched by the rich expanse of his characters' emotional terrain, as pivotal historical events—the bloody turmoil of expansionism, the near total demise of the bison herds, and the subjugation of the Plains Indians—blend seamlessly with the intimate story of a family's sacrifice and devotion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218394Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The High Divide Author: Lin Enger Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 23, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The High Divide Author: Lin Enger Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 4.3 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota's western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he's headed. It doesn't take long for Gretta's young sons, Eli and Danny, to set off after him, following the scant clues they can find, jumping trains to get where they need to go, and ending up in the rugged badlands of Montana. Short on money and beleaguered by a treacherous landlord, Gretta has no choice but to seek out her sons and her husband as well, leading her to the doorstep of a woman who seems intent on making Ulysses her own. While out in the Western wilderness, the boys find that the closer they come to Ulysses's trail, the greater the perils that confront them—until each is faced with a choice about whom they will defend, and who they will become. Enger's breathtaking portrait of the vast plains land- scape is matched by the rich expanse of his characters' emotional terrain, as pivotal historical events—the bloody turmoil of expansionism, the near total demise of the bison herds, and the subjugation of the Plains Indians—blend seamlessly with the intimate story of a family's sacrifice and devotion.]]>905cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-banks-of-certain-rivers-by-jon-harrison--65310972https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Banks of Certain Rivers Author: Jon Harrison Narrator: Mikael Naramore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 23, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the lakeside resort town of Port Manitou, Michigan, dedicated teacher and running coach Neil Kazenzakis shoulders responsibilities that would break a lesser man: a tragic accident has left his wife seriously debilitated, he cares for his mother-in-law who suffers from dementia, and he’s raising his teenage son, Chris, on his own. On top of all that, he’s also secretly been seeing Lauren, his mother-in-law’s caregiver. When Neil breaks up a fight one day after school, he doesn’t give the altercation much thought. He’s got bigger issues on his mind, like the fact that Lauren is ready for a commitment and he has to figure out a way to tell Chris that he’s in a serious relationship with someone other than the boy’s mother. But when an anonymous person uploads a video of the fight to YouTube, the stunning footage suggests Neil assaulted a student. With his job, his family, and his reputation suddenly in jeopardy, Neil must prove his innocence and win back the trust of the entire community—including his son’s. Jon Harrison’s The Banks of Certain Rivers is a powerful tale of family, loss, and the meaning of love. Revised edition: This edition of The Banks of Certain Rivers includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220741Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Banks of Certain Rivers Author: Jon Harrison Narrator: Mikael Naramore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Banks of Certain Rivers Author: Jon Harrison Narrator: Mikael Naramore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 23, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the lakeside resort town of Port Manitou, Michigan, dedicated teacher and running coach Neil Kazenzakis shoulders responsibilities that would break a lesser man: a tragic accident has left his wife seriously debilitated, he cares for his mother-in-law who suffers from dementia, and he’s raising his teenage son, Chris, on his own. On top of all that, he’s also secretly been seeing Lauren, his mother-in-law’s caregiver. When Neil breaks up a fight one day after school, he doesn’t give the altercation much thought. He’s got bigger issues on his mind, like the fact that Lauren is ready for a commitment and he has to figure out a way to tell Chris that he’s in a serious relationship with someone other than the boy’s mother. But when an anonymous person uploads a video of the fight to YouTube, the stunning footage suggests Neil assaulted a student. With his job, his family, and his reputation suddenly in jeopardy, Neil must prove his innocence and win back the trust of the entire community—including his son’s. Jon Harrison’s The Banks of Certain Rivers is a powerful tale of family, loss, and the meaning of love. Revised edition: This edition of The Banks of Certain Rivers includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/edge-of-eternity-book-three-of-the-century-trilogy-by-ken-follett--65311049https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy Series: #3 of The Century Trilogy Author: Ken Follett Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 108 Ratings of Narrator: 4.81 of Total 26 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic series, The Century Trilogy. Throughout the trilogy, Follett has followed the fortunes of five families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now, they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s - 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution--and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act...George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle of the seminal events of the civil rights battle...Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in...Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw--and into history. As always, the historical background is brilliantly researched, the action fast-moving, and the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew but will never seem the same again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217498Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy Series: #3 of The Century Trilogy Author: Ken Follett Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy Series: #3 of The Century Trilogy Author: Ken Follett Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 108 Ratings of Narrator: 4.81 of Total 26 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic series, The Century Trilogy. Throughout the trilogy, Follett has followed the fortunes of five families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now, they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s - 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution--and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act...George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle of the seminal events of the civil rights battle...Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in...Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw--and into history. As always, the historical background is brilliantly researched, the action fast-moving, and the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew but will never seem the same again.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mink-river-by-brian-doyle--65311004https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mink River Author: Brian Doyle Narrator: David Drummond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman who is addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer, and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime is committed, and there's an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it's thinking . . . This is the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and when the book ends, listeners will be more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218699Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mink River Author: Brian Doyle Narrator: David Drummond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 16, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mink River Author: Brian Doyle Narrator: David Drummond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman who is addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer, and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime is committed, and there's an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it's thinking . . . This is the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and when the book ends, listeners will be more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-drowning-season-by-alice-hoffman--65310977https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drowning Season Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 15, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all. The author of Here on Earth and The River King presents a 'stunning and hypnotic' novel that 'interweaves past and present with piercing images and unfailing energy' (Publishers Weekly).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218426Mon, 15 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drowning Season Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drowning Season Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 15, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all. The author of Here on Earth and The River King presents a 'stunning and hypnotic' novel that 'interweaves past and present with piercing images and unfailing energy' (Publishers Weekly).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/five-days-left-by-julie-lawson-timmer--65310997https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Days Left Author: Julie Lawson Timmer Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A beautifully drawn study of what is at risk when you lose control of your own life. Unique, gripping, and viscerally moving—this impressive debut novel heralds the arrival of an extremely talented writer.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and Lone Wolf   Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice for love.   Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.   Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the individual limits of human endurance and the power of relationships, and shows that sometimes loving someone means holding on, and sometimes it means letting go.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217470Tue, 09 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Days Left Author: Julie Lawson Timmer Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Days Left Author: Julie Lawson Timmer Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A beautifully drawn study of what is at risk when you lose control of your own life. Unique, gripping, and viscerally moving—this impressive debut novel heralds the arrival of an extremely talented writer.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and Lone Wolf   Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice for love.   Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.   Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the individual limits of human endurance and the power of relationships, and shows that sometimes loving someone means holding on, and sometimes it means letting go.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/somewhere-safe-with-somebody-good-the-new-mitford-novel-by-jan-karon--65311018https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel Series: #12 of A Mitford Novel Author: Jan Karon Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.76 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A publishing event: #1 New York Times–bestselling author Jan Karon returns—and invites her millions of fans to join her again in Mitford.   After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors.             While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is definitely missing: a pulpit. But when he’s offered one, he decides he doesn’t want it. Maybe he’s lost his passion.             His adopted son, Dooley, wrestles with his own passion—for the beautiful and gifted Lace Turner, and his vision to become a successful country vet. Dooley’s brother, Sammy, still enraged by his mother’s abandonment, destroys one of Father Tim’s prized possessions. And Hope Murphy, owner of Happy Endings bookstore, struggles with the potential loss of her unborn child and her hard-won business.             All this as Wanda’s Feel Good Café opens, a romance catches fire through an Internet word game, their former mayor hatches a reelection campaign to throw the bums out, and the weekly Muse poses a probing inquiry: Does Mitford still take care of its own?             Millions of fans will applaud the chance to spend time, once more, in the often comic and utterly human presence of Jan Karon’s characters. Indeed, they have never been more sympathetic, bighearted, and engaging.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214068Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel Series: #12 of A Mitford Novel Author: Jan Karon Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel Series: #12 of A Mitford Novel Author: Jan Karon Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.76 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A publishing event: #1 New York Times–bestselling author Jan Karon returns—and invites her millions of fans to join her again in Mitford.   After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors.             While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is definitely missing: a pulpit. But when he’s offered one, he decides he doesn’t want it. Maybe he’s lost his passion.             His adopted son, Dooley, wrestles with his own passion—for the beautiful and gifted Lace Turner, and his vision to become a successful country vet. Dooley’s brother, Sammy, still enraged by his mother’s abandonment, destroys one of Father Tim’s prized possessions. And Hope Murphy, owner of Happy Endings bookstore, struggles with the potential loss of her unborn child and her hard-won business.             All this as Wanda’s Feel Good Café opens, a romance catches fire through an Internet word game, their former mayor hatches a reelection campaign to throw the bums out, and the weekly Muse poses a probing inquiry: Does Mitford still take care of its own?             Millions of fans will applaud the chance to spend time, once more, in the often comic and utterly human presence of Jan Karon’s characters. Indeed, they have never been more sympathetic, bighearted, and engaging.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-italian-wife-by-ann-hood--65310973https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Italian Wife Author: Ann Hood Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Obituary Writer comes the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian family. An Italian Wife opens in turn-of-the-century Italy, when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to America in an arranged marriage and finds herself in a strange country with a man she doesn't know or love. Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last, conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as her other children, whose stories unfold in surprising ways, go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes: Her son suffers in World War I. Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs. And her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1970s. Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218004Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Italian Wife Author: Ann Hood Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Italian Wife Author: Ann Hood Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Obituary Writer comes the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian family. An Italian Wife opens in turn-of-the-century Italy, when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to America in an arranged marriage and finds herself in a strange country with a man she doesn't know or love. Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last, conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as her other children, whose stories unfold in surprising ways, go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes: Her son suffers in World War I. Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs. And her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1970s. Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-place-called-hope-a-novel-by-philip-gulley--65310964https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place Called Hope: A Novel Series: #1 of Hope Author: Philip Gulley Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When a Quaker pastor unknowingly officiates a wedding between two women, he uses the fallout as an opportunity to shake things up—but can he find a sense of belonging in small-town Indiana? When Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner is asked by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee a wedding in his place, Sam naturally agrees. It's not until the couple stands before him that he realizes they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions and misunderstandings that follows the incident, Sam faces potential unemployment. Deeply discouraged, he wonders if his pastoral usefulness has come to an end. Perhaps it's time for a change. After all, his wife has found a new job at the library, his elder son is off to college, and the younger has decided to join the military once he graduates high school. Sam is contemplating a future selling used cars when he receives a call from a woman in the suburban town of Hope, Indiana. It seems Hope Friends Meeting is in desperate need of a pastor. Though they only have twelve members, they also have a beautiful meetinghouse and a pie committee (Sam is fond of pie). But can he really leave his beloved hometown of Harmony?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218362Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place Called Hope: A Novel Series: #1 of Hope Author: Philip Gulley Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place Called Hope: A Novel Series: #1 of Hope Author: Philip Gulley Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When a Quaker pastor unknowingly officiates a wedding between two women, he uses the fallout as an opportunity to shake things up—but can he find a sense of belonging in small-town Indiana? When Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner is asked by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee a wedding in his place, Sam naturally agrees. It's not until the couple stands before him that he realizes they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions and misunderstandings that follows the incident, Sam faces potential unemployment. Deeply discouraged, he wonders if his pastoral usefulness has come to an end. Perhaps it's time for a change. After all, his wife has found a new job at the library, his elder son is off to college, and the younger has decided to join the military once he graduates high school. Sam is contemplating a future selling used cars when he receives a call from a woman in the suburban town of Hope, Indiana. It seems Hope Friends Meeting is in desperate need of a pastor. Though they only have twelve members, they also have a beautiful meetinghouse and a pie committee (Sam is fond of pie). But can he really leave his beloved hometown of Harmony?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-tall-a-novella-and-stories-by-tony-earley--65311036https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories Author: Tony Earley Narrator: Courtney Patterson, Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Mr.Tall, his first story collection in two decades, Tony Earley brings us seven rueful, bittersweet, riotous studies of characters both ordinary and mythical, seeking to make sense of the world transforming around them. He demonstrates once again the prodigious storytelling gifts that have made him one of the most accomplished writers of his generation. In the title story, a lonely young bride terrifyingly shares a remote mountain valley with a larger-than-life neighbor, while the grieving widow of 'The Cryptozoologist' is sure she's been visited by a Southern variant of Bigfoot. 'Have You Seen the Stolen Girl?' introduces us to the ghost of Jesse James, who plagues an elderly woman in the wake of a neighborhood girl's abduction. In 'Haunted Castles of the Barrier Islands' a newly empty-nest couple stumbles through an impenetrable Outer Banks fog seeking a new life to replace the one they have lost, while 'Yard Art' follows the estranged wife of a famous country singer as she searches for an undiscovered statue by an enigmatic artist. In the concluding novella, 'Jack and the Mad Dog,' we find Jack-the giant killer of the stories-in full flight from threats both canine and existential. Earley indelibly maps previously undiscovered territories of the human heart in these melancholy, comic, and occasionally strange stories. Along the way he leads us on a journey from contemporary Nashville to a fantastical land of talking dogs and flying trees, teaching us at every step that, even in the most familiar locales, the ordinary is never just that.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217741Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories Author: Tony Earley Narrator: Courtney Patterson, Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories Author: Tony Earley Narrator: Courtney Patterson, Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Mr.Tall, his first story collection in two decades, Tony Earley brings us seven rueful, bittersweet, riotous studies of characters both ordinary and mythical, seeking to make sense of the world transforming around them. He demonstrates once again the prodigious storytelling gifts that have made him one of the most accomplished writers of his generation. In the title story, a lonely young bride terrifyingly shares a remote mountain valley with a larger-than-life neighbor, while the grieving widow of 'The Cryptozoologist' is sure she's been visited by a Southern variant of Bigfoot. 'Have You Seen the Stolen Girl?' introduces us to the ghost of Jesse James, who plagues an elderly woman in the wake of a neighborhood girl's abduction. In 'Haunted Castles of the Barrier Islands' a newly empty-nest couple stumbles through an impenetrable Outer Banks fog seeking a new life to replace the one they have lost, while 'Yard Art' follows the estranged wife of a famous country singer as she searches for an undiscovered statue by an enigmatic artist. In the concluding novella, 'Jack and the Mad Dog,' we find Jack-the giant killer of the stories-in full flight from threats both canine and existential. Earley indelibly maps previously undiscovered territories of the human heart in these melancholy, comic, and occasionally strange stories. Along the way he leads us on a journey from contemporary Nashville to a fantastical land of talking dogs and flying trees, teaching us at every step that, even in the most familiar locales, the ordinary is never just that.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/f-by-daniel-kehlmann--65311033https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: F Author: Daniel Kehlmann Narrator: Bronson Pinchot, Robert Fass, Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a stunning tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern world One day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Protesting that he doesn't believe in magic even as he is led onto the stage, Arthur nevertheless experiences something. Later that night, while his family sleeps, he takes his passport, empties all the money from his bank account, and vanishes. In time, still absent from his family, he begins to publish novels and becomes an internationally renowned author. His sons grow into men who manifest their inexplicable loss—Martin becomes a priest who does not believe in God; Ivan, a painter in constant artistic crisis; Eric, a businessman given to hallucinations and a fear of ghosts—even as they struggle to understand their father's disappearance and make their own places in the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217870Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: F Author: Daniel Kehlmann Narrator: Bronson Pinchot, Robert Fass, Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: F Author: Daniel Kehlmann Narrator: Bronson Pinchot, Robert Fass, Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a stunning tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern world One day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Protesting that he doesn't believe in magic even as he is led onto the stage, Arthur nevertheless experiences something. Later that night, while his family sleeps, he takes his passport, empties all the money from his bank account, and vanishes. In time, still absent from his family, he begins to publish novels and becomes an internationally renowned author. His sons grow into men who manifest their inexplicable loss—Martin becomes a priest who does not believe in God; Ivan, a painter in constant artistic crisis; Eric, a businessman given to hallucinations and a fear of ghosts—even as they struggle to understand their father's disappearance and make their own places in the world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mill-river-redemption-a-novel-by-darcie-chan--65311029https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mill River Redemption: A Novel Series: #2 of Mill River Author: Darcie Chan Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Darcie Chan returns to the enchanting town of Mill River in a heartwarming novel of family, self-discovery, and forgiveness. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy.   Josie DiSanti is starting over. Recently widowed, she has fled her New York City home with her two young daughters—spirited Rose and shy Emily—in tow. She takes refuge in Mill River, Vermont, to live with her only remaining relative, Ivy Collard, the local bookstore owner and a woman Josie barely knows. There, the young mother and her girls build a new life for themselves—until a shocking tragedy tears the sisters apart.   Years later, Josie’s still-estranged daughters return to the quiet town for the reading of their mother’s will, which stipulates that they must work together to locate a hidden key to a safe-deposit box containing their inheritance. Even from the great beyond, it seems Josie will do anything to bring about her daughters’ reconciliation. Having no choice but to go along with their mother’s final wishes, Rose and Emily move back to Mill River for the summer to begin the search—discovering that, in the close-knit community known for magic and miracles, an even greater treasure awaits them. Praise for The Mill River Redemption   “Delving into the complicated roles of siblings, parents, and neighbors, [Darcie] Chan gives each Mill River character a powerful role in refining and influencing these dynamics.”—New York Journal of Books “Darcie Chan paints a vivid and loving portrait of the kind of small town we all wished we lived in. This layered tale of two estranged sisters brought together by a mother’s love will make you laugh, cry, cheer, hug your loved ones a little tighter. An enchanting storyteller, Chan is one of those rare authors who make you feel more fully alive.”—Elizabeth Letts, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion “Readers looking for a feel-good book about small towns and family bonds won’t be disappointed by Chan’s latest.”—Kirkus Reviews   “An engrossing page-turner, reeling readers in further with each layer that’s revealed . . . a satisfying read with sympathetic and relatable characters that will be good for book group discussions and vacation reading.”—Library Journal   “Charming . . . compelling . . . Slow reveals and dramatic twists proliferate.”—Booklist Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217270Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mill River Redemption: A Novel Series: #2 of Mill River Author: Darcie Chan Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mill River Redemption: A Novel Series: #2 of Mill River Author: Darcie Chan Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Darcie Chan returns to the enchanting town of Mill River in a heartwarming novel of family, self-discovery, and forgiveness. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy.   Josie DiSanti is starting over. Recently widowed, she has fled her New York City home with her two young daughters—spirited Rose and shy Emily—in tow. She takes refuge in Mill River, Vermont, to live with her only remaining relative, Ivy Collard, the local bookstore owner and a woman Josie barely knows. There, the young mother and her girls build a new life for themselves—until a shocking tragedy tears the sisters apart.   