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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/416720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summer on Sag Harbor: A Novel Series: #2 of Summer Beach Author: Sunny Hostin Narrator: January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor in the second novel of her bestselling Summer series. Olivia Jones, hard-working and accomplished, has, against the odds, blazed an enviable career path in the finance world. But behind the veneer of her success, she is mourning several devastating losses and betrayals. Untethered from her life in New York City, Olivia moves to a summer home in The Hamptons. Here, Olivia finds a close-knit community of African American elites who escape New York City for the beautiful beaches of the Hamptons. Since the 1930s, very few have known about this Historically Black Beachfront Community, and the residents like it that way. That is, until real estate developers discover the hidden gem. And now, the residents must fight for the soul of this HBBC. As the summer stretches on, Olivia teams up with her new friends to protect their community and, in doing so, discovers who she really is. Though not without cost, Olivia’s search for her authentic identity and her fight to preserve her new Black utopia, will lead her to redefine the meaning of love, friendship, community, and family—and restore her faith in herself and her chosen path.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cancer Ladies’ Running Club Author: Josie Lloyd Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 13, 2021 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘Amazing, heartbreaking and inspiring’ Jenny Colgan ‘A love letter to the power of friendship, honest and uplifting’ Jill Mansell ‘A fiercely positive story, about the power of hope’ Mike Gayle ****** Sometimes we need our friends to help us find our feet… When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she doesn’t want to have to tell her family, or step back from work. She doesn’t want to sit in a hospital, or be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. But as she accepts that her health is no longer something she can rely on, Keira finds herself embracing running. And running in the company of a group of brilliant, funny women each going through treatment unexpectedly gives Keira the hope she needs. Because the C-word is not going to define Keira’s identity. And with the Cancer Ladies’ Running Club cheering her on, she’s going to reclaim her life. One step at a time. Life isn’t always the race we expected to run but this moving and uplifting novel is full of hope and about love, family, friendship and the power of finding your tribe. ****** ‘A wise, warm and wonderful novel … an incredibly moving, uplifting and hopeful story that looks at the power of finding your tribe. It will make you smile and love life just a little bit more’ Adele Parks, Platinum ‘Uplifting and positive, you will be cheering them along’ Prima ‘You’ll fall in love with Keira and her running buddies’ The Sun, Pick of the Week ‘Made me believe in life and in love. Hopeful and life-changing’ Katie Marsh, author of The Rest of Me ‘A beautiful story of friendship. I loved it’ Celia Anderson ‘An amazing story that shows us all the strength of the human spirit and the power of friendship. An inspiration!’ Magic Radio **Josie Lloyd’s heart-warming new novel, Lifesaving for Beginners, is available for pre-order now**

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Step to You Series: #1 of The Rome Novels Author: Federico Moccia Narrator: Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From an international bestselling author, this modern romance story explores whether distance and separation can ever keep true love apart. Published for the first time in English, One Step to You has captured the hearts of millions and garnered a dedicated fan base across the world. The Romeo and Juliet of their time, Babi and Step spend the best days of their lives together, but belonging to opposite worlds may eventually tear them apart forever. Just as in every other place in the world, teenagers in Rome, Italy, forge their own path separate from their parents. Some are hardworking and studious like Babi, a young girl waiting to find the love of her life. Then there are bad boys like Step, who are from the wrong side of the tracks. The Romeo and Juliet of their time, Babi and Step are from different worlds, want different things, but cannot help falling in love. Although their relationship won't be easy, their love may be the best thing to ever happen to them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not in the World: ‘compelling and profoundly moving’ Irish Times Author: Conor O'callaghan Narrator: Sam O'mahoney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 18, 2021 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent about the interwoven strengths and frailties of the human heart.' Kamila Shamsie Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man takes a job driving a haulage lorry through France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails. With a week on the road together, man and girl must attempt to restore themselves and each other, and to repair a relationship that is at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred. As the pair journey down the motorways and through the service stations of France, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations. PRAISE FOR WE ARE NOT IN THE WORLD: 'Wonderful, wrenching . . . full of enormous feelings very precisely rendered' Sara Baume 'A whirlpool of memories, regrets and hopes' Tim Pears 'An uncanny ability to turn the seemingly insignificant into something monumental' Jan Carson 'Unusual, utterly original and mysterious . . . definitely a 2020 must read' Elaine Feeney © Conor O'Callaghan 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make Yourself at Home Author: Ciara Geraghty Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It’s the last place she wants to be. It’s the only place left to go … ‘Hugely entertaining…an instantly engaging read, what you might get if you mixed Jojo Moyes with Marian Keyes’ Sunday Independent ‘A fabulous read…you’re immediately immersed’ Sheila O’Flanagan, bestselling author of The Women Who Ran Away ’A superb writer – the Irish Jojo Moyes’ Irish Examiner ‘Ciara Geraghty is a wonderful writer’ Hazel Gaynor, author of the Irish Times bestseller, The Bird in the Bamboo Cage Marianne left home when she was fifteen following a family tragedy, one that changed all their lives. She never planned to return. But when her carefully controlled life falls apart, she has no choice but to return to Ancaire, the ramshackle house overlooking the Irish Sea, where her mother, Rita, a flamboyant artist and recovering alcoholic still lives. As her mother invites her to pull up a chair and make herself at home, alongside the friends, family and neighbours who wander its rooms. Marianne discovers that sometimes home isn’t a house, it’s a place in your heart. Set on the wild Irish coast, with an unforgettable cast of characters, this deeply emotional novel is full of Ciara Geraghty’s trademark heart and poignancy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Exit: The brilliantly funny new crime novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of SNAP Author: Belinda Bauer Narrator: Tim Mcinnerny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The sensational new crime novel from the bestselling author of SNAP IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MURDER . . . Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it’s never too late . . . for life to go horribly wrong. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he’s there to perform an act of kindness and charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath . . . But just fifteen minutes later Felix is on the run from the police – after making the biggest mistake of his life. Now his routine world is turned upside down as he tries to discover what went wrong, while staying one step ahead of the law. Exit is the heart-pounding, heart-breaking, and often hilarious new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Belinda Bauer. 'Belinda Bauer's fiction teems with life.' Daily Telegraph 'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer.' C. L. Taylor ©Belinda Bauer 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nights When Nothing Happened: A Novel Author: Simon Han Narrator: James Chen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar “A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America “Absolutely luminous . . . Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga . . . Shocks, awes, and delights.” —Bryan Washington, author of Memorial From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn’t this what they sacrificed so much for? But then little Annabel begins to sleepwalk at night, putting into motion a string of misunderstandings that not only threaten to set their community against them but force to the surface the secrets that have made them fear one another. How can a man make peace with the terrors of his past? How can a child regain trust in unconditional love? How can a family stop burying its history and forge a way through it, to a more honest intimacy? Nights When Nothing Happened is gripping storytelling immersed in the crosscurrents that have reshaped the American landscape, from a prodigious new literary talent.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Archers: Ambridge At War Author: Catherine Miller Narrator: Patricia Hodge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 29, 2020 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the beloved radio show, Ambridge at War takes readers back to before it all began . . . ‘Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar’ Katie Fforde   It’s 1940 and war has broken out. It is midnight at the turn of the year, and Walter Gabriel speaks the same line that opened the very first radio episode –  'And a Happy New Year to you all!' For Ambridge, a village in the heart of the English countryside, this year will bring change in ways no one was expecting.   From the Pargetters at Lower Loxley to the loving, hard-working Archer family at Brookfield Farm, the war will be hard for all of them. And the New Year brings the arrival of evacuees to Ambridge, shaking things up in the close-knit rural community.   As the villagers embrace wartime spirit, the families that listeners have known and loved for generations face an uphill battle to keep their secrets hidden. Especially as someone is intent on revealing those secrets to the whole village . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419172 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noel Letters Series: #4 of The Noel Collection Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Helene Maksoud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans returns this holiday season with a tale of love, belonging, and family, following a trail of letters that leads to a Christmas revelation about the healing miracle of hope and forgiveness. After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and her future. She begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, and in doing so, starts to unravel the reality of her painful childhood and the truth about her family. As the holidays draw near, she receives a Christmastime revelation that changes not only how she sees the past but also how she views her future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leave the World Behind: A Novel Author: Rumaan Alam Narrator: Marin Ireland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 6, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 92 Ratings of Narrator: 4.58 of Total 24 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cuyahoga Author: Pete Beatty Narrator: Feodor Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 6, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel “Cuyahoga is tragic and comic, hilarious and inventive—a 19th-century legend for 21st-century America” (The Boston Globe). Big Son is a spirit of the times—the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey, but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his honest wife). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero hits the (dirt) streets of Ohio City and Cleveland, the twin towns racing to become the first great metropolis of the West. Their rivalry reaches a boil over the building of a bridge across the Cuyahoga River—and Big stumbles right into the kettle. The resulting misadventures involve elderly terrorists, infrastructure collapse, steamboat races, wild pigs, and multiple ruined weddings. Narrating this “very funny, rambunctious debut novel” (Los Angeles Times) tale is Medium Son—known as Meed—apprentice coffin maker, almanac author, orphan, and the younger brother of Big. Meed finds himself swept up in the action, and he is forced to choose between brotherly love and his own ambitions. His uncanny voice—plain but profound, colloquial but poetic—elevates a slapstick frontier tale into a “breezy fable of empire, class, conquest, and ecocide” (The New York Times Book Review). Evoking the Greek classics and the Bible alongside nods to Looney Tunes, Charles Portis, and Flannery O’Connor, Pete Beatty has written “a hilarious and moving exploration of family, home, and fate [and] you won’t read anything else like it this year” (BuzzFeed).