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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rainbow: A Novel Author: Yasunari Kawabata Narrator: Ami Okumura Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country. With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father’s first child—haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final, disturbing days together—seeks comfort in a series of unhealthy romances. And both sisters find themselves unable to outrun the legacies of their late mothers. A thoughtful, probing novel about the enduring traumas of war, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the inescapability of the past, The Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan’s greatest writers. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Blood Author: Denene Millner Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Tina Lifford, Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 7, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Behind every strong woman are the women who raised her. ‘A powerful family saga’ OBSERVER ‘Heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient… a masterpiece’ TARA M. STRINGFELLOW, author of Memphis THREE WOMEN. ONE BLOOD. A birth mother Grace, growing up in segregated Virginia, is only a teenager when her baby is taken from her in the ultimate act of betrayal. An adoptive mother Lolo, who takes the baby in, has dreamed of having a family her whole life. She will do whatever it takes whatever it takes to keep her dream intact. The daughter to both Pregnant with her first baby, Rae discovers that she is adopted. Now she must face an important reckoning about her two mothers… One Blood is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, secrets and history: a hymn to Black womanhood. ‘Heartbreaking’ KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘Epic’ i PAPER ‘Deeply moving’ PEOPLE magazine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret to a Southern Wedding Series: #1 of Peachtree Cove Author: Synithia Williams Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An emotional and witty story of love, forgiveness, and second chances as the race to the wedding day begins… It’s been years since Dr. Imani Kemp has returned home to Peachtree Cove, Georgia.  As Tallahassee’s most sought-after OB-GYN, she doesn’t have much time for anything else. But when her mom announces she’s marrying a man she just met on a dating app, Imani knows she has to put a stop to it immediately.  Let her mom be hurt again after the disastrous way her last marriage ended?  Absolutely not. Always her protector, Imani won’t rest until her mom sees reason.  She just never expected sparks to fly with the groom’s son...      After his mother’s tragic death, Cyril Dash and his father relocated to Peachtree Cove to escape the gossip and speculation. Now, in this quirky small town, they’ve made a new life for themselves, and after years of grief, his dad has finally found happiness again.  And Cyril refuses to let Imani threaten that.  The more determined he is to prove the strength of his dad's love, the more drawn he is to this beautiful, complicated woman who's determined to call off the wedding. But when Cyril’s heartbreaking past comes to light, destiny won’t be denied.  Because the secret to this southern wedding is you never know how far you'll go in the name of love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Orphan Author: Pam Weaver Narrator: Rachel Atkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Three sisters torn apart by war. Can fighting for peace bring them together again? December 1941: Evacuated from the threat of German bombs, sisters Amelie and Mireille have grown up under the storm clouds of war. Now they have joined the fight against Hitler, with Amelie training as a nurse to save wounded soldiers, and Mireille enlisted to help the Air Force wage war in the skies over Europe. But as each sister fights for peace, they are still haunted by the memory of their missing sister who was snatched away from them at the beginning of the war. As Mireille is recruited for a special forces role behind enemy lines in France, she puts her life on the line for the Allies. But could she also finally have a chance of reuniting her sisters, once the war is over? A heart-breaking tale of the bond between sisters and the courage of women in wartime. Perfect for fans of Shirley Dickson, Glynis Peters and Pam Jenoff. If you loved The Runaway Orphans by Pam Weaver, then don’t miss this next chapter in the sisters’ story! Readers adore The Lost Orphan: ‘I absolutely loved the first book so I was really looking forward to reading this and I quite literally could not put it down! My heart was in my mouth, both with Mireille in France, and Amelie and her vile partner back home. I was so caught up in all the emotion and sobbed at the end.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I enjoyed The Lost Orphan and read it in a day! The characters are brave sisters with a troubled past who are doing their 'bit' in the British war effort. The author has a wonderful sense of plot and place and the story moves right along.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An emotional rollercoaster … Great characters and pacy storylines make this a compelling read.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The sisters have amazing personalities with their strength and determination shining through. As I read of their encounters they felt like old friends who I couldn’t wait to meet with again. This has been an absolutely brilliant novel that I was unable to put down and when I reached the last page I had tears in my eyes.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This is a brilliant sequel to The Runaway Orphans. This book is, like the first one, full of twists and turns … Now I have a book hangover and don't know what to follow this with!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An excellent conclusion to the story started in The Runaway Orphans. It is heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. The characters are so real, I felt as if I knew them and would have felt right at home stepping into Jim and Norah’s kitchen. Pam Weaver is a great storyteller.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bakery in Paris: A Novel Author: Aimie K. Runyan Narrator: Caroline Hewitt, Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.   1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent to starve Paris into submission. Lisette Vigneau—headstrong, willful, and often ignored by her wealthy parents—awaits the outcome of the war from her parents’ grand home in the Place Royale in the very heart of the city. When an excursion throws her into the path of a revolutionary National Guardsman, Théodore Fournier, her destiny is forever changed. She gives up her life of luxury to join in the fight for a Paris of the People. She opens a small bakery with the hopes of being a vital boon to the impoverished neighborhood in its hour of need. When the city falls into famine, and then rebellion, her resolve to give up the comforts of her past life is sorely tested. 1946: Nineteen-year-old Micheline Chartier is coping with the loss of her father and the disappearance of her mother during the war. In their absence, she is charged with the raising of her two younger sisters. At the hand of a well-meaning neighbor, Micheline finds herself enrolled in a prestigious baking academy with her entire life mapped out for her. Feeling trapped and desperately unequal to the task of raising two young girls, she becomes obsessed with finding her mother. Her classmate at the academy, Laurent Tanet, may be the only one capable of helping Micheline move on from the past and begin creating a future for herself.  