Years later, Josie’s still-estranged daughters return to the quiet town for the reading of their mother’s will, which stipulates that they must work together to locate a hidden key to a safe-deposit box containing their inheritance. Even from the great beyond, it seems Josie will do anything to bring about her daughters’ reconciliation. Having no choice but to go along with their mother’s final wishes, Rose and Emily move back to Mill River for the summer to begin the search—discovering that, in the close-knit community known for magic and miracles, an even greater treasure awaits them. Praise for The Mill River Redemption   “Delving into the complicated roles of siblings, parents, and neighbors, [Darcie] Chan gives each Mill River character a powerful role in refining and influencing these dynamics.”—New York Journal of Books “Darcie Chan paints a vivid and loving portrait of the kind of small town we all wished we lived in. This layered tale of two estranged sisters brought together by a mother’s love will make you laugh, cry, cheer, hug your loved ones a little tighter. An enchanting storyteller, Chan is one of those rare authors who make you feel more fully alive.”—Elizabeth Letts, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion “Readers looking for a feel-good book about small towns and family bonds won’t be disappointed by Chan’s latest.”—Kirkus Reviews   “An engrossing page-turner, reeling readers in further with each layer that’s revealed . . . a satisfying read with sympathetic and relatable characters that will be good for book group discussions and vacation reading.”—Library Journal   “Charming . . . compelling . . . Slow reveals and dramatic twists proliferate.”—Booklist Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-love-to-call-her-own-by-marilyn-pappano--65311027https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Love to Call Her Own Series: #3 of A Tallgrass Novel Author: Marilyn Pappano Narrator: Loretta Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Love to Call Her Own It's been two years since Jessy Lawrence lost her husband in Afghanistan, and she's never fully recovered. Drowning her sorrows didn't help, and neither did the job she'd hoped would give her a sense of purpose. Now trying to rebuild her life, she finds solace in her best friends, fellow military wives who understand what it's like to love-and lose-a man in uniform . . . and the memory of one stolen night that makes her dream of a second chance at love. Dalton Smith has known more than his fair share of grief. Since his wife's death, he revels in the solitude of his cattle ranch. But try as he might, he can't stop thinking about the stunning redhead and the reckless, passionate night they shared. He wasn't ready before, but Dalton sees now that Jessy is the only woman who can mend his broken heart. So how will he convince her to take a chance on him?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217738Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Love to Call Her Own Series: #3 of A Tallgrass Novel Author: Marilyn Pappano Narrator: Loretta Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Love to Call Her Own Series: #3 of A Tallgrass Novel Author: Marilyn Pappano Narrator: Loretta Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Love to Call Her Own It's been two years since Jessy Lawrence lost her husband in Afghanistan, and she's never fully recovered. Drowning her sorrows didn't help, and neither did the job she'd hoped would give her a sense of purpose. Now trying to rebuild her life, she finds solace in her best friends, fellow military wives who understand what it's like to love-and lose-a man in uniform . . . and the memory of one stolen night that makes her dream of a second chance at love. Dalton Smith has known more than his fair share of grief. Since his wife's death, he revels in the solitude of his cattle ranch. But try as he might, he can't stop thinking about the stunning redhead and the reckless, passionate night they shared. He wasn't ready before, but Dalton sees now that Jessy is the only woman who can mend his broken heart. So how will he convince her to take a chance on him?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/if-there-be-thorns-by-v-c-andrews--65311026https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If There Be Thorns Series: #3 of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 12 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But someone who knows their dark secret is watching. Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine-year-old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman and her strange butler move in next door. The Old Woman in Black watches from her window, lures lonely Bart inside with cookies and ice cream, and asks him to call her “grandmother.” Slowly Bart transforms, each visit pushing him closer to the edge of madness and violence, while his anguished parents can only watch. For Cathy and Chris, the horrors of the past have come home…and everything they love may soon be torn from them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218041Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If There Be Thorns Series: #3 of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If There Be Thorns Series: #3 of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 12 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But someone who knows their dark secret is watching. Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine-year-old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman and her strange butler move in next door. The Old Woman in Black watches from her window, lures lonely Bart inside with cookies and ice cream, and asks him to call her “grandmother.” Slowly Bart transforms, each visit pushing him closer to the edge of madness and violence, while his anguished parents can only watch. For Cathy and Chris, the horrors of the past have come home…and everything they love may soon be torn from them.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lore-of-the-evermen-by-james-maxwell--65310994https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lore of the Evermen Series: #4 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Lord of the Night is coming. The future of civilization is at stake. Miro is in the Imperial capital to prepare the Empire for the onslaught. He knows his homeland lies directly in the enemy's path but struggles to form the alliances he needs. As the high lords bicker, Ella seeks Killian's help. But, amid the growing tensions, their responsibilities drive them apart, as Killian can't be seen to favor Ella's homeland. Against a backdrop of old hurts, guilty secrets, and shaky new allegiances, people of all nations and abilities must learn to trust one another again, and form a united front against a powerful enemy intent on destroying them once and for all. This is the fourth book in the epic Evermen Saga.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217611Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lore of the Evermen Series: #4 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lore of the Evermen Series: #4 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Lord of the Night is coming. The future of civilization is at stake. Miro is in the Imperial capital to prepare the Empire for the onslaught. He knows his homeland lies directly in the enemy's path but struggles to form the alliances he needs. As the high lords bicker, Ella seeks Killian's help. But, amid the growing tensions, their responsibilities drive them apart, as Killian can't be seen to favor Ella's homeland. Against a backdrop of old hurts, guilty secrets, and shaky new allegiances, people of all nations and abilities must learn to trust one another again, and form a united front against a powerful enemy intent on destroying them once and for all. This is the fourth book in the epic Evermen Saga.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-mind-miss-fox-a-novel-by-olivia-glazebrook--65311063https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Mind Miss Fox: A Novel Author: Olivia Glazebrook Narrator: Gunnar Cauthery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A gripping and suspenseful novel about secrets, betrayal, and the power of the past. Clive and Martha have been a couple since they met at university; they now have a young daughter, Eliza, and on the surface, all seems well in their family. But neither Martha nor young Eliza know that the story of this happy marriage harbors a secret scene: a momentary betrayal that could have destroyed the marriage before it even began. Only Clive knows about the trap door in their history but he's convinced that, with the intervening years, the incident has lost its power. But when Eliza comes home from school one day and excitedly announces that she has a new piano teacher called Eliot Fox, the guise of domestic tranquility threatens to shatter. The enigmatic Eliot Fox knows the secret that Clive is desperate to keep hidden. As her presence in the family's life grows, so too does the ominous shadow of the past that looms over Clive. Glazebrook's darkly suspenseful tale of a family in crisis reveals how seemingly ordinary lives can contain extraordinary acts of destruction. Told with intensity and penetrating emotion, Never Mind Miss Fox is a compelling tale of guilt, justice, and what it really means to make amends.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217451Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Mind Miss Fox: A Novel Author: Olivia Glazebrook Narrator: Gunnar Cauthery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Mind Miss Fox: A Novel Author: Olivia Glazebrook Narrator: Gunnar Cauthery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A gripping and suspenseful novel about secrets, betrayal, and the power of the past. Clive and Martha have been a couple since they met at university; they now have a young daughter, Eliza, and on the surface, all seems well in their family. But neither Martha nor young Eliza know that the story of this happy marriage harbors a secret scene: a momentary betrayal that could have destroyed the marriage before it even began. Only Clive knows about the trap door in their history but he's convinced that, with the intervening years, the incident has lost its power. But when Eliza comes home from school one day and excitedly announces that she has a new piano teacher called Eliot Fox, the guise of domestic tranquility threatens to shatter. The enigmatic Eliot Fox knows the secret that Clive is desperate to keep hidden. As her presence in the family's life grows, so too does the ominous shadow of the past that looms over Clive. Glazebrook's darkly suspenseful tale of a family in crisis reveals how seemingly ordinary lives can contain extraordinary acts of destruction. Told with intensity and penetrating emotion, Never Mind Miss Fox is a compelling tale of guilt, justice, and what it really means to make amends.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sweetness-9-a-novel-by-stephan-eirik-clark--65311044https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweetness #9: A Novel Author: Stephan Eirik Clark Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It's 1973, and David Leveraux has landed his dream job as a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists create the flavors for everything from the cherry in your can of soda to the butter on your popcorn. While testing a new artificial sweetener -- 'Sweetness #9' -- he notices unusual side-effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a generalized dissatisfaction with life. David tries to blow the whistle, but he swallows it instead. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener -- and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son has stopped using verbs, and his daughter suffers from a generalized dissatisfaction with life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and a profound exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat truly makes us who we are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217450Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweetness #9: A Novel Author: Stephan Eirik Clark Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweetness #9: A Novel Author: Stephan Eirik Clark Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It's 1973, and David Leveraux has landed his dream job as a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists create the flavors for everything from the cherry in your can of soda to the butter on your popcorn. While testing a new artificial sweetener -- 'Sweetness #9' -- he notices unusual side-effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a generalized dissatisfaction with life. David tries to blow the whistle, but he swallows it instead. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener -- and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son has stopped using verbs, and his daughter suffers from a generalized dissatisfaction with life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and a profound exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat truly makes us who we are.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-not-ourselves-a-novel-by-matthew-thomas--65311005https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel Author: Matthew Thomas Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a gripping family saga, maybe the best…since The Corrections.” As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life—but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that dream, devastation hits and they must learn how to not only hold on to their reality, but to each other. Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on how much alcohol has been consumed. From an early age, Eileen wished that she lived somewhere else. She sets her sights on upper class Bronxville, New York, and an American Dream is born. Driven by this longing, Eileen places her stock and love in Ed Leary, a handsome young scientist, and with him begins a family. Over the years Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house. It slowly becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper, more incomprehensive psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “A long, gorgeous epic, full of love and caring…one of the best novels you’ll read this year,” We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties. Through the lives of these characters, Thomas charts the story of the American Century. The result is, “stunning…The joys of this book are the joys of any classic work of literature—for that is what this is destined to become—superbly rendered small moments that capture both an individual life and the universality of that person’s experience” (The Washington Post).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217785Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel Author: Matthew Thomas Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel Author: Matthew Thomas Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a gripping family saga, maybe the best…since The Corrections.” As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life—but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that dream, devastation hits and they must learn how to not only hold on to their reality, but to each other. Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on how much alcohol has been consumed. From an early age, Eileen wished that she lived somewhere else. She sets her sights on upper class Bronxville, New York, and an American Dream is born. Driven by this longing, Eileen places her stock and love in Ed Leary, a handsome young scientist, and with him begins a family. Over the years Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house. It slowly becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper, more incomprehensive psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “A long, gorgeous epic, full of love and caring…one of the best novels you’ll read this year,” We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties. Through the lives of these characters, Thomas charts the story of the American Century. The result is, “stunning…The joys of this book are the joys of any classic work of literature—for that is what this is destined to become—superbly rendered small moments that capture both an individual life and the universality of that person’s experience” (The Washington Post).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sprinkles-on-top-by-kim-law--65310981https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sprinkles on Top Series: #3 of A Sugar Springs Novel Author: Kim Law Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Holly Marshall, there’s no such thing as a perfect match. That’s reflected in the unpredictable, fun clothing combos the aspiring artist wears around her hometown of Sugar Springs—and in her inability to fit in anywhere else. But when she sets out to prove to her family that she’s ready to grow up by settling down, could she have found her perfect mismatch in a play-by-the-book guy wearing a business suit? High-powered attorney Zack Winston is a man who always gets what he wants. While Holly wouldn’t mind sampling what Zack so deliciously has to offer, she needs someone who plans to stick around—and Zack’s disdain of small towns suggests he won’t. But as the camaraderie of Sugar Springs begins to charm, and Zack’s brothers show what family is all about, he and Holly may just get the chance to have it all…if they’re brave enough to reach out and take it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217464Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sprinkles on Top Series: #3 of A Sugar Springs Novel Author: Kim Law Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sprinkles on Top Series: #3 of A Sugar Springs Novel Author: Kim Law Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 19, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Holly Marshall, there’s no such thing as a perfect match. That’s reflected in the unpredictable, fun clothing combos the aspiring artist wears around her hometown of Sugar Springs—and in her inability to fit in anywhere else. But when she sets out to prove to her family that she’s ready to grow up by settling down, could she have found her perfect mismatch in a play-by-the-book guy wearing a business suit? High-powered attorney Zack Winston is a man who always gets what he wants. While Holly wouldn’t mind sampling what Zack so deliciously has to offer, she needs someone who plans to stick around—and Zack’s disdain of small towns suggests he won’t. But as the camaraderie of Sugar Springs begins to charm, and Zack’s brothers show what family is all about, he and Holly may just get the chance to have it all…if they’re brave enough to reach out and take it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-path-of-the-storm-by-james-maxwell--65311065https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path of the Storm Series: #3 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 12, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two years have passed since the war, yet without essence the Empire's economy has collapsed. Trade is at a standstill, famine sets in, and, with no food and no essence, the people begin to riot. In the midst of the growing unrest, Miro struggles to balance his life with Amber against his resolve to keep threats to the Empire at bay. His sister, Ella, helps to build the machinery the Empire desperately needs, but she longs to find Killian and believes his powers will be needed in the conflict to come. News of a wedding brings a much-needed ray of hope to the weary people. But as citizens and leaders gather from afar for the festivities, an evil threat shatters the fragile peace: one of the Evermen has returned. And he will not rest until he has completely destroyed the humans he despises. This is the third book in the epic Evermen Saga.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217287Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path of the Storm Series: #3 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path of the Storm Series: #3 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 12, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two years have passed since the war, yet without essence the Empire's economy has collapsed. Trade is at a standstill, famine sets in, and, with no food and no essence, the people begin to riot. In the midst of the growing unrest, Miro struggles to balance his life with Amber against his resolve to keep threats to the Empire at bay. His sister, Ella, helps to build the machinery the Empire desperately needs, but she longs to find Killian and believes his powers will be needed in the conflict to come. News of a wedding brings a much-needed ray of hope to the weary people. But as citizens and leaders gather from afar for the festivities, an evil threat shatters the fragile peace: one of the Evermen has returned. And he will not rest until he has completely destroyed the humans he despises. This is the third book in the epic Evermen Saga.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-silken-web-by-sandra-brown--65311024https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silken Web Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 12, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A beautiful fashion buyer is still in love with someone from her past -- and now, she must choose between him and the man she's planning to marry.Kathleen, a smart and sophisticated woman, is ready to marry the man of her dreams -- but she's in love with someone else.Erik is a talented videographer who finds women easy to love but doesn't want to settle down.And Seth, the wealthy heir to a department store fortune, could give Kathleen everything she wants . . . except the one thing that would make her happy. All three of them are about to get caught up in a web of lies so fragile that one fateful encounter could tear it apart -- and force Kathleen to choose between her family and the needs of her own heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213515Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silken Web Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 12, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silken Web Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 12, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A beautiful fashion buyer is still in love with someone from her past -- and now, she must choose between him and the man she's planning to marry.Kathleen, a smart and sophisticated woman, is ready to marry the man of her dreams -- but she's in love with someone else.Erik is a talented videographer who finds women easy to love but doesn't want to settle down.And Seth, the wealthy heir to a department store fortune, could give Kathleen everything she wants . . . except the one thing that would make her happy. All three of them are about to get caught up in a web of lies so fragile that one fateful encounter could tear it apart -- and force Kathleen to choose between her family and the needs of her own heart.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-letters-a-rose-harbor-novel-by-debbie-macomber--65310986https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Letters: A Rose Harbor Novel Series: #3 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 12, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL In this enchanting novel set at Cedar Cove’s cozy Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber celebrates the power of love—and a well-timed love letter—to inspire hope and mend a broken heart. Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. Despite some folks’ good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. However, she seems to be thinking about this particular friend a great deal lately. Jo Marie knows surprisingly little about Mark’s life, due in no small part to his refusal to discuss it. She’s determined to learn more about his past, but first she must face her own—and welcome three visitors who, like her, are setting out on new paths. Twenty-three-year-old Ellie Reynolds is taking a leap of faith. She’s come to Cedar Cove to meet Tom, a man she’s been corresponding with for months, and with whom she might even be falling in love. Ellie’s overprotective mother disapproves of her trip, but Ellie is determined to spread her wings. Maggie and Roy Porter are next to arrive at the inn. They are taking their first vacation alone since their children were born. In the wake of past mistakes, they hope to rekindle the spark in their marriage—and to win back each other’s trust. But Maggie must make one last confession that could forever tear them apart. For each of these characters, it will ultimately be a moment when someone wore their heart on their sleeve—and took pen to paper—that makes all the difference. Debbie Macomber’s moving novel reveals the courage it takes to be vulnerable, accepting, and open to love. Praise for Love Letters “Romance and a little mystery abound in this third installment of Macomber’s series set at Cedar Cove’s Rose Harbor Inn. . . . Readers of Robyn Carr and Sherryl Woods will enjoy Macomber’s latest, which will have them flipping pages until the end and eagerly anticipating the next installment.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Mending a broken heart is not always easy to do, but Macomber succeeds at this beautifully in Love Letters. . . . Quite simply, this is a refreshing take on most love stories—there are twists and turns in the plot that keep readers on their toes—and the author shares up slices of realism, allowing her audience to feel right at home.”—Bookreporter]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214349Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Letters: A Rose Harbor Novel Series: #3 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Letters: A Rose Harbor Novel Series: #3 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 12, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL In this enchanting novel set at Cedar Cove’s cozy Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber celebrates the power of love—and a well-timed love letter—to inspire hope and mend a broken heart. Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. Despite some folks’ good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. However, she seems to be thinking about this particular friend a great deal lately. Jo Marie knows surprisingly little about Mark’s life, due in no small part to his refusal to discuss it. She’s determined to learn more about his past, but first she must face her own—and welcome three visitors who, like her, are setting out on new paths. Twenty-three-year-old Ellie Reynolds is taking a leap of faith. She’s come to Cedar Cove to meet Tom, a man she’s been corresponding with for months, and with whom she might even be falling in love. Ellie’s overprotective mother disapproves of her trip, but Ellie is determined to spread her wings. Maggie and Roy Porter are next to arrive at the inn. They are taking their first vacation alone since their children were born. In the wake of past mistakes, they hope to rekindle the spark in their marriage—and to win back each other’s trust. But Maggie must make one last confession that could forever tear them apart. For each of these characters, it will ultimately be a moment when someone wore their heart on their sleeve—and took pen to paper—that makes all the difference. Debbie Macomber’s moving novel reveals the courage it takes to be vulnerable, accepting, and open to love. Praise for Love Letters “Romance and a little mystery abound in this third installment of Macomber’s series set at Cedar Cove’s Rose Harbor Inn. . . . Readers of Robyn Carr and Sherryl Woods will enjoy Macomber’s latest, which will have them flipping pages until the end and eagerly anticipating the next installment.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Mending a broken heart is not always easy to do, but Macomber succeeds at this beautifully in Love Letters. . . . Quite simply, this is a refreshing take on most love stories—there are twists and turns in the plot that keep readers on their toes—and the author shares up slices of realism, allowing her audience to feel right at home.”