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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tavern on Maple Street Author: Sharon Owens Narrator: Caroline Winterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An irresistible novel brimming with wit, warmth, and Irish humor, about the married owners of a friendly tavern in Belfast and the intimate lives of the customers and employees who band together to save it from demolition. Jack Beaumont and his beautiful wife, Lily, are the owners of the tavern on Maple Street, a tiny Victorian pub they inherited from Jack's great-uncle Ernest. It's a quiet place, untouched by the modern world, and that's why the customers like it so much. But a property developer wants to demolish the tavern and build a shopping mall on Maple Street. Jack and Lily and their little home-away-from-home are suddenly plunged into the limelight, caught in a desperate struggle to save their business from the bulldozers-or, with the help of some new employees, to at least make as much money as possible during their last few months as landlord and landlady. In The Tavern on Maple Street, Sharon Owens delivers another delicious sparkler full of love, friendship, relationships, and the day-to-day lives of ordinary people, one that is sure to satisfy readers' insatiable appetite for her romantic and quirky Belfast tales.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virgin's Lover Series: #13 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Perdita Weeks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition far exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen, yet one woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth’s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth’s excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisors warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls back in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Constant Princess Series: #6 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Karina Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes the remarkable story of Katherine of Aragon, Princess of Spain, daughter of two great monarchs, and eventual Queen of England when she marries the infamous King Henry VIII. Daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine has been fated her whole life to marry Prince Arthur of England. When they meet and are married, the match becomes as passionate as it is politically expedient. The young lovers revel in each other’s company and plan the England they will make together. But tragically, aged only fifteen, Arthur falls ill and extracts from his sixteen-year-old bride a deathbed promise to marry his brother, Henry; become Queen; and fulfill their dreams and her destiny. Widowed and alone in the avaricious world of the Tudor court, Katherine has to sidestep her father-in-law’s desire for her and convince him, and an incredulous Europe, that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, that there is no obstacle to marriage with Henry. For seven years, she endures the treachery of spies, the humiliation of poverty, and intense loneliness and despair while she waits for the inevitable moment when she will step into the role she has prepared for all her life. Then, like her warrior mother, Katherine must take to the battlefield and save England when its old enemies the Scots come over the border and there is no one to stand against them but the new Queen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Boleyn Girl Series: #9 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Vanessa Kirby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 29, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 143 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 15 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family. When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the handsome and charming Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family’s ambitious plots as the king’s interest begins to wane, and soon she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. With her own destiny suddenly unknown, Mary realizes that she must defy her family and take fate into her own hands. With more than one million copies in print and adapted for the big screen, The Other Boleyn Girl is a riveting historical drama. It brings to light a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe, and survived a treacherous political landscape by following her heart.

