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The Couple Next Door: A Novel by Shari Lapena
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Couple Next Door: A Novel Author: Shari Lapena Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 23, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 1057 Ratings of Narrator: 4.32 of Total 110 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Not a Happy Family “The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages.” —People “I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!” —Sue Grafton It all started at a dinner party. . . A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors—a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years. What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family—a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.
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Cooking for Picasso: A Novel by Camille Aubray
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cooking for Picasso: A Novel Author: Camille Aubray Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist’s life. “A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking.”—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Café Paradis. A mysterious new patron who’s slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request—to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he’s secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito. Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life—and for him, art and women are always entwined. The spirited Ondine, chafing under her family’s authority and nursing a broken heart, is just beginning to discover her own talents and appetites. Her encounter with Picasso will continue to affect her life for many decades onward, as the great artist and the talented young chef each pursue their own passions and destiny. New York, present day: Céline, a Hollywood makeup artist who’s come home for the holidays, learns from her mother, Julie, that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso. Prompted by her mother’s enigmatic stories and the hint of more family secrets yet to be uncovered, Céline carries out Julie’s wishes and embarks on a voyage to the very town where Ondine and Picasso first met. In the lush, heady atmosphere of the Côte d’Azur, and with the help of several eccentric fellow guests attending a rigorous cooking class at her hotel, Céline discovers truths about art, culture, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future. Featuring an array of both fictional characters and the French Riviera’s most famous historical residents, set against the breathtaking scenery of the South of France, Cooking for Picasso is a touching, delectable, and wise story, illuminating the powers of trust, money, art, and creativity in the choices that men and women make as they seek a path toward love, success, and joie de vivre. Praise for Cooking for Picasso “Intrigue, art, food, and deception are woven together in a tale of love and betrayal around the life and legacy of Picasso. Touching and true, this well-written narrative made me long for my mother’s coq au vin and for the sun of Juan-les-Pins.”—Jacques Pépin, chef, TV personality, author
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Family Tree: A Novel by Susan Wiggs
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Tree: A Novel Author: Susan Wiggs Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3.56 of Total 9 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past—and the promise of the future. Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And then dividing. And just like that, the world changes. Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she’s pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn’t the only thing she’s lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm. Family Tree is the story of one woman’s triumph over betrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember.
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The Glorious Heresies: A Novel by Lisa McInerney
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glorious Heresies: A Novel Author: Lisa McInerney Narrator: Shelley Atkinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize The Irish Times March Book of the Month From Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times as “arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today,” comes The Glorious Heresies, a searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland’s post-crash society. When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. The consequences of this unplanned murder connect four misfits struggling against their meager circumstances. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose feud with his next-door neighbor threatens to ruin his family. Georgie is a sex worker who half-heartedly joins a born-again movement to escape her profession and drug habit. And Jimmy Phelan, the most fearsome gangster in the city and Maureen’s estranged son, finds that his mother’s bizarre attempts at redemption threaten his entire organization. Biting and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies presents an unforgettable vision of a city plagued by poverty and exploitation, where salvation still awaits in the most unexpected places. — New York Time's Book Review's '10 Best Crime Novels' of the year
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Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Sisters, Three Queens Series: #2 of The Tudor Court Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 74 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 28 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory, the little-known story of three Tudor women who are united in sisterhood and yet compelled to be rivals when they fulfill their destinies as queens. As sisters they share an everlasting bond; as queens they can break each other’s hearts… When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined—with Margaret’s younger sister Mary—to a unique sisterhood. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other. Katherine commands an army against Margaret and kills her husband James IV of Scotland. But Margaret’s boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son. Mary steals the widowed Margaret’s proposed husband, but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others. As they experience betrayals, dangers, loss, and passion, the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond, more powerful than any man, even a king.