Both women must grapple with loss, learn to accept love, and face impossible choices armed with little more than their courage and a belief that a bit of flour, yeast, sugar, and love can bring about a revolution of their own.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Runaway Bride of Blossom Branch Series: #1 of Blossom Branch Author: Janice Maynard Narrator: Virginia Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: " sensual, sassy and emotionally riveting!" —Thoughts of a Blonde She thought she had life all figured out. But perfect doesn’t always mean it’s right… Cate Penland once believed she could have it all—but that was before her fiancé left her at the altar in front of twelve hundred guests. Heartbroken and humiliated, Cate can think of only one thing to do: run. But escape leads right to her nemesis, Prescott “Harry” Harrington III. They're ten years apart and not compatible. He might be lauded in their Atlanta social circles, but she doesn’t like him. He makes her feel prickly and all…something inside. Why is he rescuing her? Putting her up in his penthouse suite, offering a sympathetic ear—suddenly the older, wiser Harry is someone she can lean on… Now Cate isn’t sure what she wants. The life she left behind…or the one she hasn’t quite found yet? The one thing she knows: she’s going home to Blossom Branch. Even if Harry says he’s coming with her. Maybe there, under the peach trees, is where she’ll find out what perfection really means… Bonus novella!  Ten years ago, she’d loved him, but he’d been bound for bigger things. Now small-town girl Laney Marshall has sexy celebrity Brit Sheffield back in her town, in her house—in her bed. Does she want to keep him there this time?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel Author: Satoshi Yagisawa Narrator: Catherine Ho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books.  Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he’s been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako’s life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always pursued something of an unconventional life, especially after his wife Momoko left him out of the blue five years earlier, Satoru runs a second-hand bookshop in Jimbocho, Tokyo’s famous book district. Takako once looked down upon Satoru’s life. Now, she reluctantly accepts his offer of the tiny room above the bookshop rent-free in exchange for helping out at the store. The move is temporary, until she can get back on her feet. But in the months that follow, Takako surprises herself when she develops a passion for Japanese literature, becomes a regular at a local coffee shop where she makes new friends, and eventually meets a young editor from a nearby publishing house who’s going through his own messy breakup. But just as she begins to find joy again, Hideaki reappears, forcing Takako to rely once again on her uncle, whose own life has begun to unravel. Together, these seeming opposites work to understand each other and themselves as they continue to share the wisdom they’ve gained in the bookshop. Translated By Eric Ozawa

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Willowleaf Lane Series: #5 of Hope's Crossing Author: RaeAnne Thayne Narrator: Carly Robins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Sometimes going back is the best way to start over Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation.To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she’s passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn’t come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope’s Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst. A retired pro baseball player on the mend from injury—and a damaging scandal—he’s interested in his own brand of reinvention. Now everything about Spencer’s new-and-improved lifestyle, from his mission to build a rehab facility for injured veterans to his clear devotion to his preteen daughter, Peyton, touches Charlotte’s heart. Holding on to past hurt is her only protection against falling for him—again. But if she takes the risk, will she find in Spencer a hometown heartbreaker, or the hero she’s always wanted?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Happiness Plan Author: Susan Mallery Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The new Summer romance from the bestselling author of Home Sweet Christmas Some things shouldn’t be left to chance… For Heather life is pretty perfect. She has a successful business, a cute but contemptuous cat, and best friends Daphne and Tori. Except one thing, the father she never knew. Should she find him, and risk heartache or be content not knowing why he left? When Daphne’s husband accuses her of having an affair her world is rocked. They used to be the closest couple she knew, until she wanted a baby and he wanted to wait. Can they find their way back to one another before it’s too late? Tori is always looking for ‘the one’. But when her apartment floods and she moves in with her best friend she finds that perhaps what she had been searching for was living right next door all the time. Three women search for joy in #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery’s new story of love, hope and the power of friendship. Readers LOVE Susan Mallery ‘I just loved the whole story, couldn’t put it down.’ ‘This story has everything, romance, humour, family and a moral compass… Brilliant.’ ‘[H]eartwarming and romantic. I devoured it!' 'Susan Mallery has gift for making fictional towns you wish you could live in.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr Kato Plays Family: A Novel Author: Milena Michiko Flašar Narrator: Brian Nishii Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Tokyo-born-and-raised multilingual Nishii makes an ideal cipher for the recently retired Mr Katō...'- Booklist Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You. Mr Katō—a curmudgeon and recent retiree—finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a dog (which his wife won’t allow). During one of these walks, he is approached by a young woman. She calls herself Mie, and invites him to join her business Happy Family, where employees act as part-time relatives or acquaintances for clients in need, for whatever reason, if only for a day. At first reluctant, but then intrigued, he takes the job without telling his wife or adult children. Through the many roles he takes on, Mr Katō rediscovers the excitement and spontaneity of life, and re-examines his role in his own family. Using lessons learned with his “play families,” he strives to reconnect with his loved ones, to become the father and husband they deserve, and to live the life he’s always wanted. A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Can't Stay Here Forever: A Novel Author: Katherine Lin Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Named a must-read book of summer by: Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Inquirer and one of the best books of the year by the New York Post Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney’s wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub's gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships. Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he had a mistress—one of her own colleagues at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. Acting on impulse—or is it grief? rage? Probably all three—Ellie cashes in Ian’s life insurance policy for an extended stay at the luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Accompanying her is her free-spirited best friend, Mable Chou. Ellie hopes that the five-star resort on the French Riviera, with its stunning clientele and floral-scented cocktails, will be a heady escape from the real world. And at first it is. She and Mable meet an intriguing couple, Fauna and Robbie, and as their poolside chats roll into wine-soaked dinners, the four become increasingly intimate. But the sunlit getaway soon turns into a reckoning for Ellie, as long-simmering tensions and uncomfortable truths swirl to the surface. Taking the reader from San Francisco to the gilded luxury of the south of France, You Can’t Stay Here Forever is a sharply funny and exciting debut that explores the slippery nature of marriage, the push and pull between friends, and the interplay of race and privilege, seen through the eyes of a young Asian American woman.