Please 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 21, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Modern 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lethal Seduction Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 3, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Jackie Collins brings back her savvy heroine from the L.A. Connections series in this erotically charged, suspense-laced New York Times bestseller about secret obsession and deadly passion. Caught between two lovers, Madison Castelli's sex life is in overdrive. But when she discovers someone close to her is keeping deadly secrets, the real excitement begins.... Plunged into the high-powered circles of New York and the manic thrills of Las Vegas, Madison steps among explosive passions, mob machinations, and dangerous deceptions, only to find that nothing is ever as it seems.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hey, Good Looking Author: Fern Michaels Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.48 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: With lively prose, unforgettable characters, and a touch of mischievous wit, Fern Michaels creates vivid reading experiences in all of her acclaimed USA TODAY and New York Times bestselling novels. Now, she inspires and entertains with a touching tale of the transforming power of love—and a woman whose broken heart finds more room for the simple pleasures of family and home, and for discovering true love in the last place she expected. Darby Lane and Russell Gunn had been inseparable friends from their early years in the Horseshoe, their wonderful Baton Rouge neighborhood of Southern comforts and childhood fancies, all the way through to graduate school dreams and beyond. Then the unthinkable happens: a tragic accident takes Russ's life, and Darby's world is shattered. Returning to the Horseshoe in utter despair, Darby clings to the only family she's ever known: the three wily and colorful aunts who raised her. Her long journey to healing takes hold as Darby begins to see Russ's brother Ben through new eyes. Suddenly love blooms in the place of grief, and now, with the help of her aunts, Darby faces the challenge of reuniting Ben with his estranged father—if they can get through the conniving schemes of Ben's social climber stepmother. Calling on the same tender care and patience with which she builds custom dollhouses, Darby begins to create a new life out of her loss—and comes to understand that love truly can conquer anything.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flirting with Pete Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 32 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In Flirting with Pete, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky weaves together two fascinating narratives that merge in a dramatic, highly emotional, and totally unexpected conclusion, as a daughter's struggle to win the approval of the father she never knew becomes a journey of self-discovery. Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father—but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father's patients in her new home, she becomes engrossed in the story of Jenny, a young woman trying to escape her troubled life. Convinced the story is true and that her father left it as a message for her, Casey digs deeper. As she pieces together the mysteries surrounding her father, Jenny, and the romantic new stranger in her life, she discovers startling links between past and present, and unexpected ties between what is real and what is imagined.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summer I Dared Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 19 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Set on a beautiful island off the coast of Maine, this deeply moving and powerful novel by New York Times bestselling author and 'first-rate storyteller' (The Boston Globe) is about three people who survive a boating accident, exploring not only how each person deals with his or her own twist of fate, but also the effect each survivor has on the other. WHAT COMES AFTER THE MOMENT THAT FOREVER CHANGES YOUR LIFE? This is the question that haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Colella, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident off the coast of Maine that claimed the lives of nine other people. Julia, a forty-year-old wife and mother, has always taken the path of least resistance. Pigeonholed by her controlling family and increasingly distant husband as 'loyal' and 'obedient,' she realizes in the aftermath of her brush with death that there is more to her -- and to the world around her -- than she ever imagined. Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, and to Kim, a twenty-one-year-old whose role in the accident and subsequent muteness are a mystery, Julia begins to explore the unique possibilities offered by the quiet island of Big Sawyer, Maine. Suddenly, things that once seemed critical lose significance, and things that seemed inconsequential take on a whole new importance. With each passing moment, each new discovery, Julia grows more sure that after coming face-to-face with death, she must have more from life. Resolving to make things right for the future and drawing on an inner strength she never knew she possessed, Julia passionately awakens to a new world, fearlessly embracing uncertainties in a way she couldn't have imagined only a few weeks ago. Set off the coast of Maine, where lobstermen leave with the tides each morning to haul and reset their traps, and neighbors gather each night to feast on the catch of the day, Barbara Delinsky's The Summer I Dared is a deeply moving story of the risky but rewarding search for self, a story of survival, and of the irrepressible ability of the human spirit to rebound from disaster and to create life anew.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Pearl Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Narrator: Celia Weston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 23, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. While she's finally gotten them all together in South Carolina to celebrate, this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey holidays of her childhood. What happened to the days when Christmas meant tables groaning with home-cooked goodies, over-the-top decorations, and long chats in front of the fire with Pearl, her grandmother's beloved housekeeper and closest confidante? Luckily for Theodora, a special someone who heard her plea for help arrives, with pockets full of enough Gullah magic and common sense to make Theodora's Christmas the love-filled miracle it's meant to be.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories Author: Miranda July Narrator: Miranda July Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 16, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly—they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals her characters’ idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Water's Lovely Author: Ruth Rendell Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When Ismay thinks of that terrible day, and she often does, she remembers Heather coming down the stairs–her dress wet, her face as still and white as a porcelain mask. Sometimes the memories return in a dream: climbing the stairs, following her dripping-wet sister to the upstairs bathroom–but when Heather opens the door they are standing in a marble chamber on the edge of a glassy lake. Ismay watches as a white thing floats toward them, its face submerged. She looks into the water and sees her stepfather Guy’s face, his lifeless, frightened eyes, staring up at her. Now, nine years after Guy was found dead in the bathtub, she and Heather still live in their childhood home, and to this day the two sisters never talk about what happened. Although Ismay finds herself feeling intensely protective of her little sister and of the secret they share, their lives move placidly, even happily, forward. It seems as if the mysterious death of their stepfather is behind them. But when Heather becomes seriously involved with a man for the first time, Ismay’s long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored. With painful inevitability, the surprising truth will emerge whether Ismay wants it to or not.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Midwives: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) Author: Chris Bohjalian Narrator: Kate Burton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 3, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "Superbly crafted and astonishingly powerful. . . . It will thrill readers who cherish their worn copies of To Kill A Mockingbird." --People With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to ushering life into the world finds herself charged with responsibility in a patient's tragic death. The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor. But what if--as Sibyl's assistant later charges--the patient wasn't already dead, and it was Sibyl who inadvertently killed her? As recounted by Sibyl's precocious fourteen-year-old daughter, Connie, the ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt except for the fact that all its participants are acting from the highest motives--and the defendant increasingly appears to be guilty. As Sibyl Danforth faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.

Please 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 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Modern 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.

Please 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, 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guy Not Taken: Stories Author: Jennifer Weiner Narrator: Mary Catherine Garrison, Jordan Bridges Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 5, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A selection of unabridged stories from the bestselling author of Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a moving portrait of men's fears about commitment and love, Weiner's stories explore those transformative moments in our every day. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We stumble on Good in Bed's Bruce Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of his best friend's bachelor party, until stealing his girlfriend's tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than he'd planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New York City apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart. The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who 'feel like they could be your best friend' (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Expected One: A Novel Author: Kathleen McGowan Narrator: Linda Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 25, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 27 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A gripping thriller and a profound spiritual journey that reveals the greatest story never told! Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by supernatural forces, these sacred scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the ancient prophecy of l'attendue—The Expected One. When journalist Maureen Paschal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is stepping into an ancient mystery so secret, so revolutionary, that thousands of people have killed and died for it. She becomes deeply immersed in the mystical cultures of southwest France as the eerie prophecy of The Expected One casts a shadow over her life and work and a long-buried family secret comes to light. Ultimately she comes face-to-face with Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, Judas, and Salome in the pages of a deeply moving and powerful new gospel, the life of Jesus as told by Mary Magdalene. CONTAINS NEW, UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL FROM THE ARQUES GOSPEL.