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For Baby's Sake & An Heir for the Billionaire by Kat Cantrell, Janice Maynard
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For Baby's Sake & An Heir for the Billionaire Author: Kat Cantrell, Janice Maynard Narrator: Graham Halstead, Corey Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: For Baby's Sake His ex inherited a baby—and she needs his help! Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard! James Kavanagh is rich and sexy as sin, but his workaholic neighbor Lila Baxter has been there, done that—and has the heartbreak to prove it. They've avoided each other since their affair ended, but now she's brought home a baby. He's clearly the last man Lila wants to ask for help. But she knows nothing about babies, and James is a born family man. When one offer of help leads to another, they're soon under the same roof. Almost like a real family. Suddenly the heat they've ignored is ready to ignite! An Heir for the Billionaire Will a single mom and her baby become an instant family for this all-business tycoon? After learning her billionaire father is dying, Nora Winchester O'Malley rushes to his bedside in Chicago—and right into an old friend's arms. Reid Chamberlain is there to comfort the young widowed mom when she needs it most. But what passes between them isn't mere compassion…it's sheer passion. Reid has been all business for so long, shutting down his emotions as he built up his hotel empire. Now Nora and her adorable child have come along, stirring up demons he must face to have a shot at a future…
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Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel by Debbie Macomber
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel Series: #5 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Debbie Macomber, Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber’s beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future—come what may. Nine months ago, Mark Taylor abruptly left Cedar Cove on a perilous mission to right a wrong from his past. Though Mark finally confessed his love for her, innkeeper Jo Marie Rose is unsure if he’s ever coming back. The Rose Harbor Inn barely seems the same without Mark, but Jo Marie can’t bear to lose herself in grief once more. Determined to move forward, she begins dating again, and finds companionship when she takes on a boarder who is starting a new chapter herself. Recovering from a twice-broken heart, Emily Gaffney, a young teacher, is staying at the inn while she looks for a home of her own. Having given up on marriage, Emily dreams of adopting children someday. She has her eye on one house in particular—with room for kids. Although Emily’s inquiries about the house are rudely rebuffed, her rocky start with the owner eventually blossoms into a friendship. But when the relationship verges on something more, Emily will have to rethink what she truly wants and the chances she’s willing to take. The inn seems to be working its magic again—Emily opening herself up to love, Jo Marie moving on—until Jo Marie receives shocking news. With Debbie Macomber’s trademark charm and wisdom, Sweet Tomorrows brings to a close the journeys of cherished characters who feel like old friends. Macomber has created an enchanting place in the Rose Harbor Inn that readers will never forget. With a Letter Read by the Author.
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The Aftermath by R.J. Prescott
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Aftermath Series: #2 of The Hurricane Author: R.J. Prescott Narrator: Aaron Abano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The second book in a New Adult fiction series from USA Today bestselling author R.J. Prescott. Cormac 'The Hurricane' O'Connell's star is on the rise. Billed as the most promising young boxer of his generation, his new career is taking him to places he never dreamed. But O'Connell only needs one thing in life: his wife. In her final year of college, Em cannot follow him around the world but together they make it work. Just when everything they ever wanted is on the horizon, the past resurfaces to haunt them, and O'Connell realizes that justice might not be a part of his happy ever after. He couldn't protect Em once before, but in the aftermath of the hurricane, he will make sure that never happens again.
