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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: March On Series: #4 of The Tucker Author: David Johnson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the fourth book of the Tucker series, Tucker’s grandson March is at a crossroads as he tries to reconcile his troubled past with his hopeful future. Debbie has given March her heart completely, and though he loves her desperately, he struggles to fully commit to her. Meanwhile, it seems as if evil is stalking March’s family. An old nemesis comes looking for him and, frustrated in his search, takes Tucker hostage. March’s sister, April, is also in peril after her workplace crush turns ugly and she unwittingly finds herself in harm’s way, becoming the victim of an unspeakable crime. Can March rescue Tucker, help April, and finally put his past to rest, so he and Debbie can find the happiness they both deserve? Revised edition: This edition of March On includes editorial revisions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: April's Rain Series: #3 of Tucker Author: David Johnson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 8, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Eight years after losing her closest friend, Tucker struggles to keep her rebellious, self-destructive granddaughter under control. When April accidentally kills her boyfriend while defending herself from his attack, Judge Jack helps Tucker ferry her granddaughter away to Spirit Lake, a remote treatment facility in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. There, April creates a false identity, painting herself as a young socialite, and blocks Tucker’s attempts at communication. Tucker’s grandson March, missing for eight years, is discovered half-dead, having lost both his sight and his memories. As he recovers, March’s blindness persists but fragments of his life reemerge. When he finds himself at Spirit Lake, he runs headlong into his past. Will Tucker be able to reunite her family after their paths have splintered? Revised edition: This edition of April's Rain includes editorial revisions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241182 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 8, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "The best novel of James Michener's career." Milwaukee Journal Gold fever swept the world in 1897. The chance for untold riches sent thousands of dreamers on a perilous trek toward their fortunes, failures, or deaths. Follow four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they misguidedly haul their dreams across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caribbean: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Alexander Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 8, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this acclaimed classic novel, James A. Michener sweeps readers off to the Caribbean, bringing to life the eternal allure and tumultuous history of this glittering string of islands. From the 1310 conquest of the Arawaks by cannibals to the decline of the Mayan empire, from Columbus’s arrival to buccaneer Henry Morgan’s notorious reign, from the bloody slave revolt on Haiti to the rise of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Caribbean packs seven hundred dramatic years into a tale teeming with revolution and romance, authentic characters and thunderous destinies. Through absorbing, magnificent prose, Michener captures the essence of the islands in all of their awe-inspiring scope and wonder.   Praise for Caribbean   “Michener is a master.”—Boston Herald   “A grand epic . . . [James A. Michener] sympathizes with the struggles of the region’s most oppressed, and succeeds in presenting the Caribbean in its rich diversity.”—The Plain Dealer   “Remarkable and praiseworthy . . . utterly engaging.”—The Washington Post Book World   “Even American tourists familiar with some of the serene islands will find themselves enlightened. . . . In Caribbean, there appears to be a strong aura of truth behind the storytelling.”—The New York Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did You Ever Have A Family Author: Bill Clegg Narrator: Bill Clegg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, MAN BOOKER PRIZE, PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE, AND ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • AN ALA NOTABLE BOOK Hailed as “masterly” by The New York Times Book Review, “a brilliantly constructed debut set in the aftermath of catastrophic loss” (2015 Man Booker Prize Judges). The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy. On the eve of her daughter’s wedding, June Reid’s life is upended when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter’s fiancé, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Luke—her entire family, all gone in a moment. June is the only survivor. Alone and directionless, June drives across the country, away from her small Connecticut town. In her wake, a community emerges, weaving a beautiful and surprising web of connections through shared heartbreak. From the couple running a motel on the Pacific Ocean where June eventually settles into a quiet half-life, to the wedding’s caterer whose bill has been forgotten, to Luke’s mother, the shattered outcast of the town—everyone touched by the tragedy is changed as truths about their near and far histories finally come to light. Elegant and heartrending, and one of the most accomplished fiction debuts of the year, Did You Ever Have a Family is an absorbing, unforgettable tale that reveals humanity at its best through forgiveness and hope. At its core is a celebration of family—the ones we are born with and the ones we create.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Baby of Her Own Series: #1 of Dundee Idaho Author: Brenda Novak Narrator: Carly Robins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 25, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What Delaney wants…is a baby. A baby of her own. At thirty, she longs to break away from the constraints of her life. Longs to reach out for her heart's desire. She'd prefer marriage as well, but there's no man in Dundee, Idaho, she's interested in marrying. Then one winter night she and her best friend, Rebecca, go to Boise with the intent of finding a man for Delaney. She meets a handsome stranger named Conner, a man who might be able to provide her with the solution she needs…and the baby she wants! Afterward she thinks she must have been out of her mind. But it's too late. Because she's pregnant. And because the stranger isn't a stranger anymore. Conner Armstrong is now living on a ranch just outside Dundee.