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617668 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Halcyon: A novel Author: Elliot Ackerman Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (“An expert juggling act.” —Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review) Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the Virginia estate of renowned lawyer, family patriarch, and World War II hero Robert Ableson. It’s 2004, and Gore is entering his second term as president, when news breaks that scientists have discovered a cure for death. Suddenly, Martin is forced to question everything he thought he understood about the world around him. Who is Ableson, really? Why has Martin been drawn into the Ablesons’ most closely guarded family secrets? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil? From pivotal elections to crumbling marriages, from the Civil War to the Battle of Saipan, Halcyon is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on the dual foundations of remembering and forgetting.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Three of Us Author: Ore Agbaje-Williams Narrator: T'nia Miller, Tariye Peterside, Jake Fairbrother Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A good job, a beautiful wife, a big house in a nice neighbourhood; there's really only one thing missing from the picture: a baby. But motherhood is a serious undertaking, especially for a wife who has always valued her selfhood above all else. And there's also a bigger problem: Temi, the wife's best friend who swears she knows her better than her husband. Set over the course of one day, husband, wife and friend toe the lines of compromise and betrayal. Told in three parts, each voice as compelling as the other, three people's lives, and their visions of themselves and each other begin to slowly unravel, ending with a startling discovery which throws everyone's integrity into question. Full of ambiguity, idiosyncratic wit and a healthy dose of wealth and snobbery THE THREE OF US is part-Black suburban millennial comedy of manners, part-domestic noir and is for readers of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER by Oyinkan Braithwaite, SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid, and Sally Rooney. © Ore Agbaje-Williams 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of Burning Author: Janika Oza Narrator: Kp Upadhyayula, Lipica Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 4, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko: one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change At the turn of the twentieth century Pirbhai, a teenage boy, is taken from his village in India and travels perilously across the sea to labour on the East African railroad for the British. There, he is given a ruthless order. Following it will ensure his survival. But it will also torment him and reverberate across his family's future for decades to come. During the waning days of British colonial rule, and as Uganda moves towards independence and military dictatorship, Pirbhai's children and grandchildren come of age in a divided nation. In 1972, when Idi Amin's brutal regime expels the Ugandan Asians, the family has no choice but to flee. In the chaos, they leave something devastating and unexpected behind. As Pirbhai's grandchildren find their way back to each other in exile in Toronto, a letter arrives that will stoke the flames of the fire that haunts the family. It makes each generation question how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to defy, in order to secure their own place in the world. A History of Burning is an unforgettable tour de force, an intimate family saga of complicity and resistance, about the stories we share, what remains unspoken and the eternal search for home. ©2023 Janika Oza (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Darkest Hour Series: #5 of Cutler Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Growing up on the thriving plantation called The Meadows, Lillian Booth cherishes the brightest, happiest dreams... Lillian's world is full of grand parties, sunshine, and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia. No one, not even her cold, stern Papa and her Bible spouting sister Emily, can crush her spirits—until the day Emily reveals the shattering secret at Lillian's birth, a secret Mama sadly cannot deny. Still Lillian refuses to believe Emily's hateful claim that she is evil, a curse...even when sweet, gentle Eugenia loses her fragile hold on life, and Mama retreats further into her fantasies. But when tragedy befalls her best friend, the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own, Lillian comes to believe Emily's grim words. Meekly, she endures her penance, finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. Lillian's heart is torn anew when, in a drunken haze, Papa subjects her to the most brutal degradation. And when Papa loses The Meadows in a card game, Lillian is faced with a new and terrifying prospect. Arrogant, handsome playboy Bill Cutler will return the plantation—if Lillian will marry him! Now Lillian must leave her girlhood home behind, and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler's Cove...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Skin and Its Girl: A Novel Author: Sarah Cypher Narrator: Haneen Arafat Murphy, Victoria Nassif Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt’s secrets in this “enchanting, memorable” (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage.   “As beautifully detailed as a piece of Palestinian embroidery, this bold, vivid novel will speak to readers across genders, cultures, and identities.”—Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Fencing with the King A THEM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family’s ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns vibrantly, permanently cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis’ centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of their lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening back to a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-makers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary love. Decades later, Betty returns to Aunt Nuha’s gravestone, faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay in the only country she’s ever known, or should she follow her heart and the woman she loves, perpetuating her family’s cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt’s complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which Nuha hid to help the family immigrate to the United States. But, as Betty soon discovers, her aunt hid much more than that.   