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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 Andy Runtehttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2478c493c1a35658a3cf672e133d6203.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/download-latest-full-audiobooks-in-fiction-drama--6580847Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:37:27 +0000Andy RunteAndy Runtefeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/690/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/690/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, to Mystery and Romance. You'll get 3 free audiobooks to start your journey. Whether you use an iPhone, iPad, Android, or any other device, you can conveniently enjoy audiobooks. Let captivating stories accompany you every moment! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vineyard-a-novel-by-barbara-delinsky--65311934https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vineyard: A Novel Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Beth Fowler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 21, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky has written her most complex and emotionally rewarding novel yet: a story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dream becomes bound with the other's. To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances: exquisitely mannered, a supportive wife, and head of a successful wine-producing enterprise. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir. Olivia Jones is a dreamer, living vicariously through the old photographs she restores. She and her daughter, Tess, cling to the fantasy that a big, happy family is out there just waiting for them. When Natalie hires Olivia to help with her memoir, a summer at Natalie's vineyard by the sea seems the perfect opportunity to live out that fantasy, but all is not as it seems. As the illusion of an idyllic existence comes crashing headlong into reality, the lives of these two women, parallel in so many ways, become a powerful and moving story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128396Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vineyard: A Novel Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Beth Fowler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vineyard: A Novel Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Beth Fowler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 21, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky has written her most complex and emotionally rewarding novel yet: a story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dream becomes bound with the other's. To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances: exquisitely mannered, a supportive wife, and head of a successful wine-producing enterprise. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir. Olivia Jones is a dreamer, living vicariously through the old photographs she restores. She and her daughter, Tess, cling to the fantasy that a big, happy family is out there just waiting for them. When Natalie hires Olivia to help with her memoir, a summer at Natalie's vineyard by the sea seems the perfect opportunity to live out that fantasy, but all is not as it seems. As the illusion of an idyllic existence comes crashing headlong into reality, the lives of these two women, parallel in so many ways, become a powerful and moving story.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/goodnight-nobody-by-jennifer-weiner--65311893https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goodnight Nobody Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 94 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia—and all the surprises hidden behind its doors. For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety. When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is the most exciting thing to happen in Upchurch, Connecticut, since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though the local police chief warns her that crime-fighting's a job best left to the professionals, Kate launches an unofficial investigation -- from 8:45 to 11:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school. As Kate is drawn deeper into the murdered woman's past, she begins to uncover the secrets and lies behind Upchurch's picket-fence facade -- and considers the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between marriage and independence, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one's own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150705Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goodnight Nobody Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 15, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goodnight Nobody Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 94 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia—and all the surprises hidden behind its doors. For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety. When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is the most exciting thing to happen in Upchurch, Connecticut, since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though the local police chief warns her that crime-fighting's a job best left to the professionals, Kate launches an unofficial investigation -- from 8:45 to 11:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school. As Kate is drawn deeper into the murdered woman's past, she begins to uncover the secrets and lies behind Upchurch's picket-fence facade -- and considers the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between marriage and independence, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one's own.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/certain-girls-by-jennifer-weiner--65311860https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Certain Girls Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Julie Dretzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.52 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 3.1 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine. Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha. As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy. Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Certain Girls Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Julie Dretzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Certain Girls Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Julie Dretzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.52 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 3.1 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine. Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha. As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy. Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/best-friends-forever-by-jennifer-weiner--65311820https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends Forever Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: James Colby, Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes 'a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups' (Maureen Corrigan, NPR). Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents’ house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She’s just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. 'Something horrible has happened,' Val tells Addie, 'and you’re the only one who can help.' Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It’s about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends Forever Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: James Colby, Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends Forever Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: James Colby, Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes 'a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups' (Maureen Corrigan, NPR). Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents’ house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She’s just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. 'Something horrible has happened,' Val tells Addie, 'and you’re the only one who can help.' Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It’s about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/left-neglected-by-lisa-genova--65311766https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left Neglected Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Sarah Paulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 13 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called “left neglect,” she learns what truly matters most in life. Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. After a brain injury steals her awareness of everything on her left side, Sarah must retrain her mind to perceive the world as a whole. In so doing, she also learns how to pay attention to the people and parts of her life that matter most. In this powerful and poignant New York Times bestseller, Lisa Genova explores what can happen when we are forced to change our perception of everything around us. Left Neglected is an unforgettable story about finding abundance in the most difficult of circumstances, learning to pay attention to the details, and nourishing what truly matters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left Neglected Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Sarah Paulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left Neglected Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Sarah Paulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 13 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called “left neglect,” she learns what truly matters most in life. Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. After a brain injury steals her awareness of everything on her left side, Sarah must retrain her mind to perceive the world as a whole. In so doing, she also learns how to pay attention to the people and parts of her life that matter most. In this powerful and poignant New York Times bestseller, Lisa Genova explores what can happen when we are forced to change our perception of everything around us. Left Neglected is an unforgettable story about finding abundance in the most difficult of circumstances, learning to pay attention to the details, and nourishing what truly matters.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rescue-a-novel-by-anita-shreve--65311767https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Dennis Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 30, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Peter Webster pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair -- and in Sheila's troubled world. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course, and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions he has carefully been keeping at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel? A story about trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth, Rescue is a masterful portrayal of a family trying to understand its fractured past and begin again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88328Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Dennis Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 30, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Dennis Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 30, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Peter Webster pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair -- and in Sheila's troubled world. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course, and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions he has carefully been keeping at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel? A story about trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth, Rescue is a masterful portrayal of a family trying to understand its fractured past and begin again.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-box-tales-from-the-dark-room-by-gunter-grass--65311773https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Box: Tales from the Dark Room Author: Günter Grass Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters—four, five, six, eight in number—and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk…” In a great literary experiment, Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, and of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory—they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men, a shadowy but loving figure. There is one constant though: Marie, a family friend and photographer whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with inspiration for his novels. But her images offer much more; they reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, and grant the wishes, in visual form, of those photographed. Marie’s camera thus becomes a way for Grass to speak in the voices of his children’s hidden selves—their dreams, their disappointments, their secret desires and fears—and to see his own life from unexpected perspectives. Recalling J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Grass at his best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88374Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Box: Tales from the Dark Room Author: Günter Grass Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Box: Tales from the Dark Room Author: Günter Grass Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters—four, five, six, eight in number—and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk…” In a great literary experiment, Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, and of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory—they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men, a shadowy but loving figure. There is one constant though: Marie, a family friend and photographer whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with inspiration for his novels. But her images offer much more; they reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, and grant the wishes, in visual form, of those photographed. Marie’s camera thus becomes a way for Grass to speak in the voices of his children’s hidden selves—their dreams, their disappointments, their secret desires and fears—and to see his own life from unexpected perspectives. Recalling J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Grass at his best.]]>185ntercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-corrections-a-novel-by-jonathan-franzen--65311790https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections: A Novel Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing specatcularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man--or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to. Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88290Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections: A Novel Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections: A Novel Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing specatcularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man--or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to. Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fried-green-tomatoes-at-the-whistle-stop-cafe-a-novel-by-fannie-flagg--65311778https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 19, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again... 'Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!' --Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird 'A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.' --The New York Times 'It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.' --Los Angeles Times 'Funny and macabre.' --The Washington Post 'Courageous and wise.' --Houston Chronicle]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 19, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again... 'Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!' --Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird 'A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.' --The New York Times 'It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.' --Los Angeles Times 'Funny and macabre.' --The Washington Post 'Courageous and wise.' --Houston Chronicle]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-good-daughters-a-novel-by-joyce-maynard--65311784https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Daughters: A Novel Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Rebecca Tuttle, Joyce Maynard, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed” —Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners “Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you’ll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.” — Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You   Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynard’s already distinguished writing career.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Daughters: A Novel Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Rebecca Tuttle, Joyce Maynard, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Daughters: A Novel Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Rebecca Tuttle, Joyce Maynard, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed” —Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners “Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you’ll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.” — Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You   Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynard’s already distinguished writing career.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-brave-a-novel-by-nicholas-evans--65311763https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brave: A Novel Author: Nicholas Evans Narrator: Michael Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life. His parents are old and remote and the boarding school they've sent him to bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. The only comfort he gets is from his fantasy world of Cowboys and Indians. But when his sister Diane, a rising star of stage and screen, falls in love with one of his idols, the suave TV cowboy Ray Montane, Tom's life is transformed. They move to Hollywood and all his dreams seem to have come true. Soon, however, the sinister side of Tinseltown casts its shadow and a shocking act of violence changes their lives forever. What happened all those years ago remains a secret that corrodes Tom's life and wrecks his marriage. Only when his estranged son, a US Marine, is charged with murder do the events resurface, forcing him to confront his demons. As he struggles to save his son's life, he will learn the true meaning of bravery. Powerfully written and intensely moving, The Brave traces the legacy of violence behind the myth of the American West and explores our quest for love and identity, the fallibility of heroes and the devastating effects of family secrets.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83516Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brave: A Novel Author: Nicholas Evans Narrator: Michael Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brave: A Novel Author: Nicholas Evans Narrator: Michael Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life. His parents are old and remote and the boarding school they've sent him to bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. The only comfort he gets is from his fantasy world of Cowboys and Indians. But when his sister Diane, a rising star of stage and screen, falls in love with one of his idols, the suave TV cowboy Ray Montane, Tom's life is transformed. They move to Hollywood and all his dreams seem to have come true. Soon, however, the sinister side of Tinseltown casts its shadow and a shocking act of violence changes their lives forever. What happened all those years ago remains a secret that corrodes Tom's life and wrecks his marriage. Only when his estranged son, a US Marine, is charged with murder do the events resurface, forcing him to confront his demons. As he struggles to save his son's life, he will learn the true meaning of bravery. Powerfully written and intensely moving, The Brave traces the legacy of violence behind the myth of the American West and explores our quest for love and identity, the fallibility of heroes and the devastating effects of family secrets.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-the-end-of-the-land-by-david-grossman--65311813https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the End of the Land Author: David Grossman Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 21, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the “notifiers” who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days’ leave being offered by their commander—a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a “war and peace” rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. Grossman’s rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83365Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the End of the Land Author: David Grossman Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 20 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the End of the Land Author: David Grossman Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 21, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the “notifiers” who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days’ leave being offered by their commander—a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a “war and peace” rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. Grossman’s rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/room-a-novel-by-emma-donoghue--65311782https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Room: A Novel Author: Emma Donoghue Narrator: Michal Friedman, Robert Petkoff, Ellen Archer, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 191 Ratings of Narrator: 3.88 of Total 34 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83335Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Room: A Novel Author: Emma Donoghue Narrator: Michal Friedman, Robert Petkoff, Ellen Archer, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Room: A Novel Author: Emma Donoghue Narrator: Michal Friedman, Robert Petkoff, Ellen Archer, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 191 Ratings of Narrator: 3.88 of Total 34 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-widower-s-tale-by-julia-glass--65311815https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widower's Tale Author: Julia Glass Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can he remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious joy of falling in love.   One relationship Percy treasures is the bond with his oldest grandchild, Robert, a premed student at Harvard. Robert has long assumed he will follow in the footsteps of his mother, a prominent physician, but he begins to question his ambitions when confronted by a charismatic roommate who preaches—and begins to practice—an extreme form of ecological activism, targeting Boston’s most affluent suburbs.   Meanwhile, two other men become fatefully involved with Percy and Robert: Ira, a gay teacher at the preschool, and Celestino, a Guatemalan gardener who works for Percy’s neighbor, each one striving to overcome a sense of personal exile. Choices made by all four men, as well as by the women around them, collide forcefully on one lovely spring evening, upending everyone’s lives, but none more radically than Percy’s.   With equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale about the loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a very particular family. Yet again, she plumbs the human heart brilliantly, dramatically, and movingly.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83250Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widower's Tale Author: Julia Glass Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widower's Tale Author: Julia Glass Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can he remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious joy of falling in love.   One relationship Percy treasures is the bond with his oldest grandchild, Robert, a premed student at Harvard. Robert has long assumed he will follow in the footsteps of his mother, a prominent physician, but he begins to question his ambitions when confronted by a charismatic roommate who preaches—and begins to practice—an extreme form of ecological activism, targeting Boston’s most affluent suburbs.   Meanwhile, two other men become fatefully involved with Percy and Robert: Ira, a gay teacher at the preschool, and Celestino, a Guatemalan gardener who works for Percy’s neighbor, each one striving to overcome a sense of personal exile. Choices made by all four men, as well as by the women around them, collide forcefully on one lovely spring evening, upending everyone’s lives, but none more radically than Percy’s.   With equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale about the loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a very particular family. Yet again, she plumbs the human heart brilliantly, dramatically, and movingly.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wicked-intentions-by-elizabeth-hoyt--65311771https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83089 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wicked Intentions Series: #1 of Maiden Lane Author: Elizabeth Hoyt Narrator: Ashford McNab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author who Lisa Kleypas hails as 'too good to be true' comes the first book in her beloved Maiden Lane series. A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . . Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . . A WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST . . . Caire makes a simple offer-in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London's high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control-one that may well destroy them both. A BARGAIN NEITHER COULD REFUSE]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83089Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83089 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wicked Intentions Series: #1 of Maiden Lane Author: Elizabeth Hoyt Narrator: Ashford McNab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83089 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wicked Intentions Series: #1 of Maiden Lane Author: Elizabeth Hoyt Narrator: Ashford McNab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author who Lisa Kleypas hails as 'too good to be true' comes the first book in her beloved Maiden Lane series. A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . . Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . . A WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST . . . Caire makes a simple offer-in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London's high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control-one that may well destroy them both. A BARGAIN NEITHER COULD REFUSE]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-hook-road-by-ayelet-waldman--65311794https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Hook Road Author: Ayelet Waldman Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: As lyrical as a sonata, Ayelet Waldman’s follow-up novel to Love and Other Impossible Pursuits explores the aftermath of a family tragedy. Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers, Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ways in which their lives are unraveled and stitched together by misfortune, by good intentions and failure, and by love and calamity. A marriage collapses under the strain of a daughter’s death; two bereaved siblings find comfort in one another; and an adopted young girl breathes new life into her family with her prodigious talent for the violin. As she writes with obvious affection for these unforgettable characters, Ayelet Waldman skillfully interweaves life’s finer pleasures—music and literature—with the more mundane joys of living. Within these resonant pages, a vase filled with wildflowers or a cold beer on a hot summer day serve as constant reminders that it’s often the little things that make life so precious.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Hook Road Author: Ayelet Waldman Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Hook Road Author: Ayelet Waldman Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: As lyrical as a sonata, Ayelet Waldman’s follow-up novel to Love and Other Impossible Pursuits explores the aftermath of a family tragedy. Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers, Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ways in which their lives are unraveled and stitched together by misfortune, by good intentions and failure, and by love and calamity. A marriage collapses under the strain of a daughter’s death; two bereaved siblings find comfort in one another; and an adopted young girl breathes new life into her family with her prodigious talent for the violin. As she writes with obvious affection for these unforgettable characters, Ayelet Waldman skillfully interweaves life’s finer pleasures—music and literature—with the more mundane joys of living. Within these resonant pages, a vase filled with wildflowers or a cold beer on a hot summer day serve as constant reminders that it’s often the little things that make life so precious.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fly-away-home-a-novel-by-jennifer-weiner--65311777https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fly Away Home: A Novel Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Judith Light Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From one of the nation’s most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house. When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffs’ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve—a husband, a young son, the perfect home—and yet she’s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER’s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richard’s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be. Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fly Away Home: A Novel Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Judith Light Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fly Away Home: A Novel Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Judith Light Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From one of the nation’s most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house. When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffs’ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve—a husband, a young son, the perfect home—and yet she’s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER’s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richard’s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be. Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-island-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65311765https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Denice Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This “deliciously addictive” (Kirkus) beach read from Elin Hilderbrand follows a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fills an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement. It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store—a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles. But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Denice Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Denice Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This “deliciously addictive” (Kirkus) beach read from Elin Hilderbrand follows a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fills an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement. It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store—a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles. But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-peanut-by-adam-ross--65311774https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Peanut Author: Adam Ross Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 22, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can’t imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. The detectives investigating Alice’s suspicious death have plenty of personal experience with conjugal enigmas: Ward Hastroll is happily married until his wife inexplicably becomes voluntarily and militantly bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to the intricacies of marital guilt and innocence, having decades before been convicted and then exonerated of the brutal murder of his wife. Still, these men are in the business of figuring things out, even as Pepin’s role in Alice’s death grows ever more confounding when they link him to a highly unusual hit man called Mobius. Like the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games David designs for a living, these complex, interlocking dramas are structurally and emotionally intense, subtle, and intriguing; they brilliantly explore the warring impulses of affection and hatred, and pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone fully, completely? Are murder and marriage two sides of the same coin, each endlessly recycling into the other? And what, in the end, is the truth about love? Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart—and a first novel of the highest order.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62134Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Peanut Author: Adam Ross Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 22, 2010 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Peanut Author: Adam Ross Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 22, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can’t imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. The detectives investigating Alice’s suspicious death have plenty of personal experience with conjugal enigmas: Ward Hastroll is happily married until his wife inexplicably becomes voluntarily and militantly bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to the intricacies of marital guilt and innocence, having decades before been convicted and then exonerated of the brutal murder of his wife. Still, these men are in the business of figuring things out, even as Pepin’s role in Alice’s death grows ever more confounding when they link him to a highly unusual hit man called Mobius. Like the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games David designs for a living, these complex, interlocking dramas are structurally and emotionally intense, subtle, and intriguing; they brilliantly explore the warring impulses of affection and hatred, and pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone fully, completely? Are murder and marriage two sides of the same coin, each endlessly recycling into the other? And what, in the end, is the truth about love? Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart—and a first novel of the highest order.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-where-we-live-a-novel-by-janelle-brown--65311781https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This is Where We Live: A Novel Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann, Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release, he’s assembled a new band and is a few songs shy of an album. They’ve recently purchased their first home—an adorable mid-century bungalow with a breathtaking view of the city of Los Angeles—with the magical assistance of an adjustable-rate mortgage. But a series of seismic events—the tanking of Claudia’s film, the return of Jeremy’s ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments—deal a crushing blow to their dreams of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future. This Is Where We Live is a novel about the crucible of this economic moment—the way these times play with our hopes, compel us to reckon with our ambition, test our capacity for reinvention, and ask us to question the very things we love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This is Where We Live: A Novel Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann, Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This is Where We Live: A Novel Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann, Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release, he’s assembled a new band and is a few songs shy of an album. They’ve recently purchased their first home—an adorable mid-century bungalow with a breathtaking view of the city of Los Angeles—with the magical assistance of an adjustable-rate mortgage. But a series of seismic events—the tanking of Claudia’s film, the return of Jeremy’s ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments—deal a crushing blow to their dreams of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future. This Is Where We Live is a novel about the crucible of this economic moment—the way these times play with our hopes, compel us to reckon with our ambition, test our capacity for reinvention, and ask us to question the very things we love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lowcountry-summer-a-plantation-novel-by-dorothea-benton-frank--65311769https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel Series: #7 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Frank…writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang….[Her] stuff is never escapist fluff—it’s the real deal.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution Return to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank’s beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frank’s warmth and humor. The much-beloved New York Times bestselling author follows the recent success of Return to Sullivans Island, Bulls Island, and Land of Mango Sunsets with a tale rich in atmosphere and unforgettable scenes of Southern life, once again placing her at the dais, alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Pat Conroy, and other masters of contemporary Southern fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel Series: #7 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel Series: #7 of Lowcountry Tales Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Frank…writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang….[Her] stuff is never escapist fluff—it’s the real deal.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution Return to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank’s beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frank’s warmth and humor. The much-beloved New York Times bestselling author follows the recent success of Return to Sullivans Island, Bulls Island, and Land of Mango Sunsets with a tale rich in atmosphere and unforgettable scenes of Southern life, once again placing her at the dais, alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Pat Conroy, and other masters of contemporary Southern fiction.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stoner-by-john-williams--65311801https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stoner Author: John Williams Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 15 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’ luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82962Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stoner Author: John Williams Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stoner Author: John Williams Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 15 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’ luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/backseat-saints-by-joshilyn-jackson--65311779https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backseat Saints Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Read this 'enthralling' portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created while reigniting her rough and tough Texan bravery (Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help). Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old novels and a taste for dangerous men. Now, as demure Mrs. Ro Grandee, she's living the very life her mother abandoned. She's all but forgotten the girl she used to be-teenaged spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol-until an airport gypsy warns Rose it's time to find her way back to that brave, tough girl . . . or else. Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas, running from a man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did. Starring a minor character from Jackson's bestselling Gods in Alabama, Backseat Saints will dazzle readers with its stunning portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will travel to satisfy the demands of forgiveness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backseat Saints Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 8, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backseat Saints Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 8, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Read this 'enthralling' portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created while reigniting her rough and tough Texan bravery (Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help). Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old novels and a taste for dangerous men. Now, as demure Mrs. Ro Grandee, she's living the very life her mother abandoned. She's all but forgotten the girl she used to be-teenaged spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol-until an airport gypsy warns Rose it's time to find her way back to that brave, tough girl . . . or else. Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas, running from a man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did. Starring a minor character from Jackson's bestselling Gods in Alabama, Backseat Saints will dazzle readers with its stunning portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will travel to satisfy the demands of forgiveness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miracle-on-the-17th-green-by-james-patterson-peter-de-jonge--65311827https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle on the 17th Green Author: James Patterson, Peter de Jonge Narrator: Brian Bascle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Just when we need some magic in our lives, bestselling author James Patterson and Peter de Jonge bring us a stirring tale of life, love, and the power of miracles. Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life - he has a job that he despises, a marriage that has lost its passion, children from whom he feels disconnected, and at age fifty, a sense that he has accomplished nothing of consequence with his life. But on Christmas Day, he goes out to play a round of golf, and for the first time, he finds himself in the 'zone'. He sees the putting line that has eluded him for years. Always a fairly good golfer, he finds himself playing like a pro and is so caught up in his excitement that he continues to play, sinking putt after putt, missing Christmas dinner with his wife and family. It is too much for his already troubled marriage. His family collapes--but Travis is soon too busy living his dream to notice. His amazing new golf skills catapult him into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach, where he advances to the final round with two of his heroes, Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. And with his wife, children,and a live television audience watching, a miracle takes place on the 17th green that will change Travis, and his family, forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61766Mon, 10 May 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle on the 17th Green Author: James Patterson, Peter de Jonge Narrator: Brian Bascle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle on the 17th Green Author: James Patterson, Peter de Jonge Narrator: Brian Bascle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Just when we need some magic in our lives, bestselling author James Patterson and Peter de Jonge bring us a stirring tale of life, love, and the power of miracles. Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life - he has a job that he despises, a marriage that has lost its passion, children from whom he feels disconnected, and at age fifty, a sense that he has accomplished nothing of consequence with his life. But on Christmas Day, he goes out to play a round of golf, and for the first time, he finds himself in the 'zone'. He sees the putting line that has eluded him for years. Always a fairly good golfer, he finds himself playing like a pro and is so caught up in his excitement that he continues to play, sinking putt after putt, missing Christmas dinner with his wife and family. It is too much for his already troubled marriage. His family collapes--but Travis is soon too busy living his dream to notice. His amazing new golf skills catapult him into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach, where he advances to the final round with two of his heroes, Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. And with his wife, children,and a live television audience watching, a miracle takes place on the 17th green that will change Travis, and his family, forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/till-you-hear-from-me-a-novel-by-pearl-cleage--65311798https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Till You Hear From Me: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon, is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics. The Rev’s stinging words and myopic views don’t sound anything like the man who raised Ida. When friends call to express their concern, Ida realizes it’s time to head home and see for herself what’s going on. Back in her old West End neighborhood, Ida runs into childhood friend and smooth political operator Wes Harper, also in town to pay a visit to the Reverend Dunbar, his mentor. While Ida and the Rev try to find the balance between personal loyalties and political realities, they must do some serious soul searching in order to get things back on track before Wes permanently derails their best laid plans.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Till You Hear From Me: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Till You Hear From Me: A Novel Author: Pearl Cleage Narrator: Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon, is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics. The Rev’s stinging words and myopic views don’t sound anything like the man who raised Ida. When friends call to express their concern, Ida realizes it’s time to head home and see for herself what’s going on. Back in her old West End neighborhood, Ida runs into childhood friend and smooth political operator Wes Harper, also in town to pay a visit to the Reverend Dunbar, his mentor. While Ida and the Rev try to find the balance between personal loyalties and political realities, they must do some serious soul searching in order to get things back on track before Wes permanently derails their best laid plans.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/every-last-one-by-anna-quindlen--65311785https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Last One Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Hope Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 2011 Audie Award Finalist for Fiction Beloved blockbuster storyteller Anna Quindlen’s powerhouse new novel, her first since the #1 bestseller Rise and Shine , confirms her status as an incomparably accurate and compassionate observer of families and the tragedies they face. This moving, suspenseful, and surprising new novel by beloved author Anna Quindlen is about a suburban family and the unintended, explosive consequences of what seem like small, casual actions. Quindlen returns to the subject of family, and family in turmoil, a subject she’s explored with great success in all of her previous novels thanks to her insightful, compassionate understanding of the intricacies of human relationships.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61729Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Last One Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Hope Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 13, 2010 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Last One Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Hope Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 2011 Audie Award Finalist for Fiction Beloved blockbuster storyteller Anna Quindlen’s powerhouse new novel, her first since the #1 bestseller Rise and Shine , confirms her status as an incomparably accurate and compassionate observer of families and the tragedies they face. This moving, suspenseful, and surprising new novel by beloved author Anna Quindlen is about a suburban family and the unintended, explosive consequences of what seem like small, casual actions. Quindlen returns to the subject of family, and family in turmoil, a subject she’s explored with great success in all of her previous novels thanks to her insightful, compassionate understanding of the intricacies of human relationships.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/men-and-dogs-a-novel-by-katie-crouch--65311810https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men and Dogs: A Novel Author: Katie Crouch Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return. Twenty years later Hannah's new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her business is bankrupt. After a disastrous attempt to win back her husband, she ends up back at her mother's home to 'rest up', where she is once again sucked into the mystery of her missing father. Suspecting that those closest are keeping secrets -- including Palmer, her emotionally closed, well-mannered brother and Warren, the beautiful boyfriend she left behind -- Hannah sets out on an uproarious, dangerous quest that will test the whole family's concepts of loyalty and faith.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men and Dogs: A Novel Author: Katie Crouch Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 12, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men and Dogs: A Novel Author: Katie Crouch Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return. Twenty years later Hannah's new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her business is bankrupt. After a disastrous attempt to win back her husband, she ends up back at her mother's home to 'rest up', where she is once again sucked into the mystery of her missing father. Suspecting that those closest are keeping secrets -- including Palmer, her emotionally closed, well-mannered brother and Warren, the beautiful boyfriend she left behind -- Hannah sets out on an uproarious, dangerous quest that will test the whole family's concepts of loyalty and faith.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-time-i-saw-you-a-novel-by-elizabeth-berg--65311764https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.78 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of Pleasures, comes a wonderful new novel about women and men reconnecting with one another—and themselves—at their fortieth high school reunion. To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something different—a last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear. As the onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy Shauman, the reunion brings with it the possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob, Pete Decker. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice Mayhew, it’s a chance to reexamine a painful past. For Lester Heseenpfeffer, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vet—or at least that’s what he tells himself. For Candy Armstrong, the class beauty, it’s the hope of finding friendship before it is too late. As Dorothy, Mary Alice, Lester, Candy, and the other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: Desires and personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen. In this beautiful novel, Elizabeth Berg deftly weaves together stories of roads taken and not taken, choices made and opportunities missed, and the possibilities of second chances.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.78 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of Pleasures, comes a wonderful new novel about women and men reconnecting with one another—and themselves—at their fortieth high school reunion. To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something different—a last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear. As the onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy Shauman, the reunion brings with it the possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob, Pete Decker. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice Mayhew, it’s a chance to reexamine a painful past. For Lester Heseenpfeffer, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vet—or at least that’s what he tells himself. For Candy Armstrong, the class beauty, it’s the hope of finding friendship before it is too late. As Dorothy, Mary Alice, Lester, Candy, and the other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: Desires and personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen. In this beautiful novel, Elizabeth Berg deftly weaves together stories of roads taken and not taken, choices made and opportunities missed, and the possibilities of second chances.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/here-burns-my-candle-a-novel-by-liz-curtis-higgs--65311795https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here Burns My Candle: A Novel Author: Liz Curtis Higgs Narrator: Liz Curtis Higgs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 16, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past.   Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her. Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips. His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Though her two abiding passions are maintaining her place in society and coddling her grown sons, Marjory’s many regrets, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, continue to plague her. One by one the Kerr family secrets begin to surface, even as bonny Prince Charlie and his rebel army ride into Edinburgh in September 1745, intent on capturing the crown. A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, Here Burns My Candle illumines the dark side of human nature, even as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home. Includes a bonus PDF with a listener's guide, glossary, and map]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61407Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here Burns My Candle: A Novel Author: Liz Curtis Higgs Narrator: Liz Curtis Higgs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here Burns My Candle: A Novel Author: Liz Curtis Higgs Narrator: Liz Curtis Higgs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 16, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past.   Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her. Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips. His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Though her two abiding passions are maintaining her place in society and coddling her grown sons, Marjory’s many regrets, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, continue to plague her. One by one the Kerr family secrets begin to surface, even as bonny Prince Charlie and his rebel army ride into Edinburgh in September 1745, intent on capturing the crown. A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, Here Burns My Candle illumines the dark side of human nature, even as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home. Includes a bonus PDF with a listener's guide, glossary, and map]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-who-chased-the-moon-a-novel-by-sarah-addison-allen--65311783https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 16, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew—a reclusive, real-life gentle giant—she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson’s cakes—which is a good thing, because Julia can’t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she’s hurt in the past?     Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Author: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 16, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew—a reclusive, real-life gentle giant—she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson’s cakes—which is a good thing, because Julia can’t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she’s hurt in the past?     Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-confederate-general-rides-north-a-novel-by-amanda-c-gable--65311789https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confederate General Rides North: A Novel Author: Amanda C. Gable Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 26, 2010 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Debut author Amanda C. Gable places the 'emphasis of this quietly moving novel . on the daughter's inner journey toward maturity' (Publishers Weekly). It's the 1960s in Marietta, Georgia, and 11-year-old Katherine McConnell has been raised to see the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression. When her mother plans a business trip north, Katherine tags along, visiting historic battlefields along the way. But with each stop, her perspectives on the war, her mother, and her upbringing undergo drastic changes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61268Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confederate General Rides North: A Novel Author: Amanda C. Gable Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confederate General Rides North: A Novel Author: Amanda C. Gable Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 26, 2010 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Debut author Amanda C. Gable places the 'emphasis of this quietly moving novel . on the daughter's inner journey toward maturity' (Publishers Weekly). It's the 1960s in Marietta, Georgia, and 11-year-old Katherine McConnell has been raised to see the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression. When her mother plans a business trip north, Katherine tags along, visiting historic battlefields along the way. But with each stop, her perspectives on the war, her mother, and her upbringing undergo drastic changes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/venetia-kelly-s-traveling-show-a-novel-of-ireland-by-frank-delaney--65311806https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel of Ireland Series: #5 of A Novel of Ireland Author: Frank Delaney Narrator: Frank Delaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 23, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Then smiled and took a bow.” And so we first meet Venetia Kelly, the beguiling actress at the center of this new, spellbinding, and epic novel by Frank Delaney, the bestselling author of Ireland and Shannon. January 1932: While Ireland roils in the run-up to the most important national election in the Republic’s short history, Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, Shakespearean recitations, juggling, tumbling, and other entertainments, Ben’s father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan. Ben’s mother, shattered by the desertion, exhorts, “Find him and bring him back,” thereby sending the boy on a Homeric voyage into manhood, a quest that traverses the churning currents of Ireland’s fractious society and splinters the MacCarthy family. Interweaving historical figures including W. B. Yeats, and a host of unforgettable creations—“King” Kelly, Venetia’s violent, Mephistophelean grandfather; Sarah Kelly, Venetia’s mysterious, amoral mother; and even a truth-telling ventriloquist’s dummy named Blarney—Frank Delaney unfurls a splendid narrative that spans half the world and a tumultuous, eventful decade.   Teeming with intrigue, pathos, and humor, Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show explores two of Ireland’s great national passions: theater and politics. Writing with his signature mastery and lyrical prose, Frank Delaney once again delivers an unforgettable story as big and boisterous as the people and events it chronicles.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60940Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel of Ireland Series: #5 of A Novel of Ireland Author: Frank Delaney Narrator: Frank Delaney Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel of Ireland Series: #5 of A Novel of Ireland Author: Frank Delaney Narrator: Frank Delaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 23, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Then smiled and took a bow.” And so we first meet Venetia Kelly, the beguiling actress at the center of this new, spellbinding, and epic novel by Frank Delaney, the bestselling author of Ireland and Shannon. January 1932: While Ireland roils in the run-up to the most important national election in the Republic’s short history, Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, Shakespearean recitations, juggling, tumbling, and other entertainments, Ben’s father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan. Ben’s mother, shattered by the desertion, exhorts, “Find him and bring him back,” thereby sending the boy on a Homeric voyage into manhood, a quest that traverses the churning currents of Ireland’s fractious society and splinters the MacCarthy family. Interweaving historical figures including W. B. Yeats, and a host of unforgettable creations—“King” Kelly, Venetia’s violent, Mephistophelean grandfather; Sarah Kelly, Venetia’s mysterious, amoral mother; and even a truth-telling ventriloquist’s dummy named Blarney—Frank Delaney unfurls a splendid narrative that spans half the world and a tumultuous, eventful decade.   Teeming with intrigue, pathos, and humor, Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show explores two of Ireland’s great national passions: theater and politics. Writing with his signature mastery and lyrical prose, Frank Delaney once again delivers an unforgettable story as big and boisterous as the people and events it chronicles.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-things-that-keep-us-here-a-novel-by-carla-buckley--65311776https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That Keep Us Here: A Novel Author: Carla Buckley Narrator: Abby Craden, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: How far would you go to protect your family? Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight. A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland. And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches. As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark. Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear. Carla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That Keep Us Here: A Novel Author: Carla Buckley Narrator: Abby Craden, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That Keep Us Here: A Novel Author: Carla Buckley Narrator: Abby Craden, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: How far would you go to protect your family? Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight. A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland. And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches. As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark. Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear. Carla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/noah-s-compass-a-novel-by-anne-tyler--65311787https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noah's Compass: A Novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is—well, something quite different. We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noah's Compass: A Novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noah's Compass: A Novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is—well, something quite different. We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-my-daughter-by-barbara-delinsky--65311768https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not My Daughter Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 15 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Boston Globe)   When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.   Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values. Now her detractors accuse her of being a lax mother, perhaps not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter's pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought-for dreams are all at risk.   The emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to breaking in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has given us a powerful novel, one that asks a central question: What does it take to be a good mother?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not My Daughter Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not My Daughter Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 15 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Boston Globe)   When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.   Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values. Now her detractors accuse her of being a lax mother, perhaps not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter's pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought-for dreams are all at risk.   The emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to breaking in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has given us a powerful novel, one that asks a central question: What does it take to be a good mother?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/too-much-money-a-novel-by-dominick-dunne--65311797https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Much Money: A Novel Author: Dominick Dunne Narrator: Nicholas Hormann, Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: My name is Gus Bailey…It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening.   The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble—$11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program. As a result of his flip comments, Gus becomes embroiled in a nasty slander suit brought by Kyle Cramden, the powerful congressman he accuses of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, and he fears it could mean the end of him.   The stress of the lawsuit makes it difficult for Gus to focus on the novel he has been contracted to write, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. It is a story that has dominated the party conversations of Manhattan's chattering classes for more than two years. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, such as why a paranoid man who was usually accompanied by bodyguards was without protection the very night he perished in a tragic fire.   Konstantin's hot-tempered widow, Perla, is obsessed with climbing the social ladder and, as a result, she will do anything to suppress this potentially damaging story. Gus is convinced she is the only thing standing between him and the truth.   Dominick Dunne revives the world he first introduced in his mega-bestselling novel People Like Us, and he brings readers up to date on favorite characters such as Ruby and Elias Renthal, Lil Altemus, and, of course, the beloved Gus Bailey. Once again, he invites us to pull up a seat at the most important tables at Swifty's, get past the doormen at esteemed social clubs like The Butterfield, and venture into the innermost chambers of the Upper East Side's most sumptuous mansions.    Too Much Money is a satisfying, mischievous, and compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn't afraid to share them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Much Money: A Novel Author: Dominick Dunne Narrator: Nicholas Hormann, Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Much Money: A Novel Author: Dominick Dunne Narrator: Nicholas Hormann, Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: My name is Gus Bailey…It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening.   The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble—$11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program. As a result of his flip comments, Gus becomes embroiled in a nasty slander suit brought by Kyle Cramden, the powerful congressman he accuses of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, and he fears it could mean the end of him.   The stress of the lawsuit makes it difficult for Gus to focus on the novel he has been contracted to write, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. It is a story that has dominated the party conversations of Manhattan's chattering classes for more than two years. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, such as why a paranoid man who was usually accompanied by bodyguards was without protection the very night he perished in a tragic fire.   Konstantin's hot-tempered widow, Perla, is obsessed with climbing the social ladder and, as a result, she will do anything to suppress this potentially damaging story. Gus is convinced she is the only thing standing between him and the truth.   Dominick Dunne revives the world he first introduced in his mega-bestselling novel People Like Us, and he brings readers up to date on favorite characters such as Ruby and Elias Renthal, Lil Altemus, and, of course, the beloved Gus Bailey. Once again, he invites us to pull up a seat at the most important tables at Swifty's, get past the doormen at esteemed social clubs like The Butterfield, and venture into the innermost chambers of the Upper East Side's most sumptuous mansions.    Too Much Money is a satisfying, mischievous, and compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn't afraid to share them.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/new-york-the-novel-by-edward-rutherfurd--65311929https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: New York: The Novel Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 37 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59943Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: New York: The Novel Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 37 hours 17 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: New York: The Novel Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 37 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-night-in-twisted-river-a-novel-by-john-irving--65311841https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel Author: John Irving Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 25 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River–John Irving’s twelfth novel–depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” From the novel’s taut opening sentence–“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long”–to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice–the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59713Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel Author: John Irving Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel Author: John Irving Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 25 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River–John Irving’s twelfth novel–depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” From the novel’s taut opening sentence–“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long”–to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice–the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ghost-king-transitions-book-iii-by-r-a-salvatore--65311811https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghost King: Transitions, Book III Series: #3 of Transitions Author: R.A. Salvatore Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Don't miss the gripping conclusion to Salvatore's New York Times best-selling Transitions trilogy! When the Spellplague ravages Faerûn, Drizzt and his companions are caught in the chaos. Seeking out the help of the priest Cadderly–the hero of the recently reissued series The Cleric Quintet–Drizzt finds himself facing his most powerful and elusive foe, the twisted Crenshinibon, the demonic crystal shard he believed had been destroyed years ago. TM & ©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59711Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghost King: Transitions, Book III Series: #3 of Transitions Author: R.A. Salvatore Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghost King: Transitions, Book III Series: #3 of Transitions Author: R.A. Salvatore Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Don't miss the gripping conclusion to Salvatore's New York Times best-selling Transitions trilogy! When the Spellplague ravages Faerûn, Drizzt and his companions are caught in the chaos. Seeking out the help of the priest Cadderly–the hero of the recently reissued series The Cleric Quintet–Drizzt finds himself facing his most powerful and elusive foe, the twisted Crenshinibon, the demonic crystal shard he believed had been destroyed years ago. TM & ©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-christmas-list-a-novel-by-richard-paul-evans--65311770https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas List: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and Finding Noel. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. Dear Reader, When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Johnson, gave our class the intriguing (if somewhat macabre) assignment of writing our own obituaries. Oddly, I don't remember much of what I wrote about my life, but I do remember how I died: in first place on the final lap of the Daytona 500. At the time, I hadn't considered writing as an occupation, a field with a remarkably low on-the-job casualty rate. What intrigues me most about Mrs. Johnson's assignment is the opportunity she gave us to confront our own legacy. How do we want to be remembered? That question has motivated our species since the beginning of time: from building pyramids to putting our names on skyscrapers. As I began to write this book, I had two objectives: First, I wanted to explore what could happen if someone read their obituary before they died and saw, firsthand, what the world really thought of them. Their legacy. Second, I wanted to write a Christmas story of true redemption. One of my family's holiday traditions is to see a local production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. I don't know how many times I've seen it (perhaps a dozen), but it still thrills me to see the change that comes over Ebenezer Scrooge as he transforms from a dull, tight-fisted miser into a penitent, 'giddy-as-aschoolboy' man with love in his heart. I always leave the show with a smile on my face and a resolve to be a better person. That's what I wanted to share with you, my dear readers, this Christmas—a holiday tale to warm your season, your homes, and your hearts. Merry Christmas]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59664Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas List: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas List: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and Finding Noel. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. Dear Reader, When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Johnson, gave our class the intriguing (if somewhat macabre) assignment of writing our own obituaries. Oddly, I don't remember much of what I wrote about my life, but I do remember how I died: in first place on the final lap of the Daytona 500. At the time, I hadn't considered writing as an occupation, a field with a remarkably low on-the-job casualty rate. What intrigues me most about Mrs. Johnson's assignment is the opportunity she gave us to confront our own legacy. How do we want to be remembered? That question has motivated our species since the beginning of time: from building pyramids to putting our names on skyscrapers. As I began to write this book, I had two objectives: First, I wanted to explore what could happen if someone read their obituary before they died and saw, firsthand, what the world really thought of them. Their legacy. Second, I wanted to write a Christmas story of true redemption. One of my family's holiday traditions is to see a local production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. I don't know how many times I've seen it (perhaps a dozen), but it still thrills me to see the change that comes over Ebenezer Scrooge as he transforms from a dull, tight-fisted miser into a penitent, 'giddy-as-aschoolboy' man with love in his heart. I always leave the show with a smile on my face and a resolve to be a better person. That's what I wanted to share with you, my dear readers, this Christmas—a holiday tale to warm your season, your homes, and your hearts. Merry Christmas]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-change-in-altitude-a-novel-by-anita-shreve--65311786https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Change in Altitude: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Anna Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.22 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever. A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Change in Altitude: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Anna Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Change in Altitude: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Anna Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.22 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever. A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-time-to-wave-goodbye-by-jacquelyn-mitchard--65311839https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Time to Wave Goodbye Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 15, 2009 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave Goodbye, the unforgettable Cappadoras are in peril once again, forced to confront an unimaginable evil. It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora’s three-year-old son Ben was abducted. By some miracle, he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives. But their peace has always been fragile: Ben returned from the deep end as another child and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown: Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged from his troubled adolescence as a fledgling filmmaker. The subject of Vincent’s new documentary, “No Time to Wave Goodbye,” shakes Vincent’s unsuspecting family to the core; it focuses on five families caught in the tortuous web of never knowing the fate of their abducted children. Though Beth tries to stave off the torrent of buried emotions, she is left wondering if she and her family are fated to relive the past forever. The film earns tremendous acclaim, but just as the Cappadoras are about to celebrate the culmination of Vincent’s artistic success, what Beth fears the most occurs, and the Cappadoras are cast back into the past, revisiting the worst moment of their lives–with only hours to find the truth that can save a life. High in a rugged California mountain range, their rescue becomes a desperate struggle for survival. No Time to Wave Goodbye is Jacquelyn Mitchard at her best, a spellbinding novel about family loyalty, and love pushed to the limits of endurance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59217Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Time to Wave Goodbye Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Time to Wave Goodbye Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 15, 2009 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave Goodbye, the unforgettable Cappadoras are in peril once again, forced to confront an unimaginable evil. It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora’s three-year-old son Ben was abducted. By some miracle, he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives. But their peace has always been fragile: Ben returned from the deep end as another child and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown: Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged from his troubled adolescence as a fledgling filmmaker. The subject of Vincent’s new documentary, “No Time to Wave Goodbye,” shakes Vincent’s unsuspecting family to the core; it focuses on five families caught in the tortuous web of never knowing the fate of their abducted children. Though Beth tries to stave off the torrent of buried emotions, she is left wondering if she and her family are fated to relive the past forever. The film earns tremendous acclaim, but just as the Cappadoras are about to celebrate the culmination of Vincent’s artistic success, what Beth fears the most occurs, and the Cappadoras are cast back into the past, revisiting the worst moment of their lives–with only hours to find the truth that can save a life. High in a rugged California mountain range, their rescue becomes a desperate struggle for survival. No Time to Wave Goodbye is Jacquelyn Mitchard at her best, a spellbinding novel about family loyalty, and love pushed to the limits of endurance.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-song-by-nicholas-sparks--65311832https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Song Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Scott Sowers, Pepper Binkley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 8, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 115 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of A Walk to Remember comes a moving tale of redemption and first love when a rebellious teenager decides to spend the summer with her estranged father in a North Carolina beach town.Seventeen year old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts . . . and heal them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59162Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Song Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Scott Sowers, Pepper Binkley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Song Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Scott Sowers, Pepper Binkley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 8, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 115 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of A Walk to Remember comes a moving tale of redemption and first love when a rebellious teenager decides to spend the summer with her estranged father in a North Carolina beach town.Seventeen year old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts . . . and heal them.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-language-of-moths-by-christopher-barzak--65311788https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Moths Author: Christopher Barzak Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 21 minutes Release date: September 2, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A boy’s family travels to the Allegheny Mountains in order for his entomologist father to find an undiscovered moth he remembers seeing there in his youth. Over the course of the summer, the boy’s sister, who suffers from autism, finds she can speak the language of various insects and creatures of nature, allowing her to understand the world around her for the first time in her life. And as the boy himself comes of age, he discovers that he speaks a different sort of language as well. As each person journeys closer to their true nature, tension is eased within the sometimes strained relationships of this unique family. A Nebula Award Finalist, Barzak’s novella combines realism and fantasy to explore how we each experience the world through our own inimitable language, creating distance even from those closest to us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59602Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Moths Author: Christopher Barzak Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 21 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Moths Author: Christopher Barzak Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 21 minutes Release date: September 2, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A boy’s family travels to the Allegheny Mountains in order for his entomologist father to find an undiscovered moth he remembers seeing there in his youth. Over the course of the summer, the boy’s sister, who suffers from autism, finds she can speak the language of various insects and creatures of nature, allowing her to understand the world around her for the first time in her life. And as the boy himself comes of age, he discovers that he speaks a different sort of language as well. As each person journeys closer to their true nature, tension is eased within the sometimes strained relationships of this unique family. A Nebula Award Finalist, Barzak’s novella combines realism and fantasy to explore how we each experience the world through our own inimitable language, creating distance even from those closest to us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/homer-langley-a-novel-by-e-l-doctorow--65311826https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homer & Langley: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Booklist Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers—wars, political movements, technological advances—and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Praise for Homer & Langley “Masterly.”—The New York Times Book Review  “Doctorow paints on a sweeping historical canvas, imagining the Collyer brothers as witness to the aspirations and transgressions of 20th century America; yet this book’s most powerfully moving moments are the quiet ones, when the brothers relish a breath of cool morning air, and each other’s tragically exclusive company.”— O: The Oprah Magazine “A stately, beautiful performance with great resonance . . . What makes this novel so striking is that it joins both blindness and insight, the sensual world and the world of the mind, to tell a story about the unfolding of modern American life that we have never heard in exactly this (austere and lovely) way before.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Wondrous . . . inspired . . . darkly visionary and surprisingly funny.” —The New York Review of Books “Cunningly panoramic . . . Doctorow has packed this tale with episodes of existential wonder that cpature the brothers in all their fascinating wackiness.”—Elle]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59218Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homer & Langley: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homer & Langley: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Booklist Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers—wars, political movements, technological advances—and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Praise for Homer & Langley “Masterly.”—The New York Times Book Review  “Doctorow paints on a sweeping historical canvas, imagining the Collyer brothers as witness to the aspirations and transgressions of 20th century America; yet this book’s most powerfully moving moments are the quiet ones, when the brothers relish a breath of cool morning air, and each other’s tragically exclusive company.”— O: The Oprah Magazine “A stately, beautiful performance with great resonance . . . What makes this novel so striking is that it joins both blindness and insight, the sensual world and the world of the mind, to tell a story about the unfolding of modern American life that we have never heard in exactly this (austere and lovely) way before.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Wondrous . . . inspired . . . darkly visionary and surprisingly funny.” —The New York Review of Books “Cunningly panoramic . . . Doctorow has packed this tale with episodes of existential wonder that cpature the brothers in all their fascinating wackiness.”