—Bookreporter]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hidden-relic-by-james-maxwell--65311020https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Relic Series: #2 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 5, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: With the fate of their homeland still in jeopardy, siblings Ella and Miro must face the Primate’s evil as he discovers a new technique: a method to extract essence from human blood. The Primate has been temporarily defeated, but his home was once inhabited by the Evermen, and their ancient secrets still remain. As the mysterious Evrin sets out to destroy everything he can, the Primate stumbles upon an ancient book that tells of a hidden relic with unfathomable power—and he will stop at nothing to find it. Realizing the solution to defeating the Primate and saving the Empire is tied to the hidden relic, Ella, Miro, Killian, and the desert prince Ilathor must race to reach the relic before the Primate…or suffer disastrous consequences. Published in 2014, the highly acclaimed Evermen Saga is a worldwide bestseller. Revised edition: This edition of The Hidden Relic includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217017Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Relic Series: #2 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Relic Series: #2 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 5, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: With the fate of their homeland still in jeopardy, siblings Ella and Miro must face the Primate’s evil as he discovers a new technique: a method to extract essence from human blood. The Primate has been temporarily defeated, but his home was once inhabited by the Evermen, and their ancient secrets still remain. As the mysterious Evrin sets out to destroy everything he can, the Primate stumbles upon an ancient book that tells of a hidden relic with unfathomable power—and he will stop at nothing to find it. Realizing the solution to defeating the Primate and saving the Empire is tied to the hidden relic, Ella, Miro, Killian, and the desert prince Ilathor must race to reach the relic before the Primate…or suffer disastrous consequences. Published in 2014, the highly acclaimed Evermen Saga is a worldwide bestseller. Revised edition: This edition of The Hidden Relic includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/illumination-night-by-alice-hoffman--65311056https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Illumination Night Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion. Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s unrealized desires; and the high school girl who comes to Martha’s Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. Both riveting and reflective, this is a story that brings to light the talent that has made Alice Hoffman an acclaimed bestselling author.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217255Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Illumination Night Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 1, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Illumination Night Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion. Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s unrealized desires; and the high school girl who comes to Martha’s Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. Both riveting and reflective, this is a story that brings to light the talent that has made Alice Hoffman an acclaimed bestselling author.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lucky-us-a-novel-by-amy-bloom--65311062https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Us: A Novel Author: Amy Bloom Narrator: Alicyn Packard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.” So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck.   Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.   With their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, Lucky Us is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn’s beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species. Praise for Lucky Us “Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment. One waits a long time for a novel of this scope and dimension, replete with surgically drawn characters, a mix of comedy and tragedy that borders on the miraculous, and sentences that should be in a sentence museum. Amy Bloom is a treasure.”—Michael Cunningham “Exquisite . . . a short, vibrant book about all kinds of people creating all kinds of serial, improvisatory lives.”—The New York Times   “Bighearted, rambunctious . . . a bustling tale of American reinvention . . . If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.”—The Washington Post   “Bloom’s crisp, delicious prose gives [Lucky Us] the feel of sprawling, brawling life itself. . . . Lucky Us is a sister act, which means a double dose of sauce and naughtiness from the brilliant Amy Bloom.”—The Oregonian   “A tasty summer read that will leave you smiling . . . Broken hearts [are] held together by lipstick, wisecracks and the enduring love of sisters.”—USA Today   “Exquisitely imagined . . . [a] grand adventure.”—O: The Oprah Magazine   “Marvelous picaresque entertainment . . . a festival of joy and terror and lust and amazement that resolves itself here, warts and all, in a kind of crystalline Mozartean clarity of vision.”—Elle]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213477Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Us: A Novel Author: Amy Bloom Narrator: Alicyn Packard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Us: A Novel Author: Amy Bloom Narrator: Alicyn Packard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.” So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck.   Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.   With their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, Lucky Us is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn’s beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species. Praise for Lucky Us “Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment. One waits a long time for a novel of this scope and dimension, replete with surgically drawn characters, a mix of comedy and tragedy that borders on the miraculous, and sentences that should be in a sentence museum. Amy Bloom is a treasure.”—Michael Cunningham “Exquisite . . . a short, vibrant book about all kinds of people creating all kinds of serial, improvisatory lives.”—The New York Times   “Bighearted, rambunctious . . . a bustling tale of American reinvention . . . If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.”—The Washington Post   “Bloom’s crisp, delicious prose gives [Lucky Us] the feel of sprawling, brawling life itself. . . . Lucky Us is a sister act, which means a double dose of sauce and naughtiness from the brilliant Amy Bloom.”—The Oregonian   “A tasty summer read that will leave you smiling . . . Broken hearts [are] held together by lipstick, wisecracks and the enduring love of sisters.”—USA Today   “Exquisitely imagined . . . [a] grand adventure.”—O: The Oprah Magazine   “Marvelous picaresque entertainment . . . a festival of joy and terror and lust and amazement that resolves itself here, warts and all, in a kind of crystalline Mozartean clarity of vision.”—Elle]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/enchantress-by-james-maxwell--65311061https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantress Series: #1 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An empire divided by magic. A nation on the brink of rebellion. After losing their parents in the last doomed uprising, two siblings will find themselves at the center of an epic struggle for power. When Ella witnesses an enchanter saving her brother's life, she knows what she wants to be. But the elite Academy expects tuition fees and knowledge. Meanwhile her brother, Miro, dreams of becoming one of the world's finest swordsmen, wielding his nation’s powerful enchanted weapons in defense of his homeland. After Miro departs for war, the void he leaves in Ella's life is filled by a mysterious foreigner, Killian. But Killian has a secret, and Ella’s actions will determine the fate of her brother, her homeland, and the world. Published in 2014, the highly acclaimed Evermen Saga is a worldwide bestseller. Revised edition: This edition of Enchantress includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217016Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantress Series: #1 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantress Series: #1 of The Evermen Saga Author: James Maxwell Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An empire divided by magic. A nation on the brink of rebellion. After losing their parents in the last doomed uprising, two siblings will find themselves at the center of an epic struggle for power. When Ella witnesses an enchanter saving her brother's life, she knows what she wants to be. But the elite Academy expects tuition fees and knowledge. Meanwhile her brother, Miro, dreams of becoming one of the world's finest swordsmen, wielding his nation’s powerful enchanted weapons in defense of his homeland. After Miro departs for war, the void he leaves in Ella's life is filled by a mysterious foreigner, Killian. But Killian has a secret, and Ella’s actions will determine the fate of her brother, her homeland, and the world. Published in 2014, the highly acclaimed Evermen Saga is a worldwide bestseller. Revised edition: This edition of Enchantress includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-little-lies-by-liane-moriarty--65311017https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Little Lies Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 1481 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 310 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES  STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213429Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Little Lies Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Little Lies Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 1481 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 310 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES  STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-virtues-of-oxygen-by-susan-schoenberger--65311035https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/216994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virtues of Oxygen Author: Susan Schoenberger Narrator: Tanya Eby, Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning author of A Watershed Year comes a heartrending story of unlikely bonds made under dire straits. Holly is a young widow with two kids living in a ramshackle house in the same small town where she grew up wealthy. Now barely able to make ends meet editing the town’s struggling newspaper, she manages to stay afloat with help from her family. Then her mother suffers a stroke, and Holly’s world begins to completely fall apart. Vivian has lived an extraordinary life, despite the fact that she has been confined to an iron lung since contracting polio as a child. Her condition means she requires constant monitoring, and the close-knit community joins together to give her care and help keep her alive. As their town buckles under the weight of the Great Recession, Holly and Vivian, two very different women both touched by pain, forge an unlikely alliance that may just offer each an unexpected salvation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/216994Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/216994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virtues of Oxygen Author: Susan Schoenberger Narrator: Tanya Eby, Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/216994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virtues of Oxygen Author: Susan Schoenberger Narrator: Tanya Eby, Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning author of A Watershed Year comes a heartrending story of unlikely bonds made under dire straits. Holly is a young widow with two kids living in a ramshackle house in the same small town where she grew up wealthy. Now barely able to make ends meet editing the town’s struggling newspaper, she manages to stay afloat with help from her family. Then her mother suffers a stroke, and Holly’s world begins to completely fall apart. Vivian has lived an extraordinary life, despite the fact that she has been confined to an iron lung since contracting polio as a child. Her condition means she requires constant monitoring, and the close-knit community joins together to give her care and help keep her alive. As their town buckles under the weight of the Great Recession, Holly and Vivian, two very different women both touched by pain, forge an unlikely alliance that may just offer each an unexpected salvation.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-perfect-life-a-novel-by-danielle-steel--65311030https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Perfect Life: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of…A Perfect LifeThe epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news, asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world affairs and politics with courage and insight. A single mother, she manages her well-ordered career meticulously, always prepared on the air or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state. To her audience, Blaise seems to have it all. But privately, and off the set, there is another untold story she has kept hidden for years.Blaise’s teenage daughter, Salima, was blinded by Type 1 diabetes in childhood, and her needs have kept her away in a year-round boarding school with full-time medical care and assistance ever since. When Salima’s school closes after a tragedy, Salima returns to her mother’s New York City apartment, and suddenly they face challenges they’ve never had to deal with before, and that Blaise feels ill-equipped to handle. A new caretaker provided by Salima’s school creates as many problems as he solves. Handsome, accomplished, thirty-two-year-old Simon Ward, with strong opinions on every topic, questions how mother and daughter view themselves and each other. Simon opens new doors for both of them and refuses to accept Salima’s physical limitations. He turns their world upside down, and the three become friends.Then everything starts to unravel and Blaise can’t keep her two worlds separate anymore. A beautiful young anchorwoman is hired at the network; it is no secret that she is being groomed to take Blaise’s place. Her career as she has known it is threatened, and her previously well-ordered life feels totally out of control. For the first time, Blaise’s life is not perfect, but real.In this unforgettable tale, the incomparable Danielle Steel has written a novel that pulsates with emotion and honesty as three people face the truth about themselves. A Perfect Life is about what we do when facades fall away and we can no longer run from the truth. As old ideas fail, everything changes, and life is suddenly brand-new.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217469Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Perfect Life: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Perfect Life: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of…A Perfect LifeThe epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news, asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world affairs and politics with courage and insight. A single mother, she manages her well-ordered career meticulously, always prepared on the air or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state. To her audience, Blaise seems to have it all. But privately, and off the set, there is another untold story she has kept hidden for years.Blaise’s teenage daughter, Salima, was blinded by Type 1 diabetes in childhood, and her needs have kept her away in a year-round boarding school with full-time medical care and assistance ever since. When Salima’s school closes after a tragedy, Salima returns to her mother’s New York City apartment, and suddenly they face challenges they’ve never had to deal with before, and that Blaise feels ill-equipped to handle. A new caretaker provided by Salima’s school creates as many problems as he solves. Handsome, accomplished, thirty-two-year-old Simon Ward, with strong opinions on every topic, questions how mother and daughter view themselves and each other. Simon opens new doors for both of them and refuses to accept Salima’s physical limitations. He turns their world upside down, and the three become friends.Then everything starts to unravel and Blaise can’t keep her two worlds separate anymore. A beautiful young anchorwoman is hired at the network; it is no secret that she is being groomed to take Blaise’s place. Her career as she has known it is threatened, and her previously well-ordered life feels totally out of control. For the first time, Blaise’s life is not perfect, but real.In this unforgettable tale, the incomparable Danielle Steel has written a novel that pulsates with emotion and honesty as three people face the truth about themselves. A Perfect Life is about what we do when facades fall away and we can no longer run from the truth. As old ideas fail, everything changes, and life is suddenly brand-new.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/return-to-homecoming-ranch-by-julia-london--65311022https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Homecoming Ranch Series: #2 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London delivers another standalone, heartwarming love story in her Pine River series. Curly-haired Libby Tyler never stops smiling…until her beloved boyfriend suddenly forces her out of their home and away from his adoring kids. When she learns he dumped her for his flighty ex-wife, Libby’s sadness turns to fury—and she very publicly smashes his truck with a golf club, earning herself a trip to a mental health center for some “rest.” Handsome, hazel-eyed deputy Sam Winters has been sober for two years. Afraid of backsliding, he lives in the mountains and keeps his distance from people. Yet he never forgot Libby, his former colleague at the sheriff’s office whose charm and cheerfulness always warmed his days. Now Libby’s back, ignoring the townspeople’s whispers (and her ex’s restraining order) while desperately trying to make Homecoming Ranch a successful event destination. She keeps causing trouble for Sam, but he finds her smile more beautiful than ever…and his touch gives her thrills she’s never felt. Could these two lost souls mend each other’s broken hearts?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217018Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Homecoming Ranch Series: #2 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Homecoming Ranch Series: #2 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London delivers another standalone, heartwarming love story in her Pine River series. Curly-haired Libby Tyler never stops smiling…until her beloved boyfriend suddenly forces her out of their home and away from his adoring kids. When she learns he dumped her for his flighty ex-wife, Libby’s sadness turns to fury—and she very publicly smashes his truck with a golf club, earning herself a trip to a mental health center for some “rest.” Handsome, hazel-eyed deputy Sam Winters has been sober for two years. Afraid of backsliding, he lives in the mountains and keeps his distance from people. Yet he never forgot Libby, his former colleague at the sheriff’s office whose charm and cheerfulness always warmed his days. Now Libby’s back, ignoring the townspeople’s whispers (and her ex’s restraining order) while desperately trying to make Homecoming Ranch a successful event destination. She keeps causing trouble for Sam, but he finds her smile more beautiful than ever…and his touch gives her thrills she’s never felt. Could these two lost souls mend each other’s broken hearts?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-drawing-a-novel-by-robin-black--65311032https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Drawing: A Novel Author: Robin Black Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 15, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR “Taut, elegant . . . Black is a writer of great wisdom.”—Claire Messud, The Guardian (UK) Augusta Edelman—Gus to her friends—is a painter, a wife, and not always the best judge of her own choices—one of them bad enough that she and her husband, Owen, have fled their longtime city home and its reminders of troubling events. Now, three years into their secluded country life, Gus works daily on the marriage she nearly lost, discovers new inspiration for her art, and contemplates the mysteries of a childhood tragedy. But this quiet, healing rhythm is forever shattered one hot July day when a stranger moves into the abandoned house next door and crosses more boundaries than just those between their lands. A fierce, honest, and moving portrait of a woman grappling with her fate, Life Drawing is a debut novel as beautiful and unsparing as the human heart.   Praise for Life Drawing   “The page-turning suspense of Robin Black’s novel comes from her beautiful, honest portrait of a marriage, of a life. . . . A novel of consequence, and a stunning one.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “Gripping . . . the power of this story is how it illuminates, in utterly compelling detail, the complex give-and-take of a couple trying to save their marriage.”—O: The Oprah Magazine   “Truly brilliant . . . [Black] is that rare writer whose gift for prose is matched by her mastery of the other elements that make a great novel. . . . [Her] psychological prowess and incisive observations lend an edge even to seemingly straightforward scenes.”—Chicago Tribune   “Races to its resolution . . . Black’s writing is clear and direct [with] observations about the way people relate that resonate well after the book is closed.”—The New York Times Book Review]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213936Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Drawing: A Novel Author: Robin Black Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 15,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Drawing: A Novel Author: Robin Black Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 15, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR “Taut, elegant . . . Black is a writer of great wisdom.”—Claire Messud, The Guardian (UK) Augusta Edelman—Gus to her friends—is a painter, a wife, and not always the best judge of her own choices—one of them bad enough that she and her husband, Owen, have fled their longtime city home and its reminders of troubling events. Now, three years into their secluded country life, Gus works daily on the marriage she nearly lost, discovers new inspiration for her art, and contemplates the mysteries of a childhood tragedy. But this quiet, healing rhythm is forever shattered one hot July day when a stranger moves into the abandoned house next door and crosses more boundaries than just those between their lands. A fierce, honest, and moving portrait of a woman grappling with her fate, Life Drawing is a debut novel as beautiful and unsparing as the human heart.   Praise for Life Drawing   “The page-turning suspense of Robin Black’s novel comes from her beautiful, honest portrait of a marriage, of a life. . . . A novel of consequence, and a stunning one.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “Gripping . . . the power of this story is how it illuminates, in utterly compelling detail, the complex give-and-take of a couple trying to save their marriage.”—O: The Oprah Magazine   “Truly brilliant . . . [Black] is that rare writer whose gift for prose is matched by her mastery of the other elements that make a great novel. . . . [Her] psychological prowess and incisive observations lend an edge even to seemingly straightforward scenes.”—Chicago Tribune   “Races to its resolution . . . Black’s writing is clear and direct [with] observations about the way people relate that resonate well after the book is closed.”—The New York Times Book Review]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-i-love-and-know-a-novel-by-judith-frank--65310995https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All I Love and Know: A Novel Author: Judith Frank Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 15, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Told with the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb, this is a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution, one that explores adoption, gay marriage, and love lost and found. For years, Matthew Greene and Daniel Rosen have enjoyed a quiet domestic life together in Northampton, Massachusetts. Opposites in many ways, they have grown together and made their relationship work. But when they learn that Daniel’s twin brother and sister-in-law have been killed in a bombing in Jerusalem, their lives are suddenly, utterly transformed. In dealing with their families and the need to make a decision about who will raise the deceased couple’s two children, both Matthew and Daniel are confronted with challenges that strike at the very heart of their relationship. What is Matthew’s place in an extended family that does not completely accept him or the commitment he and Daniel have made? How do Daniel’s questions about his identity as a Jewish man affect his life as a gay American? Tensions only intensify when they learn that the deceased parents wanted Matthew and Daniel to adopt the children—six-year-old Gal, and baby Noam. The impact this instant new family has on Matthew, Daniel, and their relationship is subtle and heartbreaking, yet not without glimmers of hope. They must learn to reinvent and redefine their bond in profound, sometimes painful ways. What kind of parents can these two men really be? How does a family become strong enough to stay together and endure? And are there limits to honesty or commitment—or love?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213395Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All I Love and Know: A Novel Author: Judith Frank Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All I Love and Know: A Novel Author: Judith Frank Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 15, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Told with the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb, this is a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution, one that explores adoption, gay marriage, and love lost and found. For years, Matthew Greene and Daniel Rosen have enjoyed a quiet domestic life together in Northampton, Massachusetts. Opposites in many ways, they have grown together and made their relationship work. But when they learn that Daniel’s twin brother and sister-in-law have been killed in a bombing in Jerusalem, their lives are suddenly, utterly transformed. In dealing with their families and the need to make a decision about who will raise the deceased couple’s two children, both Matthew and Daniel are confronted with challenges that strike at the very heart of their relationship. What is Matthew’s place in an extended family that does not completely accept him or the commitment he and Daniel have made? How do Daniel’s questions about his identity as a Jewish man affect his life as a gay American? Tensions only intensify when they learn that the deceased parents wanted Matthew and Daniel to adopt the children—six-year-old Gal, and baby Noam. The impact this instant new family has on Matthew, Daniel, and their relationship is subtle and heartbreaking, yet not without glimmers of hope. They must learn to reinvent and redefine their bond in profound, sometimes painful ways. What kind of parents can these two men really be? How does a family become strong enough to stay together and endure? And are there limits to honesty or commitment—or love?