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 65 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 25, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work....He manages to make history vivid and palatable to the reader." THE BOSTON GLOBE Texas. A land of sprawling diversity and unparalleled richness; a dazzling chapter in the history of our nation, a place like no other on earth. Through the remarkable lives of four families, this epic saga spans four centuries and two continents and charts the dramatic formation of several great dynasties from the age of the conquistadors to the present day. A richly compelling novel of a proud people eager to meet the challenge of the land, TEXAS is James Michener's most magnificent achievement.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortune Smiles: Stories Author: Adam Johnson Narrator: Greg Chun, Johnathan Mcclain, Will Damron, W. Morgan Sheppard, Dominic Hoffman, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 18, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson is one of America’s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson’s new book will only further his reputation as one of our most original writers. Subtly surreal, darkly comic, both hilarious and heartbreaking, Fortune Smiles is a major collection of stories that gives voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear, while offering something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.   In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. “Nirvana,” which won the prestigious Sunday Times short story prize, portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous”—first included in the Best American Short Stories anthology—a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. Unnerving, riveting, and written with a timeless quality, these stories confirm Johnson as one of America’s greatest writers and an indispensable guide to our new century. Readers: “Nirvana” read by Johnathan McClain  “Hurricanes Anonymous” read by Dominic Hoffman  “Interesting Facts” read by Cassandra Campbell  “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” read by W. Morgan Sheppard  “Dark Meadow” read by Will Damron  “Fortune Smiles” read by Greg Chun  Advance praise for Fortune Smiles “How do you follow a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel? For Johnson, the answer is a story collection, and the tales are hefty and memorable. . . . In the title story, two North Korean criminals adjust to post-defection life in South Korea. . . . Often funny, even when they’re wrenchingly sad, the stories provide one of the truest satisfactions of reading: the opportunity to sink into worlds we otherwise would know little or nothing about.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A half-dozen sometimes Carver-esque yarns that find more-or-less ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges and somehow holding up. Tragedy is always close to the surface in Johnson’s work—with tragicomic layerings. . . . Bittersweet, elegant, full of hard-won wisdom: this is no ordinary book, either.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)  Praise for Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Orphan Master’s Son “Harrowing and deeply affecting . . . a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Remarkable . . . the single best work of fiction published [this year].”—The Wall Street Journal

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241414 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unexpected Frost Series: #2 of The Tucker Author: David Johnson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the second installment of the gripping Tucker’s Way series, Tucker faces the biggest crisis of her life. Tucker has finally overcome a lifelong fear of trusting others and let her kind neighbor, Ella, into her heart. Despite their different backgrounds, Tucker and Ella share a deep affection and, together with their good friend Smiley Carter, they support one another and care for Tucker’s three troubled grandchildren. As Tucker’s bonds with Ella and Smiley deepen, Tucker’s grandson disappears and the bank threatens to foreclose on her farm. Then the worst happens—Ella is diagnosed with lung cancer. How can Tucker find her faith during a time when God has never seemed farther away? Revised edition: This edition of An Unexpected Frost includes editorial revisions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Villa America: A Novel Author: Liza Klaussmann Narrator: Jennifer Woodward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night. When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and moved to the South of France, where they immediately fell in with a group of expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. On the coast of Antibes they built Villa America, a fragrant paradise where they invented summer on the Riviera for a group of bohemian artists and writers who became deeply entwined in each other's affairs. There, in their oasis by the sea, the Murphys regaled their guests and their children with flamboyant beach parties, fiery debates over the newest ideas, and dinners beneath the stars. It was, for a while, a charmed life, but these were people who kept secrets, and who beneath the sparkling veneer were heartbreakingly human. When a tragic accident brings Owen, a young American aviator who fought in the Great War, to the south of France, he finds himself drawn into this flamboyant circle, and the Murphys find their world irrevocably, unexpectedly transformed. A handsome, private man, Owen intrigues and unsettles the Murphys, testing the strength of their union and encouraging a hidden side of Gerald to emerge. Suddenly a life in which everything has been considered and exquisitely planned becomes volatile, its safeties breached, the stakes incalculably high. Nothing will remain as it once was. Liza Klaussman expertly evokes the 1920s cultural scene of the so-called 'Lost Generation.' Ravishing and affecting, and written with infinite tenderness, Villa America is at once the poignant story of a marriage and of a golden age that could not last.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/238075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hawaii: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 51 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 60 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 16 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state. Michener uses individuals' experiences to symbolize the struggle of the various races to establish themselves in the islands