—Elle]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-invisible-mountain-by-carolina-de-robertis--65311809https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Mountain Author: Carolina De Robertis Narrator: Christine Avila Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 25, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: On the first day of the millennium, a small town gathers to witness a miracle and unravel its portents for the century: the mysterious reappearance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a young woman in the capital city — Montevideo, brimming with growth and promise — Pajarita begins a lineage of fiercely independent women. Her daughter, Eva, survives a brutal childhood to pursue her dreams as a rebellious poet and along the hazardous precipices of erotic love. Eva’s daughter, Salomé, driven by an unrelenting idealism, commits clandestine acts that will end in tragedy as unrest sweeps Uruguay. But what saves them all is the fierce fortifying connection between mother and daughter that will bring them together to face the future. From Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a corner butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, the Firielli family traverses a changing South America and the uncharted terrain of their relationships with one another.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59433Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Mountain Author: Carolina De Robertis Narrator: Christine Avila Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Mountain Author: Carolina De Robertis Narrator: Christine Avila Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 25, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: On the first day of the millennium, a small town gathers to witness a miracle and unravel its portents for the century: the mysterious reappearance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a young woman in the capital city — Montevideo, brimming with growth and promise — Pajarita begins a lineage of fiercely independent women. Her daughter, Eva, survives a brutal childhood to pursue her dreams as a rebellious poet and along the hazardous precipices of erotic love. Eva’s daughter, Salomé, driven by an unrelenting idealism, commits clandestine acts that will end in tragedy as unrest sweeps Uruguay. But what saves them all is the fierce fortifying connection between mother and daughter that will bring them together to face the future. From Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a corner butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, the Firielli family traverses a changing South America and the uncharted terrain of their relationships with one another.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/baking-cakes-in-kigali-a-novel-by-gaile-parkin--65311808https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel Author: Gaile Parkin Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 18, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day Rwanda—introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungaraza—mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets—a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her. In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasions—cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.…A CIA agent’s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeter…a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling story…weary human rights workers…lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angel’s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits. In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is planned…a heartbreaking mystery—involving Angel’s own family—unravels…and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angel’s beautiful cakes…as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angel’s life—and the lives of those around her—in the most astonishing ways.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59214Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel Author: Gaile Parkin Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel Author: Gaile Parkin Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 18, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day Rwanda—introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungaraza—mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets—a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her. In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasions—cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.…A CIA agent’s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeter…a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling story…weary human rights workers…lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angel’s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits. In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is planned…a heartbreaking mystery—involving Angel’s own family—unravels…and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angel’s beautiful cakes…as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angel’s life—and the lives of those around her—in the most astonishing ways.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beach-music-a-novel-by-pat-conroy--65311831https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beach Music: A Novel Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Jonathan Marosz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 51 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 19 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths. Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary list of classics that his body of work has already become. PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59221Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beach Music: A Novel Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Jonathan Marosz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beach Music: A Novel Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Jonathan Marosz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 51 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 19 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths. Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary list of classics that his body of work has already become. PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-sweetness-to-the-soul-by-jane-kirkpatrick--65311822https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sweetness to the Soul Author: Jane Kirkpatrick Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of twelve faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer sixteen years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own. Filled with heart-warming insight and glimpses of real-life pain, A Sweetness to the Soul paints a brilliant picture of love that conquers all obstacles and offers a powerful testimony to the miracle of God's healing power.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59118Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sweetness to the Soul Author: Jane Kirkpatrick Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 48 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sweetness to the Soul Author: Jane Kirkpatrick Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of twelve faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer sixteen years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own. Filled with heart-warming insight and glimpses of real-life pain, A Sweetness to the Soul paints a brilliant picture of love that conquers all obstacles and offers a powerful testimony to the miracle of God's healing power.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/south-of-broad-by-pat-conroy--65311793https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: South of Broad Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini   Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina’s dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.   Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.   Praise for South of Broad   “Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.”—The Washington Post   “Conroy remains a magician of the page.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune   “A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   “A lovely, often thrilling story.”—The Dallas Morning News   “A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy’s fans.”—Associated Press]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59110Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: South of Broad Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: South of Broad Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini   Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina’s dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.   Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.   Praise for South of Broad   “Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.”—The Washington Post   “Conroy remains a magician of the page.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune   “A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   “A lovely, often thrilling story.”—The Dallas Morning News   “A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy’s fans.”—Associated Press]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sweeping-up-glass-a-novel-by-carolyn-wall--65311857https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweeping Up Glass: A Novel Author: Carolyn Wall Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family. Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain–and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s madness, building toward a fiery crescendo. Her daughter’s flight to California, leaving her to raise Will’m, her beloved grandson. And most of all, her town’s fear, for Olivia has real and dangerous enemies. Now this proud, lonely woman will face her mother and daughter, her neighbors and the wolf hunters of Big Foley Mountain. And when she does, she’ll ignite a conflict that will embroil an entire community–and change her own life in the most astonishing of ways.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58854Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweeping Up Glass: A Novel Author: Carolyn Wall Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweeping Up Glass: A Novel Author: Carolyn Wall Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family. Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain–and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s madness, building toward a fiery crescendo. Her daughter’s flight to California, leaving her to raise Will’m, her beloved grandson. And most of all, her town’s fear, for Olivia has real and dangerous enemies. Now this proud, lonely woman will face her mother and daughter, her neighbors and the wolf hunters of Big Foley Mountain. And when she does, she’ll ignite a conflict that will embroil an entire community–and change her own life in the most astonishing of ways.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-deep-blue-sea-for-beginners-by-luanne-rice--65311836https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries… A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love… A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together… New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin—and where they may be fulfilled at last…. Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately…. Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice’s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries… A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love… A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together… New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin—and where they may be fulfilled at last…. Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately…. Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice’s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-old-cape-magic-a-novel-by-richard-russo--65311772https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Old Cape Magic: A Novel Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth. Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that’s now thirty years old and has largely come true. He’d left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they’d moved into an old house full of character; and they’d started a family. Check, check and check. But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura’s, on the coast of Maine, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened? That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter’s new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Old Cape Magic: A Novel Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Old Cape Magic: A Novel Author: Richard Russo Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth. Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that’s now thirty years old and has largely come true. He’d left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they’d moved into an old house full of character; and they’d started a family. Check, check and check. But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura’s, on the coast of Maine, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened? That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter’s new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sharing-knife-vol-4-horizon-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold--65311848https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sharing Knife, Vol. 4: Horizon Series: #4 of The Sharing Knife Series Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a world where malices, remnants of ancient magic, can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets—and themselves—from the farmers they protect. So when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farm girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, marry, and defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the split between their peoples. As Dag’s abilities have grown, so has his concern about who—or what—he is becoming. At the end of a great river journey, he is offered an apprenticeship to a master groundsetter in a southern Lakewalker camp. But as his understanding of his powers deepens, so does his frustration with the camp’s rigid mores with respect to farmers. At last, he and Fawn decide to travel a very different road—and find that along it, their disparate but hopeful company increases. Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing, and the traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold every malice at bay forever. Yet for all the customs that the couple has challenged thus far, they will soon be confronted by a crisis exceeding their worst imaginings—one that threatens their Lakewalker and farmer followers alike. Now the pair must answer in earnest the question they’ve grappled with since they killed their first malice together: When the old traditions fail disastrously, can their untried new ways stand against their world’s deadliest foe?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59023Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sharing Knife, Vol. 4: Horizon Series: #4 of The Sharing Knife Series Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sharing Knife, Vol. 4: Horizon Series: #4 of The Sharing Knife Series Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a world where malices, remnants of ancient magic, can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets—and themselves—from the farmers they protect. So when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farm girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, marry, and defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the split between their peoples. As Dag’s abilities have grown, so has his concern about who—or what—he is becoming. At the end of a great river journey, he is offered an apprenticeship to a master groundsetter in a southern Lakewalker camp. But as his understanding of his powers deepens, so does his frustration with the camp’s rigid mores with respect to farmers. At last, he and Fawn decide to travel a very different road—and find that along it, their disparate but hopeful company increases. Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing, and the traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold every malice at bay forever. Yet for all the customs that the couple has challenged thus far, they will soon be confronted by a crisis exceeding their worst imaginings—one that threatens their Lakewalker and farmer followers alike. Now the pair must answer in earnest the question they’ve grappled with since they killed their first malice together: When the old traditions fail disastrously, can their untried new ways stand against their world’s deadliest foe?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-altars-everywhere-by-rebecca-wells--65311796https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Altars Everywhere Series: #2 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author’s gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved.”— Seattle Weekly The companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda—a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family—leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood joy and sorrow. Little Altars Everywhere is an insightful, piercing, and unflinching evocation of childhood, a loving tribute to the transformative power of faith, and a thoroughly fresh chronicle of a family that is as haunted as it is blessed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Altars Everywhere Series: #2 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Altars Everywhere Series: #2 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author’s gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved.”— Seattle Weekly The companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda—a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family—leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood joy and sorrow. Little Altars Everywhere is an insightful, piercing, and unflinching evocation of childhood, a loving tribute to the transformative power of faith, and a thoroughly fresh chronicle of a family that is as haunted as it is blessed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ya-yas-in-bloom-by-rebecca-wells--65311792https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ya-Yas in Bloom Series: #3 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.41 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars through sixty years of marriage, children, and hair-raising family secrets. When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Ya-Yas in Bloom shows us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through at a time when the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure. Performed by Judith Ivey]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ya-Yas in Bloom Series: #3 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ya-Yas in Bloom Series: #3 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.41 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars through sixty years of marriage, children, and hair-raising family secrets. When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Ya-Yas in Bloom shows us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through at a time when the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure. Performed by Judith Ivey]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-castaways-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65311791https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Castaways: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Katie Hale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "The perfect summer read" (Booklist) from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand: an intense tale of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of endless summer island life. With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret as they struggle to answer the question: What happened to Greg and Tess? The Castaways probes the boundaries of friendship and forgiveness as it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, and suspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island life that have made Elin Hilderbrand's novels beloved bestsellers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Castaways: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Katie Hale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Castaways: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Katie Hale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "The perfect summer read" (Booklist) from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand: an intense tale of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of endless summer island life. With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret as they struggle to answer the question: What happened to Greg and Tess? The Castaways probes the boundaries of friendship and forgiveness as it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, and suspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island life that have made Elin Hilderbrand's novels beloved bestsellers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-divine-secrets-of-the-ya-ya-sisterhood-by-rebecca-wells--65311775https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series: #1 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch The incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a classic of Southern women’s fiction to be read and reread over and over again. A poignant, funny, outrageous, and wise novel about a lifetime friendship between four Southern women, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood brilliantly explores the bonds of female friendship, the often-rocky relationship between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of humor and love, in a story as fresh and uplifting as when it was first published a decade and a half ago. If you haven’t yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series: #1 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series: #1 of The Ya-Ya Series Author: Rebecca Wells Narrator: Judith Ivey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 7, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch The incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a classic of Southern women’s fiction to be read and reread over and over again. A poignant, funny, outrageous, and wise novel about a lifetime friendship between four Southern women, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood brilliantly explores the bonds of female friendship, the often-rocky relationship between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of humor and love, in a story as fresh and uplifting as when it was first published a decade and a half ago. If you haven’t yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brothers-by-yu-hua--65311834https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Yu Hua Narrator: Louis Changchien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed novelist Yu Hua became the first Chinese author to win the distinguished James Joyce Foundation Award. Controversial in his own country for his biting satire, he creates insightful portraits of Chinese society. Step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang couldn't be more different. While Baldy is a girl-chasing teen, Song is quiet and studious. The two come of age in a vibrant Chinese culture struggling with constant change.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59387Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Yu Hua Narrator: Louis Changchien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Yu Hua Narrator: Louis Changchien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed novelist Yu Hua became the first Chinese author to win the distinguished James Joyce Foundation Award. Controversial in his own country for his biting satire, he creates insightful portraits of Chinese society. Step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang couldn't be more different. While Baldy is a girl-chasing teen, Song is quiet and studious. The two come of age in a vibrant Chinese culture struggling with constant change.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-story-sisters-a-novel-by-alice-hoffman--65311833https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story Sisters: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Nancy Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 2, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding coming of age novel about three sisters and the relationships and choices that shape their lives from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic   'This bewitching novel explores the bonds of sisterhood like a haunting modern fairy tale.'—Glamour Each of three sisters—Elv, Claire, and Meg—has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this luminous novel asks. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of sensual longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. It confirms Alice Hoffman’s reputation as 'a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled' (The Chicago Tribune).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58137Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story Sisters: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Nancy Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story Sisters: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Nancy Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 2, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding coming of age novel about three sisters and the relationships and choices that shape their lives from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic   'This bewitching novel explores the bonds of sisterhood like a haunting modern fairy tale.'—Glamour Each of three sisters—Elv, Claire, and Meg—has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this luminous novel asks. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of sensual longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. It confirms Alice Hoffman’s reputation as 'a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled' (The Chicago Tribune).]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shanghai-girls-a-novel-by-lisa-see--65311830https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shanghai Girls: A Novel Series: #1 of Shanghai Girls Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 26, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules. At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are: Shanghai girls. Praise for Shanghai Girls “A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.”—Booklist “A rich work . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.”—Denver Post]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58097Tue, 26 May 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shanghai Girls: A Novel Series: #1 of Shanghai Girls Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shanghai Girls: A Novel Series: #1 of Shanghai Girls Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 26, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules. At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are: Shanghai girls. Praise for Shanghai Girls “A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.”—Booklist “A rich work . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.”—Denver Post]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-is-short-but-wide-by-j-california-cooper--65311852https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life is Short but Wide Author: J. California Cooper Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so deftly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dreams. In the early twentieth century, Irene and Val fall in love in Wideland. While carving out a home for themselves, they also allow neighbors Bertha and Joseph to build a house and live on their land. The next generation brings two girls for Irene and Val, and a daughter for Bertha and Joseph. As the families cope with changing times and fortunes, and people are born and pass away, the characters learn the importance of living one's life boldly and squeezing out every possible moment of joy, while being held up by a strong foundation of love and the ultimate realization that whoever you are, and whatever you do, life is short, but it is also wide.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58127Tue, 05 May 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life is Short but Wide Author: J. California Cooper Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life is Short but Wide Author: J. California Cooper Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so deftly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dreams. In the early twentieth century, Irene and Val fall in love in Wideland. While carving out a home for themselves, they also allow neighbors Bertha and Joseph to build a house and live on their land. The next generation brings two girls for Irene and Val, and a daughter for Bertha and Joseph. As the families cope with changing times and fortunes, and people are born and pass away, the characters learn the importance of living one's life boldly and squeezing out every possible moment of joy, while being held up by a strong foundation of love and the ultimate realization that whoever you are, and whatever you do, life is short, but it is also wide.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-safe-a-novel-by-elizabeth-berg--65311800https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Safe: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen’s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Safe: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Safe: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen’s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-geometry-of-sisters-by-luanne-rice--65311804https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Geometry of Sisters Series: #1 of Newport, Rhode Island Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Jaclyn Gaines, Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 14, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What is one sister without the other? Is it even possible to imagine? New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters. Here in the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, an unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin…. After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach English at the academy. Behind her lies her life as the perfect Midwestern wife and mother, a life that seemed on the surface to be all she had ever wished for. That illusion vanished in a storm off Mackinac Island in the wake of an accident that engulfed Maura’s husband and her older daughter, Carrie. Now, with her son and younger daughter, she hopes to find a new beginning. Newport has never failed to infuse Maura with a sense of mystery and hope. But for fourteen-year-old Beck, the move is a painful upheaval from everything she has ever loved—especially her sister, Carrie. Ever since her sister disappeared, Beck has retreated into the world of mathematics, where principles are permanent, unlike so many other things in life. Without Carrie, Beck has lost half of herself—the half that would have fit in at the elite private school she and her brother, Travis, will now attend. The half that made things right. Still, Beck clings to the hope that her sister will return to them. Beck isn’t alone in her struggle to adjust. At sixteen, Travis is juggling a long-distance first love and an attraction to an expensive-looking girl with a wicked sparkle in her eye. And for Maura, ghosts linger here—an unresolved breach with her own beloved sister and a long-ago secret that may now have the power to set her free…. Set against the breathtaking beauty of the New England coast at its most dramatic, populated by a cast of indelible characters, The Geometry of Sisters is Luanne Rice at her most compelling, a dazzling world to which readers will want to return again and again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Geometry of Sisters Series: #1 of Newport, Rhode Island Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Jaclyn Gaines, Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Geometry of Sisters Series: #1 of Newport, Rhode Island Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Jaclyn Gaines, Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 14, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What is one sister without the other? Is it even possible to imagine? New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters. Here in the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, an unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin…. After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach English at the academy. Behind her lies her life as the perfect Midwestern wife and mother, a life that seemed on the surface to be all she had ever wished for. That illusion vanished in a storm off Mackinac Island in the wake of an accident that engulfed Maura’s husband and her older daughter, Carrie. Now, with her son and younger daughter, she hopes to find a new beginning. Newport has never failed to infuse Maura with a sense of mystery and hope. But for fourteen-year-old Beck, the move is a painful upheaval from everything she has ever loved—especially her sister, Carrie. Ever since her sister disappeared, Beck has retreated into the world of mathematics, where principles are permanent, unlike so many other things in life. Without Carrie, Beck has lost half of herself—the half that would have fit in at the elite private school she and her brother, Travis, will now attend. The half that made things right. Still, Beck clings to the hope that her sister will return to them. Beck isn’t alone in her struggle to adjust. At sixteen, Travis is juggling a long-distance first love and an attraction to an expensive-looking girl with a wicked sparkle in her eye. And for Maura, ghosts linger here—an unresolved breach with her own beloved sister and a long-ago secret that may now have the power to set her free…. Set against the breathtaking beauty of the New England coast at its most dramatic, populated by a cast of indelible characters, The Geometry of Sisters is Luanne Rice at her most compelling, a dazzling world to which readers will want to return again and again.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/honolulu-by-alan-brennert--65311817https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Honolulu Author: Alan Brennert Narrator: Ali Ahn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 13, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island. With characters as vivid and richly descriptive as the history of Hawaii itself, this novel is sure to enthrall listeners.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61370Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Honolulu Author: Alan Brennert Narrator: Ali Ahn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 13, 2009 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Honolulu Author: Alan Brennert Narrator: Ali Ahn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 13, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island. With characters as vivid and richly descriptive as the history of Hawaii itself, this novel is sure to enthrall listeners.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everyone-is-beautiful-a-novel-by-katherine-center--65311802https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone is Beautiful: A Novel Author: Katherine Center Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in the Northeast. She’s left behind family, friends, and a comfortable life–all so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead last–and when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance, it’s the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count since the day she said “I do,” Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. Lanie sets change in motion–joining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. In the end, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone is Beautiful: A Novel Author: Katherine Center Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone is Beautiful: A Novel Author: Katherine Center Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in the Northeast. She’s left behind family, friends, and a comfortable life–all so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead last–and when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance, it’s the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count since the day she said “I do,” Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. Lanie sets change in motion–joining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. In the end, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/while-my-sister-sleeps-by-barbara-delinsky--65311858https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While My Sister Sleeps Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Molly and Robin Snow are sisters, and like all sisters they share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. Their careers are flourishing–Molly is a horticulturist and Robin is a world-class runner–and they are in the prime of their lives. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, she couldn’t be more shocked. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never regain consciousness. As Robin’s parents and siblings struggle to cope, the complex nature of their relationship is put to the ultimate test. Molly has always lived in Robin’s shadow, and her feelings for her have run the gamut, from love to resentment and back. The last time they spoke, they argued. But now there is so much more at stake. Molly’s parents fold under the devastating circumstances, and her brother retreats into the cool reserve that is shattering his own family. It’s up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that destroy some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54603Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While My Sister Sleeps Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While My Sister Sleeps Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Molly and Robin Snow are sisters, and like all sisters they share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. Their careers are flourishing–Molly is a horticulturist and Robin is a world-class runner–and they are in the prime of their lives. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, she couldn’t be more shocked. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never regain consciousness. As Robin’s parents and siblings struggle to cope, the complex nature of their relationship is put to the ultimate test. Molly has always lived in Robin’s shadow, and her feelings for her have run the gamut, from love to resentment and back. The last time they spoke, they argued. But now there is so much more at stake. Molly’s parents fold under the devastating circumstances, and her brother retreats into the cool reserve that is shattering his own family. It’s up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that destroy some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rabbit-at-rest-by-john-updike--65311821https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit At Rest Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live.  “Brilliant...the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.”—The Washington Post Book World Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit At Rest Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit At Rest Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live.  “Brilliant...the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.”—The Washington Post Book World Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rabbit-is-rich-by-john-updike--65311823https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Is Rich Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.  The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last—until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Is Rich Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 3, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Is Rich Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.  The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last—until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-a-novel-by-jamie-ford--65311887https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel Author: Jamie Ford Narrator: Feodor Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 84 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 13 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country. Praise for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war—not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.”—Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants “A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and Juliet . . . The period detail [is] so revealing and so well rendered.”—The Seattle Times “A poignant story that transports the reader back in time . . . a satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.”—Deseret Morning News “A lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable . . . Ford does wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.”—The Oregonian]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54820Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel Author: Jamie Ford Narrator: Feodor Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel Author: Jamie Ford Narrator: Feodor Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 84 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 13 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country. Praise for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war—not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.”—Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants “A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and Juliet . . . The period detail [is] so revealing and so well rendered.”—The Seattle Times “A poignant story that transports the reader back in time . . . a satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.”—Deseret Morning News “A lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable . . . Ford does wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.”—The Oregonian]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rabbit-redux-by-john-updike--65311849https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Redux Series: #2 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "A triumph." NEWSDAY The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Redux Series: #2 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rabbit Redux Series: #2 of Rabbit Author: John Updike Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "A triumph." NEWSDAY The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/still-alice-by-lisa-genova--65311780https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Lisa Genova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 144 Ratings of Narrator: 3.76 of Total 51 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind... Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Lisa Genova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Narrator: Lisa Genova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 144 Ratings of Narrator: 3.76 of Total 51 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind... Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/children-of-god-a-novel-by-mary-doria-russell--65311846https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children of God: A Novel Series: #2 of The Sparrow Series Author: Mary Doria Russell Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54204Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children of God: A Novel Series: #2 of The Sparrow Series Author: Mary Doria Russell Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children of God: A Novel Series: #2 of The Sparrow Series Author: Mary Doria Russell Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crossroads-by-belva-plain--65311840https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossroads Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: No one explores the rich tapestry of the human heart as Belva Plain does. Her more than twenty New York Times bestsellers have captivated readers and garnered legions of devoted fans. Now Plain dazzles us once again with a new novel of rare eloquence and raw emotion…a powerful tale about the consequences of greed—and the acts of love and forgiveness that can heal the heart. Cassie Wright never saw it coming. As owner of Wright Glassworks, the foremost company in a thriving New England town, Cassie’s life was quiet, focused on her work and home…until a tragic accident turns her carefully ordered world upside down. For there is a surviving child to think about—and Cassie must take in one-year-old Gwen, who has no one else to care for her. As the years pass, Cassie will raise Gwen as her own, and a little girl who lost everything will flourish in a world of privilege and opportunity. Enter Jewel Fairbanks. Beautiful and conniving, Jewel will touch the lives of both Cassie and Gwen in powerful ways. From the moment they meet, Jewel envies Gwen, who seems to have everything Jewel wants. The two couldn’t be more different, but their lives will soon become inextricably intertwined. Both will marry—but to profoundly different men. For Gwen, it is honest, hardworking Stan who steals her heart; Jewel will set her sights on Jeff, a shrewd businessman who owns the company where Stan works. But when Stan makes a shocking discovery on the job, relationships begin to shift and change...and soon a tangled drama of greed, jealousy, and betrayal will encircle both couples, as a chain reaction of unexpected events changes four lives forever—in ways they never could have foreseen….]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossroads Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossroads Author: Belva Plain Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: No one explores the rich tapestry of the human heart as Belva Plain does. Her more than twenty New York Times bestsellers have captivated readers and garnered legions of devoted fans. Now Plain dazzles us once again with a new novel of rare eloquence and raw emotion…a powerful tale about the consequences of greed—and the acts of love and forgiveness that can heal the heart. Cassie Wright never saw it coming. As owner of Wright Glassworks, the foremost company in a thriving New England town, Cassie’s life was quiet, focused on her work and home…until a tragic accident turns her carefully ordered world upside down. For there is a surviving child to think about—and Cassie must take in one-year-old Gwen, who has no one else to care for her. As the years pass, Cassie will raise Gwen as her own, and a little girl who lost everything will flourish in a world of privilege and opportunity. Enter Jewel Fairbanks. Beautiful and conniving, Jewel will touch the lives of both Cassie and Gwen in powerful ways. From the moment they meet, Jewel envies Gwen, who seems to have everything Jewel wants. The two couldn’t be more different, but their lives will soon become inextricably intertwined. Both will marry—but to profoundly different men. For Gwen, it is honest, hardworking Stan who steals her heart; Jewel will set her sights on Jeff, a shrewd businessman who owns the company where Stan works. But when Stan makes a shocking discovery on the job, relationships begin to shift and change...and soon a tangled drama of greed, jealousy, and betrayal will encircle both couples, as a chain reaction of unexpected events changes four lives forever—in ways they never could have foreseen….]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/revolutionary-road-by-richard-yates--65311816https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Road Author: Richard Yates Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this 'moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. 'The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation.' —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54321Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Road Author: Richard Yates Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Road Author: Richard Yates Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this 'moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. 'The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation.' —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hour-i-first-believed-by-wally-lamb--65311812https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hour I First Believed Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers five generations' worth of diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in his family's house. As unimaginable secrets emerge, Caelum grapples with the past and struggles to fashion a future from the ashes of tragedy. His quest for meaning is at once mythic and contemporary, personal and quintessentially American.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hour I First Believed Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hour I First Believed Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers five generations' worth of diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in his family's house. As unimaginable secrets emerge, Caelum grapples with the past and struggles to fashion a future from the ashes of tragedy. His quest for meaning is at once mythic and contemporary, personal and quintessentially American.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-witches-of-eastwick-a-novel-by-john-updike--65311829https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel Author: John Updike Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 21, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel Author: John Updike Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel Author: John Updike Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 21, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/god-don-t-like-ugly-by-mary-monroe--65311799https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Don't Like Ugly Series: #1 of GOD Author: Mary Monroe Narrator: Denise Burse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 10, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.46 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.3 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The riveting first book in the acclaimed God series sweeps readers back to the streets, porches, and parlors of civil rights–era Ohio to bring to life the beginning of an enduring friendship between two girls from opposite sides of the track …Annette Goode is a shy, awkward, overweight child with a terrible secret. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food. But the summer she turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend.Dazzling, generous Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not—gorgeous, slim, and worldly—welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father; her lovely, fragile “Muh’Dear'; her brooding, dangerous brother Jock; and her colorful white relatives—half-crazy Uncle Johnny, sultry Aunt Lola, and scary, surly Granny Goose.With Rhoda’s help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms as a woman. But when her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annette’s world will never be the same.'Reminiscent of Zora Neale Hurston.'—Publishers Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59154Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Don't Like Ugly Series: #1 of GOD Author: Mary Monroe Narrator: Denise Burse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Don't Like Ugly Series: #1 of GOD Author: Mary Monroe Narrator: Denise Burse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 10, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.46 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.3 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The riveting first book in the acclaimed God series sweeps readers back to the streets, porches, and parlors of civil rights–era Ohio to bring to life the beginning of an enduring friendship between two girls from opposite sides of the track …Annette Goode is a shy, awkward, overweight child with a terrible secret. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food. But the summer she turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend.Dazzling, generous Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not—gorgeous, slim, and worldly—welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father; her lovely, fragile “Muh’Dear'; her brooding, dangerous brother Jock; and her colorful white relatives—half-crazy Uncle Johnny, sultry Aunt Lola, and scary, surly Granny Goose.With Rhoda’s help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms as a woman. But when her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annette’s world will never be the same.'Reminiscent of Zora Neale Hurston.'—Publishers Weekly]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-a-novel-by-richard-paul-evans--65311825https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Originally titled Grace, this award-winning novel gets a brand-new look in this beautiful repackage. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Mistletoe Promise comes a novel filled with hope and redemption about two teens who turn to each other to find trust and love. If only I could stay with you forever. I would. Eric is having a hard time adjusting to his family’s move from California to Utah. Then he meets Grace—his classmate and a runaway—dumpster diving behind the burger joint where he works. Eric decides the only thing to do is to hide Grace in the clubhouse in his backyard. With the adults concerned about the looming Cuban Missile Crisis and his father recovering from an immune disorder, Eric grows closer to Grace but can their new relationship survive the harsh realities of life? In this poignant, sensitive, and realistic narrative, Richard Paul Evans shares Grace’s heartbreaking predicament and Eric’s realization that everything is not as simple as it might appear.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53704Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Originally titled Grace, this award-winning novel gets a brand-new look in this beautiful repackage. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Mistletoe Promise comes a novel filled with hope and redemption about two teens who turn to each other to find trust and love. If only I could stay with you forever. I would. Eric is having a hard time adjusting to his family’s move from California to Utah. Then he meets Grace—his classmate and a runaway—dumpster diving behind the burger joint where he works. Eric decides the only thing to do is to hide Grace in the clubhouse in his backyard. With the adults concerned about the looming Cuban Missile Crisis and his father recovering from an immune disorder, Eric grows closer to Grace but can their new relationship survive the harsh realities of life? In this poignant, sensitive, and realistic narrative, Richard Paul Evans shares Grace’s heartbreaking predicament and Eric’s realization that everything is not as simple as it might appear.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-will-there-be-good-news-a-novel-by-kate-atkinson--65311814https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel Series: #3 of Jackson Brodie Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 24, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The third installment in Kate Atkinson's wildly beloved series of Jackson Brodie Mysteries: a complex tale of murder, coincidence, and connected lives. On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency... These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls 'an absolute must-read.' 'As a reader, I was charmed. As a novelist, I was staggered by Kate Atkinson's narrative wizardry.' -- Stephen King]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53964Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel Series: #3 of Jackson Brodie Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel Series: #3 of Jackson Brodie Author: Kate Atkinson Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 24, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The third installment in Kate Atkinson's wildly beloved series of Jackson Brodie Mysteries: a complex tale of murder, coincidence, and connected lives. On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency... These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls 'an absolute must-read.' 'As a reader, I was charmed. As a novelist, I was staggered by Kate Atkinson's narrative wizardry.' -- Stephen King]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-letters-a-novel-by-luanne-rice--65311818https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Letters: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Joseph Monninger, Bruce Turk, Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 23, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Is there any mystery greater than those we love the most? In this remarkable collaboration, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you’ll forget it’s fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a family before, and after, the moment that changed the course of two people’s journey forever. Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they’ve never before voiced, as they recall their marriage—its magic moments and its challenges—and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place. As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother’s heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again….]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Letters: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Joseph Monninger, Bruce Turk, Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Letters: A Novel Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Joseph Monninger, Bruce Turk, Donna Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 23, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Is there any mystery greater than those we love the most? In this remarkable collaboration, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you’ll forget it’s fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a family before, and after, the moment that changed the course of two people’s journey forever. Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they’ve never before voiced, as they recall their marriage—its magic moments and its challenges—and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place. As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother’s heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again….]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-heretic-s-daughter-a-novel-by-kathleen-kent--65311819https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel Author: Kathleen Kent Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Salem, 1752. Sarah Carrier Chapman, weak with infirmity, writes a letter to her granddaughter that reveals the secret she has closely guarded for six decades: how she survived the Salem Witch Trials when her mother did not. Sarah's story begins more than a year before the trials, when she and her family arrive in a New England community already gripped by superstition and fear. As they witness neighbor pitted against neighbor, friend against friend, the hysteria escalates -- until more than two hundred men, women, and children have been swept into prison. Among them is Sarah's mother, Martha Carrier. In an attempt to protect her children, Martha asks Sarah to commit an act of heresy -- a lie that will most surely condemn Martha even as it will save her daughter. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53261Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel Author: Kathleen Kent Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel Author: Kathleen Kent Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Salem, 1752. Sarah Carrier Chapman, weak with infirmity, writes a letter to her granddaughter that reveals the secret she has closely guarded for six decades: how she survived the Salem Witch Trials when her mother did not. Sarah's story begins more than a year before the trials, when she and her family arrive in a New England community already gripped by superstition and fear. As they witness neighbor pitted against neighbor, friend against friend, the hysteria escalates -- until more than two hundred men, women, and children have been swept into prison. Among them is Sarah's mother, Martha Carrier. In an attempt to protect her children, Martha asks Sarah to commit an act of heresy -- a lie that will most surely condemn Martha even as it will save her daughter. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-kiss-a-novel-by-luanne-rice--65311835https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kiss: A Novel Series: #6 of Hubbard's Point Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling with a heartbreaking mystery, and of a woman rebuilding her world and reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago. A face on a poster, a name in the news, an inexplicable tragedy. A promising young man goes out one warm summer evening and is found dead—murdered—less than twenty-four hours later. No motive. No clues. No answers. Most people reflect briefly on the disturbing headlines, perhaps say a silent prayer of safely removed sympathy, and go on with their lives. But what if the young man was your son? Or your true love? Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth—Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson. Now Gavin’s boat, the Squire Toby, sits anchored in the harbor within sight of the window of the woman he once loved, still loves, and will always love. Sheridan, too, had once fervently believed in the miraculous power of love and healing, forgiveness, connection, and reconnection. But that faith died along with her son…. Unfolding among the Hubbard’s Point people and places that fans have come to treasure, and replete with feeling and mystery, Last Kiss weighs the power of the past to heal as well as wound, in a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption that no reader will ever forget.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kiss: A Novel Series: #6 of Hubbard's Point Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Kiss: A Novel Series: #6 of Hubbard's Point Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling with a heartbreaking mystery, and of a woman rebuilding her world and reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago. A face on a poster, a name in the news, an inexplicable tragedy. A promising young man goes out one warm summer evening and is found dead—murdered—less than twenty-four hours later. No motive. No clues. No answers. Most people reflect briefly on the disturbing headlines, perhaps say a silent prayer of safely removed sympathy, and go on with their lives. But what if the young man was your son? Or your true love? Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth—Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson. Now Gavin’s boat, the Squire Toby, sits anchored in the harbor within sight of the window of the woman he once loved, still loves, and will always love. Sheridan, too, had once fervently believed in the miraculous power of love and healing, forgiveness, connection, and reconnection. But that faith died along with her son…. Unfolding among the Hubbard’s Point people and places that fans have come to treasure, and replete with feeling and mystery, Last Kiss weighs the power of the past to heal as well as wound, in a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption that no reader will ever forget.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-summer-affair-a-novel-by-elin-hilderbrand--65311861https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Summer Affair: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The perfect wife and mother finds the perfect temptation in this "perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun, and scandal" (Kirkus Reviews). Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it all—and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist. So when she agrees to chair the committee for Nantucket's social event of the year, she knows she can handle it. Claire can handle anything. But when planning the gala propels her into the orbit of billionaire Lock Dixon, unexpected sparks begin to fly. Lock insists on working closely with Claire—often over a bottle of wine—and before long she can't ignore the subtle touches and lingering looks. To her surprise, she can't ignore how they make her feel, either. Claire finds the gala, her life, and herself spinning out of control. A Summer Affair captures the love, loss, and limbo of an illicit romance and unchecked passion as it takes us on a brave and breathless journey into the heart of one modern woman. "Think you know where this is going? Think again. Hilderbrand is way too smart to give away the whole story in her title." —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Summer Affair: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Summer Affair: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Isabel Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The perfect wife and mother finds the perfect temptation in this "perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun, and scandal" (Kirkus Reviews). Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it all—and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist. So when she agrees to chair the committee for Nantucket's social event of the year, she knows she can handle it. Claire can handle anything. But when planning the gala propels her into the orbit of billionaire Lock Dixon, unexpected sparks begin to fly. Lock insists on working closely with Claire—often over a bottle of wine—and before long she can't ignore the subtle touches and lingering looks. To her surprise, she can't ignore how they make her feel, either. Claire finds the gala, her life, and herself spinning out of control. A Summer Affair captures the love, loss, and limbo of an illicit romance and unchecked passion as it takes us on a brave and breathless journey into the heart of one modern woman. "Think you know where this is going? Think again. Hilderbrand is way too smart to give away the whole story in her title." —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/made-in-the-u-s-a-by-billie-letts--65311828https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in the U.S.A. Author: Billie Letts Narrator: Cassandra Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 19, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind. Made in the U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in the U.S.A. Author: Billie Letts Narrator: Cassandra Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 19, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in the U.S.A. Author: Billie Letts Narrator: Cassandra Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 19, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind. Made in the U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/outtakes-from-a-marriage-a-novel-by-ann-leary--65311870https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel Author: Ann Leary Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A sparkling debut novel...a bittersweet tale about love, marriage, and the perils of fame.' —People Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’s finally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love. Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joe’s phone—a message left by a woman who is clearly more than a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively checking Joe’s messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront him. Julia’s search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a “nothing,” as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. But after Joe won her heart, she settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations. Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her son’s preschool each day. A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia, the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet. 'How does a free spirit turned wife and mother cope with her actor husband's infidelity?...With tears, irreverent humor and, ultimately, a reaffirmed sense of self...A witty take on marital survival in Manhattan—with heart.' —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel Author: Ann Leary Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel Author: Ann Leary Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A sparkling debut novel...a bittersweet tale about love, marriage, and the perils of fame.' —People Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’s finally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love. Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joe’s phone—a message left by a woman who is clearly more than a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively checking Joe’s messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront him. Julia’s search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a “nothing,” as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. But after Joe won her heart, she settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations. Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her son’s preschool each day. A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia, the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet. 'How does a free spirit turned wife and mother cope with her actor husband's infidelity?...With tears, irreverent humor and, ultimately, a reaffirmed sense of self...A witty take on marital survival in Manhattan—with heart.' —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-we-ever-wanted-was-everything-by-janelle-brown--65311940https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52602Tue, 27 May 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lady-elizabeth-a-novel-by-alison-weir--65311866https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel Series: #1 of Elizabeth I Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen. Before she is three, Elizabeth learns of the tragic fate that has befallen her mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that she herself has been declared illegitimate, an injustice that will haunt her all her life. What comes next is a succession of stepmothers, bringing with them glimpses of love, fleeting security, tempestuous conflict, and tragedy. The death of her father puts the teenage Elizabeth in greater peril, leaving her at the mercy of ambitious and unscrupulous men. Like her mother two decades earlier, she is imprisoned in the Tower of London–and fears she will also meet her mother’s grisly end. Power-driven politics, private scandal and public gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, “Bloody” Queen Mary, all cement Elizabeth’s resolve in matters of statecraft and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time–whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52568Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel Series: #1 of Elizabeth I Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel Series: #1 of Elizabeth I Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen. Before she is three, Elizabeth learns of the tragic fate that has befallen her mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that she herself has been declared illegitimate, an injustice that will haunt her all her life. What comes next is a succession of stepmothers, bringing with them glimpses of love, fleeting security, tempestuous conflict, and tragedy. The death of her father puts the teenage Elizabeth in greater peril, leaving her at the mercy of ambitious and unscrupulous men. Like her mother two decades earlier, she is imprisoned in the Tower of London–and fears she will also meet her mother’s grisly end. Power-driven politics, private scandal and public gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, “Bloody” Queen Mary, all cement Elizabeth’s resolve in matters of statecraft and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time–whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/so-brave-young-and-handsome-by-leif-enger--65311874https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Brave, Young and Handsome Author: Leif Enger Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor–a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him. In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself. Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but the guilt he harbors for abandoning his wife, Blue, over two decades ago, has finally lured him from hiding. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Glendon aims to travel back into his past–heading to California to seek Blue’s forgiveness. Beguiled and inspired, Monte soon finds himself leaving behind his own family to embark for the unruly West with his fugitive guide–a journey that will test the depth of his loyalties, the inviolability of his morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee from the relentless Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton who’s been hunting Glendon for years, Monte falls ever further from his family and the law, to be tempered by a fiery adventure from which he may never get home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52561Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Brave, Young and Handsome Author: Leif Enger Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 22, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Brave, Young and Handsome Author: Leif Enger Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor–a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him. In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself. Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but the guilt he harbors for abandoning his wife, Blue, over two decades ago, has finally lured him from hiding. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Glendon aims to travel back into his past–heading to California to seek Blue’s forgiveness. Beguiled and inspired, Monte soon finds himself leaving behind his own family to embark for the unruly West with his fugitive guide–a journey that will test the depth of his loyalties, the inviolability of his morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee from the relentless Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton who’s been hunting Glendon for years, Monte falls ever further from his family and the law, to be tempered by a fiery adventure from which he may never get home.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unaccustomed-earth-stories-by-jhumpa-lahiri--65311918https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Narrator: Ajay Naidu, Sarita Choudhury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.   In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories–a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate–we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50988Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Narrator: Ajay Naidu, Sarita Choudhury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Narrator: Ajay Naidu, Sarita Choudhury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.   In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories–a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate–we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/belong-to-me-a-novel-by-marisa-de-los-santos--65311881https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belong to Me: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Marisa de los Santos’s Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that’s also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt.” —Harlan Coben   “Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving.” —Boston Globe The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to “belong” to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection—beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women’s fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart—and the ideal companion to de los Santos’s previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belong to Me: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belong to Me: A Novel Author: Marisa De los Santos Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Marisa de los Santos’s Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that’s also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt.” —Harlan Coben   “Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving.” —Boston Globe The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to “belong” to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection—beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women’s fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart—and the ideal companion to de los Santos’s previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gardens-of-water-a-novel-by-alan-drew--65311879https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gardens of Water: A Novel Author: Alan Drew Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 12, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew’s stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families–one Kurdish, one American–and the sacrifice and love that bind them together. In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old son’s coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, İrem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, there was no such festive observance–only the wrapping of her head in a dark scarf and strict rules that keep her hidden away from boys and her friends. But even before the night of the celebration, İrem has started to change, to the dismay of her Kurdish father. What Sinan doesn’t know is that much of her transformation is due to her secret relationship with their neighbor, Dylan, the seventeen-year-old American son of expatriate teachers. İrem sees Dylan as the gateway to a new life, one that will free her from the confines of conservative Islam. Yet the young man’s presence and Sinan’s growing awareness of their relationship affirms Sinan’s wish to move his family to the safety of his old village, a place where his children would be sheltered from the cosmopolitan temptations of Istanbul, and where, as the civil war in the south wanes, he hopes to raise his children in the Kurdish tradition. But when a massive earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the Basioglu family is faced with greater challenges. Losing everything, they are forced to forage for themselves, living as refugees in their own country. And their survival becomes dependent on their American neighbors, to whom they are unnervingly indebted. As love develops between İrem and Dylan, Sinan makes a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that push him toward a betrayal that will change everyone’s lives forever. The deep bonds among father, son, and daughter; the tension between honoring tradition and embracing personal freedom; the conflict between cultures and faiths; the regrets of age and the passions of youth–these are the timeless themes Alan Drew weaves into a brilliant fiction debut.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52369Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gardens of Water: A Novel Author: Alan Drew Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gardens of Water: A Novel Author: Alan Drew Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 12, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew’s stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families–one Kurdish, one American–and the sacrifice and love that bind them together. In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old son’s coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, İrem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, there was no such festive observance–only the wrapping of her head in a dark scarf and strict rules that keep her hidden away from boys and her friends. But even before the night of the celebration, İrem has started to change, to the dismay of her Kurdish father. What Sinan doesn’t know is that much of her transformation is due to her secret relationship with their neighbor, Dylan, the seventeen-year-old American son of expatriate teachers. İrem sees Dylan as the gateway to a new life, one that will free her from the confines of conservative Islam. Yet the young man’s presence and Sinan’s growing awareness of their relationship affirms Sinan’s wish to move his family to the safety of his old village, a place where his children would be sheltered from the cosmopolitan temptations of Istanbul, and where, as the civil war in the south wanes, he hopes to raise his children in the Kurdish tradition. But when a massive earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the Basioglu family is faced with greater challenges. Losing everything, they are forced to forage for themselves, living as refugees in their own country. And their survival becomes dependent on their American neighbors, to whom they are unnervingly indebted. As love develops between İrem and Dylan, Sinan makes a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that push him toward a betrayal that will change everyone’s lives forever. The deep bonds among father, son, and daughter; the tension between honoring tradition and embracing personal freedom; the conflict between cultures and faiths; the regrets of age and the passions of youth–these are the timeless themes Alan Drew weaves into a brilliant fiction debut.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/light-of-the-moon-by-luanne-rice--65311905https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light of the Moon Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports listeners across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Spurred by her mother’s dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain.    American-born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter, who now fears the horses she once loved. Within their bittersweet private orbit, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn’t known she had lost. And here she will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the legendary slave-saint Susannah seeks and in the miracles she is said to still perform. Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light of the Moon Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light of the Moon Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports listeners across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Spurred by her mother’s dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain.    American-born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter, who now fears the horses she once loved. Within their bittersweet private orbit, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn’t known she had lost. And here she will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the legendary slave-saint Susannah seeks and in the miracles she is said to still perform. Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-opposite-of-love-by-julie-buxbaum--65311878https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite of Love Author: Julie Buxbaum Narrator: Emily Janice Card Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath her sense of fun, her bravado, and her independent exterior, Emily knows that her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her.   As the holiday season looms and Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel: she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her Grandpa Jack, a charming, feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about in the world, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and underneath it all, fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’t last forever. How this brave, original young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite of Love Author: Julie Buxbaum Narrator: Emily Janice Card Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite of Love Author: Julie Buxbaum Narrator: Emily Janice Card Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath her sense of fun, her bravado, and her independent exterior, Emily knows that her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her.   As the holiday season looms and Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel: she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her Grandpa Jack, a charming, feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about in the world, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and underneath it all, fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’t last forever. How this brave, original young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beautiful-children-a-novel-by-charles-bock--65311877https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Children: A Novel Author: Charles Bock Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book   “One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost every page. . . . [Charles Bock] knows how to tug at your heart, and he knows how to make you laugh out loud, often on the same page, sometimes in the same sentence.”—Newsweek One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what’s become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell’s vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. The people of Beautiful Children are “urban nomads,” each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, every one of them searching for salvation and barreling toward destruction, weaving their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance. In this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humor to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption heralding the arrival of a major new writer. Praise for Beautiful Children   “Exceptional . . . This novel deserves to be read more than once because of the extraordinary importance of its subject matter.”—The Washington Post Book World   “Magnificent . . . a hugely ambitious novel that succeeds . . . Beautiful Children manages to feel completely of its moment while remaining unaffected by literary trends. . . . Charles Bock is the real thing.”—The New Republic   “A wildly satisfying and disturbing literary journey, led by an author of blazing talent.”—The Dallas Morning News   “Wholly original—dirty, fast, and hypnotic. The sentences flicker and skip and whirl.”—Esquire   “An anxious, angry, honest first novel filled with compassion and clarity . . . The language has a rhythm wholly its own—at moments it is stunning, near genius.”—A. M. Homes   “From start to finish, Bock never stops tantalizing the reader.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “Rich and compelling . . . captures the hallucinogenic setting like a fever dream.”—Los Angeles Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52385Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Children: A Novel Author: Charles Bock Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Children: A Novel Author: Charles Bock Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book   “One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost every page. . . . [Charles Bock] knows how to tug at your heart, and he knows how to make you laugh out loud, often on the same page, sometimes in the same sentence.”—Newsweek One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what’s become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell’s vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. The people of Beautiful Children are “urban nomads,” each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, every one of them searching for salvation and barreling toward destruction, weaving their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance. In this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humor to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption heralding the arrival of a major new writer. Praise for Beautiful Children   “Exceptional . . . This novel deserves to be read more than once because of the extraordinary importance of its subject matter.”