The Skin and Its Girl is a searing, poetic tale about desire and identity, and a provocative exploration of how we let stories divide, unite, and define us—and wield even the power to restore a broken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oh, Sister: The powerful new novel from the author of Another Life Author: Jodie Chapman Narrator: Susannah Fielding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Isobel and Jen have spent their entire lives following the rules - of their marriages, and their religion. But when Isobel's husband leaves her, and Jen goes through unimaginable trauma, the religion turns its back. Zelda has never done what's expected of her. Living on the outskirts of the community that she, Jen and Isobel were raised in, she's trying to find herself outside of the confines of the world she left behind. As the lives of these women become entangled, they each face an uncertain future. Will they find the courage to move forwards? Or will a lifetime of expectation prove too hard to escape... Praise for Jodie Chapman: 'Beautifully written...I couldn't put it down' EMMA GANNON 'An astounding debut about sibling grief, religion and sliding doors love' PANDORA SYKES 'Deep, rich, thoughtful' Gillian McAllister 'This beautiful tale of love, loss and sacrifice will break your heart...With echoes of David Nicholls' One Day and Sally Rooney's novels, it perfectly captures the agony of falling in love and the razor-sharp reality of pain and loss' DAILY MAIL ©2023 Jodie Chapman (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Disappeared: Stories Author: Andrew Porter Narrator: Lee Osorio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter “What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.” —Alix Ohlin, author of We Want What We Want A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous codependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance, and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both literal and figurative—lives and loves that are cut short, the vanishing of one's youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin, from the clamor of a crowded restaurant to the cigarette at a lonely kitchen table, Andrew Porter captures each of these relationships mid-flight, every individual life punctuated by loss and beauty and need. The Disappeared reaffirms the undeniable artistry of a contemporary master of the form.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything She Feared Author: Rick Mofina Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "Rick Mofina has penned a creepy, heart-pounding page-turner…. A gripping, chilling thriller from beginning to end." —Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest Every mother worries about their child. But Sara Harmon fears hers… When a teen falls while taking a selfie at the edge of a cliff, the last thing she sees before plummeting to her death is Katie Harmon, the nine-year-old girl she was babysitting, looking down at her. Investigators gather at the scene, and Katie’s mother, Sara, rushes to comfort her daughter. Yet there’s a small, secret ping of alarm in Sara’s heart that she cannot share—though rookie detective Kim Pierce senses it. For years, others have tried to unravel this secret. From true-crime podcasters to a haunted journalist searching for a killer who vanished after being released from prison several years ago. And now, with detectives tightening the focus of their investigation, Sara is consumed by her darkest fear—that the babysitter’s death was not an accident.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Animals Caught in Traps: A Novel Author: C. B. Bernard Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For readers of Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone and David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide, C. B. Bernard’s debut novel shows a father and a daughter fighting toward hope through a traumatic past. In the town of Disappointment, Oregon, washed-up boxer Lewis Yaw makes ends meet as a fishing guide. He’s lived a life of violence, but doesn’t understand real strength until he meets Janey, who can see good in even the most damaged things—including him. When she gives birth to their daughter, Grayling, Lewis worries that he’ll mess her up as badly as his father did him. But he also sees a chance to right the wrongs of the past. By high school, Gray has become his apprentice guide, his sparring partner, and his pride and joy. Life in their small town is nothing short of challenging—there’s a marauding bear roaming the streets, a rival guide trying to kill Lewis, and a poacher littering deer carcasses along the river—but he is closer to happiness than he ever thought possible. When tragedy strikes, Lewis can’t break free of his past, leaving Gray to fight to save the only thing she has left: her family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Midnight Whispers Series: #4 of Cutler Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Soon to be a Lifetime limited series! Christie, Dawn’s daughter, searches for her own happiness and break the cycle of darkness that has plagued her family for generations in this book in the Cutler series from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews. Having grown up surrounded by love and safety, there’s no real reason for Christie Longchamp to feel that a cloud hovers over Cutler’s Cove—a cloud with origins in her family’s troubled history. But when Christie discovers the truth about her uncle’s unbrotherly love for her mother Dawn, she’s desperate to get away. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father...a pathetic, helpless has-been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to Gavin, her Daddy Jimmy’s young and handsome stepbrother. In his arms, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories. But all too soon, she is torn from Gavin’s embrace and as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must do what it takes to defy the curse that has haunted Cutler’s Cove for generations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sister Effect Author: Susan Mallery Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: ,"Mallery beautifully illustrates the power of female friendship and the importance of reaching for one's dreams."—Publishers Weekly Beloved bestselling author Susan Mallery brings readers an emotional, witty, and heartfelt story that explores the nuances of a broken family’s complex emotions as they strive to become whole in this uplifting story of human frailty and resilience. Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she’s raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow—nose down, work hard, follow the rules. Sloane went the other way. Now Sloane is back, as beautiful and as damaged as ever…and she wants a relationship with her daughter. She says she’s changed, but Finley’s heart has been burned once too often for her to trust easily. But is her reluctance to forgive really about Sloane or worry over losing what she loves the most? With the help of a man who knows all too well how messy families can be, Finley will learn there’s joy in surrendering and peace in letting go. Don't miss #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery's latest masterpiece, For the Love of Summer, a captivating story that weaves together the complexities of family, friendship, and unexpected bonds.   Discover more from Susan Mallery: - For the Love of Summer - Coming June 2024! - The Summer Book Club - The Sister Effect - The Boardwalk Bookshop - The Summer Getaway

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez Author: Claire Jimenez Narrator: Claire Jimenez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford) about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and sets out to bring her home. Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize · March Indie Next Pick · Belletrist, Phenomenal, Page & Pairing, and Readers Digest book club pick  The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time? The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't been easy on the Ramirez family. It’s 2008, and their mother, Dolores, still struggles with the loss, Jessica juggles a newborn baby with her hospital job, and Nina, after four successful years at college, has returned home to medical school rejections and is forced to work in the mall folding tiny bedazzled thongs at the lingerie store. After seeing maybe‑Ruthy on their screen, Jessica and Nina hatch a plan to drive to where the show is filmed in search of their long‑lost sister. When Dolores catches wind of their scheme, she insists on joining, along with her pot-stirring holy roller best friend, Irene. What follows is a family road trip and reckoning that will force the Ramirez women to finally face the past and look toward a future—with or without Ruthy in it. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and, of course, love. A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle • USA Today • Today.com • Ms. Magazine • Good Housekeeping • Bustle • The Week • Goodreads • Bookriot • Pop Culturely • SheReads • Litreactor • Electric Lit • The Mary Sue • People Español • Zibby Mag • Debutiful • Her Campus   Best Books of March by Shondaland • Ms. Magazine • Popsugar • Bookriot • Debutiful • Powell’s Book Blog • TIME 100 must-read book of 2023 • Booklist Top 10 debut of 2023