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Orphan’s Sorrow Author: Cathy Sharp Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two orphans must battle heartache and despair in the latest novel from the bestselling author of An Orphan’s Courage and The Orphans of Halfpenny Street. Jonny has had a bad start in life and has been taken in by a neighbour after the death of his mother. Small for his age, he is prey to a band of local thugs so joins the boxing club and learns to defend himself. When a violent altercation ends in tragedy, Jonny runs away and meets a homeless young girl called Cassie, who has been living in an abandoned house ─ touched by her predicament, Jonny vows to look after her, whatever that takes. Cassie desperately needs love and a safe place to call home and there are kind hearts who want to help. But sometimes kindness isn’t enough and Jonny’s wish to help her won’t be easy. Will there be a light at the end of the tunnel for both of them?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Kyf Brewer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 385 Ratings of Narrator: 4.32 of Total 38 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In the romantic tradition of Dear John, an injured Navy doctor meets two extremely important women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved beehives, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local . . . yet, from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson that he can't ignore. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding. Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road. Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues—until a crisis triggers a race to uncover the true nature of Callie's past, one more intertwined with the elderly man's passing than Trevor could ever have imagined. In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness . . . and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Evening and the Morning Series: #4 of Kingsbridge Author: Ken Follett Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 283 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 74 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller An Amazon Best Book of 2020   The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages 'Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series.' --The Washington Post It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when his home is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. . . . A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and it soon becomes clear to her that a single misstep could be catastrophic. . . . A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power. Thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth. Now, Follett's masterful new prequel The Evening and the Morning takes us on an epic journey into a historical past rich with ambition and rivalry, death and birth, love and hate, that will end where The Pillars of the Earth begins.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forgotten Kingdom Series: #2 of The Lost Queen Author: Signe Pike Narrator: Siobhan Waring, Toni Frutin, Gary Furlong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Lost Queen, hailed as “Outlander meets Camelot” (Kirsty Logan, the author of The Gloaming) and “The Mists of Avalon for a new generation” (Linnea Hartsuyker, the author of The Golden Wolf), a “rich, immersive” (Kirkus Reviews) new novel in which a forgotten queen of 6th-century Scotland claims her throne as war looms and her family is scattered to the winds. AD 573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment. Her husband and son have ridden off to war against her brother, Lailoken. She doesn’t yet know that her young daughter, Angharad, who was training with Lailoken to become a Wisdom Keeper, has been lost in the chaos. As one of the bloodiest battles of early medieval Scottish history abandons its survivors to the wilds of Scotland, Lailoken and his men must flee to exile in the mountains of the Lowlands, while nine-year-old Angharad must summon all Lailoken has taught her to follow her own destiny through the mysterious, mystical land of the Picts. In the aftermath of the battle, old political alliances unravel, opening the way for the ambitious adherents of the new religion: Christianity. Lailoken is half-mad with battle sickness, and Languoreth must hide her allegiance to the Old Way to survive her marriage to the next Christian king of Strathclyde. Worst yet, the new King of the Angles is bent on expanding his kingdom at any cost. Now the exiled Lailoken, with the help of a young warrior named Artur, may be the only man who can bring the warring groups together to defeat the encroaching Angles. But to do so, he must claim the role that will forever transform him. He must become the man known to history as “Myrddin.” “Intrigue, rivalry, and magic among the mists of old Britain—The Forgotten Kingdom is an enchantment of a read” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/412887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daddy Author: Emma Cline Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 3, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The eagerly-awaited book by Emma Cline, author of the global phenomenon The Girls The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and present. A man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will not lose his college place. But what exactly has his son done? And who is to blame? A young woman trying to make it in LA, working in a clothes shop while taking acting classes, turns to a riskier way of making money but will be forced to confront the danger of the game she's playing. And a family coming together for Christmas struggle to skate over the lingering darkness caused by the very ordinary brutality of a troubled husband and father. These outstanding stories examine masculinity, male power and broken relationships, while revealing - with astonishing insight and clarity - those moments of misunderstanding that can have life-changing consequences. And there is an unexpected violence, ever-present but unseen, in the depiction of the complicated interactions between men and women, and families. Subtle, sophisticated and displaying an extraordinary understanding of human behaviour, these stories are unforgettable. 'I don't know which is more amazing, Emma Cline's understanding of human beings or her mastery of language' Mark Haddon © Emma Cline 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/412860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feather Crowns: A Novel Author: Bobbie Ann Mason Narrator: Kate Udall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 1, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD From prize-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason, a brilliantly wrought novel about the first woman to give birth to quintuplets in early 1900s America. Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900—a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world—Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the small town of Hopewell, Kentucky, Christianna Wheeler gives birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America. Christie is suddenly thrown into a swirling storm of public attention. Hundreds of strangers descend on her home, all wanting to see and touch the ''miracle babies.'' The fate of the babies and the bizarre events that follow their births propel Christie and her husband far from home, on a journey that exposes them to the turbulent pageant of life at the beginning of the modern era. Richly detailed and poignant, Feather Crowns focuses on one woman but opens out ultimately into the chronicle of a time and a people. Written in Bobbie Ann Mason's taut yet lyrical prose, the novel ranges from a peaceful farming community to a fire-and-brimstone revival camp, from traveling shows to the the nation's capital. Moving through the center of it all is Christie, a charming, headstrong, loving woman who struggles heroically to come to terms with the extraordinary events of her long life. Feather Crowns is an American parable of profound resonance. Spellbindingly readable, it is a novel of classic stature that confirmed Bobbie Ann Mason as one of America's most important writers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Flowers Author: Donal Ryan Narrator: Donna Anita Nikolaisen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever. Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today. 'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' David Nicholls 'With each new novel Donal Ryan's ink seems to sink deeper into the page. In Strange Flowers he gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul 'Exquisite … you will love the quiet world of Paddy & Kit Gladney and all it is their daughter Moll brings to their door. Beautiful' Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Pictures: A Novel Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Vivienne Leheny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.”—New York Times Book Review From bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst—an autistic child. The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the third child arrives—and life is never the same again. Over the next forty years, the Eberhardt family struggles to live with a flood tide of upheaval and heartbreak, love and betrayal, passion and pain...hoping they can someday heal their hearts.  Family Pictures is an unforgettable, insightful, and resounding novel of strength and resiliency against overwhelming circumstances.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventing the Abbotts: And Other Stories Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Compelling. . . . What Miller offers . . . is a distinctive sensibility—a candid exploration of the frail and gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal.”—Boston Globe In this riveting collection of short stories, bestselling author Sue Miller writes compellingly about a chapter in the moral history of our time. The fascinating stories featured in Inventing the Abbotts explore the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships.  In the title story, a young man takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. Others concern a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity, and a stricken dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor. In one story after another, Sue Miller presents a remarkable gallery of characters, offering insight into contemporary men and women with their hungry hearts and dismayed consciences. With keen sensitivity and penetrating insight, Inventing the Abbotts will strike a chord with readers everywhere.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aria: A Novel Author: Nazanine Hozar Narrator: Neeky Dalir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags-to-riches-to-revolution that follows an orphan girl coming of age in Iran at a time of dramatic upheaval   It is the 1950s in a restless Iran, a country rich in oil but deeply divided by class and religion. The government is unpopular and corrupt and under foreign sway. One night, an illiterate army driver hears the pitiful cry of a baby abandoned in an alley and menaced by ravenous wild dogs. He snatches up the child and takes her home, naming her Aria—the first step on an unlikely path from deprivation to privilege. Over the next two decades, the orphan girl acquires three mother figures whose secrets she will learn only much later: reckless and self-absorbed Zahra, who abuses her; wealthy and compassionate Fereshteh, who adopts her; and mysterious Mehri, whose connection to Aria is both a blessing and a burden.   A university education opens a new world to Aria, and she is soon caught up in the excitement and danger of the popular uprising against the Shah that sweeps through the streets of Tehran. The novel’s heart-pounding, explosive finale sees the Ayatollah Khomeini’s brutal regime seize power—even as Aria falls in love and becomes a mother herself.   Nazanine Hozar’s stunning debut gives us an unusually intimate view of a momentous time, through the eyes of a young woman coming to terms with the mysteries of her own past and future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Offshore Grounds: A novel Author: Vanessa Veselka Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies—national, individual, and collective—that drive and define us. On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of personal and professional dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except, instead of money, what their father gives them is information—a name—which forces them to come to grips with a long-held family secret. In the face of their new reality, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another, as well as their definitions of freedom.   Moving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve, linguistic vitality, and undeniable tenderness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brave Daughters Series: #4 of The Girls Who Went To War Author: Mary Wood Narrator: Becky Hindley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 20, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A moving and emotional family drama set between France and Britain from bestselling author, Mary Wood. They would fight for their country, at all costs . . . When Sibbie and Marjie arrive at RAF Digby, they are about to take on roles of national importance. It’s a cause of great excitement for everyone around them. Perhaps they will become code-breakers, spies even? Soon the pair embark on a rigorous training regime, but nothing can prepare them for what they’re about to face . . . Amid the vineyards of rural France, Flora and Ella can’t bear the thought of another war. But as the thunderclouds grow darker, hanging over Europe, a sense of deep foreboding sets in, not just for their safety but for the fate of their families . . . With danger looming, as the threat of war becomes real, Flora and Ella are forced to leave their idyllic home and flee. Can they make it to safety, or will the war have further horrors in store for them? The Brave Daughters is the fourth book in the Girls Who Went to War series by Mary Wood.