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hundred-year-house-by-rebecca-makkai--65311057https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hundred-Year House Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Jen Tullock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. “Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious.' –Richard Russo   Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents’ wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house; Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth; and Bruce, her step-father, stockpiling supplies for the Y2K apocalypse and perpetually late for his tee time. Then there’s Violet Devohr, Zee’s great-grandmother, who they say took her own life somewhere in the vast house, and whose massive oil portrait still hangs in the dining room. Violet’s portrait was known to terrify the artists who resided at the house from the 1920s to the 1950s, when it served as the Laurelfield Arts Colony—and this is exactly the period Zee’s husband, Doug, is interested in. An out-of-work academic whose only hope of a future position is securing a book deal, Doug is stalled on his biography of the poet Edwin Parfitt, once in residence at the colony. All he needs to get the book back on track—besides some motivation and self-esteem—is access to the colony records, rotting away in the attic for decades. But when Doug begins to poke around where he shouldn’t, he finds Gracie guards the files with a strange ferocity, raising questions about what she might be hiding. The secrets of the hundred-year house would turn everything Doug and Zee think they know about her family on its head—that is, if they were to ever uncover them. In this brilliantly conceived, ambitious, and deeply rewarding novel, Rebecca Makkai unfolds a generational saga in reverse, leading the reader back in time on a literary scavenger hunt as we seek to uncover the truth about these strange people and this mysterious house. With intelligence and humor, a daring narrative approach, and a lovingly satirical voice, Rebecca Makkai has crafted an unforgettable novel about family, fate and the incredible surprises life can offer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213472Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hundred-Year House Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Jen Tullock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 10, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hundred-Year House Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Jen Tullock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. “Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious.' –Richard Russo   Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents’ wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house; Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth; and Bruce, her step-father, stockpiling supplies for the Y2K apocalypse and perpetually late for his tee time. Then there’s Violet Devohr, Zee’s great-grandmother, who they say took her own life somewhere in the vast house, and whose massive oil portrait still hangs in the dining room. Violet’s portrait was known to terrify the artists who resided at the house from the 1920s to the 1950s, when it served as the Laurelfield Arts Colony—and this is exactly the period Zee’s husband, Doug, is interested in. An out-of-work academic whose only hope of a future position is securing a book deal, Doug is stalled on his biography of the poet Edwin Parfitt, once in residence at the colony. All he needs to get the book back on track—besides some motivation and self-esteem—is access to the colony records, rotting away in the attic for decades. But when Doug begins to poke around where he shouldn’t, he finds Gracie guards the files with a strange ferocity, raising questions about what she might be hiding. The secrets of the hundred-year house would turn everything Doug and Zee think they know about her family on its head—that is, if they were to ever uncover them. In this brilliantly conceived, ambitious, and deeply rewarding novel, Rebecca Makkai unfolds a generational saga in reverse, leading the reader back in time on a literary scavenger hunt as we seek to uncover the truth about these strange people and this mysterious house. With intelligence and humor, a daring narrative approach, and a lovingly satirical voice, Rebecca Makkai has crafted an unforgettable novel about family, fate and the incredible surprises life can offer.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/california-a-novel-by-edan-lepucki--65311067https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: California: A Novel Author: Edan Lepucki Narrator: Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the unknown and unsure of their ability to raise a child alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realize this community poses dangers of its own. In this unfamiliar world, where everything and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must quickly decide whom to trust. A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love. 'In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities.'-Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212990Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: California: A Novel Author: Edan Lepucki Narrator: Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: California: A Novel Author: Edan Lepucki Narrator: Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the unknown and unsure of their ability to raise a child alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realize this community poses dangers of its own. In this unfamiliar world, where everything and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must quickly decide whom to trust. A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love. 'In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities.'-Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/close-your-eyes-hold-hands-a-novel-by-chris-bohjalian--65311066https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Novel Author: Chris Bohjalian Narrator: Grace Experience Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced to flee their homes in the Kingdom; rivers and forests are destroyed; and Emily feels certain that as the daughter of the most hated man in America, she is in danger. So instead of following the social workers and her classmates after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for herself -- an identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson. When Emily befriends a young homeless boy named Cameron, she protects him with a ferocity she didn't know she had. But she still can't outrun her past, can't escape her grief, can't hide forever—and so she comes up with the only plan that she can.  A story of loss, adventure, and the search for friendship in the wake of catastrophe, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is one of Chris Bohjalian’s finest novels to date—breathtaking, wise, and utterly transporting.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212947Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Novel Author: Chris Bohjalian Narrator: Grace Experience Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Novel Author: Chris Bohjalian Narrator: Grace Experience Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced to flee their homes in the Kingdom; rivers and forests are destroyed; and Emily feels certain that as the daughter of the most hated man in America, she is in danger. So instead of following the social workers and her classmates after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for herself -- an identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson. When Emily befriends a young homeless boy named Cameron, she protects him with a ferocity she didn't know she had. But she still can't outrun her past, can't escape her grief, can't hide forever—and so she comes up with the only plan that she can.  A story of loss, adventure, and the search for friendship in the wake of catastrophe, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is one of Chris Bohjalian’s finest novels to date—breathtaking, wise, and utterly transporting.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-kill-a-mockingbird-by-harper-lee--65311013https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Kill a Mockingbird Series: #1 of To Kill A Mockingbird Author: Harper Lee Narrator: Sissy Spacek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 2824 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 233 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213291Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Kill a Mockingbird Series: #1 of To Kill A Mockingbird Author: Harper Lee Narrator: Sissy Spacek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Kill a Mockingbird Series: #1 of To Kill A Mockingbird Author: Harper Lee Narrator: Sissy Spacek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 2824 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 233 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dollbaby-a-novel-by-laura-lane-mcneal--65311008https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dollbaby: A Novel Author: Laura Lane Mcneal Narrator: January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in civil rights-era New Orleans—a novel of Southern eccentricity and secrets   When Ibby Bell’s father dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother Fannie and throws in her father’s urn for good measure. Fannie’s New Orleans house is like no place Ibby has ever been—and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum—is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook, Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter, Dollbaby, take it upon themselves to initiate Ibby into the ways of the South, both its grand traditions and its darkest secrets.   For Fannie’s own family history is fraught with tragedy, hidden behind the closed rooms in her ornate Uptown mansion. It will take Ibby’s arrival to begin to unlock the mysteries there. And it will take Queenie and Dollbaby’s hard-won wisdom to show Ibby that family can sometimes be found in the least expected places.   For fans of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time.   By turns uplifting and funny, poignant and full of verve, Dollbaby is a novel readers will take to their hearts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213331Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dollbaby: A Novel Author: Laura Lane Mcneal Narrator: January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 3,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dollbaby: A Novel Author: Laura Lane Mcneal Narrator: January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in civil rights-era New Orleans—a novel of Southern eccentricity and secrets   When Ibby Bell’s father dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother Fannie and throws in her father’s urn for good measure. Fannie’s New Orleans house is like no place Ibby has ever been—and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum—is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook, Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter, Dollbaby, take it upon themselves to initiate Ibby into the ways of the South, both its grand traditions and its darkest secrets.   For Fannie’s own family history is fraught with tragedy, hidden behind the closed rooms in her ornate Uptown mansion. It will take Ibby’s arrival to begin to unlock the mysteries there. And it will take Queenie and Dollbaby’s hard-won wisdom to show Ibby that family can sometimes be found in the least expected places.   For fans of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time.   By turns uplifting and funny, poignant and full of verve, Dollbaby is a novel readers will take to their hearts.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-night-at-the-blue-angel-a-novel-by-rebecca-rotert--65311064https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at the Blue Angel: A Novel Author: Rebecca Rotert Narrator: Andrus Nichols, Caitlin Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their heartbreaking relationship. It is the early 1960s, and Chicago is a city of uneasy tensions—segregation, sexual experimentation, free love, the Cold War—but it is also home to one of the country’s most vibrant jazz scenes. Naomi Hill, a singer at the Blue Angel club, has been poised on the brink of stardom for nearly ten years. Finally, her big break arrives—the cover of Look magazine. But success has come at enormous personal cost. Beautiful and magnetic, Naomi is a fiercely ambitious yet extremely self-destructive woman whose charms are irresistible and dangerous for those around her. No one knows this better than Sophia, her clever ten-year-old daughter. For Sophia, Naomi is the center of her universe. As the only child of a single, unconventional mother, growing up in an adult world, Sophia has seen things beyond her years and her understanding. Unsettled by her uncertain home life, she harbors the terrible fear that the world could end at any moment, and compulsively keeps a running list of practical objects she will need to reinvent once nuclear catastrophe strikes. Her one constant is Jim, the photographer who is her best friend, surrogate father, and protector. But Jim is deeply in love with Naomi—a situation that adds to Sophia’s anxiety. Told from the alternating perspectives of Sophia and Naomi, their powerful and wrenching story unfolds in layers, revealing Sophia’s struggle for her mother’s love with Naomi’s desperate journey to stardom and the colorful cadre of close friends who shaped her along the way. Sophisticated yet poignant, Last Night at the Blue Angel is an unforgettable tale about what happens when our passion for the life we want is at sharp odds with the life we have. It is a story ripe with surprising twists and revelations, and an ending that is bound to break your heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213034Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at the Blue Angel: A Novel Author: Rebecca Rotert Narrator: Andrus Nichols, Caitlin Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at the Blue Angel: A Novel Author: Rebecca Rotert Narrator: Andrus Nichols, Caitlin Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their heartbreaking relationship. It is the early 1960s, and Chicago is a city of uneasy tensions—segregation, sexual experimentation, free love, the Cold War—but it is also home to one of the country’s most vibrant jazz scenes. Naomi Hill, a singer at the Blue Angel club, has been poised on the brink of stardom for nearly ten years. Finally, her big break arrives—the cover of Look magazine. But success has come at enormous personal cost. Beautiful and magnetic, Naomi is a fiercely ambitious yet extremely self-destructive woman whose charms are irresistible and dangerous for those around her. No one knows this better than Sophia, her clever ten-year-old daughter. For Sophia, Naomi is the center of her universe. As the only child of a single, unconventional mother, growing up in an adult world, Sophia has seen things beyond her years and her understanding. Unsettled by her uncertain home life, she harbors the terrible fear that the world could end at any moment, and compulsively keeps a running list of practical objects she will need to reinvent once nuclear catastrophe strikes. Her one constant is Jim, the photographer who is her best friend, surrogate father, and protector. But Jim is deeply in love with Naomi—a situation that adds to Sophia’s anxiety. Told from the alternating perspectives of Sophia and Naomi, their powerful and wrenching story unfolds in layers, revealing Sophia’s struggle for her mother’s love with Naomi’s desperate journey to stardom and the colorful cadre of close friends who shaped her along the way. Sophisticated yet poignant, Last Night at the Blue Angel is an unforgettable tale about what happens when our passion for the life we want is at sharp odds with the life we have. It is a story ripe with surprising twists and revelations, and an ending that is bound to break your heart.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-tell-toledo-from-the-night-sky-a-novel-by-lydia-netzer--65311050https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel Author: Lydia Netzer Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, the nation's premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont, a dreamer and a man of deep faith, who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God, and speaks to ancient gods and believes they speak back. Its newest star is Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This would be a scientist's dream come true, but it's particularly poignant for Irene who has been in self-imposed exile from Toledo and her estranged alcoholic mother, Bernice. When Bernice dies unexpectedly, Irene resolves to return to Toledo, and sets in motion a series of events which place George and Irene on a collision course with love, destiny and fate. George and Irene were born to be together. Literally. Their mothers, friends since childhood, hatched a plan to get pregnant together, raise the children together and then separate them so as to become each other's soulmates as adults. Can true love exist if engineered from birth? Lydia Netzer's How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky is a mind-bending, heart-shattering love story for dreamers and pragmatists alike, exploring the conflicts of fate and determinism, and asking how much of life is under our control and what is pre-ordained in the stars.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212559Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel Author: Lydia Netzer Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel Author: Lydia Netzer Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, the nation's premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont, a dreamer and a man of deep faith, who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God, and speaks to ancient gods and believes they speak back. Its newest star is Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This would be a scientist's dream come true, but it's particularly poignant for Irene who has been in self-imposed exile from Toledo and her estranged alcoholic mother, Bernice. When Bernice dies unexpectedly, Irene resolves to return to Toledo, and sets in motion a series of events which place George and Irene on a collision course with love, destiny and fate. George and Irene were born to be together. Literally. Their mothers, friends since childhood, hatched a plan to get pregnant together, raise the children together and then separate them so as to become each other's soulmates as adults. Can true love exist if engineered from birth? Lydia Netzer's How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky is a mind-bending, heart-shattering love story for dreamers and pragmatists alike, exploring the conflicts of fate and determinism, and asking how much of life is under our control and what is pre-ordained in the stars.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sleepwalker-s-guide-to-dancing-a-novel-by-mira-jacob--65311034https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing: A Novel Author: Mira Jacob Narrator: Mira Jacob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past “With wit and a rich understanding of human foibles, [Mira] Jacob unspools a story that will touch your heart.”—People ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted journey that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New Mexico to Seattle during the dot.com boom. The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing is an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of hope, and the power of making peace with life’s uncertainties. Celebrated brain surgeon Thomas Eapen has been sitting on his porch, talking to dead relatives. At least that is the story his wife, Kamala, prone to exaggeration, tells their daughter, Amina, a photographer living in Seattle. Reluctantly Amina returns home and finds a situation that is far more complicated than her mother let on, with roots in a trip the family, including Amina’s rebellious brother Akhil, took to India twenty years earlier. Confronted by Thomas’s unwillingness to explain himself, strange looks from the hospital staff, and a series of puzzling items buried in her mother’s garden, Amina soon realizes that the only way she can help her father is by coming to terms with her family’s painful past. In doing so, she must reckon with the ghosts that haunt all of the Eapens.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212688Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing: A Novel Author: Mira Jacob Narrator: Mira Jacob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing: A Novel Author: Mira Jacob Narrator: Mira Jacob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past “With wit and a rich understanding of human foibles, [Mira] Jacob unspools a story that will touch your heart.”—People ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted journey that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New Mexico to Seattle during the dot.com boom. The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing is an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of hope, and the power of making peace with life’s uncertainties. Celebrated brain surgeon Thomas Eapen has been sitting on his porch, talking to dead relatives. At least that is the story his wife, Kamala, prone to exaggeration, tells their daughter, Amina, a photographer living in Seattle. Reluctantly Amina returns home and finds a situation that is far more complicated than her mother let on, with roots in a trip the family, including Amina’s rebellious brother Akhil, took to India twenty years earlier. Confronted by Thomas’s unwillingness to explain himself, strange looks from the hospital staff, and a series of puzzling items buried in her mother’s garden, Amina soon realizes that the only way she can help her father is by coming to terms with her family’s painful past. In doing so, she must reckon with the ghosts that haunt all of the Eapens.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-plus-one-a-novel-by-jojo-moyes--65311019https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Plus One: A Novel Author: Jojo Moyes Narrator: Steven France, Nicola Stanton, Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 84 Ratings of Narrator: 4.72 of Total 25 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes   American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Now, with One Plus One, she’s written another contemporary opposites-attract love story.   Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever.   One Plus One is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. You’ll laugh, you’ll weep, and when you flip the last page, you’ll want to start all over again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213301Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Plus One: A Novel Author: Jojo Moyes Narrator: Steven France, Nicola Stanton, Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Plus One: A Novel Author: Jojo Moyes Narrator: Steven France, Nicola Stanton, Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 84 Ratings of Narrator: 4.72 of Total 25 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes   American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Now, with One Plus One, she’s written another contemporary opposites-attract love story.   Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever.   One Plus One is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. You’ll laugh, you’ll weep, and when you flip the last page, you’ll want to start all over again.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eden-in-winter-a-novel-by-richard-north-patterson--65311012https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eden in Winter: A Novel Series: #3 of The Blaine Trilogy Author: Richard North Patterson Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson—the author of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness—returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final volume that completes the story begun in Fall from Grace. Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin. But the sternest test of all is Adam's proximity to Carla Pacelli—his late father's mistress and a woman to whom, despite her pivotal role in his family's plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer he gets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from his troubles, yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he's striven to conceal and condemning the people he's fought so hard to protect. An acknowledged master of the courtroom thriller, Patterson's Blaine trilogy, a bold and surprising departure from his past novels, is a complex family drama pulsing with the tumult of the time and 'dripping with summer diversions, youthful passion and ideals, class tensions, and familial disruptions' (Library Journal).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213379Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eden in Winter: A Novel Series: #3 of The Blaine Trilogy Author: Richard North Patterson Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eden in Winter: A Novel Series: #3 of The Blaine Trilogy Author: Richard North Patterson Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson—the author of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness—returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final volume that completes the story begun in Fall from Grace. Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin. But the sternest test of all is Adam's proximity to Carla Pacelli—his late father's mistress and a woman to whom, despite her pivotal role in his family's plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer he gets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from his troubles, yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he's striven to conceal and condemning the people he's fought so hard to protect. An acknowledged master of the courtroom thriller, Patterson's Blaine trilogy, a bold and surprising departure from his past novels, is a complex family drama pulsing with the tumult of the time and 'dripping with summer diversions, youthful passion and ideals, class tensions, and familial disruptions' (Library Journal).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mambo-in-chinatown-a-novel-by-jean-kwok--65311052https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mambo in Chinatown: A Novel Author: Jean Kwok Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie’s natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed—something she must take great pains to hide from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213088Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mambo in Chinatown: A Novel Author: Jean Kwok Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mambo in Chinatown: A Novel Author: Jean Kwok Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie’s natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed—something she must take great pains to hide from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-arsonist-a-novel-by-sue-miller--65311046https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Arsonist: A Novel Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Sue Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator’s Wife, a superb new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New England town. Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley has come home—home to the small New Hampshire village of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Then another house burns, and another, always the houses of the summer people. In a town where people have never bothered to lock their doors, social fault lines are opened, and neighbors begin to regard one another with suspicion. Against this backdrop of menace and fear, Frankie begins a passionate, unexpected affair with the editor of the local paper, a romance that progresses with exquisite tenderness and heat toward its own remarkable risks and revelations. Suspenseful, sophisticated, rich in psychological nuance and emotional insight, The Arsonist is vintage Sue Miller—a finely wrought novel about belonging and community, about how and where one ought to live, about what it means to lead a fulfilling life. One of our most elegant and engrossing novelists at her inimitable best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212689Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Arsonist: A Novel Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Sue Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Arsonist: A Novel Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Sue Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator’s Wife, a superb new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New England town. Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley has come home—home to the small New Hampshire village of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Then another house burns, and another, always the houses of the summer people. In a town where people have never bothered to lock their doors, social fault lines are opened, and neighbors begin to regard one another with suspicion. Against this backdrop of menace and fear, Frankie begins a passionate, unexpected affair with the editor of the local paper, a romance that progresses with exquisite tenderness and heat toward its own remarkable risks and revelations. Suspenseful, sophisticated, rich in psychological nuance and emotional insight, The Arsonist is vintage Sue Miller—a finely wrought novel about belonging and community, about how and where one ought to live, about what it means to lead a fulfilling life. One of our most elegant and engrossing novelists at her inimitable best.