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories Author: Margaret Atwood Narrator: Linda Lavin, Dawn Harvey, Dan Stevens, Rebecca Lowman, Bahni Turpin, Kimberly Farr, Allan Corduner, Margaret Atwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together 'If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You’ve been missing out.” —The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Makkai, best-selling author of The Great Believers Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect.  The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; “Impatient Griselda” explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and “My Evil Mother” touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love—and what comes after. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forget What You Know Author: Christina Dodd Narrator: Vanessa Johansson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Extraordinarily entertaining….with a cinematic flair that Hitchcock would envy.” – Booklist, starred review Perfect for fans of Karen Slaughter, Lisa Jewell, and Sandra Brown comes a brand-new heartstoppingly suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd... A submerged car is pulled from the bottom of the lake.  The driver has been shot in the back of the head and no other bodies are found.  Only a legendary sculpture remains inside, and as it rises to the surface, greedy collectors from around the world gather. They'll stop at nothing to gain possession of the priceless artifact. Only one person stands in their way… Zoey Phoenix remembers nothing about her early childhood; her mother’s desire to leave those years behind never worried her…until she’s almost killed in a hit and run and, days later, her mother disappears. Now Zoey fears her family secrets won’t stay buried long.  She has no idea who tried to murder her or why, but she’s determined to unravel the dangerous truths of her past—before they claim her future.     Forget what you know...yet the past remembers. "If Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley are on your Mount Rushmore of suspense writers, Dodd's latest release definitely needs a spot on your shelf."—E! News

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Candle Women: A Novel Author: Diane Marie Brown Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Unmissable Debut Authors Publisher's Summary: A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you will love Black Candle Women.” —Jenna Bush Hager Named a Best Book of the Month by: Shondaland, MS. Magazine, TODAY.com, Reader’s Digest, Katie Couric Media, AARP Sisters, Goodreads, BookRiot A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family love curse, and the secrets they keep for and from each other over one very complicated year Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have always lived together in their quaint California bungalow. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when young Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the family has withheld a crucial secret from Nickie all these years: any person a Montrose woman falls in love with will die. Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, they're set on a collision course dating back to 1950s New Orleans’s French Quarter—where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love… “Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying secrets, heartaches, and twists.” —Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, a Reese's Book Club Pick “Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder.” —Ava DuVernay

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twilight's Child Series: #3 of Cutler Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Soon to be a Lifetime limited series! Even as she creates a haven of warmth and love for herself and her young family, a legacy of deceit and betrayal haunts Dawn Longchamp in this entry in the Cutler series from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews. As the new owner of the Cutler’s Cove hotel and with her darling Jimmy and her beautiful daughter Christie, Dawn has everything she could ever hope for—but she can’t seem to quell her forebodings of evil. She can sense Grandmother Cutler’s hateful presence everywhere, as if the old lady is plotting vengeance from the grave. When Dawn discovers that her brother still clings to his mad, shameful passion for her, she is horrified. Her spiteful, jealous sister is far easier to ignore...until the day her childish rage explodes into violence, destroying Dawn’s most cherished, precious dream. Now, as the heartaches and scandals of the past threaten to engulf her, Dawn must fight for her steadfast Jimmy...for only with his love can she find the rainbow at the end of the storm.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family Morfawitz Author: Daniel H. Turtel Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed author Daniel H. Turtel, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel, comes The Family Morfawitz, a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus—at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice—ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past—she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition knows no limits, and nothing will stand in the way of their realization of the American ideals of wealth and beauty, even if it means abandoning their son, Hezekial. Decades later, through machinations worthy of his parents, Hezekial becomes entrusted as the family’s chronicler. As he sits with his aging father, transcribing a litany of Zev’s sins—from serving as a kapo at Gusen, to betraying the friends who helped him, to his blood-bound commitment to Hadassah despite numerous affairs and illegitimate children—the younger Morfawitz is faced with a choice: whitewash a lifetime of cruelty, indifference, and lust, or repay his mother at last.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Private Lives of Trees: A Novel Author: Alejandro Zambra Narrator: Gisela Chipe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a “short and strikingly original” (The New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones—now reissued by Penguin Veronica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people's stories. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Veronica, Julián finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life—of their lives together. What combination of desire and coincidence led them here, to this very night? What will the future—and possibly motherless—Daniela think of him and his stories? Why tell stories at all?    The second novel by acclaimed Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees overflows with his signature wit and his gift for crafting short novels that manage to contain whole worlds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Savage Side: A novel Author: Tiffany McDaniel Narrator: Catherine Taber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. 'Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile...McDaniel artfully evokes each facet of their common humanity, the sinuous landscape, and defiant community in the face of evil.' —Oprah Daily Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and forge a world all their own.  