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Distinguished Guest: A Novel Author: Sue Miller Narrator: Laura Copland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 11, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Miller depicts [her characters] with grace and elegance, enriching their perceptions with strands of connecting images and intertwined history.... A very moving book.”—New York Times Book Review  From bestselling author Sue Miller comes the poignant story of a mother and son that touches on the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and life. Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and has become a famous writer at age seventy-two. Now, stricken with Parkinson's disease and staying with her architect son Alan, Lily must cope with her fading powers as well as with disturbing memories of the events that estranged her from her children and ended her marriage. For Alan, her visit raises old questions about his relationship with her, about the choices he has made in his own life, and about the nature of love, disappointment, and grief.  Profound and deeply affecting, The Distinguished Guest reveals a family trying to understand the meaning of its life together, while confronting inevitable loss and the vision of an immeasurably altered future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/421820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom: A Novel Author: John Boyne Narrator: Tim Mcinnerny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 11, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky—“a darkly funny novel that races like a beating heart” (People)—comes a new novel that plays out across all of human history: a story as precise as it is unlimited. This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons, one with his father’s violence in his blood, one with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life among the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold. From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom, an epic tale of humanity. The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heartbreaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel Author: Akwaeke Emezi Narrator: Yetide Badaki, Chukwudi Iwuji Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 4, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A Good Morning America Buzz Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Electrifying.' — O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Lit Hub, Bustle, Electric Literature, and BookPage What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.  Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brother Years: A Novel Author: Shannon Burke Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 4, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Black Flies and Into the Savage Country and co-creator of top-ten Netflix hit Outer Banks, a powerful new novel of class striving and the precarious dynamics of brotherhood in the Chicago suburbs of the late 1970s. 'In our family, there was none of this crap about everyone being a winner,' says Willie, the narrator, who looks back on his teen years--and his nearly mortal combat with his domineering older brother, Coyle. In the Brennan house four kids sleep in a single room, and are indoctrinated into 'The Methods,' a system of achievement and relentless striving, laced with a potent, sometimes violent version of sibling rivalry. The family is overseen by a raging bull of a father, a South Side tough guy who knocks them sideways when they don't perform well or follow his dictates. Rivals, enemies, and allies, the siblings contend with one another and their wealthy self-satisfied peers at New Trier, the famous upscale high school where the family has struggled to send them. Evoking their crucible of class struggle and peer pressures, Burke balances comedy, tragedy, and a fascinating cast of characters, delivering a book that reads like an instant classic--an unforgettable story of the intertwining of love and family violence, and of triumphant teen survival that echoes down through the years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/416260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Supporting Cast Author: Kit De Waal Narrator: Damian Gildea, Simone Kirby, Daisy Badger, Clifford Samuel, Vivienne Acheampong, Sam Woolf, Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 30, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love. And a young man leaves prison with only one desire - to see his son again. Kit de Waal's characters light up the page in vivid stories of thwarted desire, love and loss. With power and precision, humanity and insight, Supporting Cast captures the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives, and the darkness and the joy of the everyday. © Kit de Waal 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hieroglyphics Author: Jill Mccorkle Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generationsLil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely.Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries—perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town, where a young single mother, Shelley, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank’s repeated visits to Shelley’s house begin to trigger memories of her own family, memories that she’d rather forget. Because, after all, not all parents are ones you wish to remember.Hieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world all around us, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Baby Agenda Series: #75 of Billionaires and Babies Author: Katherine Garbera Narrator: Nina Alvamar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: A nanny. A single father. A love stronger than revenge? Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Katherine Garbera!  Ten years ago, someone framed him for murder. Kingsley Buchanan lost everything, including Gabriella de la Cruz. Now the billionaire is back to settle old scores. But he must protect his child. Kingsley needs Gabi—as a nanny for his son.  