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-diary-of-lizzie-bennet-a-novel-by-bernie-su-kate-rorick--65311025https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet: A Novel Author: Bernie Su, Kate Rorick Narrator: Ashley Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Based on the Emmy Award–winning YouTube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Twenty‑four‑year‑old grad student Lizzie Bennet is saddled with student loan debt and still living at home along with her two sisters—beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia. When she records her reflections on life for her thesis project and posts them on YouTube, she has no idea The Lizzie Bennet Diaries will soon take on a life of their own, turning the Bennet sisters into internet celebrities seemingly overnight. When rich and handsome Bing Lee comes to town, along with his stuck‑up friend William Darcy, things really start to get interesting for the Bennets—and for Lizzie’s viewers. But not everything happens on‑screen. Lucky for us, Lizzie has a secret diary. The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet takes readers deep inside Lizzie’s world and well beyond the confines of her camera—from the wedding where she first meets William Darcy to the local hangout of Carter’s bar, and much more. Lizzie’s private musings are filled with revealing details about the Bennet household, including her growing suspicions about her parents’ unstable financial situation, her sister’s budding relationship with Bing Lee, the perils of her unexpected fame, and her uncertainty over her future—and whom she wants to share it with. Featuring plenty of fresh twists to delight fans and new readers alike, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet expands on the web series phenomenon that captivated a generation and reimagines the Pride and Prejudice story like never before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213228Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet: A Novel Author: Bernie Su, Kate Rorick Narrator: Ashley Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet: A Novel Author: Bernie Su, Kate Rorick Narrator: Ashley Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Based on the Emmy Award–winning YouTube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Twenty‑four‑year‑old grad student Lizzie Bennet is saddled with student loan debt and still living at home along with her two sisters—beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia. When she records her reflections on life for her thesis project and posts them on YouTube, she has no idea The Lizzie Bennet Diaries will soon take on a life of their own, turning the Bennet sisters into internet celebrities seemingly overnight. When rich and handsome Bing Lee comes to town, along with his stuck‑up friend William Darcy, things really start to get interesting for the Bennets—and for Lizzie’s viewers. But not everything happens on‑screen. Lucky for us, Lizzie has a secret diary. The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet takes readers deep inside Lizzie’s world and well beyond the confines of her camera—from the wedding where she first meets William Darcy to the local hangout of Carter’s bar, and much more. Lizzie’s private musings are filled with revealing details about the Bennet household, including her growing suspicions about her parents’ unstable financial situation, her sister’s budding relationship with Bing Lee, the perils of her unexpected fame, and her uncertainty over her future—and whom she wants to share it with. Featuring plenty of fresh twists to delight fans and new readers alike, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet expands on the web series phenomenon that captivated a generation and reimagines the Pride and Prejudice story like never before.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wandering-harlot-by-iny-lorentz--65311014https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wandering Harlot Series: #1 of Marie Author: Iny Lorentz Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1410 in Constance, Germany, the beautiful Marie Schärer’s luxurious life as a merchant’s daughter is destroyed when her ambitious father arranges her marriage to a lawyer from the Black Forest named Rupert Splendidus. Her childhood sweetheart warns her of the attorney’s sly character and is tragically proven right the day before the wedding, when Rupert accuses Marie of unimaginable behavior and has her thrown into a dank dungeon, where she is brutally attacked by his henchmen. Unfairly condemned and banished from her home, Marie is forced to become a wandering prostitute to survive. The clever and kind Hiltrud befriends Marie, and the strong-minded pair sets out on spirited adventures—bedding counts, meeting scoundrels, and tricking foes—as Marie plots the ultimate revenge on the men who stole her honor and her family’s fortune. Set against a richly detailed historical backdrop, this is the dramatic tale of one woman’s quest for vengeance, redemption, and real love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212622Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wandering Harlot Series: #1 of Marie Author: Iny Lorentz Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wandering Harlot Series: #1 of Marie Author: Iny Lorentz Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1410 in Constance, Germany, the beautiful Marie Schärer’s luxurious life as a merchant’s daughter is destroyed when her ambitious father arranges her marriage to a lawyer from the Black Forest named Rupert Splendidus. Her childhood sweetheart warns her of the attorney’s sly character and is tragically proven right the day before the wedding, when Rupert accuses Marie of unimaginable behavior and has her thrown into a dank dungeon, where she is brutally attacked by his henchmen. Unfairly condemned and banished from her home, Marie is forced to become a wandering prostitute to survive. The clever and kind Hiltrud befriends Marie, and the strong-minded pair sets out on spirited adventures—bedding counts, meeting scoundrels, and tricking foes—as Marie plots the ultimate revenge on the men who stole her honor and her family’s fortune. Set against a richly detailed historical backdrop, this is the dramatic tale of one woman’s quest for vengeance, redemption, and real love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-stories-we-tell-a-novel-by-patti-callahan-henry--65311003https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stories We Tell: A Novel Author: Patti Callahan Henry Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry is back with a powerful novel about the stories we tell and the people we trust. Eve and Cooper Morrison are Savannah's power couple. They're on every artistic board and deeply involved in the community. She owns and operates a letterpress studio specializing in the handmade; he runs a digital magazine featuring all things southern gentlemen. The perfect juxtaposition of the old and the new, Eve and Cooper are the beautiful people. The lucky ones. And they have the wealth and name that comes from being part of an old Georgia family. But things may not be as good as they seem. Eve's sister, Willa, is staying with the family until she gets 'back on her feet.' Their daughter, Gwen, is all adolescent rebellion. And Cooper thinks Eve works too much. Still, the Morrison marriage is strong. After twenty-one years together, Eve and Cooper know each other. They count on each other. They know what to expect. But when Cooper and Willa are involved in a car accident, the questions surrounding the event bring the family close to breaking point. Sifting between the stories—what Cooper says, what Willa remembers, what the evidence indicates—Eve has to find out what really happened. And what she's going to do about it. A riveting story about the power of truth, The Stories we Tell will open your eyes and rearrange your heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213333Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stories We Tell: A Novel Author: Patti Callahan Henry Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stories We Tell: A Novel Author: Patti Callahan Henry Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry is back with a powerful novel about the stories we tell and the people we trust. Eve and Cooper Morrison are Savannah's power couple. They're on every artistic board and deeply involved in the community. She owns and operates a letterpress studio specializing in the handmade; he runs a digital magazine featuring all things southern gentlemen. The perfect juxtaposition of the old and the new, Eve and Cooper are the beautiful people. The lucky ones. And they have the wealth and name that comes from being part of an old Georgia family. But things may not be as good as they seem. Eve's sister, Willa, is staying with the family until she gets 'back on her feet.' Their daughter, Gwen, is all adolescent rebellion. And Cooper thinks Eve works too much. Still, the Morrison marriage is strong. After twenty-one years together, Eve and Cooper know each other. They count on each other. They know what to expect. But when Cooper and Willa are involved in a car accident, the questions surrounding the event bring the family close to breaking point. Sifting between the stories—what Cooper says, what Willa remembers, what the evidence indicates—Eve has to find out what really happened. And what she's going to do about it. A riveting story about the power of truth, The Stories we Tell will open your eyes and rearrange your heart.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lily-love-by-maggi-myers--65311001https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lily Love Author: Maggi Myers Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Caroline used to have it all: she was madly in love with her husband, Peter, and they worshiped their beautiful baby girl. But as Lily grows into a toddler, Caroline notices that her daughter seems to live and act with a disconnect, and soon the perfect future Caroline had envisioned, along with her marriage, begin to crumble. Now she and Peter are no longer lovers, they’re plaintiffs in the throes of divorce while still struggling to care for Lily. After years of blame and overwhelming despair, Caroline’s chance encounter with a stranger at University Hospital opens her eyes to the prospect of accepting new support, new loves, and new dreams. From the acclaimed author of The Final Piece comes a story of a family broken and unable to cope with a daughter’s disability. And a mother who finds that letting go of the life she imagined may be the only way to get to the life she was meant for.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212232Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lily Love Author: Maggi Myers Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lily Love Author: Maggi Myers Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 24, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Caroline used to have it all: she was madly in love with her husband, Peter, and they worshiped their beautiful baby girl. But as Lily grows into a toddler, Caroline notices that her daughter seems to live and act with a disconnect, and soon the perfect future Caroline had envisioned, along with her marriage, begin to crumble. Now she and Peter are no longer lovers, they’re plaintiffs in the throes of divorce while still struggling to care for Lily. After years of blame and overwhelming despair, Caroline’s chance encounter with a stranger at University Hospital opens her eyes to the prospect of accepting new support, new loves, and new dreams. From the acclaimed author of The Final Piece comes a story of a family broken and unable to cope with a daughter’s disability. And a mother who finds that letting go of the life she imagined may be the only way to get to the life she was meant for.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mill-river-recluse-a-novel-by-darcie-chan--65311042https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mill River Recluse: A Novel Series: #1 of Mill River Author: Darcie Chan Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The sensational New York Times bestseller The Mill River Recluse reminds us that friendship, family, and love can come from the most unexpected places. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. From the outside, Mill River looks like any sleepy little Vermont town where everyone knows everyone and people never need to lock their doors. There are newcomers for whom this appeals, from police officer Kyle Hansen and his daughter Rowen, who are starting over after heartache, to Claudia Simon, the schoolteacher who is determined to reinvent herself.   But on closer inspection, there are those in Mill River—including a stealthy arsonist, a covetous nurse, and a pilfering priest—who have things they wish to hide. None more than the widow Mary McAllister, who for the past sixty years has secluded herself in her marble mansion overlooking the town. Most of the residents have never even seen the peculiar woman. Only the priest, Father O’Brien, knows the deep secrets that keep Mary isolated—and that, once revealed, will forever change the community.   Praise for The Mill River Recluse   “A heartwarming story.”—Examiner   “[Darcie] Chan’s sweet novel displays her talent. . . . A comforting book about the random acts of kindness that hold communities together.”—Kirkus Reviews   “A real page-turner.”—IndieReader   “Chan does an amazing job with pacing while maintaining continuity and weaving universal themes such as friendship, love, new beginnings and overcoming adversities into small town life.”—RT Book Reviews   “This debut novel is a genre-breaking thriller with romantic overtones that should appeal to both men and women.”—Huntington News   “Chan’s compassionate novel . . . blends elements of mystery, suspense and romance . . . [and] culminates in a beautifully rendered denouement that rekindles hope for a troubled world.”—Shelf Awareness]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212953Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mill River Recluse: A Novel Series: #1 of Mill River Author: Darcie Chan Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mill River Recluse: A Novel Series: #1 of Mill River Author: Darcie Chan Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The sensational New York Times bestseller The Mill River Recluse reminds us that friendship, family, and love can come from the most unexpected places. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. From the outside, Mill River looks like any sleepy little Vermont town where everyone knows everyone and people never need to lock their doors. There are newcomers for whom this appeals, from police officer Kyle Hansen and his daughter Rowen, who are starting over after heartache, to Claudia Simon, the schoolteacher who is determined to reinvent herself.   But on closer inspection, there are those in Mill River—including a stealthy arsonist, a covetous nurse, and a pilfering priest—who have things they wish to hide. None more than the widow Mary McAllister, who for the past sixty years has secluded herself in her marble mansion overlooking the town. Most of the residents have never even seen the peculiar woman. Only the priest, Father O’Brien, knows the deep secrets that keep Mary isolated—and that, once revealed, will forever change the community.   Praise for The Mill River Recluse   “A heartwarming story.”—Examiner   “[Darcie] Chan’s sweet novel displays her talent. . . . A comforting book about the random acts of kindness that hold communities together.”—Kirkus Reviews   “A real page-turner.”—IndieReader   “Chan does an amazing job with pacing while maintaining continuity and weaving universal themes such as friendship, love, new beginnings and overcoming adversities into small town life.”—RT Book Reviews   “This debut novel is a genre-breaking thriller with romantic overtones that should appeal to both men and women.”—Huntington News   “Chan’s compassionate novel . . . blends elements of mystery, suspense and romance . . . [and] culminates in a beautifully rendered denouement that rekindles hope for a troubled world.”—Shelf Awareness]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-fall-down-by-jennifer-weiner--65311010https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Fall Down Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Tracee Chimo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes her “best book yet” (Philadelphia Inquirer), a “compulsively readable” novel that shows “there’s no doubt Weiner knows how to deliver a certain kind of story, and well” (The New York Times Book Review). Allison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, an adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. But while waiting in the pediatrician’s office, she opens a magazine to a quiz about addiction and starts to wonder…Is a Percocet at the end of the day really different from a glass of wine? Is it such a bad thing to pop a Vicodin after a brutal Jump & Pump class…or if your husband ignores you? She tells herself that the pills help her make it through her days…but what if her increasing drug use, a habit that’s becoming expensive and hard to hide, is turning into her biggest problem of all? Hailed as “a witty, realistic criticism on the modern age” (Boston Herald), this remarkable story of a woman’s fall into addiction and struggle to find her way back up again is Jennifer Weiner’s most masterful, moving, and celebrated work yet.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213002Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Fall Down Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Tracee Chimo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 17, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Fall Down Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Tracee Chimo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes her “best book yet” (Philadelphia Inquirer), a “compulsively readable” novel that shows “there’s no doubt Weiner knows how to deliver a certain kind of story, and well” (The New York Times Book Review). Allison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, an adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. But while waiting in the pediatrician’s office, she opens a magazine to a quiz about addiction and starts to wonder…Is a Percocet at the end of the day really different from a glass of wine? Is it such a bad thing to pop a Vicodin after a brutal Jump & Pump class…or if your husband ignores you? She tells herself that the pills help her make it through her days…but what if her increasing drug use, a habit that’s becoming expensive and hard to hide, is turning into her biggest problem of all? Hailed as “a witty, realistic criticism on the modern age” (Boston Herald), this remarkable story of a woman’s fall into addiction and struggle to find her way back up again is Jennifer Weiner’s most masterful, moving, and celebrated work yet.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-summer-wind-by-mary-alice-monroe--65311002https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer Wind Series: #2 of The Lowcountry Summer Series Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Summer Wind is the second book in Monroe's Lowcountry Summer trilogy, following the New York Times bestseller The Summer Girls. This series is the poignant and heartwarming story of three half-sisters and their grandmother, who is determined to help them rediscover their Southern roots and family bonds. It's midsummer, and Eudora, nicknamed Dora, is staying at Sea Breeze, the family's ancestral home on Sullivan's Island. For years, Dora has played the role of the perfect wife and mother in a loveless marriage. Now her husband has filed for divorce, her child is diagnosed with autism, and her house is on the market. Dora's fa├ºade collapses under the weight of her grief, and she suffers 'broken heart syndrome.' Mamaw and the girls rally around Dora—but it's up to Dora to heal herself as she spends the summer prowling the beach, discovering the secrets of the island and her heart. This is a summer of discovery for all the women of Sea Breeze. Carson returns from Florida to face life-changing decisions, Lucille confronts a health scare, and an unexpected visitor has Harper reconsidering her life's direction. When tropical storm winds batter the island, the women must band together and weather the tempest—both the one outside their windows and the raging sea of emotions within each of them. They must learn again what it means to be a sister. It is up to Mamaw to keep the light burning at Sea Breeze to guide the girls through the lies, the threats, and the rocky waters of indecision to home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213404Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer Wind Series: #2 of The Lowcountry Summer Series Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer Wind Series: #2 of The Lowcountry Summer Series Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 17, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Summer Wind is the second book in Monroe's Lowcountry Summer trilogy, following the New York Times bestseller The Summer Girls. This series is the poignant and heartwarming story of three half-sisters and their grandmother, who is determined to help them rediscover their Southern roots and family bonds. It's midsummer, and Eudora, nicknamed Dora, is staying at Sea Breeze, the family's ancestral home on Sullivan's Island. For years, Dora has played the role of the perfect wife and mother in a loveless marriage. Now her husband has filed for divorce, her child is diagnosed with autism, and her house is on the market. Dora's fa├ºade collapses under the weight of her grief, and she suffers 'broken heart syndrome.' Mamaw and the girls rally around Dora—but it's up to Dora to heal herself as she spends the summer prowling the beach, discovering the secrets of the island and her heart. This is a summer of discovery for all the women of Sea Breeze. Carson returns from Florida to face life-changing decisions, Lucille confronts a health scare, and an unexpected visitor has Harper reconsidering her life's direction. When tropical storm winds batter the island, the women must band together and weather the tempest—both the one outside their windows and the raging sea of emotions within each of them. They must learn again what it means to be a sister. It is up to Mamaw to keep the light burning at Sea Breeze to guide the girls through the lies, the threats, and the rocky waters of indecision to home.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rise-fall-of-great-powers-a-novel-by-tom-rachman--65311055https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel Author: Tom Rachman Narrator: Penelope Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.   Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still.   Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States. But who were her abductors? Why did they take her? What did they really want? There was Humphrey, the curmudgeonly Russian with a passion for reading; there was the charming but tempestuous Sarah, who sowed chaos in her wake; and there was Venn, the charismatic leader whose worldview transformed Tooly forever. Until, quite suddenly, he disappeared.   Years later, Tooly believes she will never understand the true story of her own life. Then startling news arrives from a long-lost boyfriend in New York, raising old mysteries and propelling her on a quest around the world in search of answers.   Tom Rachman—an author celebrated for humanity, humor, and wonderful characters—has produced a stunning novel that reveals the tale not just of one woman but of the past quarter-century as well, from the end of the Cold War to the dominance of American empire to the digital revolution of today. Leaping between decades, and from Bangkok to Brooklyn, this is a breathtaking novel about long-buried secrets and how we must choose to make our own place in the world. It will confirm Rachman’s reputation as one of the most exciting young writers we have. Praise for The Rise & Fall of Great Powers “Ingenious . . . Rachman needs only a few well-drawn characters to fill a large canvas and an impressive swath of history.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times   “A superb follow-up to 2010’s The Imperfectionists . . . ambitious and engaging.”—The Seattle Times   “Engaging and inventive . . . full of wonderfully quirky, deeply flawed, but lovable characters . . . On the spectrum of interesting literary childhoods, Tooly Zylberberg—the protagonist of Tom Rachman’s second novel—would rank somewhere in the vicinity of Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “I found it impossible not to fall in love with shape-shifting Tooly. As an adult, she sports an ironical sense of humor and an attraction to dusty old books. As a child, her straight-faced mirth and wordplay are break-your-heart irresistible.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post   “[A] read-it-all-in-one-weekend book.”—The New Republic   “A compelling page-turner . . . intricate, sprawling, and almost Dickensian.”—USA Today   “Rachman’s comedic powers drive the story, with grace and wit.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212329Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel Author: Tom Rachman Narrator: Penelope Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 51 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel Author: Tom Rachman Narrator: Penelope Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.   Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still.   Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States. But who were her abductors? Why did they take her? What did they really want? There was Humphrey, the curmudgeonly Russian with a passion for reading; there was the charming but tempestuous Sarah, who sowed chaos in her wake; and there was Venn, the charismatic leader whose worldview transformed Tooly forever. Until, quite suddenly, he disappeared.   Years later, Tooly believes she will never understand the true story of her own life. Then startling news arrives from a long-lost boyfriend in New York, raising old mysteries and propelling her on a quest around the world in search of answers.   Tom Rachman—an author celebrated for humanity, humor, and wonderful characters—has produced a stunning novel that reveals the tale not just of one woman but of the past quarter-century as well, from the end of the Cold War to the dominance of American empire to the digital revolution of today. Leaping between decades, and from Bangkok to Brooklyn, this is a breathtaking novel about long-buried secrets and how we must choose to make our own place in the world. It will confirm Rachman’s reputation as one of the most exciting young writers we have. Praise for The Rise & Fall of Great Powers “Ingenious . . . Rachman needs only a few well-drawn characters to fill a large canvas and an impressive swath of history.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times   “A superb follow-up to 2010’s The Imperfectionists . . . ambitious and engaging.”—The Seattle Times   “Engaging and inventive . . . full of wonderfully quirky, deeply flawed, but lovable characters . . . On the spectrum of interesting literary childhoods, Tooly Zylberberg—the protagonist of Tom Rachman’s second novel—would rank somewhere in the vicinity of Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “I found it impossible not to fall in love with shape-shifting Tooly. As an adult, she sports an ironical sense of humor and an attraction to dusty old books. As a child, her straight-faced mirth and wordplay are break-your-heart irresistible.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post   “[A] read-it-all-in-one-weekend book.”—The New Republic   “A compelling page-turner . . . intricate, sprawling, and almost Dickensian.”—USA Today   “Rachman’s comedic powers drive the story, with grace and wit.