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The American Girl: A Novel by Kate Horsley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Girl: A Novel Author: Kate Horsley Narrator: Nan Mcnamara, Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From a bright new talent comes a riveting psychological thriller about an American exchange student in France involved in a suspicious accident, and the journalist determined to break the story and uncover the dark secrets a small town is hiding. On a quiet summer morning, seventeen-year-old American exchange student Quinn Perkins stumbles out of the woods near the small French town of St. Roch. Barefoot, bloodied, and unable to say what has happened to her, Quinn’s appearance creates quite a stir, especially since the Blavettes—the French family with whom she’s been staying—have mysteriously disappeared. Now the media, and everyone in the idyllic village, are wondering if the American girl had anything to do with her host family’s disappearance. Though she is cynical about the media circus that suddenly forms around the girl, Boston journalist Molly Swift cannot deny she is also drawn to the mystery and travels to St. Roch. She is prepared to do anything to learn the truth, including lying so she can get close to Quinn. But when a shocking discovery turns the town against Quinn and she is arrested for the murders of the Blavette family, she finds an unlikely ally in Molly. As a trial by media ensues, Molly must unravel the disturbing secrets of the town’s past in an effort to clear Quinn’s name, but even she is forced to admit that the American Girl makes a very compelling murder suspect. Is Quinn truly innocent and as much a victim as the Blavettes—or is she a cunning, diabolical killer intent on getting away with murder…? Told from the alternating perspectives of Molly, as she’s drawn inexorably closer to the truth, and Quinn’s blog entries tracing the events that led to her accident, The American Girl is a deliciously creepy, contemporary, twisting mystery leading to a shocking conclusion.
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Little Black Dress: BookShots by James Patterson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Black Dress: BookShots Author: James Patterson Narrator: Helen Wick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 28, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. Can a little black dress change everything in her life? Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone with Netflix and Oreos – until the Dress turns her loose. Suddenly she's surrendering to dark desires, and New York City has become her erotic playground. But what began as a fantasy will go too far... and her next conquest could be her last.
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The Angels' Share: A Bourbon Kings Novel by J.R. Ward
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Angels' Share: A Bourbon Kings Novel Series: #2 of The Bourbon Kings Author: J.R. Ward Narrator: Alexander Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series—a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a façade of privilege and prosperity, while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation… In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society—just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder… No one is above suspicion—especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward. The bad blood between him and his father is known far and wide, and he is aware that he could be named a suspect. As the investigation into the death intensifies, he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottle—as well as with his former horse trainer’s daughter. Meanwhile, the family’s financial future lies in the perfectly manicured hands of a business rival, a woman who wants Edward all to herself. Everything has consequences; everybody has secrets. And few can be trusted. Then, at the very brink of the family’s demise, someone thought lost to them forever returns to the fold. Maxwell Bradford has come home. But is he a savior...or the worst of all the sinners?
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The Secret Ways of Perfume by Cristina Caboni
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Ways of Perfume Author: Cristina Caboni Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home, and she has nurtured a unique gift: the ability to decipher the ingredients of a perfume, and experience the feelings it evokes. Years later, Elena’s talent leads her to the cobbled streets of Paris. There she rediscovers an old, secret family perfume recipe that no other perfumier has been able to replicate. As Elena begins to open her heart to new adventures she meets a man who is guarding his own secrets. From France’s sun-drenched lavender fields to the ancient heart of Italy, together they will follow a path of secret scents, distant memories and new hopes . . . 'Sensuous, evocative, intriguing and emotional - and like all good perfumes it lingered long after. An absolute treat' Veronica Henry 'Evocative, atmospheric and engaging' Daily Mail 'A beautiful and well-constructed tale' Elle 'A stunning story' Vanity Fair
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The Lost Girls: A Novel by Heather Young
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Girls: A Novel Author: Heather Young Narrator: Laurel Schroeder, Alice Rosengard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A stunning debut novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a picturesque lake house. In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family—her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers freedom and stability—a way to escape her manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she never had. But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning. The house is cold and dilapidated. The dark, silent lake is isolated and eerie. Her only neighbor is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling. Soon Justine’s troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily’s disappearance, her mother arrives to steal her inheritance, and the man she left launches a dangerous plan to get her back. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children.