But Gabi is no longer a naive girl. She's a businesswoman with needs of her own. The only thing that hasn't changed: her hunger for Kingsley. But Gabi won't risk her heart on a man she can't trust—unless she can convince him that love is more powerful than revenge…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maggie Brown & Others: Stories Author: Peter Orner Narrator: Peter Orner, Brittany Pressley, Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one 'a marvel of concision and compassion' (Washington Post), Peter Orner, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and 'master of his form' (New York Times), takes the short story to new heights.   Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who 'doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls' (NYT Book Review), chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points, gripping us with a series of defining moments. Whether it's a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar, or a family's memories of the painful mystery surrounding a forgotten uncle's demise, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a forty-year marriage, but an entire era in a working-class New England city. Bristling with the crackling energy of life itself, Maggie Brown & Others marks the most sustained achievement to date for 'a master of his form' (New York Times). - A New York Times Notable Book - Longlisted for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize - An Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2019 - Kirkus 'Best Short Fiction of 2019'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/417261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel Author: Aimee Bender Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is 'a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language,' The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Borrower: A Novel Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a knapsack of provisions and an escape plan. Desperate to save him from Pastor Bob and the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and upsetting family history thrown in their path. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the man who seems to be on their tail? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life We Almost Had Author: Amelia Henley Narrator: Andy Creswell, Penelope Rawlins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 23, 2020 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: ‘A love story with a definite difference . . . intensely emotional’ Best ‘Beautifully written and plotted. Get ready for the final chapter – you have been warned’ Candis ‘Intriguing, unusual and intensely romantic’ Sunday Mirror ‘A powerful, emotive and unusual read’ Daily Express ‘A lovely tale’ Bella * * * * * This is not a typical love story, but it’s our love story. Anna wasn’t looking for love when Adam swept her off her feet but there was no denying their connection, and she believed they would be together forever. Years later, cracks have appeared in their relationship. Anna is questioning whether their love can really be eternal when a cruel twist of fate delivers a crushing blow, and Anna and Adam are completely lost to one another. Now, Anna needs Adam more than ever, but the way back to him has life-changing consequences. Is a second chance at first love really worth the sacrifice? Anna needs to decide and time is running out… A beautiful and emotional love story that asks, how far would you go for a second chance at first love? Perfect for fans of The Man Who Didn’t Call and Miss You. * * * * * Real readers have fallen for Anna and Adam’s love story: ‘This book hits you right in the heart. I loved every single minute of it’ ‘One of the most beautiful stories I have read. Full of laughter, tears, heartbreak and happiness’ ‘A beautiful love story with a twist!’ ‘A fabulous debut, this is one of those stories that will stay with you’ ‘I was gripped from the start and the more into the book I got the more I couldn’t put it down’

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner): A Novel Author: Yu Miri Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love: A Novel Author: Roddy Doyle Narrator: Morgan C. Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Drinking pals back in their youth, now married and with grown up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he needs to tell Davy, and Davy has a sorrow he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be. Joe has left his wife and family for another woman, Jessica. Davy knows her too, or should - she was the girl of their dreams four decades earlier, the girl with the cello in George's pub. As Joe's story unfolds across Dublin - pint after pint, pub after pub - so too do the memories of what eventually drove Davy from Ireland: his first encounter with Faye, the lively woman who would become his wife; his father's somber disapproval; the pained spaces left behind when a parent dies. As the two friends try to reconcile their versions of the past over the course of one night, Love offers a delightfully comic yet moving portrait of the many forms love can take throughout our lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Devil's Brood Series: #3 of The Henry II Trilogy Author: Sharon Kay Penman Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 35 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a marriage ends in all but name, the clash between these two strong-willed and passionate souls will have far-reaching and devastating consequences throughout Christendom. Devil’s Brood, a breathtaking and sweeping epic of a family at its breaking point, shows how two monumental figures once bound by all-consuming love became the bitterest of adversaries.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Agent: From the bestselling author of Secret Service Author: Tom Bradby Narrator: Juliet Aubrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As senior MI6 officer Kate Henderson arrives for a weekend away in Venice, a Russian spy enters the city with plans to kidnap her… But it’s not all it seems. The defector offers her conclusive evidence that the British Prime Minister is a live agent working for Moscow. Kate’s holiday quickly becomes the start of her next mission. With proof of the PM involved in a sordid scandal and a financial paper trail that undeniably links him to the Russians, the evidence seems bulletproof. But is anything in the dark world of espionage ever that simple? The motives of the defector are anything but clear and, more worryingly, it seems that there are key people at the heart of the British Establishment who refuse to acknowledge the reality in front of them. Kate can trust no one, and this mission will push her dangerously close to the edge... but is that the price to pay for the truth? © Tom Bradby 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Railway Girls: Their bond will see them through Series: #1 of The railway girls series Author: Maisie Thomas Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 28, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The first novel in the wonderful new Railway Girls series, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean. In February, 1922, at the western-most entrance to Victoria Station in Manchester, a massive plaque was unveiled. Beneath a vast tiled map showing the lines of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network, a series of seven bronze panels recorded the names of the men of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War – a total of 1,460 names. In March, 1940, a group of women of varying ages and backgrounds, stand in front of the memorial, ready to do their bit in this new World War... Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the terrible thing she did and she can put her guilt behind her... Or is she just running away? Meanwhile Joan will never be as good as her sister, or so her Gran keeps telling her. A new job as a station clerk could be just the thing she needs to forget her troubles at home. And Dot is further into her forties than she cares to admit. Her beloved sons are away fighting and her husband – well, the less said about him the better. Ratty old sod. She is anxious to become a railway girl just like her dear mam – anything to feel she is supporting the sons she prays for every night. The three women start off as strangers, but soon form an unbreakable bond that will get them through the toughest of times...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wrapped in Rain: A Novel Author: Charles Martin Narrator: Jonathan K. Riggs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Martin spins an engaging story about healing and the triumph of love . . . Filled with delightful local color.' --Publishers Weekly 'Charles Martin writes with the passion and delicacy of a Louisiana sunrise--shades of shepherd's warning and a promise of thunderbolts before noon.' --John Dyson, Reader's Digest From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us and The Water Keeper comes a story of two half-brothers trying to survive the fallout of their traumatic childhood and their abusive, alcoholic father in this tender and beautiful story about the power of forgiveness. On a sprawling Southern estate, Tucker and his younger brother, Mutt, were raised by their housekeeper, Miss Ella Rain, who loved the motherless boys like her own. Hiring her to take care of Waverly Hall and the boys was the only good thing their abusive and alcoholic father ever did. When his brother escapes from a mental hospital and an old girlfriend appears with her son and a black eye, Tucker is forced to return home and face the agony of his tragic past. Though Miss Ella has been gone for many years, Tucker can still hear her voice--and her prayers. 'Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists. You got to fight it with your heart.' But finding peace and starting anew will take a measure of grace that Tucker scarcely believes in. Wrapped in Rain follows Tucker's journey from brokenness to healing through the everlasting power of love. Grab a copy and a box of tissues and get ready for your heart to be touched.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secrets of Ironbridge: The Ironbridge Saga, book 2 Series: #2 of Ironbridge Saga Author: Mollie Walton Narrator: Lu Corfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 14, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1850s Shropshire. Returning to her mother's birthplace at the age of eighteen, Beatrice Ashford encounters a complex family she barely knows. Her great-grandmother Queenie adores her, but the privileged social position of Beatrice's family as masters of the local brickworks begins to make her uncomfortable. And then she meets Owen Malone: handsome, different, refreshing - and from a class beneath her own. They fall for each other fast, but an old family feud and growing industrial unrest threatens to drive them apart. Can they overcome their different backgrounds? And can Beatrice make amends for her family's past? “Evocative, dramatic and hugely compelling . . . The Daughters of Ironbridge has all the hallmarks of a classic saga. I loved it.” MIRANDA DICKINSON on The Daughters of Ironbridge.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quotients Author: Tracy O'neill Narrator: Shaun Grindell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror. Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Alexandra, a high-powered job in image management for whole countries cannot prepare her for her missing brother's sudden reappearance. In a culture of limitless surveillance, Jeremy and Alexandra will go to great lengths to protect what is closest to them and answer the question of whether their love will be returned. Spanning decades and continents, their saga brings them into contact with a down-and-out online journalist, shadowy security professionals, and jockeying technology experts, each of whom has a different understanding of whether information really protects us, and how we might build a world worth trusting in our paranoid age.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/418287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Shoot Your Mule Series: #2 of Delaney's People Author: Beth Duke Narrator: Amy Mcfadden, Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This highly anticipated sequel to Delaney's People takes listeners on a turbulent, surprise-filled journey from Depression Era rural Alabama through 2011's devastating tornadoes and their impact on Delaney's family and friends. Family ties, love, loss, betrayal and a characteristic dead mule combine in a perfect book for devotees of Southern literature.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cedar Tree Author: Nicole Alexander Narrator: Patrick Harvey, Caz Prescott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 1, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the spring of 1949, Stella O'Riain flees her home - a sheep property on the barren edge of the Strzelecki Desert. She leaves behind the graves of her husband Joe and her baby daughter. With no money and limited options, Stella accepts her brother-in-law Harry's offer to live at the O'Riain cane farm in the Richmond Valley. There she hopes to get answers to the questions that plague her about her marriage. However Harry refuses to discuss Joe or the family's secrets, even forbidding her to speak to the owner of the neighbouring property. Nearly a century earlier in County Tipperary, Irish cousins Brandon and Sean O'Riain also fled their homes - as wanted criminals. By 1867, they are working as cedar-cutters in New South Wales's lush green Richmond Valley. But while Brandon embraces the opportunities this new country offers, Sean refuses to let go of the past. And one cousin is about to make a dangerous choice that will have devastating consequences down the generations . . Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander's compelling new novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a land as richly diverse as the secrets it keeps.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/421659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time Author: Stephen Mitchell Narrator: Adam Lofbomm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A fascinating look at the key components of romantic love—sex, idealization, aggression, self-pity, guilt, and commitment—argues that romance does not diminish in a long-term relationship, describes the barriers to lasting love, and offers helpful advice on how to promote an enduring love by eliminating self-destructive efforts to protect oneself from its risks.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl from Kingsland Market Author: June Tate Narrator: Emma Noakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 23, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Southampton 1920. Phoebe Collins rose to the challenge of running the family fruit and veg stall when her father did not return from the front. The work outside in Kingsland market in all weathers can be hard, but with her mother and younger brother Tim to support, she's determined that it continue to be a success. However, when Phoebe finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and witnesses something terrible, she will need all her strength to face the trials ahead and the fear that her loved ones may come to harm. “Tate's books are always guaranteed to touch the hearts of her readers.” LANCASHIRE EVENING POST

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Millionaire Makeover Series: #2 of Bachelor Auction Author: Naima Simone Narrator: Ava Lucas, Philip Alces Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 21, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Plain-Jane computer programmer Khloe Richardson needs a date—one to make the prince of her dreams jealous. Maybe then he'll finally see her as a desirable swan and not the ugly duckling in the second office from the left. But when she bids on a bachelor at a charity auction, the man she wins is millionaire Niall Hunter—who once made intense, passionate love to her and then left without a word. She's determined not to let her guard down again—among other things—around the infamous Irish lothario. Niall never imagined his penance for one hot-as-hell night with his best friend's little sister would be transforming her from a shy wallflower to a sultry siren. Helping her attract another man is torture...especially when he promised his friend he'd stay away. Plus she wants forever, and he's not a forever kind of guy. But Niall can't stop wanting her. Can't stop touching her. Can't stop, period. And damn if he can remember why he has to...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Family Fitzgerald Author: Joseph Di Prisco Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 14, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Fitzgeralds are buttressed by wealth and privilege, but they are also buffeted by crisis after crisis, many of their own creation. Even so, they live large, in love and in strife, wielding power, combating adversaries and each other. Padraic Fitzgerald is the up-from-nothing, aging patriarch whose considerable business interests appear anything but legitimate, but he has bigger problems than law enforcement. A widower, Paddy becomes enmeshed with a young woman who will force him to re-examine his cardinal assumptions. Meanwhile, he has cultivated thorny relationships with his four children. Anthony—oldest son, principled criminal defense attorney, designated prince of the family—and his cherished Francesca are devastated by tragedy. In the aftermath, Frankie comes to play a vital role in Fitzgerald lore. Philip is a charismatic Catholic priest spectacularly torn between his lofty ideals and aspirations and his all-too-human flaws and longings. Matty has wandered aimlessly, but once he finds his purpose, he precipitates turmoil in all quarters. Colleen, the youngest, is a seeker who styles herself as the outsider and the conscience of the clan. Her hands are full, as no Fitzgerald is left untested or unscathed, and by the end the whole family, as well as those venturing into their realm, will be stunned into illumination.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortals of Tehran Author: Ali Araghi Narrator: Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 7, 2020 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: This generations-spanning novel carries one extraordinary family to the brink of the Iranian Revolution--and marks the debut of a literary talent to watch As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing world. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy's own fated role in the story. Ahmad grows up to suspect that something unseen must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine, loss, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him, each turn of Ahmad's life is a surprise: from street brawler to father of two impossibly gifted daughters; from radical poet to politician with a target on his back. These lives, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution. A sweeping, multi-generational epic, this stunning debut heralds the arrival of a unique new literary voice. Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a story of the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love, family, and poetry--set against the indifferent, relentless march of time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unexpected Scandal Series: #1 of Lockwood Lightning Author: Jules Bennett Narrator: Pavi Proczko Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 1, 2020 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Experience the drama and romance in this passionate workplace romance, part of the Lockwood Lightning series from USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett. When one late night changes everything! Billionaire Nick Campbell’s life has been upended. His hated rival is the father he never knew, and his top-notch architect, Silvia Lane, is having his baby. It’s time to regain control. First step: ask Silvia to marry him and claim his heir. But she’s not having it. She has her own plans for how things should go, and she wants real love or nothing! From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite. Lockwood Lightning: Book 1: An Unexpected Scandal Book 2: Scandalous Reunion Book 3: Scandalous Engagement