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistan’s remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past.   Praise for Caravans   “Brilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.”—The New York Times   “Romantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.”—Newsday   “Michener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.”—The New York Herald Tribune

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Source: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 54 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the early Hebrews and their persecutions, the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of present-day Israel and the Middle-East conflict. "A sweeping chronology filled with excitement." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centennial: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 50 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country; the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. In Centennial, trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are brought together in the dramatic conflicts that shape the destiny of the legendary West—and the entire country.   Praise for Centennial   “A hell of a book . . . While he fascinates and engrosses, Michener also educates.”—Los Angeles Times   “An engrossing book . . . imaginative and intricate . . . teeming with people and giving a marvelous sense of the land.”—The Plain Dealer   “Michener is America’s best writer, and he proves it once again in Centennial. . . . If you’re a Michener fan, this book is a must. And if you’re not a Michener fan, Centennial will make you one.”—The Pittsburgh Press “An absorbing work . . . Michener is a superb storyteller.”—BusinessWeek

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chesapeake: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 50 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 3.63 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The central scene of Michener's historical novel is that section of Maryland's Eastern shore, hardly more than 10 miles square. To this point come the founders of families that will dominate the story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Recessional: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'MICHENER IS AMERICA'S BEST WRITER.' --The Pittsburgh Press In his stunning new novel, bestselling novelist James A. Michener draws on his unparalleled gift for storytelling, his deep understanding of American society, and his own life experiences to illuminate the challenges of aging and the folly of youth in a Florida retirement home known as the Palms. As the new, young director of the Palms, Andy Zorn suffers no shortage of loving support and wise advice from his 'elders,' a group of five passionate, outspoken residents who refuse to accept the passive roles that both society and family have handed them. Yet past scandal has driven Zorn to despondency, until he meets an extraordinary young woman in the rehab wing, who has been forced to rebuild her life in the face of crippling injuries. Now Zorn finds himself falling in love--and with the help and gentle jabs from his more mature friends, he discovers a wonderful new purpose in life.... 'Michener hooks you with wonderfully humorous scenes. These are then interwoven between the moments of pain and heartache brought about by life choices we all must make.' --Tulsa World 'Engaging...One will be drawn into the novelist's world....The lush natural setting provides James Michener plenty to show and tell.' --The Washington Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alaska: A Novel Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 57 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Slept with God: A Novel Author: Val Brelinski Narrator: Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Fine, carefully wrought . . . reading this novel [is] a heartening experience.” —The New York Times Book Review “Brelinski’s page-turning debut is full of humor, insight, and imaginative sympathy. Think of it as the annunciation of a new talent.” —The Wall Street Journal “A revelation.” —Vanity Fair “[Brelinski] had readers hooked from page 1.” —Elle For Fans of Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You and Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings, an entrancing literary debut about religion, science, secrets, and the power and burden of family from recent Wallace Stegner Fellow Val Brelinski Set in Arco, Idaho, in 1970, Val Brelinski’s powerfully affecting first novel tells the story of three sisters: young Frances, gregarious and strong-willed Jory, and moral-minded Grace. Their father, Oren, is a respected member of the community and science professor at the local college. Yet their mother’s depression and Grace’s religious fervor threaten the seemingly perfect family, whose world is upended when Grace returns from a missionary trip to Mexico and discovers she’s pregnant with—she believes—the child of God. Distraught, Oren sends Jory and Grace to an isolated home at the edge of the town. There, they prepare for the much-awaited arrival of the baby while building a makeshift family that includes an elderly eccentric neighbor and a tattooed social outcast who drives an ice cream truck. The Girl Who Slept with God is a literary achievement about a family’s desperate need for truth, love, purity, and redemption.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is What I Want Author: Craig Lancaster Narrator: Gordon Greenhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the sweltering heat of a Montana July, the small town of Grandview readies for its annual Jamboree. The event is meant to celebrate community, but this year tensions boil over, threatening to tear the town, and a family, apart. Sam Kelvig, a third-generation resident, will do just about anything to protect Grandview from the influx of new oil money and the strangers chasing it. Meanwhile, his restless wife, Patricia, wearies of the constraints of marriage to a man who is so tied to his community; Sam’s estranged son, Norby, has reluctantly returned home despite the family’s struggle with accepting his sexuality; Henrik, Sam’s volatile brother, is looking for any easy opportunity; and Blanche, the family matriarch, only wants a bit of peace before she dies. As Jamboree goes into full swing, the disputes and desires of the Kelvigs—and their friends and neighbors—collide, fueled by both longtime resentments and an irrepressible hope to preserve their family and hometown.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Billionaire's Daddy Test Series: #17 of Billionaires and Babies Author: Charlene Sands Narrator: Christine Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 21, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Will a Moonlight Beach bachelor make the grade as a father…and a lover? Find out in this novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Charlene Sands.  