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sunset-embrace-by-sandra-brown--65311048https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset Embrace Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this steamy post-Civil War saga, the most stubborn woman headed for Texas meets her match in a mystery man with a dark past . . . and together, they must take down a common enemy.No woman on the wagon train trek to Texas was more alluring than Lydia Langston. No man was more rugged than Ross Coleman . . . and both were running from the past. Lydia once vowed that no man would ever take away her pride, while Ross Coleman has stayed true to his wife, who died giving birth to their son. But despite their challenges, Lydia and Ross now find themselves together, fighting the same enemy and the same dangerous emotions building inside them . . . and unable to stop the events that will eventually pit a man's deadly vengeance against the strength of a woman's love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212212Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset Embrace Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset Embrace Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this steamy post-Civil War saga, the most stubborn woman headed for Texas meets her match in a mystery man with a dark past . . . and together, they must take down a common enemy.No woman on the wagon train trek to Texas was more alluring than Lydia Langston. No man was more rugged than Ross Coleman . . . and both were running from the past. Lydia once vowed that no man would ever take away her pride, while Ross Coleman has stayed true to his wife, who died giving birth to their son. But despite their challenges, Lydia and Ross now find themselves together, fighting the same enemy and the same dangerous emotions building inside them . . . and unable to stop the events that will eventually pit a man's deadly vengeance against the strength of a woman's love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/so-much-a-part-of-you-by-polly-dugan--65311037https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Much a Part of You Author: Polly Dugan Narrator: Sandy Rustin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two young women who've dated the same man navigate love, destiny, loss, and choice in this powerful debut. Peter Herring was the center of Anne's universe in college, and now, a few years later, he's become the center of Anna's, and merely a minor player in his ex-girlfriend's world. That is, until Peter and Anna are invited into Anne's parents' home to visit with her dying mother, and he finds himself drawn back into her orbit. Years later, when her own mother is dying, Anna will find herself yearning to reach out to Anne, with whom she had shared such a brief but intimate bond, and find solace in that moment from long ago. Perspective evolves with time, and so with time, what Peter means to each woman -- as lover, as friend, as connection to the past -- also evolves. Through exploring Anne's and Anna's ties to Peter and unfolding the narratives of the people who weave meaningfully in and out of their lives, Polly Dugan reveals the power of family secrets, the ripple effects of her characters' emotional choices, and how poignantly their intertwined relationships shape who they are and how they love. Possessing that rare ability to write the sweep of emotion with tenderness, Polly Dugan invites readers to witness the moments that define her characters -- the moments that come back full circle to comfort or haunt them, or both. So Much a Part of You will break your heart and still have you asking for more.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212502Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Much a Part of You Author: Polly Dugan Narrator: Sandy Rustin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Much a Part of You Author: Polly Dugan Narrator: Sandy Rustin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two young women who've dated the same man navigate love, destiny, loss, and choice in this powerful debut. Peter Herring was the center of Anne's universe in college, and now, a few years later, he's become the center of Anna's, and merely a minor player in his ex-girlfriend's world. That is, until Peter and Anna are invited into Anne's parents' home to visit with her dying mother, and he finds himself drawn back into her orbit. Years later, when her own mother is dying, Anna will find herself yearning to reach out to Anne, with whom she had shared such a brief but intimate bond, and find solace in that moment from long ago. Perspective evolves with time, and so with time, what Peter means to each woman -- as lover, as friend, as connection to the past -- also evolves. Through exploring Anne's and Anna's ties to Peter and unfolding the narratives of the people who weave meaningfully in and out of their lives, Polly Dugan reveals the power of family secrets, the ripple effects of her characters' emotional choices, and how poignantly their intertwined relationships shape who they are and how they love. Possessing that rare ability to write the sweep of emotion with tenderness, Polly Dugan invites readers to witness the moments that define her characters -- the moments that come back full circle to comfort or haunt them, or both. So Much a Part of You will break your heart and still have you asking for more.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/without-you-by-saskia-sarginson--65311028https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Without You Author: Saskia Sarginson Narrator: Lucy Price-Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1984 -- Suffolk, England. When 17-year-old Eva goes missing at sea, everyone presumes that she drowned. Her parents' relationship is falling apart, undermined by guilt and grief. But her younger sister, Faith, refuses to consider a life without Eva; she's determined to find her sister and bring her home alive. Close to the shore looms the shape of an island -- out of bounds, mysterious, and dotted with windowless concrete huts. What nobody knows is that inside one of the huts Eva is being held captive. That she is fighting to survive -- and return home. . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212918Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Without You Author: Saskia Sarginson Narrator: Lucy Price-Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Without You Author: Saskia Sarginson Narrator: Lucy Price-Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1984 -- Suffolk, England. When 17-year-old Eva goes missing at sea, everyone presumes that she drowned. Her parents' relationship is falling apart, undermined by guilt and grief. But her younger sister, Faith, refuses to consider a life without Eva; she's determined to find her sister and bring her home alive. Close to the shore looms the shape of an island -- out of bounds, mysterious, and dotted with windowless concrete huts. What nobody knows is that inside one of the huts Eva is being held captive. That she is fighting to survive -- and return home. . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-one-thing-by-holly-jacobs--65311009https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just One Thing Author: Holly Jacobs Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: June 10, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I’d discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.” Artist Lexie McCain spends her days literally weaving the story of her life into a gorgeous tapestry. But on Monday nights, she walks to the Corner Bar, drinks a Killian’s, and answers the same question every week from Sam the bartender: “One thing?” She starts with her name, then her cottage, slowly moving on to the devastating tragedies that tore her life apart. Sam Corner’s smile doesn’t seem to hide any pain. One night, Lexie turns the tables on him, asking Sam, “One thing?” To her surprise, Sam reveals his own tragic history. Together, Lexie and Sam learn that, with good beer and a trusted friend, sharing just “one thing” might lead to the one thing they both thought was lost forever: love. From award-winning author Holly Jacobs comes the story of heartache, hope, and the power of sharing just one thing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212049Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just One Thing Author: Holly Jacobs Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: June 10, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just One Thing Author: Holly Jacobs Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: June 10, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I’d discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.” Artist Lexie McCain spends her days literally weaving the story of her life into a gorgeous tapestry. But on Monday nights, she walks to the Corner Bar, drinks a Killian’s, and answers the same question every week from Sam the bartender: “One thing?” She starts with her name, then her cottage, slowly moving on to the devastating tragedies that tore her life apart. Sam Corner’s smile doesn’t seem to hide any pain. One night, Lexie turns the tables on him, asking Sam, “One thing?” To her surprise, Sam reveals his own tragic history. Together, Lexie and Sam learn that, with good beer and a trusted friend, sharing just “one thing” might lead to the one thing they both thought was lost forever: love. From award-winning author Holly Jacobs comes the story of heartache, hope, and the power of sharing just one thing.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/china-dolls-a-novel-by-lisa-see--65311053https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China Dolls: A Novel Author: Lisa See Narrator: Jodi Long Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (One of the Best Books of the Year)    San Francisco, 1938: A world’s fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Talented Grace, traditional Helen, and defiant Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub. The girls become fast friends, relying on one another through unexpected challenges and shifting fortunes. When their dark secrets are exposed and the invisible thread of fate binds them even tighter, they find the strength and resilience to reach for their dreams. But after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, paranoia and suspicion threaten to destroy their lives, and a shocking act of betrayal changes everything.   Praise for China Dolls   “A sweeping, turbulent tale of passion, friendship, good fortune, bad fortune, perfidy and the hope of reconciliation.”—Los Angeles Times   “Bravo! Here’s a roaring standing ovation for this heartwarming journey into the glittering golden age of Chinese nightclubs.”—Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet   “Lisa See masterfully creates unforgettable characters that linger in your memory long after you close the pages.”—Bookreporter   “Stellar . . . The depth of See’s characters and her winning prose make this book a wonderful journey through love and loss.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212326Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China Dolls: A Novel Author: Lisa See Narrator: Jodi Long Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China Dolls: A Novel Author: Lisa See Narrator: Jodi Long Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (One of the Best Books of the Year)    San Francisco, 1938: A world’s fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Talented Grace, traditional Helen, and defiant Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub. The girls become fast friends, relying on one another through unexpected challenges and shifting fortunes. When their dark secrets are exposed and the invisible thread of fate binds them even tighter, they find the strength and resilience to reach for their dreams. But after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, paranoia and suspicion threaten to destroy their lives, and a shocking act of betrayal changes everything.   Praise for China Dolls   “A sweeping, turbulent tale of passion, friendship, good fortune, bad fortune, perfidy and the hope of reconciliation.”—Los Angeles Times   “Bravo! Here’s a roaring standing ovation for this heartwarming journey into the glittering golden age of Chinese nightclubs.”—Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet   “Lisa See masterfully creates unforgettable characters that linger in your memory long after you close the pages.”—Bookreporter   “Stellar . . . The depth of See’s characters and her winning prose make this book a wonderful journey through love and loss.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-book-of-unknown-americans-a-novel-by-cristina-henriquez--65311041https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel Author: Cristina Henríquez Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk   A boy and a girl who fall in love. Two families whose hopes collide with destiny. An extraordinary novel that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American. Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she’ll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better. When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight. It’s also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love and responsibility is at this novel’s core. Woven into their stories are the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. Their journeys and their voices will inspire you, surprise you, and break your heart. Suspenseful, wry and immediate, rich in spirit and humanity, The Book of Unknown Americans is a work of rare force and originality. Read by Yareli Arizmendi, Christine Avila, Jesse Corti, Gustavo Res, Ozzie Rodriguez, and Gabriel Romero]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211816Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel Author: Cristina Henríquez Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel Author: Cristina Henríquez Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk   A boy and a girl who fall in love. Two families whose hopes collide with destiny. An extraordinary novel that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American. Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she’ll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better. When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight. It’s also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love and responsibility is at this novel’s core. Woven into their stories are the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. Their journeys and their voices will inspire you, surprise you, and break your heart. Suspenseful, wry and immediate, rich in spirit and humanity, The Book of Unknown Americans is a work of rare force and originality. Read by Yareli Arizmendi, Christine Avila, Jesse Corti, Gustavo Res, Ozzie Rodriguez, and Gabriel Romero]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hurricane-sisters-a-novel-by-dorothea-benton-frank--65311031https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hurricane Sisters: A Novel Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story. Once again New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, whose dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future keeps them all at odds. Luckily for Ashley, her wonderful older brother, Ivy, is her fierce champion but he can only do so much from San Francisco where he resides with his partner. And Mary Beth, her dearest friend, tries to have her back but even she can't talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with an ambitious politician who seems slightly too old for her. Actually, Ashley and Mary Beth have yet to launch themselves into solvency. Their prospects seem bleak. So while they wait for the world to discover them and deliver them from a ramen-based existence, they placate themselves with a hare-brained scheme to make money but one that threatens to land them in huge trouble with the authorities. So where is Clayton, Liz's husband? He seems more distracted than usual. Ashley desperately needs her father's love and attention but what kind of a parent can he be to Ashley with one foot in Manhattan and the other one planted in indiscretion? And Liz, who's an expert in the field of troubled domestic life, refuses to acknowledge Ashley's precarious situation. Who's in charge of this family? The wake-up call is about to arrive. The Lowcountry has endured its share of war and bloodshed like the rest of the South, but this storm season we watch Maisie, Liz, Ashley, and Mary Beth deal with challenges that demand they face the truth about themselves. After a terrible confrontation they are forced to rise to forgiveness, but can they establish a new order for the future of them all? Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212093Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hurricane Sisters: A Novel Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hurricane Sisters: A Novel Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story. Once again New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, whose dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future keeps them all at odds. Luckily for Ashley, her wonderful older brother, Ivy, is her fierce champion but he can only do so much from San Francisco where he resides with his partner. And Mary Beth, her dearest friend, tries to have her back but even she can't talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with an ambitious politician who seems slightly too old for her. Actually, Ashley and Mary Beth have yet to launch themselves into solvency. Their prospects seem bleak. So while they wait for the world to discover them and deliver them from a ramen-based existence, they placate themselves with a hare-brained scheme to make money but one that threatens to land them in huge trouble with the authorities. So where is Clayton, Liz's husband? He seems more distracted than usual. Ashley desperately needs her father's love and attention but what kind of a parent can he be to Ashley with one foot in Manhattan and the other one planted in indiscretion? And Liz, who's an expert in the field of troubled domestic life, refuses to acknowledge Ashley's precarious situation. Who's in charge of this family? The wake-up call is about to arrive. The Lowcountry has endured its share of war and bloodshed like the rest of the South, but this storm season we watch Maisie, Liz, Ashley, and Mary Beth deal with challenges that demand they face the truth about themselves. After a terrible confrontation they are forced to rise to forgiveness, but can they establish a new order for the future of them all? Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-leave-a-novel-by-brittani-sonnenberg--65311016https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Leave: A Novel Author: Brittani Sonnenberg Narrator: Leslie Bellair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brittani Sonnenberg's 'emotionally charged' (Real Simple) debut novel following a family's search for home abroad is now in paperback. Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a career that catapults his family across the globe. For his wife, Elise, the hardship of chronic relocation is soothed by the allure of reinvention. But it's the Kriegstein daughters, Leah and Sophie, who face the most tumult. With each new move, the girls find they can count on only one thing: the consoling, confounding presence of each other. When the family suffers an unimaginable loss, they can't help but wonder: Was it meant to be, or did one decision change their lives forever? Called 'stark but sweet, warm and wise' by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, HOME LEAVE chases this wildly loveable family through the excitement and anguish of their journeys around the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212501Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Leave: A Novel Author: Brittani Sonnenberg Narrator: Leslie Bellair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 3,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Leave: A Novel Author: Brittani Sonnenberg Narrator: Leslie Bellair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brittani Sonnenberg's 'emotionally charged' (Real Simple) debut novel following a family's search for home abroad is now in paperback. Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a career that catapults his family across the globe. For his wife, Elise, the hardship of chronic relocation is soothed by the allure of reinvention. But it's the Kriegstein daughters, Leah and Sophie, who face the most tumult. With each new move, the girls find they can count on only one thing: the consoling, confounding presence of each other. When the family suffers an unimaginable loss, they can't help but wonder: Was it meant to be, or did one decision change their lives forever? Called 'stark but sweet, warm and wise' by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, HOME LEAVE chases this wildly loveable family through the excitement and anguish of their journeys around the world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sixteenth-of-june-a-novel-by-maya-lang--65311015https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sixteenth of June: A Novel Author: Maya Lang Narrator: Will Damron, Julia Whelan, MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A finely observed, wry social satire set in Philadelphia over the course of a single day, this soaring debut novel paints a moving portrait of a family at a turning point.Leopold Portman, a young IT manager a few years out of college, dreams of settling down in Philly’s bucolic suburbs and starting a family with his fiancée, Nora. A talented singer in mourning for her mother, Nora has abandoned a promising opera career and wonders what her destiny holds. Her best friend, Stephen, Leopold’s brother, dithers in his seventh year of graduate school and privately questions Leo and Nora’s relationship. On June 16, 2004, the three are brought together—first for a funeral, then for an annual Bloomsday party. As the long-simmering tensions between them come to a head, they are forced to confront the choices of their pasts and their hopes for the future.Clever, lyrical, and often hilarious, The Sixteenth of June is a feat of storytelling and a sharp depiction of modern American family life. It delves into the tensions and allegiances of friendships, the murky uncertainty of early adulthood, and the yearning to belong. This remarkable novel offers a nod to James Joyce's celebrated classic, Ulysses, and it is about the secrets we keep and the lengths we’ll go to for acceptance and love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212225Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sixteenth of June: A Novel Author: Maya Lang Narrator: Will Damron, Julia Whelan, MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sixteenth of June: A Novel Author: Maya Lang Narrator: Will Damron, Julia Whelan, MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A finely observed, wry social satire set in Philadelphia over the course of a single day, this soaring debut novel paints a moving portrait of a family at a turning point.Leopold Portman, a young IT manager a few years out of college, dreams of settling down in Philly’s bucolic suburbs and starting a family with his fiancée, Nora. A talented singer in mourning for her mother, Nora has abandoned a promising opera career and wonders what her destiny holds. Her best friend, Stephen, Leopold’s brother, dithers in his seventh year of graduate school and privately questions Leo and Nora’s relationship. On June 16, 2004, the three are brought together—first for a funeral, then for an annual Bloomsday party. As the long-simmering tensions between them come to a head, they are forced to confront the choices of their pasts and their hopes for the future.Clever, lyrical, and often hilarious, The Sixteenth of June is a feat of storytelling and a sharp depiction of modern American family life. It delves into the tensions and allegiances of friendships, the murky uncertainty of early adulthood, and the yearning to belong. This remarkable novel offers a nod to James Joyce's celebrated classic, Ulysses, and it is about the secrets we keep and the lengths we’ll go to for acceptance and love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-summer-a-novel-by-lauren-willig--65310985https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Summer: A Novel Author: Lauren Willig Narrator: Nicola Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement, Lauren Willig's That Summer takes readers on an unputdownable journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman's search for the truth about her past—and herself. 'Willig reaches deep into her characters' souls to depict tragedy, triumph and the depth of love.' —RT Book Reviews (4 ½ stars) 2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house's shrouded history begins to open... 1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter, Evie, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur's collection of medieval artifacts, including Gavin Thorne, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212186Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Summer: A Novel Author: Lauren Willig Narrator: Nicola Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Summer: A Novel Author: Lauren Willig Narrator: Nicola Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement, Lauren Willig's That Summer takes readers on an unputdownable journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman's search for the truth about her past—and herself. 'Willig reaches deep into her characters' souls to depict tragedy, triumph and the depth of love.' —RT Book Reviews (4 ½ stars) 2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house's shrouded history begins to open... 1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter, Evie, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur's collection of medieval artifacts, including Gavin Thorne, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/baby-out-of-the-blue-by-rebecca-winters--65311047https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baby Out of the Blue Series: #1 of Tiny Miracles Author: Rebecca Winters Narrator: Lily Bask Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Found: One baby ' Holidaying in Greece, Fran Myers is shocked to discover a tiny baby, swept away by a tornado. As she hugs the precious bundle a protective maternal instinct she thought she'd never experience kicks in. 'One bachelor ' Relief is what the baby's uncle, CEO Nik Angelis, feels when he sees Fran with Demi, and he asks for her help to care for the little girl.' And a little ray of hope?' Dare Fran and Nik believe that their once-crushed dreams of parenthood-- and love-- might come true at last?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212340Fri, 30 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baby Out of the Blue Series: #1 of Tiny Miracles Author: Rebecca Winters Narrator: Lily Bask Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baby Out of the Blue Series: #1 of Tiny Miracles Author: Rebecca Winters Narrator: Lily Bask Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Found: One baby ' Holidaying in Greece, Fran Myers is shocked to discover a tiny baby, swept away by a tornado. As she hugs the precious bundle a protective maternal instinct she thought she'd never experience kicks in. 'One bachelor ' Relief is what the baby's uncle, CEO Nik Angelis, feels when he sees Fran with Demi, and he asks for her help to care for the little girl.' And a little ray of hope?' Dare Fran and Nik believe that their once-crushed dreams of parenthood-- and love-- might come true at last?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vacationers-by-emma-straub--65311021https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vacationers Author: Emma Straub Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.09 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca. For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated. This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212605Thu, 29 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vacationers Author: Emma Straub Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 29, 2014 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vacationers Author: Emma Straub Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 29, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.09 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca. For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated. This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lobster-kings-a-novel-by-alexi-zentner--65311043https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lobster Kings: A Novel Author: Alexi Zentner Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, and they've been blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kingses, every blessing comes with a curse. Woody Kings, the leader of the island's lobster fishing community and the family patriarch, teeters on the throne. Cordelia, the oldest of Woody's three daughters, stands to inherit the crown after the death of her brother. To do so, however, she has to fend off meth dealers from the mainland while navigating sibling rivalry and the vulnerable nature of her own heart when she falls in love with her sternman. A love story and a modern epic in the grand Shakespearean vein that introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, The Lobster Kings is the story of Cordelia's struggle to maintain her island's way of life in the face of danger from offshore and the rich, looming, mythic legacy of her family's namesake.