But what the two sisters can’t escape are the generational ghosts that haunt their family. Growing up in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the sisters cling tightly to one another. Years later, Arcade wrestles with the memories of her early life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the river. Soon, more bodies are found. As her friends disappear around her, Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles closer. Arcade’s promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate and the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to survive. Drawing from the true story of women killed in Chillicothe, Ohio, acclaimed novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a moving literary testament and fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets of the Morning Series: #2 of Cutler Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Soon to be a Lifetime limited series! The second in #1 New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrew’s Cutler series follows Dawn as she embarks on a glittering future in New York City, only for tragedy and betrayal to plague her. Dawn can hardly believe she’s a student at one of New York City’s best performing arts schools, on track to achieve her dreams of becoming a professional singer. But she is still haunted by memories of Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share. Then Michael Sutton arrives, a new teacher at the school, a singing star and the most handsome man Dawn has ever seen. Together they create a world of feeling she has never known. In his embrace Dawn awakens to disturbing, unfamiliar desires, and Michael’s promises offer a vision of music and romance forever...until he disappears. Dazed by his cruelty, alone with the bitter fruit of his betrayal, Dawn becomes, once again, a victim of her grandmother’s twisted schemes. Desolate, she clings to the tender hope that Jimmy will return and renew their ultimate dream.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Side of the Bridge Author: Mary Lawson Narrator: Frank Cox-O'connell, Brendan Mcmurtry-Howlett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE** A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds apart. Arthur is older, shy, dutiful and set to inherit his father's farm. Jake is younger, handsome and reckless, a dangerous man to know. When Laura arrives in their rural community, the fragile balance of the brothers' rivalry is pushed to the edge of catastrophe... 'An enthralling read, both straightforward and wonderfully intricate' Guardian 'Evokes beautifully the big joys and sorrows of most people, no matter how small their town' The Times ©2022 Mary Lawson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chinese Groove: A Novel Author: Kathryn Ma Narrator: James Chen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders. Upon arrival, Shelley is dismayed to find that his “rich uncle” is in fact his unemployed second cousin once removed and that the grand guest room he’d envisioned is but a scratchy sofa. The indefinite stay he’d planned for? That has a firm two-week expiration date. Even worse, the loving family he hoped would embrace him is in shambles, shattered by a senseless tragedy that has cleaved the family in two. They want nothing to do with this youthful bounder who’s barged into their lives. Ever the optimist, Shelley concocts a plan to resuscitate his American dream by insinuating himself into the family. And, who knows, maybe he’ll even manage to bring them back together in the process.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614350 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dawn Series: #1 of Cutler Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From #1 bestselling author V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) the first book in the captivating Cutler series—soon to be a Lifetime limited series! In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems... Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn’s secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn’s heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance... Then Dawn’s mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, she is thrust into a different family and an evil web of unspoken sins. Her sweet innocence lost, humiliated and scorned, Dawn is desperate to find Jimmy again and...strip away the wicked lies that will change all their lives forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House Under Snow Author: Jill Bialosky Narrator: Elise Arsenault Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A novel by an acclaimed American poet, House under Snow is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, and a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and ‘70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna’s first passionate love affair with a troubled boy who works as a groom and trainer at a horse track, and her mother’s endless stream of suitors and a failed marriage, the novel races toward a chilling conclusion when Anna is betrayed by the two most important figures in her young life. An unforgettable tale of the power and vulnerability of sex and family, history and the past, House under Snow is a lyrical and brilliant work of fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas at Whitefriars Author: Elizabeth Camden Narrator: Pearl Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 8 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Mary Beckwith lives in a magnificent English castle during the twilight years of the Gilded Age. With the help of an American millionaire, she has succeeded in renovating her beloved Whitefriars castle into a splendid estate just in time for Christmas. From across the ocean, millionaire Everett Wooten has spent a fortune propping up Whitefriars to add modern conveniences and rebuild crumbling old walls. Even though he’s never met Mary, they have enjoyed a lively business correspondence over the nine years they have been working toward a renovation. Now, he has finally come to see Mary and the castle in person, but nothing is as he was led to believe. Mary and Everett try to find a way forward, but red-blooded American entrepreneurship doesn’t always mingle with blue-blooded English tradition.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Library at Wagtail Ridge Author: Janet Gover Narrator: Annabelle Tudor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 30, 2022 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: An unexpected and unusual inheritance sets a young woman on the road to discover her mother's deepest secret. A charming and heartfelt rural romance perfect for readers of Rachael Johns and Karly Lane. When Lou Taylor inherits a quaint country cottage and a mobile library full of books from her birth mother, she heads to the small town of Wagtail Ridge to learn more about the woman she never knew. Curiously, the last piece of the bequest is a handwritten letter, the first of many Luca left scattered along the library's route in hopes of finally sharing her secrets with the daughter she had to give up. The townspeople of Wagtail Ridge flock around Lou, wanting to share the stories of Luca's life, but she knows she must learn about her birth mother in the way Luca intended. Jake Barnes, her new neighbour, offers to help her follow the trail, but weighing on his conscience is a promise he made to Luca - a secret that now stands between him and the woman who's slowly capturing his heart... As the kilometres fly by, Lou gradually untangles who her mother was and what lay behind the choices she made. At the same time, she finds herself drawing ever closer to kind, handsome Jake. But will it all be enough to keep her in Wagtail Ridge when she has another happy life waiting for her in the city? A captivating story of love, family and belonging from award-winning romance author Janet Gover. WINNER: Romantic Elements RuBY 2023, Romance Writers of Australia PRAISE FOR JANET GOVER: 'Tender, caring and wise, Close to Home is a book to embrace with all your heart.' - Mrs B's Book Reviews 'Like the warmth of a cup of tea and the atmosphere of smells from the cake baking this story will fuse all the senses and bring a smile to the face ... a new dimension to a heartwarming outback tale.' - HappyValley BooksReads