Left to care for her late sister's baby, Mia D'Angelo goes on a secret mission to find out if the missing father would make good daddy material. But when she tracks down Adam Chase at his beachfront mansion, her plan spins out of control and they're soon dating!  It isn't long before the reclusive billionaire realizes Mia's keeping a huge secret about the child he never knew he had. Can this guarded man learn to trust Mia after her initial deception…and trust himself around this incredibly sexy woman?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tucker's Way Series: #1 of The Tucker Author: David Johnson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 7, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Omnibus Edition of Tucker's Way and For Tucker After enduring a childhood of horrific abuse and crushing poverty, Tucker seeks refuge in her rural Tennessee home. The three grandchildren she is raising are her only connection to the outside, and her demeanor is purposefully rough. But her world is turned upside down when a new neighbor, Ella, moves into the old McDaniel place next door. Ella seeks solace on the same country road after overcoming cancer. Although she is Tucker’s peer agewise, she was raised in a world of privilege and opportunity. Still, Ella shares a tragic part of Tucker’s experience—she also suffered abuse. Hers was at the hands of her husband, a prominent judge in the community and Tucker’s sworn enemy. When Tucker finds herself at risk of losing custody of her beloved youngest grandchild and worse, the child’s mother is murdered, she draws support and strength from her new friendship with Ella. These two women from disparate backgrounds form a fierce bond, and they weather life’s storms together with faith, love, and determination.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel Author: Julia Pierpont Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 7, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND THE HUFFINGTON POST • For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn’t mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack’s secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it’s delivered into the wrong hands: her children’s. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can’t possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life—their brittleness, and their resilience. Praise for Among the Ten Thousand Things “A luscious, smart summer novel . . . by a blazingly talented young author.”—The New York Times Book Review   “This book is one of the funniest, and most emotionally honest, I’ve read in a long time.”—Jonathan Safran Foer   “Obsessively compelling . . . emotionally sophisticated . . . Among the Ten Thousand Things rises above [other novels] for its imagined structure, sentence-by-sentence punch, and pure humanity.”—Vanity Fair   “Gripping . . . Pierpont brings this family of four to life in sharply observed detail. . . . An acute observer of social comedy, Ms. Pierpont has a keen eye for the absurd.”—The Wall Street Journal   “Pierpont’s language is heart-stopping. . . . Between Pierpont’s literary finesse and her captivating characters, [Among the Ten Thousand Things] reads like a page-turner.”—Entertainment Weekly (grade: A)   “A twisty, gripping story—that packs an emotional wallop.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “There are going to be as many ingenious twists and turns in this literary novel as there are in a top-notch work of suspense like Gone Girl.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “Tender, delicately perceptive . . . Pierpont’s voice is wry and confident, and she is a fine anthropologist of New York life.”—The Washington Post “Pierpont displays a precocious gift for language and observation. . . . She captures the minutiae of loneliness that pushes us away from each other and sometimes brings us back.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beggar Maid Author: Dilly Court Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 11, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The wonderfully nostalgic, vivid and compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top five bestselling author of A Loving Family. From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets. When he grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller, Jethro Dawkins. Jethro takes Charity in to help in his bookshop and keep house in their one room behind the shop. Charity sleeps under the counter and is not well treated, but Jethro instills in her the love of books that began when her grandmother taught her to read. And she starts to hope for a better future for herself. But Jethro dies unexpectedly, and Charity is faced with eviction when the rent is raised by the unscrupulous landlord. Must Charity give up her dream of running the bookshop herself, and worse, be forced to return to the streets...?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mireille Author: Molly Cochran Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 9, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Near the end of World War II, seventeen-year-old Mireille de Jouarre flees the home of her stepfather, a Nazi collaborator and abusive drunk. She finds shelter with her childhood friend Stefan, and the two fall deeply in love. But as the fighting escalates, Mireille must escape alone to Paris, where she discovers she’s pregnant and lacking a way to provide for her child. So begins her new life as l’Ange—the Angel. After an unlikely meeting with a wealthy aristocrat in a Parisian hotel—and her acceptance of his solicitation—Mireille becomes the most celebrated poule in all of France, eliciting huge fees and invitations to exclusive parties. At one of these events, Mireille meets Oliver Jordan, an American womanizer and film producer, and is soon launching a promising film career. As her star rises, Mireille is determined to bury her past. But her success isn’t as carefree and glittery as it seems, and when her daughter’s future is threatened, Mireille must make a deadly decision in a desperate attempt to finally choose her own path.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Truth According to Us: A Novel Author: Annie Barrows Narrator: Linda Montana, Julia Whelan, Danny Campbell, Ann Marie Lee, Mark Deakins, Lincoln Hoppe, Kimberly Farr, Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne, Tara Sands, Paul Michael, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 9, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do what’s right.    Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary characters. Her new novel, The Truth According to Us, brings to life an inquisitive young girl, her beloved aunt, and the alluring visitor who changes the course of their destiny forever.   In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck’s father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her opinion, to go completely mad with boredom. But once she secures a room in the home of the unconventional Romeyn family, she is drawn into their complex world and soon discovers that the truth of the town is entangled in the thorny past of the Romeyn dynasty.   At the Romeyn house, twelve-year-old Willa is desperate to learn everything in her quest to acquire her favorite virtues of ferocity and devotion—a search that leads her into a thicket of mysteries, including the questionable business that occupies her charismatic father and the reason her adored aunt Jottie remains unmarried. Layla’s arrival strikes a match to the family veneer, bringing to light buried secrets that will tell a new tale about the Romeyns. As Willa peels back the layers of her family’s past, and Layla delves deeper into town legend, everyone involved is transformed—and their personal histories completely rewritten. Read by Ann Marie Lee, Tara Sands, and Julia Whelan, with additional readings by Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, Kirby Heyborne, Lincoln Hoppe, Paul Michael, Linda Montana, and Arthur Morey.   Praise for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society   “A jewel . . . poignant and keenly observed . . . a small masterpiece about love, war, and the immeasurable sustenance to be found in good books and good friends.”—People   “Affirms the power of books to nourish people enduring hard times.”—The Washington Post   “This is a book for firesides or long train rides. It’s as charming and timeless as the novels for which its characters profess their love.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “A book-lover’s delight, an implicit and sometimes explicit paean to all things literary.”—Chicago Sun-Times   “A poignant, funny novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit . . . This one is a treat.”—The Boston Globe   “Smart and delightful . . . Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rocks: A Novel Author: Peter Nichols Narrator: Steve West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 26, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Irresistibly sunny…  Set in the brightly lit Mediterranean amid old olive trees and sexual intrigue, music and wine and beautiful women... Propulsive.” –The New York Times Book Review “The perfect book for pretending it's already beach season.” –O, The Oprah Magazine A romantic page-turner propelled by the sixty-year secret that has shaped two families, four lovers, and one seaside resort community. Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, The Rocks opens with a confrontation and a secret: What was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? And how did their history shape the Romeo and Juliet–like romance of their (unrelated) children decades later? Centered around a popular seaside resort club and its community, The Rocks is a double love story that begins with a mystery, then moves backward in time, era by era, to unravel what really happened decades earlier. Peter Nichols writes with a pervading, soulful wisdom and self-knowing humor, and captures perfectly this world of glamorous, complicated, misbehaving types with all their sophisticated flaws and genuine longing. The result is a bittersweet, intelligent, and romantic novel about how powerful the perceived truth can be—as a bond, and as a barrier—even if it’s not really the whole story; and how one misunderstanding can echo irreparably through decades.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mountain Can Wait Author: Sarah Leipciger Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 19, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Tragedy erupts in an instant. Lives are shattered irrevocably. A young man drives off into the night, leaving a girl injured, perhaps fatally so. From that cliffhanger opening, Leipciger takes readers back and forward in time to tell the haunting story of one family's unraveling in rural logging country where the land is still the economic backbone. Like the novels of Annie Proulx, this debut is rooted in richly detailed nature writing and sharply focused on small town mores and regional culture. Marrying the propulsive story of a father and son who, in the wake of catastrophe, must confront their private demons to reach for redemption with an evocative meditation on our environmental legacy, The Mountain Can Wait introduces Leipciger as an exciting talent.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Love and War Author: Lily Baxter Narrator: Penelope Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 14, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A compelling wartime novel of love, loss and rememberance from the bestselling author of The Shopkeeper's Daughter. August 1914. With the approach of war about to bring tragedy and heartache to families all over England, Elsie longs to do her duty for King and country. She heads to London to act as an interpreter for thousands of Belgium refugees. But although she enjoys her work, she longs to do more. And when the opportunity arises she joins the foreign office, travelling to France as an undercover agent. When circumstances force her to return home, she joins the FANYs. And on the battlefields of Europe, she must find the courage to help save lives, each day hoping that one day she’ll be reunited with the man she loves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Green Road Author: Anne Enright Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins, Gerard Doyle, Lloyd James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 11, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize–winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen’s four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. A profoundly moving work about a family’s desperate attempt to recover the relationships they’ve lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright’s most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once Pregnant, Twice Shy Author: Red Garnier Narrator: Kate Turnbull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 8, 2015 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: What's one impulsive night between old friends? Tied together by tragedy, business tycoon Garrett Gage has always vowed to protect Kate Devaney-at all costs. What he doesn't expect is that she'd someday need protection from him. When did Kate blossom from an orphaned little girl into a breathtaking woman? And what possessed him to forsake a deathbed vow and take vulnerable Kate into his arms, into his bed? Now that they'd been intimate, things have changed-more than Garrett could possibly know. Kate is carrying his child. And along with that, a secret that could change everything .