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212376Tue, 27 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lobster Kings: A Novel Author: Alexi Zentner Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lobster Kings: A Novel Author: Alexi Zentner Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, and they've been blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kingses, every blessing comes with a curse. Woody Kings, the leader of the island's lobster fishing community and the family patriarch, teeters on the throne. Cordelia, the oldest of Woody's three daughters, stands to inherit the crown after the death of her brother. To do so, however, she has to fend off meth dealers from the mainland while navigating sibling rivalry and the vulnerable nature of her own heart when she falls in love with her sternman. A love story and a modern epic in the grand Shakespearean vein that introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, The Lobster Kings is the story of Cordelia's struggle to maintain her island's way of life in the face of danger from offshore and the rich, looming, mythic legacy of her family's namesake.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fourth-of-july-creek-a-novel-by-smith-henderson--65311038https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fourth of July Creek: A Novel Author: Smith Henderson Narrator: MacLeod Andrews, Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211915Tue, 27 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fourth of July Creek: A Novel Author: Smith Henderson Narrator: MacLeod Andrews, Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fourth of July Creek: A Novel Author: Smith Henderson Narrator: MacLeod Andrews, Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-cowgirl-on-his-doorstep-by-donna-alward--65311040https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Cowgirl on His Doorstep Series: #3 of Cadence Creek Cowboys Author: Donna Alward Narrator: Kate Turnbull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Little cowgirl makes three For Avery Spencer, the sight of rugged, sullen and dangerously sexy Callum Shepard is enough to set her pulse racing. Too bad she's only on his ranch to tell him that her adorable baby niece is his daughter! Reclusive rancher Callum is shocked to discover he's a father. But now Callum must learn to believe he does have what it takes to become a dad, and convince Avery that both she and baby Nell belong on the ranch-- with him!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212082Fri, 23 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Cowgirl on His Doorstep Series: #3 of Cadence Creek Cowboys Author: Donna Alward Narrator: Kate Turnbull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Cowgirl on His Doorstep Series: #3 of Cadence Creek Cowboys Author: Donna Alward Narrator: Kate Turnbull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Little cowgirl makes three For Avery Spencer, the sight of rugged, sullen and dangerously sexy Callum Shepard is enough to set her pulse racing. Too bad she's only on his ranch to tell him that her adorable baby niece is his daughter! Reclusive rancher Callum is shocked to discover he's a father. But now Callum must learn to believe he does have what it takes to become a dad, and convince Avery that both she and baby Nell belong on the ranch-- with him!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/call-of-the-kiwi-by-sarah-lark--65311059https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call of the Kiwi Series: #3 of In the Land of the Long White Cloud Saga Author: Sarah Lark Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 20, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the exhilarating conclusion to the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, the spirited Warden and McKenzie clan continues its trials—and triumphs—in New Zealand and beyond. The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie—who arrived in New Zealand as a naïve young bride in In the Land of the Long White Cloud—Gloria Martyn has enjoyed an idyllic childhood at Kiward Station, her family’s sprawling sheep farm in the Canterbury Plains. When her parents send word from Europe that it’s time for Gloria to become a proper “lady” by attending boarding school half a world away in England, Gloria must leave everything and everyone she loves most in the world, including her steadfast protector Jack McKenzie. Wrenched from her beloved homeland and struggling to fit in with the stifling strictures of British boarding-school life, Gloria has never felt more alone. Upon discovering that her parents have no intention of ever sending her home, Gloria takes matters into her own hands and sets off on an adventure that will change her forever. A stirring coming-of-age tale of love, loss, endurance, shame, and redemption that takes readers from the lush plains of New Zealand’s South Island to the bloody shores of Gallipoli, across Australia’s Northern Territory and beyond, Call of the Kiwi is a profoundly satisfying conclusion to the saga that has captured readers’ hearts across the globe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211727Tue, 20 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call of the Kiwi Series: #3 of In the Land of the Long White Cloud Saga Author: Sarah Lark Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call of the Kiwi Series: #3 of In the Land of the Long White Cloud Saga Author: Sarah Lark Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 20, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the exhilarating conclusion to the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, the spirited Warden and McKenzie clan continues its trials—and triumphs—in New Zealand and beyond. The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie—who arrived in New Zealand as a naïve young bride in In the Land of the Long White Cloud—Gloria Martyn has enjoyed an idyllic childhood at Kiward Station, her family’s sprawling sheep farm in the Canterbury Plains. When her parents send word from Europe that it’s time for Gloria to become a proper “lady” by attending boarding school half a world away in England, Gloria must leave everything and everyone she loves most in the world, including her steadfast protector Jack McKenzie. Wrenched from her beloved homeland and struggling to fit in with the stifling strictures of British boarding-school life, Gloria has never felt more alone. Upon discovering that her parents have no intention of ever sending her home, Gloria takes matters into her own hands and sets off on an adventure that will change her forever. A stirring coming-of-age tale of love, loss, endurance, shame, and redemption that takes readers from the lush plains of New Zealand’s South Island to the bloody shores of Gallipoli, across Australia’s Northern Territory and beyond, Call of the Kiwi is a profoundly satisfying conclusion to the saga that has captured readers’ hearts across the globe.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-lake-a-novel-by-johanna-lane--65311051https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Lake: A Novel Author: Johanna Lane Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 20, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland. The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough -- an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside -- for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must be bold: to keep Dulough, he will open its doors to the public as a museum. He and his wife, daughter, and son will move from the luxury of the big house to a dank, small caretaker's cottage. The upheaval strains the already tenuous threads that bind the family and, when a tragic accident befalls them, long-simmering resentments and unanswered yearnings surface. As each character is given a turn to speak, their voices tell a complicated, fascinating story about what happens when the upstairs becomes the downstairs, and what legacy is left when family secrets are revealed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211758Tue, 20 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Lake: A Novel Author: Johanna Lane Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 20, 2014 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Lake: A Novel Author: Johanna Lane Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 20, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland. The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough -- an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside -- for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must be bold: to keep Dulough, he will open its doors to the public as a museum. He and his wife, daughter, and son will move from the luxury of the big house to a dank, small caretaker's cottage. The upheaval strains the already tenuous threads that bind the family and, when a tragic accident befalls them, long-simmering resentments and unanswered yearnings surface. As each character is given a turn to speak, their voices tell a complicated, fascinating story about what happens when the upstairs becomes the downstairs, and what legacy is left when family secrets are revealed.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/remember-me-like-this-a-novel-by-bret-anthony-johnston--65310992https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Me Like This: A Novel Author: Bret Anthony Johnston Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 13, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Esquire • BookPage A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon’s most beloved novels, Remember Me Like This introduces Bret Anthony Johnston as one of the most gifted storytellers writing today. With his sophisticated and emotionally taut plot and his shimmering prose, Johnston reveals that only in caring for one another can we save ourselves.   Four years have passed since Justin Campbell’s disappearance, a tragedy that rocked the small town of Southport, Texas. Did he run away? Was he kidnapped? Did he drown in the bay? As the Campbells search for answers, they struggle to hold what’s left of their family together.   Then, one afternoon, the impossible happens. The police call to report that Justin has been found only miles away, in the neighboring town, and, most important, he appears to be fine. Though the reunion is a miracle, Justin’s homecoming exposes the deep rifts that have diminished his family, the wounds they all carry that may never fully heal. Trying to return to normal, his parents do their best to ease Justin back into his old life. But as thick summer heat takes hold, violent storms churn in the Gulf and in the Campbells’ hearts. When a reversal of fortune lays bare the family’s greatest fears—and offers perhaps the only hope for recovery—each of them must fight to keep the ties that bind them from permanently tearing apart.   Praise for Remember Me Like This   “Enthralling . . . [an] exquisitely moral mystery of how we struggle to accept and love the people we call family.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)   “I love this novel.”—John Irving   “An achingly beautiful and psychologically insightful portrait of a family . . . [a] fully immersive novel in which the language is luminous and the delivery almost flawless.”—The Boston Globe   “Riveting . . . [The novel] flows like it was plotted by Dennis Lehane but feels like it was written by Jonathan Franzen.”—Esquire   “Tremendously moving . . . There’s real humanity in Johnston’s writing, and it’s heartening to spend time with these folks as they relearn how to be a family.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post   “Deeply empathetic and masterfully constructed . . . a novel that has both the feel of a great epic and the focused intensity of standing on a highwire.”—Salon]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212110Tue, 13 May 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Me Like This: A Novel Author: Bret Anthony Johnston Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 45 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Me Like This: A Novel Author: Bret Anthony Johnston Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 13, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Esquire • BookPage A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon’s most beloved novels, Remember Me Like This introduces Bret Anthony Johnston as one of the most gifted storytellers writing today. With his sophisticated and emotionally taut plot and his shimmering prose, Johnston reveals that only in caring for one another can we save ourselves.   Four years have passed since Justin Campbell’s disappearance, a tragedy that rocked the small town of Southport, Texas. Did he run away? Was he kidnapped? Did he drown in the bay? As the Campbells search for answers, they struggle to hold what’s left of their family together.   Then, one afternoon, the impossible happens. The police call to report that Justin has been found only miles away, in the neighboring town, and, most important, he appears to be fine. Though the reunion is a miracle, Justin’s homecoming exposes the deep rifts that have diminished his family, the wounds they all carry that may never fully heal. Trying to return to normal, his parents do their best to ease Justin back into his old life. But as thick summer heat takes hold, violent storms churn in the Gulf and in the Campbells’ hearts. When a reversal of fortune lays bare the family’s greatest fears—and offers perhaps the only hope for recovery—each of them must fight to keep the ties that bind them from permanently tearing apart.   Praise for Remember Me Like This   “Enthralling . . . [an] exquisitely moral mystery of how we struggle to accept and love the people we call family.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)   “I love this novel.”—John Irving   “An achingly beautiful and psychologically insightful portrait of a family . . . [a] fully immersive novel in which the language is luminous and the delivery almost flawless.”—The Boston Globe   “Riveting . . . [The novel] flows like it was plotted by Dennis Lehane but feels like it was written by Jonathan Franzen.”—Esquire   “Tremendously moving . . . There’s real humanity in Johnston’s writing, and it’s heartening to spend time with these folks as they relearn how to be a family.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post   “Deeply empathetic and masterfully constructed . . . a novel that has both the feel of a great epic and the focused intensity of standing on a highwire.”—Salon]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-memory-child-by-steena-holmes--65311060https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Memory Child Series: #1 of The Memory Child Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 29, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: USA Best Book Award Finalist in General Fiction When Brian finds out that his wife, Diane, is pregnant, he is elated. He’s been patiently waiting for twelve years to become a father. But Diane has always been nervous about having children because of her family’s dark past. The timing of the pregnancy also isn’t ideal—Diane has just been promoted, and Brian is being called away to open a new London office for his company. Fast-forward one year: being a mother has brought Diane a sense of joy that she’d never imagined and she’s head over heels for her new baby, Grace. But things are far from perfect: Brian has still not returned from London, and Diane fears leaving the baby for even a moment. As unsettling changes in those around Diane began to emerge, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. A woman’s dark past collides head-on with her mysterious present in this surreal and gripping family drama.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211715Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Memory Child Series: #1 of The Memory Child Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Memory Child Series: #1 of The Memory Child Author: Steena Holmes Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 29, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: USA Best Book Award Finalist in General Fiction When Brian finds out that his wife, Diane, is pregnant, he is elated. He’s been patiently waiting for twelve years to become a father. But Diane has always been nervous about having children because of her family’s dark past. The timing of the pregnancy also isn’t ideal—Diane has just been promoted, and Brian is being called away to open a new London office for his company. Fast-forward one year: being a mother has brought Diane a sense of joy that she’d never imagined and she’s head over heels for her new baby, Grace. But things are far from perfect: Brian has still not returned from London, and Diane fears leaving the baby for even a moment. As unsettling changes in those around Diane began to emerge, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. A woman’s dark past collides head-on with her mysterious present in this surreal and gripping family drama.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/plum-jaggers-by-susan-richards-shreve--65311039https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plum & Jaggers Author: Susan Richards Shreve Narrator: Nancy Pearl, Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 22, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For the McWilliams children, life is forever altered the day a terrorist bomb blast rips through the train carrying them across Italy, instantly killing their parents. Dazed and frightened, Charlotte, Oliver, and baby Julia cling to oldest brother Sam, who—only seven at the time—is haunted by every detail. After he and his siblings are taken in by their kindly but peculiar grandparents, Sam becomes consumed with protecting them at all costs. His compulsive behavior—which includes shoplifting materials to make a bomb shelter for the quartet—leads to his placement in “the Cage,” a juvenile detention center on the outskirts of Washington, DC. It is there that Sam, inspired by letters exchanged between his deceased parents, dreams up Plum & Jaggers, a darkly bizarre comedy troupe. Made up of him and his brother and sisters, the group pokes fun at life’s tragedies and will eventually carry them into adulthood. But even once grown, Sam McWilliams finds he cannot always stop things from blowing apart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211726Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plum & Jaggers Author: Susan Richards Shreve Narrator: Nancy Pearl, Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plum & Jaggers Author: Susan Richards Shreve Narrator: Nancy Pearl, Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 22, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For the McWilliams children, life is forever altered the day a terrorist bomb blast rips through the train carrying them across Italy, instantly killing their parents. Dazed and frightened, Charlotte, Oliver, and baby Julia cling to oldest brother Sam, who—only seven at the time—is haunted by every detail. After he and his siblings are taken in by their kindly but peculiar grandparents, Sam becomes consumed with protecting them at all costs. His compulsive behavior—which includes shoplifting materials to make a bomb shelter for the quartet—leads to his placement in “the Cage,” a juvenile detention center on the outskirts of Washington, DC. It is there that Sam, inspired by letters exchanged between his deceased parents, dreams up Plum & Jaggers, a darkly bizarre comedy troupe. Made up of him and his brother and sisters, the group pokes fun at life’s tragedies and will eventually carry them into adulthood. But even once grown, Sam McWilliams finds he cannot always stop things from blowing apart.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/homecoming-ranch-by-julia-london--65310990https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homecoming Ranch Series: #1 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London launches a triumphant, emotional, heartwarming story about finding love, family and home. Madeline Pruett has made up for a lonely childhood and being raised by an irresponsible single mom by creating a solitary world where timetables and highlighters are essential for the predictability she craves. But Madeline is shocked out of her carefully constructed life by word that a father she never knew has died and left her an inheritance and, surprisingly, two unknown sisters. Madeline hopes that she can fly to Colorado, meet her sisters, discover her inheritance, and return to Orlando in a few days to close the biggest deal of her budding real estate career and get back to what she knows best: a quiet life. For years, Luke Kendrick has juggled school and career and rescuing his family from illness, death and financial crisis. But he has never lost sight of his goals: building and selling his own dream homes. Just when it seems that dream might finally materialize, Luke is called home to Pine River, Colorado to reclaim the ranch his father lost in a gentlemen’s agreement. He is not surprised—Luke’s family knows he will put his life on hold to rescue them…again. But Luke is surprised by a sexy yet uptight button-up woman in impractical shoes who thinks his ranch now belongs to her. Madeline isn’t sure how to put order to a sprawling, rundown ranch, not to mention a pair of sisters who are nothing like what she imagined or hoped them to be. The only thing she’s sure of is that careful planning is useless in a place where roads have names like Sometimes Pass and men as ruggedly handsome as Luke Kendrick behave so unpredictably. As Luke and Madeline go toe to toe over the future of the ranch, sparks fly as hot and fiery as their kisses. Madeline thinks she’s the expert, but it’s Luke who teaches her a thing or two—about breaking down walls, finding home, and the true meaning of family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217656Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homecoming Ranch Series: #1 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homecoming Ranch Series: #1 of Pine River Author: Julia London Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London launches a triumphant, emotional, heartwarming story about finding love, family and home. Madeline Pruett has made up for a lonely childhood and being raised by an irresponsible single mom by creating a solitary world where timetables and highlighters are essential for the predictability she craves. But Madeline is shocked out of her carefully constructed life by word that a father she never knew has died and left her an inheritance and, surprisingly, two unknown sisters. Madeline hopes that she can fly to Colorado, meet her sisters, discover her inheritance, and return to Orlando in a few days to close the biggest deal of her budding real estate career and get back to what she knows best: a quiet life. For years, Luke Kendrick has juggled school and career and rescuing his family from illness, death and financial crisis. But he has never lost sight of his goals: building and selling his own dream homes. Just when it seems that dream might finally materialize, Luke is called home to Pine River, Colorado to reclaim the ranch his father lost in a gentlemen’s agreement. He is not surprised—Luke’s family knows he will put his life on hold to rescue them…again. But Luke is surprised by a sexy yet uptight button-up woman in impractical shoes who thinks his ranch now belongs to her. Madeline isn’t sure how to put order to a sprawling, rundown ranch, not to mention a pair of sisters who are nothing like what she imagined or hoped them to be. The only thing she’s sure of is that careful planning is useless in a place where roads have names like Sometimes Pass and men as ruggedly handsome as Luke Kendrick behave so unpredictably. As Luke and Madeline go toe to toe over the future of the ranch, sparks fly as hot and fiery as their kisses. Madeline thinks she’s the expert, but it’s Luke who teaches her a thing or two—about breaking down walls, finding home, and the true meaning of family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen--65310979https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Joanna David Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Penguin Classics presents Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Joanna David. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ... ' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230996Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Joanna David Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 6, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Joanna David Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Penguin Classics presents Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Joanna David. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ... ' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-yellow-raft-in-blue-water-by-michael-dorris--65310895https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Author: Michael Dorris Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Michael Dorris' contemporary classic novel is a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting at the present day and moving back in time, the novel is told in the voices of three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona, searching for a way to find herself; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother, whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past—and their future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231191Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Author: Michael Dorris Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Author: Michael Dorris Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Michael Dorris' contemporary classic novel is a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting at the present day and moving back in time, the novel is told in the voices of three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona, searching for a way to find herself; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother, whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past—and their future.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beach-house-memories-by-mary-alice-monroe--65310920https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beach House Memories Series: #3 of The Beach House Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, returns to her beloved South with Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House.Autumn brings haunting beauty to the sun-soaked dunes on Isle of Palms, where Olivia “Lovie” Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage. As the seasons change, Lovie remembers one special summer.…In 1974, America is changing, but Charleston remains eternally the same. When Lovie married aristocratic, well-connected businessman Stratton Rutledge, she turned over her fortune and fate to his control. But she refused to relinquish one thing: her family’s old seaside cottage. Precious summers with her children on the barrier island are Lovie’s refuge from social expectations and her overbearing husband’s philandering. Here, she is the “Turtle Lady,” tending the loggerhead turtles that lay their eggs in the warm night sand and then slip back into the sea.Then, in the summer of ’74, biologist Russell Bennett visits to research the loggerheads. Their shared interest brings them together, and soon it blooms into a passionate, profound love—forcing Lovie to face an agonizing decision. Stratton’s influence is far-reaching, and if she dares to dream beyond a summer affair, she risks losing her reputation, her wealth, even her children.This emotional tale of a strong woman torn between duty and desire, between tradition and change, is an empowering journey through the seasons of self-discovery. Until this autumn, this time of winds and tides, of holding on and letting go.…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228462Tue, 08 May 2012 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beach House Memories Series: #3 of The Beach House Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beach House Memories Series: #3 of The Beach House Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, returns to her beloved South with Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House.Autumn brings haunting beauty to the sun-soaked dunes on Isle of Palms, where Olivia “Lovie” Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage. As the seasons change, Lovie remembers one special summer.…In 1974, America is changing, but Charleston remains eternally the same. When Lovie married aristocratic, well-connected businessman Stratton Rutledge, she turned over her fortune and fate to his control. But she refused to relinquish one thing: her family’s old seaside cottage. Precious summers with her children on the barrier island are Lovie’s refuge from social expectations and her overbearing husband’s philandering. Here, she is the “Turtle Lady,” tending the loggerhead turtles that lay their eggs in the warm night sand and then slip back into the sea.Then, in the summer of ’74, biologist Russell Bennett visits to research the loggerheads. Their shared interest brings them together, and soon it blooms into a passionate, profound love—forcing Lovie to face an agonizing decision. Stratton’s influence is far-reaching, and if she dares to dream beyond a summer affair, she risks losing her reputation, her wealth, even her children.This emotional tale of a strong woman torn between duty and desire, between tradition and change, is an empowering journey through the seasons of self-discovery. Until this autumn, this time of winds and tides, of holding on and letting go.