Please 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 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Changing Faces Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby Narrator: Delores King Williams, Audra Alise Polk, Lynn Chavis Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 24, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Juicy saga of sister-friendship with all its twists and turns”—Essence Meet Whitney, Taylor, and Charisse—best friends who have been there for each other for years, through thick and thin. But these girlfriends are about to discover that sometimes exhaling isn’t enough. . . Whitney is a plus-sized woman who just can’t find a man who’ll stick around. Taylor is in a long-term relationship with a boyfriend who is allergic to commitment. Charisse is married with two adorable children, but somehow doesn’t have what she really wants—or needs. The trio has always been balanced, until Charisse suddenly spins out of control. Desperate, she decides that only a very risky scheme will save her. But this time, how far can friendship go?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mercy of Thin Air Author: Ronlyn Domingue Narrator: Rebecca Gayheart Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 13, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From debut author Ronlyn Domingue comes a stunning, imaginative novel that beautifully captures the nature of love and how it transcends all barriers -- even death. In 1920s New Orleans, smart and fearless Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she suddenly dies in a tragic accident. Immediately after her death, she chooses to stay between -- a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it. From this remarkable vantage point, Razi narrates the story of her lost love, as well as the relationship of Amy and Scott, a young couple whose house she haunts seventy years later. Their trials finally compel Razi to slowly unravel the mystery of what happened to her first and only love and to confront a long-hidden secret. The Mercy of Thin Air entwines love stories that echo across three generations culminating in a startling finish that will leave listeners breathless.

Please 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, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women 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.

Please 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 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.

Please 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 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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Possession Author: A. S. Byatt Narrator: Virginia Leishman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire -- from spiritualist sénces to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas. Performed by Virginia Leishman

Please 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: 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood Divorces Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 2, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.94 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In her most scandalously titillating novel since the #1 bestselling Hollywood Wives, internationally renowned author Jackie Collins once again takes her readers behind the scenes and into the bedrooms of Hollywood's glamorous world of superstardom, where narcissism is a virtue, and fidelity means not sleeping with anyone less attractive than your spouse. Three glamorous women with ambitions fueling their inner fires—and agendas that may or may not include those they’ve vowed to love and honor. From the casting couch to superstardom, from the director’s chair to worldwide acclaim, they go after what they want without guilt. Without regret. And never without scandal. Here are the relationship shockers that even the tabloids don’t know: who’s playing whom, who’s getting dumped, and who’s walking out the door. This is domestic drama like never before, as only Jackie Collins can tell it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Even For Love Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Karen Ziemba Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.97 of Total 69 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: On the surface, Jordan Hadlock has it all. A great job managing the English newsstand in the old quarter of Lucerne, Switzerland. Rich and renowned Swiss industrialist Helmut Eckherdt is intent on marrying her, even though she hasn't said yes. What more could she ask for? A clap of thunder and a pounding on her door soon give her an answer. Reeves Grant appears seeking shelter from a sudden downpour, but the real storm is inside Jordan and the passion they share that night. The next morning he disappears without a trace. Still reeling from the encounter, Jordan plays hostess at Helmut's lavish dinner party, where Helmut announces that he and Jordan are to be wed -- at the very same moment she spies Reeves Grant snapping pictures of the event and her new 'fiancé.' Now Jordan is moving toward the altar with a man she likes but doesn't love. And working on a feature of the wealthy Helmut -- often only inches away from her -- is photojournalist Reeves Grant, bringing with him all the memories of the emotions she felt one special night. Not Even For Love captures the wild fluctuations between doubt and desire in complex relationships while offering the engrossing tale of a woman who must learn to trust her instincts to discover exactly who she is and what she wants.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/41658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood Wives - The New Generation Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The sexy page-turner picks up where the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollywood Wives left off showing Jackie Collins at her “ultra-celeb, super accessorized, bestselling best” (Publishers Weekly). Power. Sex. Money. Fame. The new Hollywood wives have it all. And if they don’t have it—they want it. And whatever these women want—they get. Ambitious, young, smart, and lethal, the Hollywood wives are back with a vengeance, pushing their way to the forefront. Forget shopping—they’re into achieving everything their famous husbands have and more, and they don’t care how they do it.

Please 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: Ratings of Book: 3.79 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern 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.

Please 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 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Modern 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Author: Jackie Collins Narrator: Jackie Collins Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 1, 1991 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 58 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The “impossible to put down” (The Wall Street Journal) sequel in the Lucky Santangelo series from the New York Times bestselling “queen of glamour fiction” (San Antonio Express-News) Jackie Collins. From Chances to Dangerous Kiss, bestselling superstar Jackie Collins has spun the incredible saga of the extraordinary Lucky Santangelo. A hot-blooded beauty in love with power and hungry for pleasure, Lucky’s dazzling odyssey—and her trail of enemies—sweeps from the casinos of Las Vegas to a private Greek island, from cutthroat Hollywood to chic New York and Paris. She’s a gambler and a lover. She’s wild, savvy, and proud. She’s Lucky…and you’ll never forget her.