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shoes for Anthony Author: Emma Kennedy Narrator: Emma Kennedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 7, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘They’re running wild. Feral! If I had a shilling for every time a Scott Street boy said he was doing something when he was doing something else entirely I’d be living in Cardiff in a house made of Lardy cake. What did I say? Bad things will happen!’ The idea of the war coming to their small, impoverished Welsh mining village always seemed remote, but with one explosive event and the arrival of the Americans preparing for the invasion of France, the people of Treherbert find their world turned upside down. But war brings distrust, lies and danger. And as the villagers find themselves hopelessly divided, Anthony, an 11-year-old who hasn’t had a pair of shoes in years, is going to have to choose between what is popular and what is right. Joyous, thrilling and nostalgic, Emma Kennedy’s Shoes For Anthony will have you wiping your eyes one moment and beaming from ear-to-ear the next.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gospel of Loki Author: Joanne M. Harris Narrator: Allan Corduner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A surprise from the author of Chocolat,” New York Times bestselling author Joanne M. Harris, “this pacy adult fantasy is narrated by Loki, the Norse god of fire and mischief” (Vogue). This novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods—retold from the point of view of the world’s ultimate trickster, Loki. A #1 bestseller in the UK, The Gospel of Loki tells the story of Loki’s recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard itself. Using her lifelong passion for the Norse myths, New York Times bestseller Joanne M. Harris has created a vibrant and powerful fantasy novel that the Sunday Sun recommends “to her long-standing audience with wit, style, and obvious enjoyment;” The Sunday Times claims it “lively and fun;” and The Metro adds that “Harris has enormous fun with her antihero...this mythical bad boy should beguile fans of Neil Gaiman.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Devotion: A Rat Story Author: Maile Meloy Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story from the author of 2017's Do Not Become Alarmed, a beautifully packaged palm-sized gift book. “That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But she’d been desperate. She was sharing a room with her four-year-old daughter, Hattie, in her parents’ house, and she had to get out.”   From the award-winning novelist and short story writer Maile Meloy, Devotion: A Rat Story is an exquisitely unsettling tale about a young single mother whose new home becomes a kind of nightmare she must resolve on her own. Eleanor is in such a rush to move away from her parents that she allows an imperious realtor to rush her to close on the too-good-to-be-true home without an inspection. Shortly after the house becomes legally hers—with every cent and all of her pride and future tied up in the property—the giant rats show themselves. In the yard, in the kitchen, on her daughter’s bed. A walk around the block reveals a decrepit neighboring house where two elderly sisters are feeding and fostering thousands of unusal “pets.” What has Eleanor done? What action can she possibly take now? In Meloy’s characteristically clean, assured style, she captures the hopes and horrors of domestic life with an element of suspense that drives the reader feverishly to the end.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Downstairs Maid Author: Rosie Clarke Narrator: Penelope Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 29, 2015 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: She is a servant girl... When her father becomes ill, Emily Carter finds herself sent into service at Priorsfield Manor in order to provide the family with an income. He will be the Lord of the Manor... Emily strikes up an unlikely friendship with the daughters of the house, as well as Nicolas, son of the Earl. But as the threat of war comes ever closer, she becomes even more aware of the vast differences between upstairs and downstairs, servant and master... If you like Downton Abbey you’ll love this!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Loving Family Author: Dilly Court Narrator: Penelope Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 6, 2014 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: She longed to be reunited with her family. The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Workhouse Girl. Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-mouth. Leaving her mother and younger brother and sister behind, Stella goes to a big country house outside London. When she returns home one Sunday, she discovers they have disappeared. Thrown out of their lodgings, no one knows where they have gone. Seven years later it looks likely Stella will soon become Cook. But circumstances compel her to flee with no references and only a few personal possessions to her name. She has never forgotten her loving family and is determined to find out what happened to them – once and for all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lives of Others Author: Neel Mukherjee Narrator: Raj Ghatak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee, read by Raj Ghatak. ***Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014*** ***Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2014*** ***WINNER of the Encore Award 2014*** ‘Ma, I feel exhausted with consuming, with taking and grabbing and using. I am so bloated that I feel I cannot breathe any more. I am leaving to find some air, some place where I shall be able to purge myself, push back against the life given me and make my own. I feel I live in a borrowed house. It’s time to find my own… Forgive me…’ Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is this note … The ageing patriarch and matriarch of his family, the Ghoshes, preside over their large household, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. More than poisonous rivalries among sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business, this is a family unravelling as the society around it fractures. For this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: the chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider. Ambitious, rich and compassionate The Lives of Others anatomises the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family history. A novel about many things, including the limits of empathy and the nature of political action, it asks: how do we imagine our place amongst others in the world? Can that be reimagined? And at what cost? This is a novel of unflinching power and emotional force.