…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tears-of-the-sun-a-novel-of-the-change-by-s-m-stirling--65311007https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change Series: #8 of Emberverse Author: S. M. Stirling Narrator: Todd McLaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 6, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It's Change Year 25, a generation after high-energy technology died in a catastrophe most of the human race didn't survive. The children born after the Change are now starting to take center stage—and Whoever or Whatever was behind the Change itself may be taking a hand in their rivalries. An expedition has travelled to Nantucked across a strange and hostile continent to find some answers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218717Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change Series: #8 of Emberverse Author: S. M. Stirling Narrator: Todd McLaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change Series: #8 of Emberverse Author: S. M. Stirling Narrator: Todd McLaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 6, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It's Change Year 25, a generation after high-energy technology died in a catastrophe most of the human race didn't survive. The children born after the Change are now starting to take center stage—and Whoever or Whatever was behind the Change itself may be taking a hand in their rivalries. An expedition has travelled to Nantucked across a strange and hostile continent to find some answers.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/naamah-s-blessing-by-jacqueline-carey--65311058https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Naamah's Blessing Series: #3 of Naamah Author: Jacqueline Carey Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 30, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Returning to Terre d'Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry, leading an expedition to explore the deadly jungles of Terra Nova, is halfway across the world. And three-year-old Desirée is a vision of her mother: tempestuous, intelligent, and fiery, but desperately lonely and a vulnerable pawn in a game of shifting political allegiances. As tensions mount, King Daniel asks that Moirin become Desirée's oath-sworn protector. Navigating the intricate political landscape of the Court proves a difficult challenge, and when dire news arrives from overseas, the spirit of Queen Jehanne visits Moirin in a dream and bids her undertake an impossible quest. Another specter from the past also haunts Moirin. Travelling with Thierry in the New World is Raphael de Mereliot, her manipulative former lover. Years ago, Raphael forced her to help him summon fallen angels in the hopes of acquiring mystical gifts and knowledge. It was a disastrous effort that nearly killed them, and Moirin must finally bear the costs of those bitter mistakes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213330Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Naamah's Blessing Series: #3 of Naamah Author: Jacqueline Carey Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 36 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Naamah's Blessing Series: #3 of Naamah Author: Jacqueline Carey Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 30, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Returning to Terre d'Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry, leading an expedition to explore the deadly jungles of Terra Nova, is halfway across the world. And three-year-old Desirée is a vision of her mother: tempestuous, intelligent, and fiery, but desperately lonely and a vulnerable pawn in a game of shifting political allegiances. As tensions mount, King Daniel asks that Moirin become Desirée's oath-sworn protector. Navigating the intricate political landscape of the Court proves a difficult challenge, and when dire news arrives from overseas, the spirit of Queen Jehanne visits Moirin in a dream and bids her undertake an impossible quest. Another specter from the past also haunts Moirin. Travelling with Thierry in the New World is Raphael de Mereliot, her manipulative former lover. Years ago, Raphael forced her to help him summon fallen angels in the hopes of acquiring mystical gifts and knowledge. It was a disastrous effort that nearly killed them, and Moirin must finally bear the costs of those bitter mistakes.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/run-by-ann-patchett--65310982https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Run Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Peter Francis James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 25, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ''Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family.'' -- Washington Post From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed. Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe. Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic Priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231168Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Run Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Peter Francis James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 25, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Run Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Peter Francis James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 25, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ''Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family.'' -- Washington Post From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed. Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe. Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic Priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/size-14-is-not-fat-either-by-meg-cabot--65310936https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Size 14 Is Not Fat Either Series: #2 of Heather Wells Mysteries Author: Meg Cabot Narrator: Kirsten Kairos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen—where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for—it's her torso that's AWOL.) Surrounded by hysterical students—with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls—Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems—and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives—it's all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn't watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229892Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Size 14 Is Not Fat Either Series: #2 of Heather Wells Mysteries Author: Meg Cabot Narrator: Kirsten Kairos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Size 14 Is Not Fat Either Series: #2 of Heather Wells Mysteries Author: Meg Cabot Narrator: Kirsten Kairos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen—where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for—it's her torso that's AWOL.) Surrounded by hysterical students—with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls—Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems—and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives—it's all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn't watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fault-lines-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65310890https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fault Lines Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Kate Burton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A literary meteor shower....One great read.” —Detroit News   A classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines is the powerful and deeply moving story of three women on a life-changing road trip up the California coast. Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides) says that Siddons, “ranks among the best of us and delivers the goods—the whole fabulous package—with every book she writes.” Fault Lines is one of her finest, a truly stunning read from a novelist acclaimed for her wondrous array of literary masterworks—from Sweetwater Creek to Up Island through Low Country and Nora Nora.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231342Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fault Lines Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Kate Burton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fault Lines Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Kate Burton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A literary meteor shower....One great read.” —Detroit News   A classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines is the powerful and deeply moving story of three women on a life-changing road trip up the California coast. Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides) says that Siddons, “ranks among the best of us and delivers the goods—the whole fabulous package—with every book she writes.” Fault Lines is one of her finest, a truly stunning read from a novelist acclaimed for her wondrous array of literary masterworks—from Sweetwater Creek to Up Island through Low Country and Nora Nora.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/up-island-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65310913https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up Island Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Dana Ivey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does best: gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.”  — Detroit News/Free Press From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that ''family is everything.'' But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat. With her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard, hoping to come to terms with who she truly is. When the summer season ends, Molly decides to stay on, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond—becoming part of an odd, new, very real family that taxes her old outworn notions. And as the long Vineyard winter approaches, Molly braces herself for the arduous task she must undertake: a search for renewal and identity, and the strength to carry her through to the warm and healing spring.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231303Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up Island Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Dana Ivey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up Island Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Dana Ivey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does best: gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.”  — Detroit News/Free Press From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that ''family is everything.'' But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat. With her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard, hoping to come to terms with who she truly is. When the summer season ends, Molly decides to stay on, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond—becoming part of an odd, new, very real family that taxes her old outworn notions. And as the long Vineyard winter approaches, Molly braces herself for the arduous task she must undertake: a search for renewal and identity, and the strength to carry her through to the warm and healing spring.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/king-s-oak-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65310889https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: King's Oak Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Outer Banks comes the story of the passionate affair in which Diane Calhoun becomes involved, almost against her will, and the decision she must make between true conviction and love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231306Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: King's Oak Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: King's Oak Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Outer Banks comes the story of the passionate affair in which Diane Calhoun becomes involved, almost against her will, and the decision she must make between true conviction and love.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/low-country-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65310887https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Low Country Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Debra Monk Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband. If she drinks a little too much and her 20-year marriage to successful land developer, Clay, seems a little empty, well, she's doing what she was born to do: be the chatelaine of a magnificent home and hostess to her husband's friends and prospective clients. Her numbing routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and increasing isolation is interrupted, however, when Caro finds out that her tycoon husband plans to build a resort on a beautiful untouched island in South Carolina's low country. The island is a quiet haven, rich in lowcountry history and meaningful memories from Caro's youth. But most important to her, his plans will mean the devastation of a band of wild ponies that roam freely across the island. Spurred to action and inspired with new purpose, Caro must confront the life she has been leading and reach deep within herself to save this special place out of her past and, ultimately, make a meaningful life for herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231307Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Low Country Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Debra Monk Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Low Country Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Debra Monk Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband. If she drinks a little too much and her 20-year marriage to successful land developer, Clay, seems a little empty, well, she's doing what she was born to do: be the chatelaine of a magnificent home and hostess to her husband's friends and prospective clients. Her numbing routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and increasing isolation is interrupted, however, when Caro finds out that her tycoon husband plans to build a resort on a beautiful untouched island in South Carolina's low country. The island is a quiet haven, rich in lowcountry history and meaningful memories from Caro's youth. But most important to her, his plans will mean the devastation of a band of wild ponies that roam freely across the island. Spurred to action and inspired with new purpose, Caro must confront the life she has been leading and reach deep within herself to save this special place out of her past and, ultimately, make a meaningful life for herself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nora-nora-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65310885https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nora, Nora Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Twelve-year-old Peyton McKenzie isn’t ready to share her widowed father with anyone—certainly not with her cigarette-smoking redheaded cousin Nora, who just rolled into sleepy Lytton, Georgia, this summer behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which means she can’t be all bad. And when Nora takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it appears she might be staying forever. But there’s something troubling Peyton’s unorthodox cousin, something more than the outspoken town gossips’ complaints about Nora’s “unsouthern ways.” When the truth comes to light, it will rock the segregated small community—and teach Peyton an unforgettable lesson about the enormous cost of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231300Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nora, Nora Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nora, Nora Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Twelve-year-old Peyton McKenzie isn’t ready to share her widowed father with anyone—certainly not with her cigarette-smoking redheaded cousin Nora, who just rolled into sleepy Lytton, Georgia, this summer behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which means she can’t be all bad. And when Nora takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it appears she might be staying forever. But there’s something troubling Peyton’s unorthodox cousin, something more than the outspoken town gossips’ complaints about Nora’s “unsouthern ways.” When the truth comes to light, it will rock the segregated small community—and teach Peyton an unforgettable lesson about the enormous cost of love.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-godfather-returns-a-novel-by-mark-winegardner--65310919https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Godfather Returns: A Novel Series: #1 of The Godfather Returns Author: Mark Winegardner Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 16, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIME Thirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo’s great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story–the years not covered in Puzo’s bestselling book or in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic films. It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York’s crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael. Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America’s most powerful criminals and their loved ones, including Tom Hagen, the Corleone Family’s lawyer and consigliere, who embarks on a political career in Nevada while trying to protect his brother; Francesca Corleone, daughter of Michael’s late brother Sonny, who is suddenly learning her family’s true history and faces a difficult choice; Don Louie Russo, head of the Chicago mob, who plays dumb but has wily ambitions for muscling in on the Corleones’ territory; Peter Clemenza, the stalwart Corleone underboss, who knows more Family secrets than almost anyone; Ambassador M. Corbett Shea, a former Prohibition-era bootlegger and business ally of the Corleones’, who wants to get his son elected to the presidency–and needs some help from his old friends; Johnny Fontane, the world’s greatest saloon singer, who ascends to new heights as a recording artist, cozying up to Washington’s power elite and maintaining a precarious relationship with notorious underworld figures; Kay Adams Corleone, who finally discovers the truth about her husband, Michael–and must decide what it means for their marriage and their children and Fredo Corleone, whose death has never been fully explained until now, and whose betrayal of the Family was part of a larger and more sinister chain of events. Sweeping from New York and Washington to Las Vegas and Cuba, The Godfather Returns is the spellbinding story of America’s criminal underworld at mid-century and its intersection with the political, legal, and entertainment empires. Mark Winegardner brings an original voice and vision to Mario Puzo’s mythic characters while creating several equally unforgettable characters of his own. The Godfather Returns stands on its own as a triumph–in a tale about what we love, yearn for, and sometimes have reason to fear . . . family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231214Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Godfather Returns: A Novel Series: #1 of The Godfather Returns Author: Mark Winegardner Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Godfather Returns: A Novel Series: #1 of The Godfather Returns Author: Mark Winegardner Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 16, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIME Thirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo’s great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story–the years not covered in Puzo’s bestselling book or in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic films. It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York’s crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael. Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America’s most powerful criminals and their loved ones, including Tom Hagen, the Corleone Family’s lawyer and consigliere, who embarks on a political career in Nevada while trying to protect his brother; Francesca Corleone, daughter of Michael’s late brother Sonny, who is suddenly learning her family’s true history and faces a difficult choice; Don Louie Russo, head of the Chicago mob, who plays dumb but has wily ambitions for muscling in on the Corleones’ territory; Peter Clemenza, the stalwart Corleone underboss, who knows more Family secrets than almost anyone; Ambassador M. Corbett Shea, a former Prohibition-era bootlegger and business ally of the Corleones’, who wants to get his son elected to the presidency–and needs some help from his old friends; Johnny Fontane, the world’s greatest saloon singer, who ascends to new heights as a recording artist, cozying up to Washington’s power elite and maintaining a precarious relationship with notorious underworld figures; Kay Adams Corleone, who finally discovers the truth about her husband, Michael–and must decide what it means for their marriage and their children and Fredo Corleone, whose death has never been fully explained until now, and whose betrayal of the Family was part of a larger and more sinister chain of events. Sweeping from New York and Washington to Las Vegas and Cuba, The Godfather Returns is the spellbinding story of America’s criminal underworld at mid-century and its intersection with the political, legal, and entertainment empires. Mark Winegardner brings an original voice and vision to Mario Puzo’s mythic characters while creating several equally unforgettable characters of his own. The Godfather Returns stands on its own as a triumph–in a tale about what we love, yearn for, and sometimes have reason to fear . . . family.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/back-when-we-were-grownups-by-anne-tyler--65310912https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Back When We Were Grownups Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 1, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel. The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s? On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms. Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel. As always with Anne Tyler’s novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231210Tue, 01 May 2001 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Back When We Were Grownups Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 1, 2001...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Back When We Were Grownups Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 1, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel. The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s? On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms. Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel. As always with Anne Tyler’s novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-all-true-travels-and-adventures-of-lidie-newton-by-jane-smiley--65310897https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart. It carries us into an America so violently torn apart by the question of slavery that it makes our current political battlegrounds seem a peaceable kingdom. Lidie is hard to scare. She is almost shockingly alive--a tall, plain girl who rides and shoots and speaks her mind, and whose straightforward ways paradoxically amount to a kind of glamour. We see her at twenty, making a good marriage--to Thomas Newton, a steady, sweet-tempered Yankee who passes through her hometown on a dangerous mission. He belongs to a group of rashly brave New England abolitionists who dedicate themselves to settling the Kansas Territory with like-minded folk to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. Lidie packs up and goes with him. And the novel races alongside them into the Territory, into the maelstrom of 'Bloody Kansas,' where slaveholding Missourians constantly and viciously clash with Free Staters, where wandering youths kill you as soon as look at you--where Lidie becomes even more fervently abolitionist than her husband as the young couple again and again barely escape entrapment in webs of atrocity on both sides of the great question. And when, suddenly, cold-blooded murder invades her own intimate circle, Lidie doesn't falter. She cuts off her hair, disguises herself as a boy, and rides into Missouri in search of the killers--a woman in a fiercely male world, an abolitionist spy in slave territory. On the run, her life threatened, her wits sharpened, she takes on yet another identity--and, in the very midst of her masquerade, discovers herself. Lidie grows increasingly important to us as we follow her travels and adventures on the feverish eve of the War Between the States. With its crackling portrayal of a totally individual and wonderfully articulate woman, its storytelling drive, and its powerful recapturing of an almost forgotten part of the American story, this is Jane Smiley at her enthralling and enriching best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231208Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Author: Jane Smiley Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart. It carries us into an America so violently torn apart by the question of slavery that it makes our current political battlegrounds seem a peaceable kingdom. Lidie is hard to scare. She is almost shockingly alive--a tall, plain girl who rides and shoots and speaks her mind, and whose straightforward ways paradoxically amount to a kind of glamour. We see her at twenty, making a good marriage--to Thomas Newton, a steady, sweet-tempered Yankee who passes through her hometown on a dangerous mission. He belongs to a group of rashly brave New England abolitionists who dedicate themselves to settling the Kansas Territory with like-minded folk to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. Lidie packs up and goes with him. And the novel races alongside them into the Territory, into the maelstrom of 'Bloody Kansas,' where slaveholding Missourians constantly and viciously clash with Free Staters, where wandering youths kill you as soon as look at you--where Lidie becomes even more fervently abolitionist than her husband as the young couple again and again barely escape entrapment in webs of atrocity on both sides of the great question. And when, suddenly, cold-blooded murder invades her own intimate circle, Lidie doesn't falter. She cuts off her hair, disguises herself as a boy, and rides into Missouri in search of the killers--a woman in a fiercely male world, an abolitionist spy in slave territory. On the run, her life threatened, her wits sharpened, she takes on yet another identity--and, in the very midst of her masquerade, discovers herself. Lidie grows increasingly important to us as we follow her travels and adventures on the feverish eve of the War Between the States. With its crackling portrayal of a totally individual and wonderfully articulate woman, its storytelling drive, and its powerful recapturing of an almost forgotten part of the American story, this is Jane Smiley at her enthralling and enriching best.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/at-home-in-mitford-a-novel-by-jan-karon--65310958https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: At Home in Mitford: A Novel Series: #1 of A Mitford Novel Author: Jan Karon Narrator: Jan Karon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The first novel in Jan Karon’s bestselling and beloved Mitford series--now available in a new 20th Anniversary Edition, including an introductory letter by the author It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are friendly. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich comedy about ordinary people and their ordinary lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226405Sun, 01 Sep 1996 07:11:34 +0000Shad KuhlmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: At Home in Mitford: A Novel Series: #1 of A Mitford Novel Author: Jan Karon Narrator: Jan Karon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: At Home in Mitford: A Novel Series: #1 of A Mitford Novel Author: Jan Karon Narrator: Jan Karon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The first novel in Jan Karon’s bestselling and beloved Mitford series--now available in a new 20th Anniversary Edition, including an introductory letter by the author It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are friendly. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich comedy about ordinary people and their ordinary lives.]]>305cleanfull