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Falling by Jane Green
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Author: Jane Green Narrator: Jane Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House, Jemima J, and Sister Stardust presents a novel about the pleasure and meaning of finding a home—and family—where you least expect them... When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents and expectations, she felt liberated, throwing herself into Manhattan life replete with a high-paying job, a gorgeous apartment, and a string of successful boyfriends. But the cutthroat world of finance and relentless pursuit of more began to take its toll. This wasn’t the life she wanted either. On the move again, Emma settles in the picturesque waterfront town of Westport, Connecticut, a world apart from both England and Manhattan. It is here that she begins to confront what it is she really wants from her life. With no job, and knowing only one person in town, she channels her passion for creating beautiful spaces into remaking the dilapidated cottage she rents from Dominic, a local handyman who lives next door with his six-year-old son. Unlike any man Emma has ever known, Dominic is confident, grounded, and committed to being present for his son whose mother fled shortly after he was born. They become friends, and slowly much more, as Emma finds herself feeling at home in a way she never has before. But just as they start to imagine a life together as a family, fate intervenes in the most shocking of ways. For the first time, Emma has to stay and fight for what she loves, for the truth she has discovered about herself, or risk losing it all. In a novel of changing seasons, shifting lives, and selfless love, a story unfolds—of one woman’s far-reaching journey to discover who she is truly meant to be...
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Carides's Forgotten Wife & The Di Sione Secret Baby by Maisey Yates, Maya Blake
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carides's Forgotten Wife & The Di Sione Secret Baby Author: Maisey Yates, Maya Blake Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti, Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Carides's Forgotten Wife Once forbidden, now for bedding! Greek billionaire Leon Carides has it all: wealth, power, notoriety, even a wife—though he's never touched his convenient, innocent bride. Then an accident rids this damaged, debauched playboy of his memories… Leon remembers nothing, except his wife's sparkling blue eyes. Now the desire he feels for Rose overrides the gaps in his past, making her impossible to resist! But when his sins catch up with him, can Rose forgive the mistakes of the man he once was? Or will Leon lose more than just his memory? The Di Sione Secret Baby "This antique box can be my wedding gift to you." Charity CEO Allegra Di Sione can't fail in her mission to retrieve her grandfather's beloved box from Sheikh Rahim Al-Hadi, which is why she gets caught in Rahim's sumptuous bedroom trying to steal it! Seducing the gorgeous sheikh is her only chance at escape! But when Allegra slips away the next morning, she's unaware she now carries something infinitely more precious—and that when Rahim finds out, he'll have no choice but to make his enticing thief his queen! Book 2 of The Billionaire's Legacy
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This Loving Feeling by Miranda Liasson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269198 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Loving Feeling Series: #3 of A Mirror Lake Novel Author: Miranda Liasson Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Samantha Rushford’s future looks bright: the high school art teacher is getting ready to leave Mirror Lake and move to Boston with her ambitious boyfriend, and she hopes a diamond ring is just around the corner. But her past still has a hold on her—especially the bittersweet memory of her rebellious ex, who kissed her passionately before he left town without a word. Since then, Lukas Spikonos has parlayed his rebel ways into life as an up-and-coming recording artist. When he shows up for a surprise gig at the high school prom, Sam is more dumbstruck than starstruck—he used the words of a poem she wrote about their breakup to create a number one hit. But Lukas hasn’t returned just to impress students; he’s facing some real-life responsibilities and needs Sam’s help. But she has her own unresolved issues about the life she wants to lead. Will the music—and the pull of true love and family—put their hearts back in harmony?
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Until Harry by L.A. Casey
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until Harry Author: L.A. Casey Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: July 19, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Coming home is hard for Lane. Hard because her beloved uncle Harry has died suddenly, but also because of him. Kale. Kale Hunt has been her best friend since childhood. But it was never that simple. He was Lane’s reason for leaving home and moving to New York. Seeing him with someone else, in love with someone else, shouldn’t have hurt. But it did. It really, really did. So she upped sticks and left, started a new life and cut herself off from her past. But now she’s back and all the feelings are right there. As if she had never left. Emotions are running high, and tragedy has a funny way of bringing people together. But is Lane reading the signs right? Are they still just friends, or is there something more?