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Must Have Been the Mistletoe: the perfect feel-good festive treat for this Christmas Author: Judy Astley Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 9, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Let much-loved and ever-popular author Judy Astley gift you an unmissable, hilarious and heart-warming read this Christmas. Perfect for fans of Katie Fforde, Trisha Ashley, Jenny Colgan and Milly Johnson. 'Witty and warm!' - New! 'A lively laughter-packed riot of a story' - Heat 'Full of fun and with great characters' -- ***** Reader review 'Judy gets the story just right for me' -- ***** Reader review 'Gives you a cosy glow and gets you into the Christmas spirit' -- ***** Reader review 'A really good Christmas story devoured over a festive week-end' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************************* AT CHRISTMAS, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN... Thea's parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea... even though they are, in fact, about to split up. And while her sister and brother are both settled, Thea herself is newly single - her boyfriend has ditched her in favour of his pedigree dogs, and Thea can't decide whether or not she minds. There will be copious food and drink, holly and mistletoe, lots of bracing walks and a wintry barbecue on the beach. If it seems an odd way to celebrate the final break-up of a marriage and the Moving On to new partners, no-one is saying so. But then no-one had anticipated that the new partners might actually turn up to complicate the sleeping arrangements... As Cornwall experiences the biggest snowstorm in living memory, the festive atmosphere comes under some strain. Will Thea manage to find some happiness for herself? Will the mistletoe work its magic on them all?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241485 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Days Left Author: Julie Lawson Timmer Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 28, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Mara is a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and mother. Struggling with a devastating illness, she has set herself five days to make the ultimate decision for her family. Scott lives a thousand miles away, and is a foster parent to a troubled eight-year-old. Scott is facing his own five day countdown until his beloved foster son is returned to his biological mother. The two connect through an online forum, and find a friendship to help guide them through the most difficult, and momentous, week of their lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Smart One Author: Jennifer Close Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 7, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Coffey siblings are having a rough year. Claire has broken up with her fiancé and is hiding from her debts. Martha’s in a career crisis and even her therapist is losing patience with her. And Max, the baby of the family in his final year of college, is keeping a life-altering secret. Before long, all three of them have moved back home. But things aren’t so easy the second time around. Martha and Claire regress to fighting over the shared bathroom while their mother continues to plan Claire’s thwarted wedding (unbeknownst to Claire). But it’s only a matter of time before Max’s secret comes out and changes all of their lives…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noah's Compass Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 3, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noah's Compass chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems. His ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - though it's not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. Noah's Compass is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Amateur Marriage Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 3, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervour, they were hastily wed. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, and judgemental, proceeds deliberately. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. A 17-year-old daughter disappears, and some years later this fractious pair is forced to rescue her little boy, named Pagan, from drug-infested San Francisco, to take him home and raise him. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each of the competing voices bears witness, we are drawn ever more deeply into the complex entanglements of family life in this marvellous, multifaceted novel - one of Anne Tyler's finest.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accidental Tourist Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone. A heartfelt novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Breathing Lessons, now available as an audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saint Maybe Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 22, 2014 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Consumed by guilt Ian finds the hope of forgiveness at the Church of the Second Chance, and leaves college to cope with the three children he has inherited and his own embarrassing religion. Twenty years on, Ian's prospects of a second chance are receding fast when, out of the heart of the domesticity that has engulfed him, strides a new figure who will bring him new life. A heartfelt novel about the unexpected tragedies and second chances of life, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Accidental Tourist and The Amateur Marriage. Now available as an audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All My Tomorrows Series: #6 of The Cliffehaven Series Author: Ellie Dean Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The compelling new Second World War novel from the author of Always in My Heart. In defending herself against her brutal husband, eighteen-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She has no idea where Cliffehaven is, or what she will find there, but she knows that she will never be able to return home again. At first it seems she’s fallen on her feet. She gets a job at the local armaments factory, and the couple she is billeted with are kind and supportive. But when her host makes advances, Ruby is left homeless once more. Until Peggy Reilly welcomes her into the warmth of Beach View boarding house and Ruby dares to hope for a brighter future…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods Author: Matt Bell Narrator: Charlie Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 18, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newlywed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife's beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient bear that rules the beasts of the woods, the second moon weighing down the fabric of their starless sky, and the labyrinth of memory dug into the earth beneath their house. This novel is a powerful exploration of the limits of parenthood and marriage—and of what happens when a marriage's success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the sorrow that marks their absence.