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Petals on the Wind Series: #2 of Dollanganger Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The captivating and unforgettable saga of the Dollanganger family continues in Petals On the Wind, the New York Times bestselling sequel to Flowers in the Attic and the inspiration behind the Lifetime original movie and “tortured love story” (Variety). Forbidden love comes into full bloom. For three years they were kept hidden in the eaves of Foxworth Hall, their existence all but denied by a mother who schemed to inherit a fortune. For three years their fate was in the hands of their righteous, merciless grandmother. They had to stay strong…but in their hopeless world, Cathy and her brother, Christopher, discovered blossoming desires that tumbled into a powerful obsession. Now, with their frail sister, Carrie, they have broken free and scraped together enough for three bus tickets and a chance at a new life. The horrors of the attic are behind them…but they will carry its legacy of dark secrets forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebel and the Thief Author: Jan-Philipp Sendker Narrator: Imogen Taylor, Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 10 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disaster Eighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of the wealthy Benzes. But when the pandemic comes, they are all let go, and left staring into the abyss of abject poverty. As their situation grows increasingly desperate, the once rule-abiding monastery student decides he won’t wait at the mercy of a corrupt, indifferent government, and rebels against his father’s resigned acceptance. Sneaking through the locked-down city at night, past the military patrols, Niri returns to the villa to take what his family needs to survive. Waiting for him is his childhood friend—and the Benzes’ daughter—Mary, who has a bigger plan that will change their lives forever. A universal story of love across social classes, The Rebel and the Thief poignantly shows how adversity can teach us what matters most: courage to resist, will to change, and unconditional trust in one another.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friends Forever Series: #5 of Calamity Janes Author: Sherryl Woods Narrator: Traci Odom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Weary from her high-profile career, Lauren Winters returns to Wyoming to reunite with her old friends, the Calamity Janes, and to start over—incognito—as a horse trainer. Rugged rancher Wade Owens is a refreshing change from Hollywood—he treats her like a real person. But the wrangler has made his distaste for the rich and powerful clear. Can their stormy love endure the maelstrom when Lauren reveals her true identity? This novel was originally published as Wrangling the Redhead.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uninvited Author: Jocelyn Dexter Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown, Rupert Degas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The respectable middle-class Twist family is settling in for their usual Sunday lunch. Husband and wife Roger and Becky are there, along with their daughter, Lucy, and her husband, Frank. But then they're joined by an uninvited guest... His name is John, and he knows everything about them—including their darkest secrets. After he manipulates his way into the house, John soon has them bound at their wrists and ankles. But what is the agenda of this twisted stranger? One by one, their hidden pasts will be revealed, and horrific events will unfold. Bit by bit, the family’s captor will unveil the shocking truth about his motivations. Will any of them survive the nightmare?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Immortal Crowns Series: #1 of The Echoes of Fallen Stars Author: J.D. Netto Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Epic Fantasy Publisher's Summary: Five thousand years ago, when mortals were a mere thought in the mind of their creator, Lucifer was cast out of the immortal realm of Valleyner, doomed to spend his days in the Dark Beyond. After Hanell the Creator, known as the Pale Lion, fashioned the mortal world of Thelsten, a secret concealed from mortals brought on grave consequences. In the remote village of Heedeon, Bellwound Throvar and Arnon Helvug are visited by immortals from both shadow and light. A weapon known as the Mezar is found, believed to house the Luciferian Epistle written before he, the Dove, suffered judgement by the Regents—gods of ultimate power and parents to Hanell the Creator. The two boys set out on a journey with a member of the Nephilim, hoping to find answers to their mysterious past. But secrets and lies do not ask for the right time to strike. A dark tale spreads: whispers that the Dove was expelled by the Pale Lion not because of rebellion, but because of their love for one another. While struggling to confess his true feelings for Arnon, Bellwound realizes that love won't be enough to save them from their own doom—not when it's caused by love itself. As they travel across forests, deserts, and seas, they discover that the ploy of the gods will not only change their own world but will also claim lives, crowns, and kingdoms...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Dientes de leche Author: Ignacio Martínez De Pisón Narrator: Luis Del Amo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: España, 1937. Raffaele Cameroni, un voluntario italiano que lucha en el bando franquista, cae herido en combate. Durante su convalecencia se enamora de una joven enfermera española, con la que se casará y tendrá tres hijos. Raffaele, sin embargo, oculta un secreto que acabará estallando con consecuencias imprevisibles. Con sus dichas y desdichas, con momentos de dolor pero también de humor y, por supuesto, con los inevitables conflictos generacionales, 'Dientes de leche' recorre medio siglo de la historia de la familia Cameroni y ofrece a la vez una crónica indirecta de la vida en España a lo largo del interminable franquismo y los últimos años de la década de los 70.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La bastarda de Estambul Author: Elif Shafak Narrator: Paula Iwasaki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Una novela que cabalga entre lo doméstico y lo histórico y que evoca los colores, los aromas y la magia de las calles de Estambul «Esta magnífica novela me llevó a un país lejano, y la realidad era muy distinta cuando volví». The Chicago Tribune Estambul parece un gran barco en ruta incierta, cargado de pasajeros de distintas nacionalidades, lenguas y religiones. Esa es la imagen que acompaña a la joven Armanoush, que viaja desde Arizona para visitar por primera vez la ciudad y descubrir sus orígenes. Lo que aún no sabe es que su familia armenia y la de su padrastro turco estuvieron ligadas en el pasado, y que la vida en común de los dos pueblos fue apacible un día. Muy pronto, Armanoush conocerá a ese clan peculiar, en el que solo hay mujeres porque los hombres tuvieron a bien morir jóvenes o irse lejos para olvidar sus pecados. En el centro del retrato destaca Zeliha, la madre de Asya, que ahora tiene diecinueve años, y pronto será amiga de Armanoush. Completan la foto de familia otras señoras de armas tomar, que pasan el rato cocinando, recordando viejos tiempos y encarándose al futuro de su país, cada cual a su manera. La amistad entre las dos jóvenes acabará desvelando una historia vieja y turbia, una relación