—The Washington Post Book World   “Magnificent . . . a hugely ambitious novel that succeeds . . . Beautiful Children manages to feel completely of its moment while remaining unaffected by literary trends. . . . Charles Bock is the real thing.”—The New Republic   “A wildly satisfying and disturbing literary journey, led by an author of blazing talent.”—The Dallas Morning News   “Wholly original—dirty, fast, and hypnotic. The sentences flicker and skip and whirl.”—Esquire   “An anxious, angry, honest first novel filled with compassion and clarity . . . The language has a rhythm wholly its own—at moments it is stunning, near genius.”—A. M. Homes   “From start to finish, Bock never stops tantalizing the reader.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “Rich and compelling . . . captures the hallucinogenic setting like a fever dream.”—Los Angeles Times]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-between-us-by-barbara-delinsky--65311843https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Between Us Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nothing will break this mother-daughter bond. Not even the truth. Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter. The Secret Between Us is an unforgettable story about making bad choices for the right reasons and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has delivered a riveting study of family and a superbly crafted novel, perfectly targeted to fans of provocative fiction. “Delinsky delves deeper into the human heart and spirit with each new novel.”–Cincinnati Enquirer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Between Us Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Between Us Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nothing will break this mother-daughter bond. Not even the truth. Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter. The Secret Between Us is an unforgettable story about making bad choices for the right reasons and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has delivered a riveting study of family and a superbly crafted novel, perfectly targeted to fans of provocative fiction. “Delinsky delves deeper into the human heart and spirit with each new novel.”–Cincinnati Enquirer]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-senator-s-wife-by-sue-miller--65311882https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senator's Wife Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia’s husband’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved–the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of style–fused with an utterly engrossing story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senator's Wife Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senator's Wife Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia’s husband’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved–the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of style–fused with an utterly engrossing story.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-living-by-annie-dillard--65311909https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Living Author: Annie Dillard Narrator: Laurence Luckinbill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 23, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go.”  — San Francisco Chronicle This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of pioneer life navigated by European settlers and Lummi natives in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. The Living is a tale full of gold minors, friendly railroad speculators, doe-eyed sweethearts, shifty card players, and 19th century adventures that will stay with you long after you close the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49410Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Living Author: Annie Dillard Narrator: Laurence Luckinbill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 23, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Living Author: Annie Dillard Narrator: Laurence Luckinbill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 23, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go.”  — San Francisco Chronicle This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of pioneer life navigated by European settlers and Lummi natives in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. The Living is a tale full of gold minors, friendly railroad speculators, doe-eyed sweethearts, shifty card players, and 19th century adventures that will stay with you long after you close the book.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-almost-moon-by-alice-sebold--65311847https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Almost Moon Author: Alice Sebold Narrator: Joan Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 16, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.91 of Total 32 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49110Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Almost Moon Author: Alice Sebold Narrator: Joan Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 16, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Almost Moon Author: Alice Sebold Narrator: Joan Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 16, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.91 of Total 32 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-gift-by-richard-paul-evans--65311908https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gift Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 9, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box and Finding Noel from New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans. Sure to be a classic, this new tale brings to life the joy of the season and demonstrates the redemptive power of love: there is no hurt so great that love cannot heal it. Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a cancelled flight, and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son would show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles. From the beloved author of the international bestseller The Christmas Box comes another timeless story of faith, hope, and healing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49124Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gift Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 9, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gift Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 9, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box and Finding Noel from New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans. Sure to be a classic, this new tale brings to life the joy of the season and demonstrates the redemptive power of love: there is no hurt so great that love cannot heal it. Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a cancelled flight, and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son would show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles. From the beloved author of the international bestseller The Christmas Box comes another timeless story of faith, hope, and healing.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-choice-by-nicholas-sparks--65311920https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 24, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 165 Ratings of Narrator: 4.18 of Total 28 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Opposites attract in this moving #1 New York Times bestseller about love lost and found between a medical student and the man who captures her heart. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48932Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 24, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 24, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 165 Ratings of Narrator: 4.18 of Total 28 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Opposites attract in this moving #1 New York Times bestseller about love lost and found between a medical student and the man who captures her heart. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-view-from-mount-joy-by-lorna-landvik--65311889https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The View from Mount Joy Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: THE VIEW FROM MOUNT JOY, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about the unexpected pleasures found in living a good life. When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson moves to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader. Joe balances Kristi’s lustful manipulation with the down-to-earth companionship of his smart, platonic girlfriend, Darva. But it is Kristi who will prove to be a temptation throughout Joe’s life. Years later, having once dreamed of a career in pro hockey or as a globetrotting journalist, Joe can’t believe that life has deposited him in the aisles of Haugland Foods. But he soon learns that being a grocer is like being the mayor of a small town. For Joe, everyday life is its own roller-coaster ride, and all he wants to do is hold on tight. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe’s is tame–or at least that’s how it appears. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the view of the world is breathtaking, if only they’ll open their eyes to all there is to see.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The View from Mount Joy Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The View from Mount Joy Author: Lorna Landvik Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: THE VIEW FROM MOUNT JOY, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about the unexpected pleasures found in living a good life. When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson moves to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader. Joe balances Kristi’s lustful manipulation with the down-to-earth companionship of his smart, platonic girlfriend, Darva. But it is Kristi who will prove to be a temptation throughout Joe’s life. Years later, having once dreamed of a career in pro hockey or as a globetrotting journalist, Joe can’t believe that life has deposited him in the aisles of Haugland Foods. But he soon learns that being a grocer is like being the mayor of a small town. For Joe, everyday life is its own roller-coaster ride, and all he wants to do is hold on tight. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe’s is tame–or at least that’s how it appears. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the view of the world is breathtaking, if only they’ll open their eyes to all there is to see.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-guardians-a-novel-by-ana-castillo--65311928https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guardians: A Novel Author: Ana Castillo Narrator: Ana Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 7, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From American Book Award—winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo’s father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel’s gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo’s gangbanger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Between the ruthless “coyotes” who exploit Mexicans while smuggling them to America and the border officials who are out to arrest and deport the illegal immigrants, looming threat is a constant companion on the journey. Ana Castillo brilliantly evokes the beautiful, stark desert landscape and creates vivid characters with strong voices and resilient hearts. The Guardians serves as a remarkable testament to enduring faith, family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48994Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guardians: A Novel Author: Ana Castillo Narrator: Ana Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 7, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guardians: A Novel Author: Ana Castillo Narrator: Ana Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 7, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From American Book Award—winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo’s father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel’s gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo’s gangbanger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Between the ruthless “coyotes” who exploit Mexicans while smuggling them to America and the border officials who are out to arrest and deport the illegal immigrants, looming threat is a constant companion on the journey. Ana Castillo brilliantly evokes the beautiful, stark desert landscape and creates vivid characters with strong voices and resilient hearts. The Guardians serves as a remarkable testament to enduring faith, family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-matters-most-by-luanne-rice--65311917https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Matters Most Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice brings back two of her most beloved characters to tell of two undying love affairs. . . . Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For Tom, Bernadette’s choice meant giving up his fortune and taking the job as caretaker at Star of the Sea, where he could be close to the woman he could no longer have but never stopped loving. And somewhere in Dublin a young man named Seamus Sullivan is also on a search, dreaming of being reunited with his own first love, the only “family” he’s ever known. They’d been inseparable growing up together at the orphanage, until Kathleen Murphy’s parents claimed her and she vanished to America. Now that very girl, grown to womanhood, works as a maid and waits for the miracle that will bring back the only boy she’s ever loved. That miracle is at hand–for life’s greatest rewards are reached only by those who dare to risk everything . . . for what matters most.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47013Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Matters Most Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Matters Most Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice brings back two of her most beloved characters to tell of two undying love affairs. . . . Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For Tom, Bernadette’s choice meant giving up his fortune and taking the job as caretaker at Star of the Sea, where he could be close to the woman he could no longer have but never stopped loving. And somewhere in Dublin a young man named Seamus Sullivan is also on a search, dreaming of being reunited with his own first love, the only “family” he’s ever known. They’d been inseparable growing up together at the orphanage, until Kathleen Murphy’s parents claimed her and she vanished to America. Now that very girl, grown to womanhood, works as a maid and waits for the miracle that will bring back the only boy she’s ever loved. That miracle is at hand–for life’s greatest rewards are reached only by those who dare to risk everything . . . for what matters most.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-river-wife-a-novel-by-jonis-agee--65311838https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The River Wife: A Novel Author: Jonis Agee Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, THE RIVER WIFE is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 through the Civil War to the bootlegging days of the 1930s. When the earthquake brings Annie Lark’s Missouri house down on top of her, she finds herself pinned under the massive roof beam, facing certain death. Rescued by French fur trapper Jacques Ducharme, Annie learns to love the strong, brooding man and resolves to live out her days as his “River Wife.” More than a century later, in 1930, Hedie Rails comes to Jacques’ Landing to marry Clement Ducharme, a direct descendant of the fur trapper and river pirate, and the young couple begin their life together in the very house Jacques built for Annie so long ago. When, night after late night, mysterious phone calls take Clement from their home, a pregnant Hedie finds comfort in Annie’s leather-bound journals. But as she reads of the sinister dealings and horrendous misunderstandings that spelled out tragedy for the rescued bride, Hedie fears that her own life is paralleling Annie’s, and that history is repeating itself with Jacques’ kin. Among the family’s papers, Hedie encounters three other strong-willed women who helped shape Jacques Ducharme’s life. Their stories, together with Annie’s, weave a haunting tale of this mysterious, seductive, and ultimately dangerous man, a man whose hand stretched over generations of women at a bend in the river where fate and desire collide.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52212Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The River Wife: A Novel Author: Jonis Agee Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 17,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The River Wife: A Novel Author: Jonis Agee Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, THE RIVER WIFE is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 through the Civil War to the bootlegging days of the 1930s. When the earthquake brings Annie Lark’s Missouri house down on top of her, she finds herself pinned under the massive roof beam, facing certain death. Rescued by French fur trapper Jacques Ducharme, Annie learns to love the strong, brooding man and resolves to live out her days as his “River Wife.” More than a century later, in 1930, Hedie Rails comes to Jacques’ Landing to marry Clement Ducharme, a direct descendant of the fur trapper and river pirate, and the young couple begin their life together in the very house Jacques built for Annie so long ago. When, night after late night, mysterious phone calls take Clement from their home, a pregnant Hedie finds comfort in Annie’s leather-bound journals. But as she reads of the sinister dealings and horrendous misunderstandings that spelled out tragedy for the rescued bride, Hedie fears that her own life is paralleling Annie’s, and that history is repeating itself with Jacques’ kin. Among the family’s papers, Hedie encounters three other strong-willed women who helped shape Jacques Ducharme’s life. Their stories, together with Annie’s, weave a haunting tale of this mysterious, seductive, and ultimately dangerous man, a man whose hand stretched over generations of women at a bend in the river where fate and desire collide.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-season-of-regret-by-james-lee-burke--65311939https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Season of Regret Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48782Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Season of Regret Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Season of Regret Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/winter-light-by-james-lee-burke--65311930https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Light Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the isolated hills of Montana, an aging college professor clashes with trespassing hunters and reckons with his mortality. The basis for the feature film God’s Country starring Thandiwe Newton and directed by Julian Higgins. A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48776Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Light Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Light Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the isolated hills of Montana, an aging college professor clashes with trespassing hunters and reckons with his mortality. The basis for the feature film God’s Country starring Thandiwe Newton and directed by Julian Higgins. A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-bugsy-siegel-was-a-friend-of-mine-by-james-lee-burke--65311924https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48785Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-night-johnny-ace-died-by-james-lee-burke--65311922https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Night Johnny Ace Died Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48787Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Night Johnny Ace Died Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Night Johnny Ace Died Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jesus-out-to-sea-by-james-lee-burke--65311919https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out to Sea Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON​ One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina. In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke’s stories, which cover the scope of the human experience—from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48786Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out to Sea Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out to Sea Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON​ One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina. In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke’s stories, which cover the scope of the human experience—from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-village-by-james-lee-burke--65311912https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Village Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48777Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Village Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Village Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.]]>65cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-molester-by-james-lee-burke--65311910https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Molester Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48783Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Molester Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Molester Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/water-people-by-james-lee-burke--65311901https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water People Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48778Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water People Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water People Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-burning-of-the-flag-by-james-lee-burke--65311865https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burning of the Flag Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48784Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burning of the Flag Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burning of the Flag Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/texas-city-1947-by-james-lee-burke--65311854https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas City, 1947 Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48779Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas City, 1947 Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas City, 1947 Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bungalow-2-by-danielle-steel--65311890https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bungalow 2 Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Michael Boatman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 26, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel takes us beyond the dazzle of Hollywood in her compelling new novel—the story of one woman’s journey from suburban mom to award-winning screenwriter...and all the joy, heartbreak, and challenges along the way. Bungalow 2 The phone call came on a hot July day—a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call—from Tanya’s agent—was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though she’s torn about leaving her husband and their daughters. From the moment she steps into her lush bungalow at the fabled Beverly Hills Hotel, Tanya is thrust into an intoxicating new world where she feels reborn—energized by the creativity swirling around her—yet the pull of her family at home is strong. Suddenly she’s working alongside A-list actors and a Hollywood legend: Oscar-winning producer Douglas Wayne, a man who always gets what he wants–and who seems to have his sights set on her. Flying home between shoots, struggling to reconnect with a family that seems to need her less and less, Tanya watches helplessly as her old life is pulled out from under her in the most crushing of ways. As her two lives collide, as one award-winning film leads to another, Tanya begins to wonder if she can be a wife, a mother, and a writer at the same time. And just as she confronts the toughest choice she has faced, she is offered another dazzling opportunity—one that could recast her story in an amazing new direction, complete with an ending she never could have written herself. In Bungalow 2, Danielle Steel takes us into a world few ever see—a world of fame and fortune, celebrity and genius–daring to show us the real lives, real dreams, and real struggles hidden beneath the flash and glitter of Hollywood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46691Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bungalow 2 Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Michael Boatman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 26, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bungalow 2 Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Michael Boatman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 26, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel takes us beyond the dazzle of Hollywood in her compelling new novel—the story of one woman’s journey from suburban mom to award-winning screenwriter...and all the joy, heartbreak, and challenges along the way. Bungalow 2 The phone call came on a hot July day—a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call—from Tanya’s agent—was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though she’s torn about leaving her husband and their daughters. From the moment she steps into her lush bungalow at the fabled Beverly Hills Hotel, Tanya is thrust into an intoxicating new world where she feels reborn—energized by the creativity swirling around her—yet the pull of her family at home is strong. Suddenly she’s working alongside A-list actors and a Hollywood legend: Oscar-winning producer Douglas Wayne, a man who always gets what he wants–and who seems to have his sights set on her. Flying home between shoots, struggling to reconnect with a family that seems to need her less and less, Tanya watches helplessly as her old life is pulled out from under her in the most crushing of ways. As her two lives collide, as one award-winning film leads to another, Tanya begins to wonder if she can be a wife, a mother, and a writer at the same time. And just as she confronts the toughest choice she has faced, she is offered another dazzling opportunity—one that could recast her story in an amazing new direction, complete with an ending she never could have written herself. In Bungalow 2, Danielle Steel takes us into a world few ever see—a world of fame and fortune, celebrity and genius–daring to show us the real lives, real dreams, and real struggles hidden beneath the flash and glitter of Hollywood.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/forgive-me-by-amanda-eyre-ward--65311880https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgive Me Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 19, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost comes a gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood. Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned to South Africa, or opened her heart–until she hears the story of Jason Irving. Jason, an American student, was beaten to death by angry local youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason’s killers have applied for amnesty. Jason’s parents pack their bags and fly from Nantucket to Cape Town. Filled with rage, Jason’s mother resolves to fight the murderers’ pleas for forgiveness. As Nadine follows the Irvings to beautiful, ghost-filled South Africa, she is flooded with memories of a time when the pull toward adventure and intrigue left her with a broken heart. Haunted by guilt and a sense of remorse, and hoping to lose herself in her coverage of the murder trial, Nadine grows closer to Jason’s mother as well as to the mother of one of Jason’s killers–with profound consequences. In a country both foreign and familiar, Nadine is forced to face long-buried demons, come to terms with the missing pieces of her own family past, and learn what it means to truly love and to forgive. With her dazzling prose and resonant themes, Amanda Eyre Ward has joined the ranks of such beloved American novelists as Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett. Gripping, darkly humorous, and luminous, Forgive Me is an unforgettable story of dreams and longing, betrayal and redemption.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52764Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgive Me Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 19, 2007 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgive Me Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 19, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost comes a gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood. Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned to South Africa, or opened her heart–until she hears the story of Jason Irving. Jason, an American student, was beaten to death by angry local youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason’s killers have applied for amnesty. Jason’s parents pack their bags and fly from Nantucket to Cape Town. Filled with rage, Jason’s mother resolves to fight the murderers’ pleas for forgiveness. As Nadine follows the Irvings to beautiful, ghost-filled South Africa, she is flooded with memories of a time when the pull toward adventure and intrigue left her with a broken heart. Haunted by guilt and a sense of remorse, and hoping to lose herself in her coverage of the murder trial, Nadine grows closer to Jason’s mother as well as to the mother of one of Jason’s killers–with profound consequences. In a country both foreign and familiar, Nadine is forced to face long-buried demons, come to terms with the missing pieces of her own family past, and learn what it means to truly love and to forgive. With her dazzling prose and resonant themes, Amanda Eyre Ward has joined the ranks of such beloved American novelists as Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett. Gripping, darkly humorous, and luminous, Forgive Me is an unforgettable story of dreams and longing, betrayal and redemption.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-penny-a-novel-by-joyce-meyer-deborah-bedford--65311894https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny: A Novel Author: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 12, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer of 1955, when 14-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever. Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts--secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, while Miss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life's most painful challenges with confidence and faith. This unexpected relationship transforms both characters in ways neither could have anticipated, and the ripple effect that begins in the summer of the penny goes on to bring new life to the people around them, showing how God works in the smallest details. Even in something as small as a penny.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny: A Novel Author: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny: A Novel Author: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 12, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer of 1955, when 14-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever. Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts--secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, while Miss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life's most painful challenges with confidence and faith. This unexpected relationship transforms both characters in ways neither could have anticipated, and the ripple effect that begins in the summer of the penny goes on to bring new life to the people around them, showing how God works in the smallest details. Even in something as small as a penny.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jesus-out-to-sea-collection-stories-by-james-lee-burke--65311899https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out To Sea Collection: Stories Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 5, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON? One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina. In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke’s stories, which cover the scope of the human experience—from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48775Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out To Sea Collection: Stories Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out To Sea Collection: Stories Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 5, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON? One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina. In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke’s stories, which cover the scope of the human experience—from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chloe-zhivago-s-recipe-for-marriage-and-mischief-a-novel-by-olivia-lichtenstein--65311855https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief: A Novel Author: Olivia Lichtenstein Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 5, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Here’s the perfect recipe for mischief: Take one sexually neglected woman and one dashing, romantic foreigner. Add a craving for adventure plus a few drops of heady desire . . . then stand back, because in Olivia Lichtenstein’s sparkling and sharply observed comedy of lust, longing, and marital unrest, this mix proves to be deliciously volatile. Chloe Zhivago has it all: a successful career, two teenage children who still speak to her, a faithful best buddy, a Famous Friend from hell, and Greg, Chloe’s husband of seventeen years, a family-practice doctor who occupies his time writing letters to the parking commission. And then it suddenly hits her. Is this all there is? When did wild weekends of passion become nights of chaste kisses and snoring to wake the dead? What happens when the kids leave the nest but the husband stays behind? Enter Ivan. Married but questing and quixotic, he proffers notes of seduction written in Russian and lures Chloe to the precipice of one glorious, fortuitous fling. Does she dare? This wonderfully funny, sexy novel asks a vital question–how do you keep love alive in a marriage?–and answers it with poignancy and pure irresistible comedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief: A Novel Author: Olivia Lichtenstein Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief: A Novel Author: Olivia Lichtenstein Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 5, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Here’s the perfect recipe for mischief: Take one sexually neglected woman and one dashing, romantic foreigner. Add a craving for adventure plus a few drops of heady desire . . . then stand back, because in Olivia Lichtenstein’s sparkling and sharply observed comedy of lust, longing, and marital unrest, this mix proves to be deliciously volatile. Chloe Zhivago has it all: a successful career, two teenage children who still speak to her, a faithful best buddy, a Famous Friend from hell, and Greg, Chloe’s husband of seventeen years, a family-practice doctor who occupies his time writing letters to the parking commission. And then it suddenly hits her. Is this all there is? When did wild weekends of passion become nights of chaste kisses and snoring to wake the dead? What happens when the kids leave the nest but the husband stays behind? Enter Ivan. Married but questing and quixotic, he proffers notes of seduction written in Russian and lures Chloe to the precipice of one glorious, fortuitous fling. Does she dare? This wonderfully funny, sexy novel asks a vital question–how do you keep love alive in a marriage?–and answers it with poignancy and pure irresistible comedy.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-thousand-splendid-suns-a-novel-by-khaled-hosseini--65311911https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel Author: Khaled Hosseini Narrator: Atossa Leoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 22, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 426 Ratings of Narrator: 4.61 of Total 61 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heartwrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46381Tue, 22 May 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel Author: Khaled Hosseini Narrator: Atossa Leoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel Author: Khaled Hosseini Narrator: Atossa Leoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 22, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 426 Ratings of Narrator: 4.61 of Total 61 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heartwrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/falling-man-a-novel-by-don-delillo--65311932https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Man: A Novel Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 15, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46390Tue, 15 May 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Man: A Novel Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 15, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Man: A Novel Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 15, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sheer-abandon-by-penny-vincenzi--65311906https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sheer Abandon Author: Penny Vincenzi Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 8, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A number-one bestseller from one of Britain’s most popular novelists, Sheer Abandon is an all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act. Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend the first few days of their trips together in Thailand. When they go their separate ways, they vow to get together in London the following year. But many years pass before the three cross paths again, and the once-capricious, carefree girls all now have thriving careers. One of them, however, harbors a terrible secret: On her return from her precollege excursion, she abandoned her just-born daughter at Heathrow. Clio has fulfilled her ambition of becoming a doctor, only to find herself trapped in a marriage to an arrogant surgeon who belittles her and her professional achievements. Martha is a highly paid corporate lawyer, just embarking on a political career. Dedicated to her job, she has had little time for personal relationships and lives a busy, but lonely, life. Jocasta, a tabloid newspaper reporter with an infallible instinct for the big story, is in love with a charming colleague who can’t make the permanent commitment she longs for. The infant abandoned at Heathrow has grown up under the loving care of her adoptive family. Now a beautiful teenager named Kate, she sets out to find her birth mother——a quest that unexpectedly brings the women together and exposes the secret buried so many years before. Impossible to put down, Sheer Abandon is top-notch women’s fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52763Tue, 08 May 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sheer Abandon Author: Penny Vincenzi Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 8, 2007...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sheer Abandon Author: Penny Vincenzi Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 8, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A number-one bestseller from one of Britain’s most popular novelists, Sheer Abandon is an all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act. Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend the first few days of their trips together in Thailand. When they go their separate ways, they vow to get together in London the following year. But many years pass before the three cross paths again, and the once-capricious, carefree girls all now have thriving careers. One of them, however, harbors a terrible secret: On her return from her precollege excursion, she abandoned her just-born daughter at Heathrow. Clio has fulfilled her ambition of becoming a doctor, only to find herself trapped in a marriage to an arrogant surgeon who belittles her and her professional achievements. Martha is a highly paid corporate lawyer, just embarking on a political career. Dedicated to her job, she has had little time for personal relationships and lives a busy, but lonely, life. Jocasta, a tabloid newspaper reporter with an infallible instinct for the big story, is in love with a charming colleague who can’t make the permanent commitment she longs for. The infant abandoned at Heathrow has grown up under the loving care of her adoptive family. Now a beautiful teenager named Kate, she sets out to find her birth mother——a quest that unexpectedly brings the women together and exposes the secret buried so many years before. Impossible to put down, Sheer Abandon is top-notch women’s fiction.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dream-when-you-re-feeling-blue-a-novel-by-elizabeth-berg--65311824https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love. As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front, meat is rationed, children participate in metal drives, and Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller play music that offers hope and lifts spirits. For Kitty, a confident, headstrong young woman, the departure of her boyfriend and the lessons she learns about love, resilience, and war will bring a surprise and uncover a secret, and will lead her to a radical action on behalf of those she loves that will change the Heaney family forever. The lifelong consequences of the choices the sisters make are at the heart of this superb novel about the power of love and the enduring strength of family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52744Tue, 01 May 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love. As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front, meat is rationed, children participate in metal drives, and Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller play music that offers hope and lifts spirits. For Kitty, a confident, headstrong young woman, the departure of her boyfriend and the lessons she learns about love, resilience, and war will bring a surprise and uncover a secret, and will lead her to a radical action on behalf of those she loves that will change the Heaney family forever. The lifelong consequences of the choices the sisters make are at the heart of this superb novel about the power of love and the enduring strength of family.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/body-surfing-a-novel-by-anita-shreve--65311913https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body Surfing: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Lolita Davidovich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 24, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called 'an author at one with her métier (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46247Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body Surfing: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Lolita Davidovich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 24,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body Surfing: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Lolita Davidovich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 24, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called 'an author at one with her métier (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/skylight-confessions-a-novel-by-alice-hoffman--65311907https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skylight Confessions: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 11, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44406Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skylight Confessions: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skylight Confessions: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 11, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rebels-of-ireland-the-dublin-saga-by-edward-rutherfurd--65311900https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga Series: #2 of Dublin Saga Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Richard Matthews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 5, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.96 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest. Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their children’s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Ireland’s 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.   His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the “Flight of the Earls,” when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwell’s suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the “Wild Geese.” In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattan’s Parliament, Wolfe Tone's attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel O’Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England.   A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, The Rebels of Ireland brings the story begun in The Princes of Ireland to a stunning conclusion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289021Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga Series: #2 of Dublin Saga Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Richard Matthews Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga Series: #2 of Dublin Saga Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Richard Matthews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 5, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.96 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest. Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their children’s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Ireland’s 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.   His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the “Flight of the Earls,” when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwell’s suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the “Wild Geese.” In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattan’s Parliament, Wolfe Tone's attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel O’Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England.   A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, The Rebels of Ireland brings the story begun in The Princes of Ireland to a stunning conclusion.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/h-r-h-by-danielle-steel--65311938https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.R.H. Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Jay O. Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 31, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win the day and forever alter her world, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years. Christianna is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriously–and her father has ironclad plans for Christianna’s life, a burden that is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her father’s palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdom–the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change, and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a calling among the brave doctors and volunteers. Finally free from the scrutiny of her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new friends and coworkers–even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing. But as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life beckon her home, Christianna’s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn. By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christianna’s life is changed forever–in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a prince’s palace to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds. Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, H.R.H. is a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom, and duty versus love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.R.H. Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Jay O. Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 31, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.R.H. Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Jay O. Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 31, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win the day and forever alter her world, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years. Christianna is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriously–and her father has ironclad plans for Christianna’s life, a burden that is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her father’s palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdom–the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change, and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a calling among the brave doctors and volunteers. Finally free from the scrutiny of her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new friends and coworkers–even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing. But as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life beckon her home, Christianna’s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn. By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christianna’s life is changed forever–in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a prince’s palace to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds. Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, H.R.H. is a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom, and duty versus love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-john-by-nicholas-sparks--65311916https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear John Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 30, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.98 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, a soldier must face an impossible choice when a national tragedy threatens his relationship with the girl of his dreams. Now a motion picture starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. Rebellious John drops out of school and enlists in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life–until he meets Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart.   But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. While he’s away, Savannah falls in love with someone else. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love–and face the hardest decision of his life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42567Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear John Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 30, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear John Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 30, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.98 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, a soldier must face an impossible choice when a national tragedy threatens his relationship with the girl of his dreams. Now a motion picture starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. Rebellious John drops out of school and enlists in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life–until he meets Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart.   But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. While he’s away, Savannah falls in love with someone else. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love–and face the hardest decision of his life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-noel-a-novel-by-richard-paul-evans--65311904https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Noel: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Paul Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 3, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and The Christmas List. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. A young woman, who has been adopted as a child by a loving family, has only a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word “Noel” as a keepsake of her birth family, about whom she remembers nothing. When long hidden memories resurface, she begins an emotionally challenging personal journey as she searches for her biological sister and clues about her mysterious past...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42905Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Noel: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Paul Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Noel: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Paul Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 3, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and The Christmas List. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. A young woman, who has been adopted as a child by a loving family, has only a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word “Noel” as a keepsake of her birth family, about whom she remembers nothing. When long hidden memories resurface, she begins an emotionally challenging personal journey as she searches for her biological sister and clues about her mysterious past...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/can-t-wait-to-get-to-heaven-a-novel-by-fannie-flagg--65311902https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel Series: #3 of Elmwood Springs Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 4, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 123 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner’s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch–and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?” Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot’s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven is proof once more that Fannie Flagg “was put on this earth to write” (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159734Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel Series: #3 of Elmwood Springs Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel Series: #3 of Elmwood Springs Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 4, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 123 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner’s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch–and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?” Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot’s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven is proof once more that Fannie Flagg “was put on this earth to write” (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-out-by-danielle-steel--65311869https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Out Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend. For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees– while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life–and may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed. From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love. In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family–finding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Out Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Out Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend. For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees– while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life–and may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed. From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love. In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family–finding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-by-danielle-steel--65311876https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 74 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door…. Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is. A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history–to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France…and to a history she never knew she had. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah’s passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home’s every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man’s last gift…about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation…and about a future she’s only just beginning to imagine. In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman’s courageous choice to pour herself into a dream–and receive its gifts in return.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 74 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door…. Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is. A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history–to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France…and to a history she never knew she had. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah’s passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home’s every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man’s last gift…about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation…and about a future she’s only just beginning to imagine. In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman’s courageous choice to pour herself into a dream–and receive its gifts in return.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brooklyn-follies-by-paul-auster--65311896https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn Follies Author: Paul Auster Narrator: Paul Auster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 3, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man’s accidental redemption Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore--a far cry from the brilliant academic career he’d begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom’s boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman--aka Harry Dunkel--once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the “ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York.” Through Tom and Harry, Nathan’s world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances--not to mention a stray relative or two--and leads him to a reckoning with his past. With The Brooklyn Follies, the always astonishing Paul Auster has written what is undoubtedly his warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn Follies Author: Paul Auster Narrator: Paul Auster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 3, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn Follies Author: Paul Auster Narrator: Paul Auster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 3, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man’s accidental redemption Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore--a far cry from the brilliant academic career he’d begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom’s boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman--aka Harry Dunkel--once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the “ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York.” Through Tom and Harry, Nathan’s world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances--not to mention a stray relative or two--and leads him to a reckoning with his past. With The Brooklyn Follies, the always astonishing Paul Auster has written what is undoubtedly his warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wish-you-well-by-david-baldacci--65311903https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wish You Well Author: David Baldacci Narrator: Norma Lana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story. Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself growing up in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on her new home, her struggle will play out in a crowded Virginia courtroom...and determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46257Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wish You Well Author: David Baldacci Narrator: Norma Lana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wish You Well Author: David Baldacci Narrator: Norma Lana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story. Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself growing up in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on her new home, her struggle will play out in a crowded Virginia courtroom...and determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nights-in-rodanthe-by-nicholas-sparks--65311805https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nights in Rodanthe Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: JoBeth Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 117 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Struggling to care for her sick father and raise her teenage children alone, a divorced mother spends the weekend at a North Carolina inn, only to meet a former surgeon running from his past. Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's gone to the coastal village of Rodanthe in North Carolina to tend the local inn for the weekend. With a major storm brewing, the time away doesn't look promising...until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At 54, Paul is a successful surgeon, but in the previous six months his life has unraveled into something he doesn't recognize. Estranged from his son and recently divorced, he's sold his practice and his home and has journeyed to this isolated town in hopes of closing a painful chapter in his past. Adrienne and Paul come together as the storm brews over Rodanthe, but what begins between them over the weekend will resonate throughout the rest of their lives, intertwining past and future, love and loss.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53025Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nights in Rodanthe Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: JoBeth Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nights in Rodanthe Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: JoBeth Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 117 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Struggling to care for her sick father and raise her teenage children alone, a divorced mother spends the weekend at a North Carolina inn, only to meet a former surgeon running from his past. Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's gone to the coastal village of Rodanthe in North Carolina to tend the local inn for the weekend. With a major storm brewing, the time away doesn't look promising...until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At 54, Paul is a successful surgeon, but in the previous six months his life has unraveled into something he doesn't recognize. Estranged from his son and recently divorced, he's sold his practice and his home and has journeyed to this isolated town in hopes of closing a painful chapter in his past. Adrienne and Paul come together as the storm brews over Rodanthe, but what begins between them over the weekend will resonate throughout the rest of their lives, intertwining past and future, love and loss.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sweetwater-creek-by-anne-rivers-siddons--65311926https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweetwater Creek Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 27 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've finished.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33997Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweetwater Creek Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweetwater Creek Author: Anne Rivers Siddons Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 27 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've finished.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/toxic-bachelors-by-danielle-steel--65311842https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toxic Bachelors Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel explores the perils of dating, relationships, and love in a novel that takes us into the intoxicating, infuriating world of three charming single men, also known as… Toxic Bachelors They were the best of friends and the most daunting of bachelors....Charlie Harrington, a handsome philanthropist, has such high expectations for his perfect bride that no mortal need apply....Adam Weiss, a forty-something celebrity lawyer, prefers his women very young, very voluptuous, and very short-term….And for Gray Hawk, a gifted artist with a knack for attracting troubled relationships, women are fine; it’s just the idea of family he can’t imagine (particularly the family of the woman he’s dating). Now the three friends, spending their annual summer vacation cruising the Mediterranean aboard Charlie’s majestic yacht, are about to have their bachelorhood rocked. By autumn all three will fall precipitously into relationships they never saw coming. Charlie begins dating a crusading social worker who couldn’t be further from his ideal–until he makes a stunning discovery about her. Adam gets involved with his usual twenty-something bombshell–only this one has a remarkable mind of her own. And Gray, who has avoided both business and family like the plague, has managed to fall head over heels for a successful career woman– who just happens to be a mother as well. As another holiday on the yacht approaches, and with it a turning point in each man’s life, the three bachelors are forced to face the things that scare them most: their phobias about relationships, the wounds of the past–and the kind of women who challenge their deepest terrors. What happens next will spark big changes for Charlie, Adam, and Gray–and might just put an end to their carousing days forever. For as the once-carefree trio is about to discover, love is the most unpredictable adventure of all. Filled with all the joy, complexity, and unexpected surprises of life, Toxic Bachelors is Danielle Steel at her poignant and penetrating best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50393Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toxic Bachelors Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toxic Bachelors Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel explores the perils of dating, relationships, and love in a novel that takes us into the intoxicating, infuriating world of three charming single men, also known as… Toxic Bachelors They were the best of friends and the most daunting of bachelors....Charlie Harrington, a handsome philanthropist, has such high expectations for his perfect bride that no mortal need apply....Adam Weiss, a forty-something celebrity lawyer, prefers his women very young, very voluptuous, and very short-term….And for Gray Hawk, a gifted artist with a knack for attracting troubled relationships, women are fine; it’s just the idea of family he can’t imagine (particularly the family of the woman he’s dating). Now the three friends, spending their annual summer vacation cruising the Mediterranean aboard Charlie’s majestic yacht, are about to have their bachelorhood rocked. By autumn all three will fall precipitously into relationships they never saw coming. Charlie begins dating a crusading social worker who couldn’t be further from his ideal–until he makes a stunning discovery about her. Adam gets involved with his usual twenty-something bombshell–only this one has a remarkable mind of her own. And Gray, who has avoided both business and family like the plague, has managed to fall head over heels for a successful career woman– who just happens to be a mother as well. As another holiday on the yacht approaches, and with it a turning point in each man’s life, the three bachelors are forced to face the things that scare them most: their phobias about relationships, the wounds of the past–and the kind of women who challenge their deepest terrors. What happens next will spark big changes for Charlie, Adam, and Gray–and might just put an end to their carousing days forever. For as the once-carefree trio is about to discover, love is the most unpredictable adventure of all. Filled with all the joy, complexity, and unexpected surprises of life, Toxic Bachelors is Danielle Steel at her poignant and penetrating best.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-days-of-dogtown-a-novel-by-anita-diamant--65311931https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel Author: Anita Diamant Narrator: Kate Nelligan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 13, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review). Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches.” Among the inhabitants of this hamlet are Black Ruth, who dresses as a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age in her brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of his aunt; and Cornelius Finson, a freed slave. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a life for herself against all imaginable odds. Rendered in stunning, haunting detail, with Anita Diamant’s keen ear for language and profound compassion for her characters, The Last Days of Dogtown is an extraordinary retelling of a long-forgotten chapter of early American life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33266Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel Author: Anita Diamant Narrator: Kate Nelligan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel Author: Anita Diamant Narrator: Kate Nelligan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 13, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review). Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches.” Among the inhabitants of this hamlet are Black Ruth, who dresses as a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age in her brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of his aunt; and Cornelius Finson, a freed slave. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a life for herself against all imaginable odds. Rendered in stunning, haunting detail, with Anita Diamant’s keen ear for language and profound compassion for her characters, The Last Days of Dogtown is an extraordinary retelling of a long-forgotten chapter of early American life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/looking-for-peyton-place-a-novel-by-barbara-delinsky--65311935https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Peyton Place: A Novel Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Karen Ziemba Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 12, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Annie Barnes, going home to Middle River means dealing with truths long hidden. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest, once and for all, her misgivings about her mother's recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. But Annie grew up there, and she knows all its secrets -- just like her idol, Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town's sexual secrets bare for all the world to see. Grace's bold rebellion against 1950s conformity inspired Annie to get out of Middle River and make a life for herself. Annie Barnes is now a bestselling author. Her success has given her a confidence she never had and the residents of Middle River something new to worry about. When they hear Annie is returning for a lengthy visit, everyone believes she's come home to write about them. But passion and rage propels Annie on a different course altogether. Coming face-to-face with decades of secrets and lies, she knows she must find the strength to move beyond the legacy of Grace Metalious, defying her past to heal the wounds of the town and her own family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33238Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Peyton Place: A Novel Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Karen Ziemba Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Peyton Place: A Novel Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Karen Ziemba Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 12, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For Annie Barnes, going home to Middle River means dealing with truths long hidden. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest, once and for all, her misgivings about her mother's recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. But Annie grew up there, and she knows all its secrets -- just like her idol, Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town's sexual secrets bare for all the world to see. Grace's bold rebellion against 1950s conformity inspired Annie to get out of Middle River and make a life for herself. Annie Barnes is now a bestselling author. Her success has given her a confidence she never had and the residents of Middle River something new to worry about. When they hear Annie is returning for a lengthy visit, everyone believes she's come home to write about them. But passion and rage propels Annie on a different course altogether. Coming face-to-face with decades of secrets and lies, she knows she must find the strength to move beyond the legacy of Grace Metalious, defying her past to heal the wounds of the town and her own family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sound-and-the-fury-by-william-faulkner--65311850https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sound and the Fury Author: William Faulkner Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 12, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.03 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.  •  The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and  one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. “I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” —from The Sound and the Fury]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52733Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sound and the Fury Author: William Faulkner Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sound and the Fury Author: William Faulkner Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 12, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.03 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.  •  The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and  one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. “I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” —from The Sound and the Fury]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miracle-by-danielle-steel--65311872https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Glenn Fitzgerald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 28, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.59 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It is New Year’s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm’s wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife’s death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn’s and Maggie’ s homes, the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all. As three lives come together and a unique friendship is forged, something extraordinary begins to happen…Maggie, still grieving a loss, slowly comes alive again–and Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But at the center of the friendship is Quinn. A man who has scaled heights of success in business, Quinn is now adrift, waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire, Quinn is consumed by guilt, focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion, and his friendship with Maggie begins to change, Quinn faces a choice–between a safe haven and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will affect other lives as powerfully as his own. And it will take him on an extraordinary journey–and into a second, terrifying storm, one that will bring him danger…or deliverance. Danielle Steel brings us miracles big and small–the kind we are blessed with and those we give to others. With a subtle hand and a flawless touch, she has written a novel that soars with hope, and makes us laugh, cry, and care.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Glenn Fitzgerald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 28, 2005 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Glenn Fitzgerald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 28, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.59 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It is New Year’s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm’s wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife’s death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn’s and Maggie’ s homes, the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all. As three lives come together and a unique friendship is forged, something extraordinary begins to happen…Maggie, still grieving a loss, slowly comes alive again–and Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But at the center of the friendship is Quinn. A man who has scaled heights of success in business, Quinn is now adrift, waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire, Quinn is consumed by guilt, focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion, and his friendship with Maggie begins to change, Quinn faces a choice–between a safe haven and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will affect other lives as powerfully as his own. And it will take him on an extraordinary journey–and into a second, terrifying storm, one that will bring him danger…or deliverance. Danielle Steel brings us miracles big and small–the kind we are blessed with and those we give to others. With a subtle hand and a flawless touch, she has written a novel that soars with hope, and makes us laugh, cry, and care.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-breakdown-lane-by-jacquelyn-mitchard--65311885https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Breakdown Lane Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 5, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Where can a woman turn when her own life threatens to overwhelm her ability to keep her children safe? New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard takes the readers of her newest novel on a wry and moving journey of loss and healing. Giving advice is what Julieanne does for a living -- every Sunday she doles it out in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie herself seems to have missed some clues. Having worked creatively to keep her twenty-year marriage to Leo fresh and exciting and to be a good mother, she is completely caught off guard when he tells her he needs to go on a ''sabbatical'' from their life together, leaving Julie and their three children behind. But it soon becomes clear that his leave of absence is meant to be permanent. Things take a turn for the worse when Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness and the children undertake a dangerous journey to find Leo -- before it's too late. As the known world sinks precariously from view, the clan must navigate their way through the shoals of love, guilt, and betrayal. Together, with the help of Leo's parents and Julie's best friend, they work their way back to solid ground and a new definition of family. No one illuminates modern love, marriage, and parenting better than Jacquelyn Mitchard. Written with her trademark poignancy, humor, and insight, The Breakdown Lane is her most moving, eloquent, and life-affirming work yet.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33024Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Breakdown Lane Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Breakdown Lane Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 5, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Where can a woman turn when her own life threatens to overwhelm her ability to keep her children safe? New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard takes the readers of her newest novel on a wry and moving journey of loss and healing. Giving advice is what Julieanne does for a living -- every Sunday she doles it out in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie herself seems to have missed some clues. Having worked creatively to keep her twenty-year marriage to Leo fresh and exciting and to be a good mother, she is completely caught off guard when he tells her he needs to go on a ''sabbatical'' from their life together, leaving Julie and their three children behind. But it soon becomes clear that his leave of absence is meant to be permanent. Things take a turn for the worse when Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness and the children undertake a dangerous journey to find Leo -- before it's too late. As the known world sinks precariously from view, the clan must navigate their way through the shoals of love, guilt, and betrayal. Together, with the help of Leo's parents and Julie's best friend, they work their way back to solid ground and a new definition of family. No one illuminates modern love, marriage, and parenting better than Jacquelyn Mitchard. Written with her trademark poignancy, humor, and insight, The Breakdown Lane is her most moving, eloquent, and life-affirming work yet.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/light-on-snow-by-anita-shreve--65311856https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light on Snow Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Alyson Silverman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing, abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption. Writing with all the emotional richness that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50290Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light on Snow Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Alyson Silverman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 1, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light on Snow Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Alyson Silverman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing, abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption. Writing with all the emotional richness that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-goodbye-summer-by-patricia-gaffney--65311936https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Goodbye Summer Author: Patricia Gaffney Narrator: Jan Maxwell Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Goodbye Summer is an unforgettable novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free, by Patricia Gaffney, the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Saving Graces. Poignantly exploring one woman’s inner growth and self discovery over the course of a season of profound change, The Goodbye Summer is women’s fiction at its finest—heartbreaking, healing, emotional, and real. As Nora Roberts so aptly puts it, Patricia Gaffney “reminds us what it’s like to be a woman.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32933Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Goodbye Summer Author: Patricia Gaffney Narrator: Jan Maxwell Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Goodbye Summer Author: Patricia Gaffney Narrator: Jan Maxwell Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Goodbye Summer is an unforgettable novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free, by Patricia Gaffney, the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Saving Graces. Poignantly exploring one woman’s inner growth and self discovery over the course of a season of profound change, The Goodbye Summer is women’s fiction at its finest—heartbreaking, healing, emotional, and real. As Nora Roberts so aptly puts it, Patricia Gaffney “reminds us what it’s like to be a woman.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flight-lessons-by-patricia-gaffney--65311923https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flight Lessons Author: Patricia Gaffney Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.55 of Total 20 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Saving, Graces and Circle of Three comes the poignant story of two women struggling to come to grips with the past that haunts them both. Anna once adored her aunt Rose. That ended when Rose betrayed Anna and her mother -- Rose's terminally ill sister -- and Anna can't forgive or forget. Years later, her own heart broken, Anna returns home to Rose, and to the family restaurant, the Bella Sorella, now grown shabby with age. Anna is still reluctant to forgive Rose, insisting that her stay is temporary. But the intimacy of working with Rose to put the Bella Sorella back on its feet, and an unexpected chance at true, love, bring about a change of heart. Patricia Gaffney once again delivers a story told with grace and warmth, reminding us that there's no place like, home. Performed by Jennifer Van Dyck]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34338Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flight Lessons Author: Patricia Gaffney Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flight Lessons Author: Patricia Gaffney Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.55 of Total 20 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Saving, Graces and Circle of Three comes the poignant story of two women struggling to come to grips with the past that haunts them both. Anna once adored her aunt Rose. That ended when Rose betrayed Anna and her mother -- Rose's terminally ill sister -- and Anna can't forgive or forget. Years later, her own heart broken, Anna returns home to Rose, and to the family restaurant, the Bella Sorella, now grown shabby with age. Anna is still reluctant to forgive Rose, insisting that her stay is temporary. But the intimacy of working with Rose to put the Bella Sorella back on its feet, and an unexpected chance at true, love, bring about a change of heart. Patricia Gaffney once again delivers a story told with grace and warmth, reminding us that there's no place like, home. Performed by Jennifer Van Dyck]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hamlet-a-bbc-radio-production-by-william-shakespeare--65311927https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hamlet: A BBC Radio Production Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Ellie Beaven, Kenneth Cranham, Full Cast, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Sheen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 1, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this BBC full-cast production, the ghost of Hamlet's father orders him to kill the man who took his life, his throne and his wife: Claudius. In a tale of caution, tragedy and revenge, Hamlet is driven to madness by his mission and his father's legacy. Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet, with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly-formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In this acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the modern day.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41155Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hamlet: A BBC Radio Production Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Ellie Beaven, Kenneth Cranham, Full Cast, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Sheen...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hamlet: A BBC Radio Production Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Ellie Beaven, Kenneth Cranham, Full Cast, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Sheen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 1, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this BBC full-cast production, the ghost of Hamlet's father orders him to kill the man who took his life, his throne and his wife: Claudius. In a tale of caution, tragedy and revenge, Hamlet is driven to madness by his mission and his father's legacy. Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet, with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly-formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In this acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the modern day.