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The Hopefuls: A novel by Jennifer Close
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hopefuls: A novel Author: Jennifer Close Narrator: Jorjeana Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the humidity that descends each summer. At dinner parties, guests compare their security clearance levels. They leave their BlackBerrys on the table. They speak in acronyms. And once they realize Beth doesn't work in politics, they smile blandly and turn away. Soon Beth and her husband, Matt, meet a charismatic White House staffer named Jimmy, and his wife, Ashleigh, and the four become inseparable, coordinating brunches, birthdays, and long weekends away. But as Jimmy’s star rises higher and higher, the couples’ friendship—and Beth’s relationship with Matt—is threatened by jealousy, competition, and rumors. A glorious send-up of young D.C. and a blazingly honest portrait of a marriage, this is the finest work yet by one of our most beloved writers.
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Losing It: A Novel by Emma Rathbone
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing It: A Novel Author: Emma Rathbone Narrator: Jorjeana Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Wise and witty... Losing It is cringingly insightful about sex and dating and all the ways we tie ourselves into knots over both.' --The New York Times Book Review A hilarious novel that Maggie Shipstead calls 'charming... witty and insightful,' about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it—and find herself. Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina. It's not long, however, before she unearths a confounding secret—her 58 year old aunt is a virgin too. In the unrelenting heat of the southern summer, Julia becomes fixated on puzzling out what could have lead to Viv's appalling condition, all while trying to avoid the same fate. For readers of Rainbow Rowell and Maria Semple, and filled with offbeat characters and subtle, wry humor, Losing It is about the primal fear that you just. might. never. meet. anyone. It's about desiring something with the kind of obsessive fervor that almost guarantees you won't get it. It's about the blurry lines between sex and love, and trying to figure out which one you're going for. And it's about the decisions—and non-decisions—we make that can end up shaping a life.
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Been in Love Before: A Novel - Bryan Mooney
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Been in Love Before: A Novel Author: Bryan Mooney Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The Macgregor brothers—Robert, Eian, and Ryan—are all recently widowed and forced to live together in Ryan’s beach house in sunny Florida. To get them to reengage with the world, Ryan’s daughter, Mary Kate, signs them up for dance lessons and insists that each find a partner in time for her wedding. Robert, the eldest of the brothers, rediscovers an old friend who brings the spark back to his life. Eian, a former professional baseball player, takes another swing at love with the widow of his best friend. Ryan, the doctor in the family, hopes his beautiful new dance instructor can put the spring back in his step. But Mary Kate’s fiancé is a member of the rival Campbell clan, and as the wedding approaches, joyful anticipation turns into a heated family rivalry. Together the Macgregor brothers will dance their way through first-date jitters and plenty of wrong moves as they try to save the wedding—and restart their lives.
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The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light of Paris Author: Eleanor Brown Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “I adored The Light of Paris. It’s so lovely and big-hearted—it made me long for Paris.”—Jojo Moyes, New York Times-bestselling author of Me Before You and After You The miraculous novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Weird Sisters—a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike. Madeleine is trapped—by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears—in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine’s memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been—elegant, reserved, perfect. But when Madeleine finds a diary detailing Margie’s bold, romantic trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets the grandmother she never knew: a dreamer who defied her strict, staid family and spent an exhilarating summer writing in cafés, living on her own, and falling for a charismatic artist. Despite her unhappiness, when Madeleine’s marriage is threatened, she panics, escaping to her hometown and staying with her critical, disapproving mother. In that unlikely place, shaken by the revelation of a long-hidden family secret and inspired by her grandmother’s bravery, Madeleine creates her own Parisian summer—reconnecting to her love of painting, cultivating a vibrant circle of creative friends, and finding a kindred spirit in a down-to-earth chef who reminds her to feed both her body and her heart. Margie and Madeleine’s stories intertwine to explore the joys and risks of living life on our own terms, of defying the rules that hold us back from our dreams, and of becoming the people we are meant to be.