que nació y murió en la pura desesperación, pero las damas de la familia sabrán cómo resolver incluso este percance. Sentando a esas maravillosas mujeres de Estambul delante de una mesa llena de platos deliciosos y algo especiados, Elif Shafak cabalga con talento entre lo épico y lo doméstico, contándonos la historia de Europa a través de las mil historias que cada familia guarda en el baúl de los secretos. La crítica ha dicho: «Deliciosa e imaginativa novela. [...] Una Amy Tan que nos llega de Turquía.» USA Today «La voz de Shafak es única en toda la literatura mundial.» Ian McEwan «Shafak es una escritora maravillosa.» Benjamín Prado «La narración de Shafak es siempre ágil, con una notable fuerza visual respecto de la acción que convierte aquella en un extenso guion cinematográfico.» El País «Shafak sabe exactamente cuándo lanzar preguntas sin respuesta, empapar nuestros sentidos, ofrecer reflexiones significativas o metáforas elegantes y, sobre todo, rompernos el corazón.» The Sunday Times «Una de las mejores escritoras contemporáneas.» Hanif Kureishi «Shafak indaga en el papel de la mujer en una sociedad donde la libertad no siempre es un bien común, al alcance de todos.» Culturamas «Elif Shafak puede ser despiadada, lírica, política, íntima». Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ein Alman feiert selten allein (ungekürzt): Roman Author: Aylin Atmaca Narrator: Sandra Voss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nie waren Klischees wahrer: Wie viel Alman steckt in dir? Zu Weihnachten gehören ein geschmückter Baum, leckeres Essen, Geschenke und die Familie – das ist selbst Elif, die als Kind türkischer Gastarbeitereltern in Deutschland großgeworden ist, klar. Doch wie genau die Deutschen es mit ihren Weihnachtstraditionen und Bräuchen nehmen, wird deutlich, als Elif das erste Weihnachtsfest bei den Eltern ihres Freundes Jonas verbringt. Vom Planungswahnsinn in der Familien-WhatsApp-Gruppe über Diskussionen um nachhaltige Nordmanntannen, bis hin zum Bügeln des Geschenkpapieres aus dem letzten Jahr, bleibt ihr nichts erspart. Und schnell stellt sich die Frage, ob das wirklich noch besinnliches Beisammensein ist, oder schon der nächste Erbschaftsstreit naht.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery Author: L.M. Montgomery Narrator: David Wales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. The focus is widened a bit to include a few works about Thanksgiving Day and New Year's Day. LMM was a prolific Canadian author in the early 20th century whose works were very popular in her own country as well as the United States, and indeed around the world. Perhaps her most read novel was her first, Anne Of Green Gables.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Limited Run Author: Karen McQuestion Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: For Reality TV Fans Publisher's Summary: A Limited Run is an incredibly gripping story, with a delicious edge of creepiness. I couldn't stop reading it—easily one of my favorites this year! Another masterpiece from McQuestion! - Freida McFadden, #1 Amazon Bestselling Author When billionaire Felix Worthington invites the five cast members of the TV show A Little Slice of Haven to recreate their roles twenty-five years later, they're initially skeptical. It's an unusual request, even for a self-professed superfan like Felix. For several of them, playing a member of the Barlow family in the small town of Haven in the 1940s was an experience best forgotten. Meri Wetzel, who played a loving wife and mother, has spent the last two decades avoiding her TV husband, Jeff. And the actors who played their children each harbor festering resentments of their own. But living in a recreated version of the town in a warehouse in Montana has its appeal, even knowing they'll be filmed with hidden cameras as they improvise with other actors playing the townspeople. And the clincher? Two million dollars for each of them, provided they stay all ten days and remain in character the entire time. One by one, they set aside their hesitations and agree to the terms. After all, with two million dollars they'd be set for life, and really, what could go wrong?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sagen und Helden des Mittelalters: Die große Hörbuch Box Series: #24 of Sagen und Helden des Mittelalters Author: Konrad Von Fußesbrunnen, Gottfried Von Straßburg, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Anonymus Narrator: Tim Eriksson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 16, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Für ein jugendliches Publikum erzählt! Magische Geschichten von Rittern, magischen Schwertern, Kämpfern, die auf Schwänen dahinsegeln, Untiere, Liebe, Hass und Rache: Das sind die Stoffe, die diese Werke so unsterblich gemacht haben! Mit dabei: Beowulf, Parzival, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Wieland der Schmied, Siegfried, Walther und Hildegard, Gudrun und Wieland der Schmied.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deceptions: A Novel Author: Jill Bialosky Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill BialoskySomething terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As she passes her days teaching at a boys’ prep school, spending her off-hours sequestered in the museum’s austere galleries, she is haunted by memories of a yearlong friendship with a colleague, a fellow poet struggling with his craft. As secret betrayals and deceptions come to light and rage threatens to overwhelm her, the pantheon of gods assume remarkably vivid lives of their own, forcing her to choose between reality and myth in an effort to free herself from the patriarchal constraints of the past and embrace a new vision for her future. The Deceptions is a page-turning and seductively told exploration of female sexuality and ambition as well as a human drama that dares to test the stories we tell ourselves. It is also a brilliant investigation of a life caught between the dueling magnetic poles of privacy and its appropriation in art and literature. Celebrated poet, memoirist, and novelist Jill Bialosky has reached new and daring heights in her boldest work yet.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal King Rao Author: Vauhini Vara Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Spanning a century, The Immortal King Rao tells an epic story about power, modernity and family lineage, and introduces a bold new voice. Vauhini Vara's lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel begins in India in the 1950s, following a young man born into a Dalit family of coconut farmers in a remote village in Andhra Pradesh. King Rao, as he comes to be known, later moves to the US, where he studies in Seattle, meeting the love of his life and his business partner, the smart and self-assured Margie. King Rao ultimately rises up through Silicon Valley to become the most famous tech CEO in the world and the leader of a powerful, corporate-owned global government. Yet he ultimately ends up living on a remote island off the coast of Washington state, an exile from the world which he has helped build. There, in a beautiful home on an otherwise deserted island, he brings up his brilliant daughter, Athena. Shielded from the world's glances, in many ways she has an idyllic childhood, but she will be forced to reexamine her father's past and take steps to try to decide her own future. She is unlike other girls, and she will find the outside world much more hostile than her father did when he left the coconut grove he called home. A profound and moving novel about technology, consciousness and revolution, The Immortal King Rao asks how we build the worlds in which we live, and whether we ever have the power to leave them? “A brilliant and beautifully written book about capitalism and the patriarchy, about Dalit India and digital America, about power and family and love.” OBSERVER