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-macbeth-a-bbc-radio-shakespeare-production-by-william-shakespeare--65311925https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Macbeth: A BBC Radio Shakespeare production Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Tom Mannion, Liam Brennan, Ken Stott, Phyllis Logan, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: December 1, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this BBC full-cast production, a trio of witches predicts Macbeth's early demise. In a tale of fate, fulfilment and ego, Macbeth and his wife desire the Scottish kingship. Macbeth's temptation and descent into evil, his wife's ruthlessness and subsequent madness and the overarching presence of the supernatural charge this gripping production. Will their conscience, and the prophecy, catch up with them before the crown can be secured? Ken Stott stars as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly-formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In this acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the modern day.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41156Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Macbeth: A BBC Radio Shakespeare production Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Tom Mannion, Liam Brennan, Ken Stott, Phyllis Logan, Full Cast...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Macbeth: A BBC Radio Shakespeare production Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Tom Mannion, Liam Brennan, Ken Stott, Phyllis Logan, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: December 1, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this BBC full-cast production, a trio of witches predicts Macbeth's early demise. In a tale of fate, fulfilment and ego, Macbeth and his wife desire the Scottish kingship. Macbeth's temptation and descent into evil, his wife's ruthlessness and subsequent madness and the overarching presence of the supernatural charge this gripping production. Will their conscience, and the prophecy, catch up with them before the crown can be secured? Ken Stott stars as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly-formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In this acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the modern day.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/echoes-by-danielle-steel--65311933https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 26, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening. By the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Knowing that her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. And as the two built a new life together, Beata’s past would stay with her in ways she could never have predicted. For as the years pass, and Europe is once again engulfed in war, Beata must watch in horror as Hitler’s terror threatens her life and family—even her eighteen-year-old daughter Amadea, who has taken on the vows of a Carmelite nun. For Amadea, the convent is no refuge. As family and friends are swept away without a trace, Amadea is forced into hiding. Thus begins a harrowing journey of survival, as she escapes into the heart of the French Resistance. Here Amadea will find a renewed sense of purpose, taking on the most daring missions behind enemy lines. And it is here, in the darkest moments of fear, that Amadea will feel her mother’s loving strength—and that of her mother’s mother before her–as the voices of lost loved ones echo powerfully in her heart. And here, amid the fires of war, Amadea will meet an extraordinary man, British secret agent Rupert Montgomery. In Colonel Montgomery, Amadea finds a man who will help her discover her place in an unbreakable chain between generations…and between her lost family and her dreams for the future—a future she is only just beginning to imagine: a future of hope rooted in the rich soil of the past. With the grace of a master storyteller, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, creating a bold, sweeping tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking images—from the elegant rituals of Europe’s prewar aristocracy to the brutal desperation of Germany’s death camps. Drawing us into a vanished world, Echoes weaves an intricate tapestry of a mother’s love, a daughter’s courage…and the unwavering faith that sustained them—even in history’s darkest hour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 26, 2004 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Echoes Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 26, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening. By the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Knowing that her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. And as the two built a new life together, Beata’s past would stay with her in ways she could never have predicted. For as the years pass, and Europe is once again engulfed in war, Beata must watch in horror as Hitler’s terror threatens her life and family—even her eighteen-year-old daughter Amadea, who has taken on the vows of a Carmelite nun. For Amadea, the convent is no refuge. As family and friends are swept away without a trace, Amadea is forced into hiding. Thus begins a harrowing journey of survival, as she escapes into the heart of the French Resistance. Here Amadea will find a renewed sense of purpose, taking on the most daring missions behind enemy lines. And it is here, in the darkest moments of fear, that Amadea will feel her mother’s loving strength—and that of her mother’s mother before her–as the voices of lost loved ones echo powerfully in her heart. And here, amid the fires of war, Amadea will meet an extraordinary man, British secret agent Rupert Montgomery. In Colonel Montgomery, Amadea finds a man who will help her discover her place in an unbreakable chain between generations…and between her lost family and her dreams for the future—a future she is only just beginning to imagine: a future of hope rooted in the rich soil of the past. With the grace of a master storyteller, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, creating a bold, sweeping tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking images—from the elegant rituals of Europe’s prewar aristocracy to the brutal desperation of Germany’s death camps. Drawing us into a vanished world, Echoes weaves an intricate tapestry of a mother’s love, a daughter’s courage…and the unwavering faith that sustained them—even in history’s darkest hour.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-earthquakes-a-novel-by-jennifer-weiner--65311914https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes: A Novel Series: Part of Washington Square Press Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Jennifer Weiner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 14, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who's struggling to balance her work and motherhood while dealing with unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. Ayinde's basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then, there's Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband, and a tragic secret to start her life all over again. From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44192Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes: A Novel Series: Part of Washington Square Press Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Jennifer Weiner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes: A Novel Series: Part of Washington Square Press Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Jennifer Weiner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 14, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who's struggling to balance her work and motherhood while dealing with unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. Ayinde's basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then, there's Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband, and a tragic secret to start her life all over again. From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/second-chance-by-danielle-steel--65311875https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Chance Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Matt Walton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 29, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.24 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steel’s captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, it’s never too late for a second chance.... SECOND CHANCE As editor-in-chief of New York’s leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. With closets stuffed with Fendi, a snoring bulldog named Sir Winston sharing her bed, and a houseman who favors gold lamé and borrows her shoes, Fiona was utterly content with her life. Until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office. After a dinner date left them both wanting more, Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows. And in the most romantic city in the world, somewhere between the magic of the runway and the stroll along the Seine, Fiona let this man into her heart. A widower with two daughters, John Anderson was nearly Fiona’s opposite in every way. As conservative as she was freewheeling, John was both amused and appalled by Fiona’s world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, and high-heeled housemen. But within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston—and Fiona was making room in her closets. It didn’t take long for the dominoes to start falling. First, John introduced Fiona to his daughters, their blood-thirsty Pekingese, and a snarling housekeeper straight out of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. It was hate at first sight. Then, after a dinner party with John’s biggest client goes disastrously awry, Fiona and John’s relationship began to unravel with alarming speed. What happens next will set Fiona on a journey filled with pain and revelation, awakening and change.…For when she returns to Paris alone and takes an amazing risk, an extraordinary series of events begins to unfold. And as the snow falls on the city of light, Fiona is about to get the surprise of her life: a second act she never saw coming. In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Danielle Steel brings us into the lives of two unforgettable people as they love and laugh, struggle and survive. With unerring insight, she captures the heady magic of instant attraction, the challenges of change—and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Chance Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Matt Walton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 29, 2004 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Chance Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Matt Walton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 29, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.24 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steel’s captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, it’s never too late for a second chance.... SECOND CHANCE As editor-in-chief of New York’s leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. With closets stuffed with Fendi, a snoring bulldog named Sir Winston sharing her bed, and a houseman who favors gold lamé and borrows her shoes, Fiona was utterly content with her life. Until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office. After a dinner date left them both wanting more, Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows. And in the most romantic city in the world, somewhere between the magic of the runway and the stroll along the Seine, Fiona let this man into her heart. A widower with two daughters, John Anderson was nearly Fiona’s opposite in every way. As conservative as she was freewheeling, John was both amused and appalled by Fiona’s world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, and high-heeled housemen. But within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston—and Fiona was making room in her closets. It didn’t take long for the dominoes to start falling. First, John introduced Fiona to his daughters, their blood-thirsty Pekingese, and a snarling housekeeper straight out of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. It was hate at first sight. Then, after a dinner party with John’s biggest client goes disastrously awry, Fiona and John’s relationship began to unravel with alarming speed. What happens next will set Fiona on a journey filled with pain and revelation, awakening and change.…For when she returns to Paris alone and takes an amazing risk, an extraordinary series of events begins to unfold. And as the snow falls on the city of light, Fiona is about to get the surprise of her life: a second act she never saw coming. In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Danielle Steel brings us into the lives of two unforgettable people as they love and laugh, struggle and survive. With unerring insight, she captures the heady magic of instant attraction, the challenges of change—and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/folly-and-glory-a-novel-by-larry-mcmurtry--65311892https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Folly and Glory: A Novel Series: #4 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 4, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West” (The New York Times Book Review). As this finale opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers, English, American, and Native American. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. Neither does anyone else—even Captain Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, is puzzled by the great changes sweeping over the West, replacing Native Americans and buffalo with towns and farms. In the meantime, Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans, where he meets up with a muscular giant named Juppy, who turns out to be one of Lord Berrybender’s many illegitimate offspring, and in whose company they make their way back to Santa Fe. But even they are unable to prevent the Mexicans from carrying the Berrybender family on a long and terrible journey across the desert to Vera Cruz. Starving, dying of thirst, and in constant, bloody battle with slavers pursuing them, the Berrybenders finally make their way to civilization—if New Orleans of the time can be called that—where Jim Snow has to choose between Tasmin and the great American plains, on which he has lived all his life in freedom, and where, after all her adventures, Tasmin must finally decide where her future lies. With a cast of characters that includes almost every major real-life figure of the West, Folly and Glory is a novel that represents the culmination of a great and unique four-volume saga of the early days of the West; it is one of Larry McMurtry’s finest achievements.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44245Tue, 04 May 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Folly and Glory: A Novel Series: #4 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Folly and Glory: A Novel Series: #4 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 4, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West” (The New York Times Book Review). As this finale opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers, English, American, and Native American. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. Neither does anyone else—even Captain Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, is puzzled by the great changes sweeping over the West, replacing Native Americans and buffalo with towns and farms. In the meantime, Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans, where he meets up with a muscular giant named Juppy, who turns out to be one of Lord Berrybender’s many illegitimate offspring, and in whose company they make their way back to Santa Fe. But even they are unable to prevent the Mexicans from carrying the Berrybender family on a long and terrible journey across the desert to Vera Cruz. Starving, dying of thirst, and in constant, bloody battle with slavers pursuing them, the Berrybenders finally make their way to civilization—if New Orleans of the time can be called that—where Jim Snow has to choose between Tasmin and the great American plains, on which he has lived all his life in freedom, and where, after all her adventures, Tasmin must finally decide where her future lies. With a cast of characters that includes almost every major real-life figure of the West, Folly and Glory is a novel that represents the culmination of a great and unique four-volume saga of the early days of the West; it is one of Larry McMurtry’s finest achievements.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ransom-by-danielle-steel--65311851https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ransom Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ransom Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ransom Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-know-this-much-is-true-by-wally-lamb--65311803https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know This Much Is True Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Ken Howard Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 10, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.01 of Total 76 Ratings of Narrator: 3.29 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection ''Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget.''  — USA Today Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know This Much Is True Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Ken Howard Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 10, 2004...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Know This Much Is True Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Ken Howard Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 10, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.01 of Total 76 Ratings of Narrator: 3.29 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection ''Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget.''  — USA Today Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sacred-time-a-novel-by-ursula-hegi--65311937https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sacred Time: A Novel Author: Ursula Hegi Narrator: Annabella Sciorra, Mercedes Ruehl, Bobby Cannavale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imaginatin, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead, he gets a very different present: his uncle Malcolm's family. Malcolm is in jail for stealing -- once again -- from his latest new job, and Anthony's aunt and twin cousins settle into the Amedeos' fifth floor walk-up. Sharing a room with girls is excruciating for Anthony, despite his affinity for the twins. But the real change in Anthony's life comes one evening when he causes the unthinkable to happen, changing each family member's life forever. Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, Sacred Time spans three generations, taking us from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. Keenly observing the dark side of family -- and its gracefulness -- Hegi has outdone herself with this captivating novel about childhood's tenderness and the landscape of loneliness. Hegi reveals how the transforming power of a singular event can reverberate through a family for generations.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33200Mon, 01 Dec 2003 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sacred Time: A Novel Author: Ursula Hegi Narrator: Annabella Sciorra, Mercedes Ruehl, Bobby Cannavale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sacred Time: A Novel Author: Ursula Hegi Narrator: Annabella Sciorra, Mercedes Ruehl, Bobby Cannavale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imaginatin, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead, he gets a very different present: his uncle Malcolm's family. Malcolm is in jail for stealing -- once again -- from his latest new job, and Anthony's aunt and twin cousins settle into the Amedeos' fifth floor walk-up. Sharing a room with girls is excruciating for Anthony, despite his affinity for the twins. But the real change in Anthony's life comes one evening when he causes the unthinkable to happen, changing each family member's life forever. Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, Sacred Time spans three generations, taking us from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. Keenly observing the dark side of family -- and its gracefulness -- Hegi has outdone herself with this captivating novel about childhood's tenderness and the landscape of loneliness. Hegi reveals how the transforming power of a singular event can reverberate through a family for generations.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/by-sorrow-s-river-a-novel-by-larry-mcmurtry--65311888https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By Sorrow's River: A Novel Series: #3 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: November 4, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.32 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right with the return of the formidable, young Tasmin Berrybender. At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the “Sin Killer” and mother to their young son, Monty. By Sorrow’s River continues the Berrybender party’s trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where they intend, those who are lucky enough to survive the journey, to spend the winter. They meet up with a vast array of characters from the history of the West: Kit Carson, the famous scout; Le Partezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief; two aristocratic Frenchmen, whose eccentric aim is to cross the Great Plains by hot air balloon; a party of slavers; a band of raiding Pawnee; and many other astonishing characters who prove, once again, that the rolling, grassy plains are not, in fact, nearly as empty of life as they look. Most of what is there is dangerous and hostile, even when faced with Tasmin’s remarkable, frosty sangfroid. She is one of the strongest and most interesting of Larry McMurtry’s characters, and she stands at the center of this powerful and ambitious novel of the West.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44935Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By Sorrow's River: A Novel Series: #3 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By Sorrow's River: A Novel Series: #3 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: November 4, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.32 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right with the return of the formidable, young Tasmin Berrybender. At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the “Sin Killer” and mother to their young son, Monty. By Sorrow’s River continues the Berrybender party’s trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where they intend, those who are lucky enough to survive the journey, to spend the winter. They meet up with a vast array of characters from the history of the West: Kit Carson, the famous scout; Le Partezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief; two aristocratic Frenchmen, whose eccentric aim is to cross the Great Plains by hot air balloon; a party of slavers; a band of raiding Pawnee; and many other astonishing characters who prove, once again, that the rolling, grassy plains are not, in fact, nearly as empty of life as they look. Most of what is there is dangerous and hostile, even when faced with Tasmin’s remarkable, frosty sangfroid. She is one of the strongest and most interesting of Larry McMurtry’s characters, and she stands at the center of this powerful and ambitious novel of the West.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/safe-harbour-by-danielle-steel--65311873https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Harbour Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 14, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring —and keep— families together... On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, Ophélie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to draw—and can't help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, Ophélie is thrown off balance by her daughter's new companion—until she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and Ophélie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, Ophélie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen Ophélie and Matt's friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, Ophélie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events reverberate in two already wounded hearts, something extraordinary happens. Out of the darkness that has shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope. With grace and compassion, Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, family members and lifelong friends. Her haunting, impassioned novel takes us across the complex landscape of loss—to the blessings that arise from even the darkest tragedies. At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Harbour Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 14, 2003 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Harbour Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 14, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.03 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring —and keep— families together... On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, Ophélie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to draw—and can't help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, Ophélie is thrown off balance by her daughter's new companion—until she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and Ophélie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, Ophélie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen Ophélie and Matt's friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, Ophélie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events reverberate in two already wounded hearts, something extraordinary happens. Out of the darkness that has shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope. With grace and compassion, Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, family members and lifelong friends. Her haunting, impassioned novel takes us across the complex landscape of loss—to the blessings that arise from even the darkest tragedies. At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/johnny-angel-by-danielle-steel--65311867https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Angel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them. Johnny Angel With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall, lanky Johnny had a future filled with promise--until he stepped into a car on prom night, dazzling in his rented tux, and in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that follow, Johnny’s family and high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No one is more devastated than Johnny’s mother, Alice, whose oldest son owned her heart from the day he was born. But amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen to the Peterson family, something that will alter the course of each of their lives. When a sudden illness sends Alice to the hospital, a glorious vision comes to her in her dreams. There, standing before her, is Johnny himself, with that familiar twinkle in his eye, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her splintered family. For Alice, seeing her marvelous lost boy is a miracle she can’t quite believe but is more than willing to embrace. In the weeks to come, Johnny will appear in the most unlikely places, visible only to the two people who need him most: his nine-year-old brother, locked in a silent world, whose special needs Johnny always seemed to understand…and his mother, who has always nurtured her family, but who now needs a guardian angel of her own. Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother’s side, leaving miracles in his wake, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister, and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever. An unforgettable story of loving and letting go, of mixed blessings and second chances, Johnny Angel is a celebration of life, hope, and forgiveness. It will make you laugh and cry…and hold your loved ones just a little bit closer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435Tue, 01 Jul 2003 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Angel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 1, 2003 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Angel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them. Johnny Angel With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall, lanky Johnny had a future filled with promise--until he stepped into a car on prom night, dazzling in his rented tux, and in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that follow, Johnny’s family and high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No one is more devastated than Johnny’s mother, Alice, whose oldest son owned her heart from the day he was born. But amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen to the Peterson family, something that will alter the course of each of their lives. When a sudden illness sends Alice to the hospital, a glorious vision comes to her in her dreams. There, standing before her, is Johnny himself, with that familiar twinkle in his eye, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her splintered family. For Alice, seeing her marvelous lost boy is a miracle she can’t quite believe but is more than willing to embrace. In the weeks to come, Johnny will appear in the most unlikely places, visible only to the two people who need him most: his nine-year-old brother, locked in a silent world, whose special needs Johnny always seemed to understand…and his mother, who has always nurtured her family, but who now needs a guardian angel of her own. Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother’s side, leaving miracles in his wake, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister, and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever. An unforgettable story of loving and letting go, of mixed blessings and second chances, Johnny Angel is a celebration of life, hope, and forgiveness. It will make you laugh and cry…and hold your loved ones just a little bit closer.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dating-game-by-danielle-steel--65311886https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dating Game Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Sam Freed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game. Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn’t imagine what he was about to say. “I want a divorce,” Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life. The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to “fix her up” with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move—as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone. Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchman—so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris’s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That’s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life’s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy. In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101Tue, 07 Jan 2003 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dating Game Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Sam Freed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2003 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dating Game Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Sam Freed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game. Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn’t imagine what he was about to say. “I want a divorce,” Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life. The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to “fix her up” with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move—as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone. Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchman—so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris’s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That’s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life’s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy. In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sunset-in-st-tropez-by-danielle-steel--65311853https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset In St. Tropez Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 25, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her 55th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores the seasons of an extraordinary friendship, weaving the story of three couples, lifelong friends, for whom a month’s holiday in St. Tropez becomes a summer of change, revelation, secrets, surprises, and new beginnings . . . As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year’s Eve together was a sacred tradition for Diana, her husband of thirty-two years, Eric, and their best friends, Pascale and John Donnally and Anne and Robert Smith. The future looked rosy as the long-time friends sipped champagne and talked of renting a villa together in the South of France the following summer. But life had other plans . . . Just two weeks after New Year’s, tragedy strikes the heart of their close circle, as Robert Smith suffers a sudden, unexpected loss. Without hesitation, Diana and Eric, Pascale and John rally to his side, united in their support, love, and shared grief. Convinced that a change of scenery is just what Robert needs, they urge him to join them on the Riviera in August. But as they soon discover, the ramshackle old mansion they rented in St. Tropez--sight unseen--is far different from the exquisite villa and sun-drenched gardens touted in the brochure. Cobwebs hang from the ceiling. Beds collapse beneath them. All while a would-be housekeeper in a leopard-skin bikini and six-inch heels sashays through the house with a trio of yapping poodles at her heels. But the biggest surprise of all is the woman Robert invites to the villa as his guest--a lovely, much-younger film actress with mile-long legs and a million-dollar smile. Diana and Pascale hate her on sight. But the men are dazzled. And amid the crumbling furniture and the glorious sunsets, the strained relationships and the acts of forgiveness, more surprises are in store for the villa’s occupants. With the last days of summer fast approaching, each couple finds themselves changing in unexpected ways, as old wounds are healed, new love discovered, and miracles unfold...all beneath the dazzling sun of St. Tropez. By turns wise and moving, heartbreaking and wickedly funny, Danielle Steel’s new novel is about forgiving without forgetting, about the sorrow that shadows our lives and the hope that saves us. And it is about once-in-a-lifetime friendships . . .the kind that heal, sustain, and change us forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset In St. Tropez Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 25, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset In St. Tropez Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 25, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her 55th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores the seasons of an extraordinary friendship, weaving the story of three couples, lifelong friends, for whom a month’s holiday in St. Tropez becomes a summer of change, revelation, secrets, surprises, and new beginnings . . . As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year’s Eve together was a sacred tradition for Diana, her husband of thirty-two years, Eric, and their best friends, Pascale and John Donnally and Anne and Robert Smith. The future looked rosy as the long-time friends sipped champagne and talked of renting a villa together in the South of France the following summer. But life had other plans . . . Just two weeks after New Year’s, tragedy strikes the heart of their close circle, as Robert Smith suffers a sudden, unexpected loss. Without hesitation, Diana and Eric, Pascale and John rally to his side, united in their support, love, and shared grief. Convinced that a change of scenery is just what Robert needs, they urge him to join them on the Riviera in August. But as they soon discover, the ramshackle old mansion they rented in St. Tropez--sight unseen--is far different from the exquisite villa and sun-drenched gardens touted in the brochure. Cobwebs hang from the ceiling. Beds collapse beneath them. All while a would-be housekeeper in a leopard-skin bikini and six-inch heels sashays through the house with a trio of yapping poodles at her heels. But the biggest surprise of all is the woman Robert invites to the villa as his guest--a lovely, much-younger film actress with mile-long legs and a million-dollar smile. Diana and Pascale hate her on sight. But the men are dazzled. And amid the crumbling furniture and the glorious sunsets, the strained relationships and the acts of forgiveness, more surprises are in store for the villa’s occupants. With the last days of summer fast approaching, each couple finds themselves changing in unexpected ways, as old wounds are healed, new love discovered, and miracles unfold...all beneath the dazzling sun of St. Tropez. By turns wise and moving, heartbreaking and wickedly funny, Danielle Steel’s new novel is about forgiving without forgetting, about the sorrow that shadows our lives and the hope that saves us. And it is about once-in-a-lifetime friendships . . .the kind that heal, sustain, and change us forever.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sin-killer-by-larry-mcmurtry--65311891https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sin Killer Series: #1 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.44 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place—is on its way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their home in England to broaden the horizons for themselves and their three children. With irascible determination—and a great deal of outright chaos—the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers, explorers, pioneers, and one part-time preacher known as 'the Sin Killer.' Sin Killer, the strong, silent Westerner, captures the heart of the strong-willed, beautiful Berrybender daughter, Tasmin. But their fast developing relationship can only bring more trouble for the Berrybender's. Packed with breathtaking adventure, charming romance, and a sense of humor stretching clear over the horizon, Sin Killer is a truly unique view of the West that could only come from the boundless skill and imagination of Larry McMurtry.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44932Wed, 01 May 2002 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sin Killer Series: #1 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sin Killer Series: #1 of Berrybender Narratives Author: Larry McMurtry Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.44 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place—is on its way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their home in England to broaden the horizons for themselves and their three children. With irascible determination—and a great deal of outright chaos—the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers, explorers, pioneers, and one part-time preacher known as 'the Sin Killer.' Sin Killer, the strong, silent Westerner, captures the heart of the strong-willed, beautiful Berrybender daughter, Tasmin. But their fast developing relationship can only bring more trouble for the Berrybender's. Packed with breathtaking adventure, charming romance, and a sense of humor stretching clear over the horizon, Sin Killer is a truly unique view of the West that could only come from the boundless skill and imagination of Larry McMurtry.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nanny-diaries-by-nicola-kraus-emma-mclaughlin--65311807https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nanny Diaries Author: Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 29, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 88 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Based on the real-life experiences and the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets—the nannies. The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America's overprivileged raise les petits—as if grooming them for a best-of-show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class to tackle head-on the truer state of backstairs Park Avenue. Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic apartment, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved in ensuring that a Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day. When the Xes' marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny's nearly impossible mission becomes maintaining the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity, and most importantly, her sense of humor. Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nanny Diaries Author: Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nanny Diaries Author: Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 29, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 88 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Based on the real-life experiences and the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets—the nannies. The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America's overprivileged raise les petits—as if grooming them for a best-of-show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class to tackle head-on the truer state of backstairs Park Avenue. Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic apartment, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved in ensuring that a Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day. When the Xes' marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny's nearly impossible mission becomes maintaining the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity, and most importantly, her sense of humor. Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/answered-prayers-by-danielle-steel--65311941https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Answered Prayers Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one woman’s struggle to break free from the past—and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers. On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself. For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather—a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reach—that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back—and an old friend reenters Faith’s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: “Fred.” Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jack’s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves “The Three Musketeers” as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faith’s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husband’s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faith’s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herself—and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that heal—and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427Tue, 01 Jan 2002 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Answered Prayers Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Answered Prayers Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one woman’s struggle to break free from the past—and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers. On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself. For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather—a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reach—that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back—and an old friend reenters Faith’s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: “Fred.” Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jack’s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves “The Three Musketeers” as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faith’s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husband’s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faith’s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herself—and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that heal—and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cottage-by-danielle-steel--65311862https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cottage Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles . . . and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide. On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as The Cottage. Modeled after the “cottages” of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywood’s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. He’s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house.  His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy O’Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Mark’s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Mark’s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly, The Cottage is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop. But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends . . . and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coop’s budding romance with a wealthy debutante. . . A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news. . . . A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates. . . . And in the midst of it all, The Cottage welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coop’s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslow–loner, bachelor, movie star–may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been. Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances . . . of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433Tue, 01 Jan 2002 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cottage Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cottage Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: David Garrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles . . . and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide. On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as The Cottage. Modeled after the “cottages” of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywood’s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. He’s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house.  His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy O’Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Mark’s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Mark’s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly, The Cottage is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop. But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends . . . and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coop’s budding romance with a wealthy debutante. . . A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news. . . . A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates. . . . And in the midst of it all, The Cottage welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coop’s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslow–loner, bachelor, movie star–may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been. Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances . . . of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/skipping-christmas-a-novel-by-john-grisham--65311871https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skipping Christmas: A Novel Author: John Grisham Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 6, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.65 of Total 86 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences–and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined. A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52482Tue, 06 Nov 2001 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skipping Christmas: A Novel Author: John Grisham Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skipping Christmas: A Novel Author: John Grisham Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 6, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.65 of Total 86 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences–and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined. A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-corrections-by-jonathan-franzen--65311915https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 1, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.86 of Total 70 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -- a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man -- or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33128Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 1, 2001...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 1, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.86 of Total 70 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -- a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man -- or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/leap-of-faith-by-danielle-steel--65311859https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leap of Faith Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 12, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal. Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Château de Marmouton. In Marie-Ange's isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education — and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to Château de Marmouton. When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the château's new owner is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a dashing young widower who invites her into his home, then into his heart. But their magical life together, which soon includes marriage, children, and lavish homes, slowly takes an ominous turn. A mysterious woman tells Marie-Ange a shocking story, a story so chilling she doesn't want to believe it. Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now. He is thousands of miles away. And as the darkness gathers around her, Marie-Ange must find the faith and courage to take one, last desperate step to save her loved ones ... and herself. Danielle Steel's powerful new novel is about being pulled into a place where nothing is what it seems. It is about being seduced and lied to and turned around, and wanting to believe the lies — until the moment comes, in one blinding instant, when survival and salvation depend on a final Leap of Faith: the only path to freedom, and life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leap of Faith Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 12, 2001 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leap of Faith Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 12, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal. Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Château de Marmouton. In Marie-Ange's isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education — and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to Château de Marmouton. When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the château's new owner is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a dashing young widower who invites her into his home, then into his heart. But their magical life together, which soon includes marriage, children, and lavish homes, slowly takes an ominous turn. A mysterious woman tells Marie-Ange a shocking story, a story so chilling she doesn't want to believe it. Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now. He is thousands of miles away. And as the darkness gathers around her, Marie-Ange must find the faith and courage to take one, last desperate step to save her loved ones ... and herself. Danielle Steel's powerful new novel is about being pulled into a place where nothing is what it seems. It is about being seduced and lied to and turned around, and wanting to believe the lies — until the moment comes, in one blinding instant, when survival and salvation depend on a final Leap of Faith: the only path to freedom, and life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lone-eagle-by-danielle-steel--65311844https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lone Eagle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3081 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 51st bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken.  It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free... The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon.  Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-five years before.  What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn't expect.  As the snow continued to fall, Kate's mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met.  She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she'd ever known. It was just days before Christmas, 1940.  The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City.  In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye.  At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs.  All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star- just out of reach.  Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find.  As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives.  Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe.  Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation.  Joe's planes are his life, his passion.  But irresistably drawn to her, moth moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate.  Even after the long dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns.  Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away.  As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life. When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family.  Joes wants the world, his limitless horizon, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life.  But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives. Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breaths life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives.  With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise.  The joinging of two remarkable halves into a single far more powerful whole.  It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lone Eagle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lone Eagle Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 10, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3081 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 51st bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken.  It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free... The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon.  Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-five years before.  What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn't expect.  As the snow continued to fall, Kate's mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met.  She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she'd ever known. It was just days before Christmas, 1940.  The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City.  In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye.  At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs.  All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star- just out of reach.  Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find.  As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives.  Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe.  Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation.  Joe's planes are his life, his passion.  But irresistably drawn to her, moth moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate.  Even after the long dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns.  Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away.  As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life. When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family.  Joes wants the world, his limitless horizon, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life.  But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives. Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breaths life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives.  With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise.  The joinging of two remarkable halves into a single far more powerful whole.  It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-kiss-by-danielle-steel--65311863https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kiss Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 2, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 67 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole. On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of pasengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still—until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus's tremendous weight. And a long journey begins—toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future... Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a godsend, a woman of extraordinary beauty and intellectual curiosity—a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift, a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave and will not betray. Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, amidst the sudden crash of steel against steel, they are thrust onto a new path, a path fraught with pain but also with possibility. Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body, spirit, and heart. Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabell, a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill, a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel and realities that will test him to his core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever. In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kiss Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 2, 2001 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kiss Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 2, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 67 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole. On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of pasengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still—until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus's tremendous weight. And a long journey begins—toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future... Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a godsend, a woman of extraordinary beauty and intellectual curiosity—a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift, a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave and will not betray. Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, amidst the sudden crash of steel against steel, they are thrust onto a new path, a path fraught with pain but also with possibility. Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body, spirit, and heart. Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabell, a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill, a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel and realities that will test him to his core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever. In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/journey-by-danielle-steel--65311895https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 31, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges. Maddy has always tried to deny Jack’s subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation — as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep. It seems impossible that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Maddy’s secrets are well kept, even from herself. Maddy’s healing begins when she joins the First Lady’s Commission on Violence Against Women. There, she hears eerily familiar stories from terrified wives and girlfriends. And there she comes to know Bill Alexander, a distinguished diplomat. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddy’s marriage and begs her to open her eyes. As she takes the first steps toward freedom, a remarkable series of events unfolds ... a stranger from Maddy’s past reappears ... White House headlines bring the nation to a standstill ... and a devastating tragedy forces Maddy to realize how much has been taken from her. Faced with the most difficult choice of her life, Maddy finds a strength she never knew she had and a gift that will change her life forever. With wisdom and compassion, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel reminds us that no one is exempt from the effects of abuse, in its subtlest forms. But at its core, Journey is a book about hope, about change, and about daring to be free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 31, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 31, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges. Maddy has always tried to deny Jack’s subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation — as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep. It seems impossible that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Maddy’s secrets are well kept, even from herself. Maddy’s healing begins when she joins the First Lady’s Commission on Violence Against Women. There, she hears eerily familiar stories from terrified wives and girlfriends. And there she comes to know Bill Alexander, a distinguished diplomat. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddy’s marriage and begs her to open her eyes. As she takes the first steps toward freedom, a remarkable series of events unfolds ... a stranger from Maddy’s past reappears ... White House headlines bring the nation to a standstill ... and a devastating tragedy forces Maddy to realize how much has been taken from her. Faced with the most difficult choice of her life, Maddy finds a strength she never knew she had and a gift that will change her life forever. With wisdom and compassion, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel reminds us that no one is exempt from the effects of abuse, in its subtlest forms. But at its core, Journey is a book about hope, about change, and about daring to be free.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-long-road-home-by-danielle-steel--65311898https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Road Home Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Anthony Fusco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit. From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse.  At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents' life.  But she can't resist the magic.  Later, she waits for the click, click, click of her mother's high heels, the angry words, and the pain that will follow.  Gabriella already knows to hide her bruises, certain she is to blame for her mother's rage--and her father's failure to protect her.  Her world is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal, and pain.  Her parents' aristocratic world is no safeguard against the abuse that knows no boundaries, respects no person, no economic lines.  Gabriella knows that, try as she might, there is no safe place for her to hide. Even as a child, her only escape is through the stories she writes.  Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world.  And when her parents' marriage collapses, Gabriella is given her first reprieve, as her father disappears, and then her mother abandons her to a convent.  There, Gabriella's battered body and soul begin to mend.  Amid the quiet safety and hushed rituals of the nuns, Gabriella grows into womanhood in a safe, peaceful world.  Then a young priest comes into her life.   Father Joe Connors never questioned his vocation until Gabriella entered the confessional and shared her soul.  Confession leads to friendship.  And friendship grows dangerously into love.  Like Gabriella, Joe is haunted by the pain of his childhood, consumed by guilt over a family tragedy, for which he blames himself.  With Gabriella, Joe takes the first steps toward healing.  But their relationship leads to tragedy as Joe must choose between the priesthood and Gabriella, and life in the real world where he fears he does not belong, and cannot cope. Exiled and disgraced, and nearly destroyed, Gabriella struggles to survive on her own in New York.  There she seeks healing and escape through her writing again, this time as an adult, and her life as a writer begins.  But just when she thinks she is beyond hurt, Gabriella is once again betrayed by someone she trusts.  Brought to the edge of despair, physically attacked beyond recognition and belief, haunted by abuse in her present and her past, she nonetheless manages to find hope again, and the courage to face the past.  On a pilgrimage destined to bring her face-to-face with those who sought to destroy her in her early life, she finds forgiveness, freedom from guilt, and healing from abuse.  When Gabriella faces what was done to her, and why, she herself is free at last.   With profound insight, Danielle Steel has created a vivid portrait of an abused child's broken world, and the courage necessary to face it and free herself from the past.  A work of daring and compassion, a tale of healing that will shock and touch and move you to your very soul, it exposes the terror of child abuse, and opens the doors on a subject that affects us all.  The Long Road Home is more than riveting fiction.  It is an inspiration to us all.  A work of courage, hope, and love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238184Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Road Home Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Anthony Fusco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Road Home Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Anthony Fusco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit. From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse.  At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents' life.  But she can't resist the magic.  Later, she waits for the click, click, click of her mother's high heels, the angry words, and the pain that will follow.  Gabriella already knows to hide her bruises, certain she is to blame for her mother's rage--and her father's failure to protect her.  Her world is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal, and pain.  Her parents' aristocratic world is no safeguard against the abuse that knows no boundaries, respects no person, no economic lines.  Gabriella knows that, try as she might, there is no safe place for her to hide. Even as a child, her only escape is through the stories she writes.  Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world.  And when her parents' marriage collapses, Gabriella is given her first reprieve, as her father disappears, and then her mother abandons her to a convent.  There, Gabriella's battered body and soul begin to mend.  Amid the quiet safety and hushed rituals of the nuns, Gabriella grows into womanhood in a safe, peaceful world.  Then a young priest comes into her life.   Father Joe Connors never questioned his vocation until Gabriella entered the confessional and shared her soul.  Confession leads to friendship.  And friendship grows dangerously into love.  Like Gabriella, Joe is haunted by the pain of his childhood, consumed by guilt over a family tragedy, for which he blames himself.  With Gabriella, Joe takes the first steps toward healing.  But their relationship leads to tragedy as Joe must choose between the priesthood and Gabriella, and life in the real world where he fears he does not belong, and cannot cope. Exiled and disgraced, and nearly destroyed, Gabriella struggles to survive on her own in New York.  There she seeks healing and escape through her writing again, this time as an adult, and her life as a writer begins.  But just when she thinks she is beyond hurt, Gabriella is once again betrayed by someone she trusts.  Brought to the edge of despair, physically attacked beyond recognition and belief, haunted by abuse in her present and her past, she nonetheless manages to find hope again, and the courage to face the past.  On a pilgrimage destined to bring her face-to-face with those who sought to destroy her in her early life, she finds forgiveness, freedom from guilt, and healing from abuse.  When Gabriella faces what was done to her, and why, she herself is free at last.   With profound insight, Danielle Steel has created a vivid portrait of an abused child's broken world, and the courage necessary to face it and free herself from the past.  A work of daring and compassion, a tale of healing that will shock and touch and move you to your very soul, it exposes the terror of child abuse, and opens the doors on a subject that affects us all.  The Long Road Home is more than riveting fiction.  It is an inspiration to us all.  A work of courage, hope, and love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wedding-a-novel-by-danielle-steel--65311884https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wedding: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: J.R. Horne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Simon Steinberg and Blaire Scott are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. He is a major producer, she an award-winning writer for television. Their oldest daughter, Allegra, is an entertainment lawyer with a career that consumes too much of her time, until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns her life upside down and she is suddenly planning a wedding. As preparations begin and the ever-increasing anxiety of the preparations brings out both the best and the worst in everyone, couples in each generation of the Steinberg family struggle with broken vows, new hopes, and the real meaning of Allegra's wedding. For both families, it is an opportunity for reconciliation, forgiveness, and new hope for the future. 'A compelling portrait of real people in an unreal world from one of the world's most popular authors.' (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wedding: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: J.R. Horne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wedding: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: J.R. Horne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Simon Steinberg and Blaire Scott are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. He is a major producer, she an award-winning writer for television. Their oldest daughter, Allegra, is an entertainment lawyer with a career that consumes too much of her time, until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns her life upside down and she is suddenly planning a wedding. As preparations begin and the ever-increasing anxiety of the preparations brings out both the best and the worst in everyone, couples in each generation of the Steinberg family struggle with broken vows, new hopes, and the real meaning of Allegra's wedding. For both families, it is an opportunity for reconciliation, forgiveness, and new hope for the future. 'A compelling portrait of real people in an unreal world from one of the world's most popular authors.' (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/silent-honor-by-danielle-steel--65311883https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silent Honor Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.79 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history.   A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife’s belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Hiroko, torn between her mother’s traditions and her father’s wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.   From the ship, she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world. Her cousins had become more American than Japanese. And much to Hiroko’s surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle’s assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new.   On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land.   On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will. Takeo and his family are given ten days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face their destinies there. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives.   Danielle Steel portrays not only the human cost of that terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them. Silent Honor reveals the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government . . . and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50363Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silent Honor Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silent Honor Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.79 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history.   A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife’s belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Hiroko, torn between her mother’s traditions and her father’s wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.   From the ship, she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world. Her cousins had become more American than Japanese. And much to Hiroko’s surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle’s assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new.   On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land.   On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will. Takeo and his family are given ten days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face their destinies there. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives.   Danielle Steel portrays not only the human cost of that terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them. Silent Honor reveals the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government . . . and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mirror-image-by-danielle-steel--65311868https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror Image Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: John Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Henderson's life and family. Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that, for the sake of his son, he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever; and took one of the twins to the battlefields of France, the other into a marriage she longed for but could not have. From Manhattan society to the trenches of war-ravaged France, Mirror Image moves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled era. With startling insight, Danielle Steel explores women's choices: between home and adventure, between the love for family and the passion for a cause, between sacrifice and desire. But at the heart of Mirror Image is a fascinating, realistic portrait of identical twins, two vastly different sisters who lead their lives and follow their destinies against a vivid backdrop of a world at war.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror Image Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: John Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror Image Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: John Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Henderson's life and family. Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that, for the sake of his son, he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever; and took one of the twins to the battlefields of France, the other into a marriage she longed for but could not have. From Manhattan society to the trenches of war-ravaged France, Mirror Image moves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled era. With startling insight, Danielle Steel explores women's choices: between home and adventure, between the love for family and the passion for a cause, between sacrifice and desire. But at the heart of Mirror Image is a fascinating, realistic portrait of identical twins, two vastly different sisters who lead their lives and follow their destinies against a vivid backdrop of a world at war.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/granny-dan-by-danielle-steel--65311864https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny Dan Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Lewis Arlt, Patrice Donnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . . The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrived at a ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of seven. By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. But events both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war, an extraordinary man, and a devastating illness altered the course of her life. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice—as the world around her was about to change forever. Granny Dan is about the magic of history. In it, Danielle Steel reminds us how little we know of those who came before us—and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives, and see who they once were, there is so much we would understand and learn. For in this extraordinary novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all: an unexpected gift of a life transformed, a long-forgotten history of youth and beauty, love and dreams.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny Dan Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Lewis Arlt, Patrice Donnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny Dan Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Lewis Arlt, Patrice Donnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . . The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrived at a ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of seven. By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. But events both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war, an extraordinary man, and a devastating illness altered the course of her life. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice—as the world around her was about to change forever. Granny Dan is about the magic of history. In it, Danielle Steel reminds us how little we know of those who came before us—and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives, and see who they once were, there is so much we would understand and learn. For in this extraordinary novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all: an unexpected gift of a life transformed, a long-forgotten history of youth and beauty, love and dreams.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/while-i-was-gone-by-sue-miller--65311845https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While I Was Gone Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife. In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.   Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust--if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it--she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves. While I Was Gone is an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While I Was Gone Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While I Was Gone Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife. In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.   Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust--if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it--she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves. While I Was Gone is an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-on-hope-street-by-danielle-steel--65311837https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Hope Street Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 49th bestselling novel is a story of courage and loss, of the power of family and the strength of the human soul. Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable loss. How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend? How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, including one with special needs of his own? Powered by her children's love, Liz finds the strength to return to work, to become both mother and "daddy," coaching her youngest son for the Special Olympics. And one by one the holidays come and go before her eyes: Valentine's Day without flowers and without Jack...Easter...July 4.... Then, just weeks before Labor Day, a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospital—and brings a doctor named Bill Webster into her life. Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son. And as the long days of summer blend into fall, a new relationship offers new hope, and Liz reflects on what she has, on what she's lost, on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else is left. Then, with the first anniversary of her husband's death approaching, and with it another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning and change—and ahead to the beginning of a new life. The House on Hope Street is about learning to live again after you think life is over, about getting up when you have been knocked down, again and again. It is about cherishing small miracles, and believing in big ones. It is above all about hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Hope Street Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Hope Street Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Joseph Siravo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Danielle Steel's 49th bestselling novel is a story of courage and loss, of the power of family and the strength of the human soul. Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable loss. How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend? How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, including one with special needs of his own? Powered by her children's love, Liz finds the strength to return to work, to become both mother and "daddy," coaching her youngest son for the Special Olympics. And one by one the holidays come and go before her eyes: Valentine's Day without flowers and without Jack...Easter...July 4.... Then, just weeks before Labor Day, a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospital—and brings a doctor named Bill Webster into her life. Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son. And as the long days of summer blend into fall, a new relationship offers new hope, and Liz reflects on what she has, on what she's lost, on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else is left. Then, with the first anniversary of her husband's death approaching, and with it another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning and change—and ahead to the beginning of a new life. The House on Hope Street is about learning to live again after you think life is over, about getting up when you have been knocked down, again and again. It is about cherishing small miracles, and believing in big ones. It is above all about hope.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dangerous-kiss-a-lucky-santangelo-novel-by-jackie-collins--65311897https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dangerous Kiss: A Lucky Santangelo Novel Series: #5 of Lucky Santangelo Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 1999 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international bestsellers—Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge—returns in Dangerous Kiss. In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family; in Lucky, she was married three times; in Lady Boss, she took on Hollywood and bought Panther Studios; and in Vendetta, she fought off a lifelong enemy to keep the studio, and her husband. Now, in Dangerous Kiss, when a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random holdup, her fury knows no bounds. While she is tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband, charismatic writer and director Lennie Golden, is put to the test. Then, suddenly, into her life comes a man from her past—a man with a dangerous kiss. Dangerous Kiss is a story of raw anger, love, lust, murder, and revenge, and at its white-hot center is Lucky Santangelo, a strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances—and always wins.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46802Tue, 01 Jun 1999 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dangerous Kiss: A Lucky Santangelo Novel Series: #5 of Lucky Santangelo Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dangerous Kiss: A Lucky Santangelo Novel Series: #5 of Lucky Santangelo Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 1999 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international bestsellers—Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge—returns in Dangerous Kiss. In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family; in Lucky, she was married three times; in Lady Boss, she took on Hollywood and bought Panther Studios; and in Vendetta, she fought off a lifelong enemy to keep the studio, and her husband. Now, in Dangerous Kiss, when a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random holdup, her fury knows no bounds. While she is tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband, charismatic writer and director Lennie Golden, is put to the test. Then, suddenly, into her life comes a man from her past—a man with a dangerous kiss. Dangerous Kiss is a story of raw anger, love, lust, murder, and revenge, and at its white-hot center is Lucky Santangelo, a strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances—and always wins.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/christmas-box-by-richard-paul-evans--65311921https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Box Series: Part of Christmas Box Trilogy Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release date: December 1, 1995 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A beautifully packaged 30th anniversary edition of #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans’s classic tale of faith, hope, and Christmas miracles. Thirty years ago, Richard Paul Evans wrote a small Christmas tale for his two young daughters—an expression of love celebrating the joy of fatherhood and the beauty of childhood. Evans printed a couple dozen copies of his book and shared it with family and friends, which they began sharing with their loved ones. As demand for his book grew, Evans printed up copies of his sweet tale and began selling them at local stores in Salt Lake City. Within a few years, what began as a private expression of love for his two young daughters evolved into a beloved gift whose popularity quickly spread throughout the world. Soon, his masterpiece became a global phenomenon, becoming one of the most bestselling books of the century. Now, this special anniversary edition brings this heartwarming novel to a new generation. The moving and unforgettable story of a widow and the young family who come to live with her is a modern classic you’ll want to share with all your loved ones from the “king of Christmas fiction” (The New York Times).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33097Fri, 01 Dec 1995 07:11:38 +0000Andy RuntePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Box Series: Part of Christmas Box Trilogy Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Box Series: Part of Christmas Box Trilogy Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release date: December 1, 1995 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A beautifully packaged 30th anniversary edition of #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans’s classic tale of faith, hope, and Christmas miracles. Thirty years ago, Richard Paul Evans wrote a small Christmas tale for his two young daughters—an expression of love celebrating the joy of fatherhood and the beauty of childhood. Evans printed a couple dozen copies of his book and shared it with family and friends, which they began sharing with their loved ones. As demand for his book grew, Evans printed up copies of his sweet tale and began selling them at local stores in Salt Lake City. Within a few years, what began as a private expression of love for his two young daughters evolved into a beloved gift whose popularity quickly spread throughout the world. Soon, his masterpiece became a global phenomenon, becoming one of the most bestselling books of the century. Now, this special anniversary edition brings this heartwarming novel to a new generation. The moving and unforgettable story of a widow and the young family who come to live with her is a modern classic you’ll want to share with all your loved ones from the “king of Christmas fiction” (The New York Times).]]>185cleanfull