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Brother's Wife Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 5, 2013 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1860 Harriet Miles is trying to take care of her seriously ill mother, and just when she thinks things couldn’t get any worse she is fired from her job at the hostelry. The last thing she expects after her mother dies is a marriage proposal from a man she barely knows, but her only alternative is the workhouse. And so begins her new life with Noah Tuke. But instead of marital bliss, Harriet finds herself in the cramped farmhouse which Noah calls home, and in this overcrowded and angry household she meets with hostility and bitterness. The only person who offers her friendship is Noah’s brother, Fletcher. Gradually she learns the true reasons behind Noah’s desire to marry her – and realises that the only person she finds real companionship with is the person she can’t possibly be with…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Wedding Author: James Patterson Narrator: Kathleen McInearny, Susan McInearny, Allyson Johnson, Ax Norman, Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 24, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the presents are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married - and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day - she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays. But the wedding isn't the only surprise - there is one more unexpected gift, and it could change all their lives for ever. With deeply affecting characters and the emotional twists of a James Patterson thriller, The Christmas Wedding is a fresh look at family and the magic of the festive season.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Around: an emotional and enthralling saga set in the Swinging Sixties from bestselling author Gilda O’Neill Author: Gilda O'Neill Narrator: Carole Boyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 7, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Angie is eighteen years old, and, with the help of a mini skirt, a pair of false eyelashes and a tube of pale pink lipstick, has made herself into a beauty. She's living in London in the Swinging Sixties, and knows she's in the best city in the world at the best possible time. She's got that world at her pretty, white-booted feet as she dances the night away with every handsome bloke on the booming, strobe-lit floor of the Canvas Club. She's heard all the scare stories of course, about what drink, drugs and discotheques can do to young girls, but Angie knows she's different. After all, she's only playing around. But that was before that rainy night, when Angie got into the big, shiny car, leaving her friend Jackie in Soho to find her own way home. . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swift As Desire Author: Laura Esquivel Narrator: Bonnie Hurren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 5, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Instead of entering the world crying, like other babies, Jubilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as an interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and Spanish-speaking mother, he would translate words of spite into words of respect, so that their mutual hatred turned to love. When he grew up, he put his gift to good use in his job as a humble telegraph operator. But now the telegraph lies abandoned, obsolete as a form of communication in the electronic age, and Don Jubilo is on his deathbed, mute and estranged from his beloved wife, Lucha, who refuses to speak to him. What tragic event has come between such two such sensuous, loving people to cause their seemingly irreparable rift? What mystery lies behind the death of the son no-one ever mentions? Can their daughter bring reconciliation to her parents before it is too late, by acting as an interpreter between them in Morse code, just as Jubilo used to do for other people? In this magical, bittersweet story, touched with graphic earthiness and wit, Laura Esquivel shows us how keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness, and how communication is the key to love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters-in-Law: An enthralling, irresistible and beautifully moving novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors Author: Joanna Trollope Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 12, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman? In this emotional and thought-provoking novel, multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly weaves a study of familial relationships with a lightness of tone and real sense of compassion. Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love it! 'Trollope writes about family life with wit, intelligence and verve' - Guardian 'Wonderfully observed and readable' - THE TIMES 'Infallibly elegant...Look more closely and something as grim as Greek tragedy is played out around the cosy family dining table' - Daily Telegraph 'I found it hard to put this book down' -- ***** Reader review 'A brilliant book' -- ***** Reader review 'Always an enjoyable read - Joanna Trollope is the mistress of family emotions' -- ***** Reader review 'I read it last week and have started to re-read it immediately.' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************** DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW : THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women - her daughters-in-law - are usurping her position. They have become more important to her boys than she is. A crisis brings these subtle rifts to the surface. Can there be a way forward, if they are to survive as a family?