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Ryan's Hand by Leila Meacham
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ryan's Hand Author: Leila Meacham Narrator: Kelly Lintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ... Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side through the most difficult time of her life and there's nothing she won't do for him, even now after his death. But inheriting Ryan's share of his family's ranch in west Texas and living there for a year? Cara doesn't understand what he was thinking. Still, she cannot, will not deny Ryan's last request...even if it means sharing a roof with his brooding, arrogant older brother. Jeth Langston doesn't trust Cara as far as he can throw her. Jeth is certain she prevented his baby brother from spending his last days at home. And he'll be damned if he lets this stranger take over the Langston family legacy too. Whatever the cost, he's determined to drive this beautiful outsider away-no matter how intriguing he finds her. But as the days grow longer and sunshine sweeps across the plains, Cara can't help but fall for the untamed land-and the man whose passion for it captures her, heart and soul. Can their love bloom wild and free on this Texas ranch?
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Siracusa by Delia Ephron
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Siracusa Author: Delia Ephron Narrator: Darren Goldstein, Katie Finneran, Talia Balsam, John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2016 Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 (Fiction) A Washington Post Bestseller • A Los Angeles Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • One of Vulture’s 100 Greatest Beach Books Ever • A People Magazine Summer Reading Pick • One of Elle, InStyle, and Marie Claire’s Best of July “Delia Ephron’s Siracusa is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must-read!” —Sue Grafton, author of X “Siracusa is an Italian aria, a Greek tragedy and a modern American masterpiece written by Delia Ephron at the height of her powers. This is a story of two complicated marriages, one vulnerable child, and a trip to Italy that changes each of their lives forever. Secrets, lies, love raging, love dying, and the shame of unrealized potential are exposed in detail under the Sicilian sun. And, like the Moro blood oranges that grow there with abandon, the taste is both sour and sweet at once, but the bitterness that remains is not only haunting but unforgettable.” —Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife “Siracusa is an unusually crackling, tricky journey into the distant land of other people’s marriages: their secrets, paradoxes, weaknesses, and pleasures. Delia Ephron writes like a warm-blooded Patricia Highsmith, her story’s treachery matched by a deep and easy feel for the various human, imperfect ways that people find themselves bound together, and sometimes painstakingly unbind themselves. An absorbing, tense, and original novel.” —Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine—Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow. “From the beginning,” says Taylor, “it was a conspiracy for Lizzie and Finn to be together.” Told Rashomon-style in alternating points of view, the characters expose and stumble upon lies and infidelities past and present. Snow, ten years old and precociously drawn into a far more adult drama, becomes the catalyst for catastrophe as the novel explores collusion and betrayal in marriage. With her inimitable psychological astuteness and uncanny understanding of the human heart, Ephron delivers a powerful meditation on marriage, friendship, and the meaning of travel. Set on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea, Siracusa unfolds with the pacing of a psychological thriller and delivers an unexpected final act that none will see coming.
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Nine Women, One Dress: A Novel by Jane L. Rosen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nine Women, One Dress: A Novel Author: Jane L. Rosen Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A charming, hilarious, irresistible romp of a novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years and has one night to finally make the feeling mutual. Andie is a private detective who specializes in gathering evidence on cheating husbands—a skill she unfortunately learned from her own life—and lands a case that may restore her faith in true love. For these three women, as well as half a dozen others in sparkling supporting roles—a young model fresh from rural Alabama, a diva Hollywood star making her Broadway debut, an overachieving, unemployed Brown grad who starts faking a fabulous life on social media, to name just a few—everything is about to change, thanks to the dress of the season, the perfect little black number everyone wants to get their hands on . . . Cast of Narrators: Robert Fass Dorothy Dillingham Tristan Morris Mandy Siegfried Hillary Huber Cassandra Campbell Erik Singer Dan Woren Michael Crouch Em Eldridge
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Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Lodge Author: Nina Stibbe Narrator: Helen Baxendale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A delightful story of growing up, getting old, and every step in between, from the acclaimed author of Man at the Helm and Love, Nina. After succeeding in her quest to help her unconventional mother find a new 'man at the helm,' fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel simply wants to be a normal teenager. Just when it looks as if things have settled down, her mother goes and has another baby. On top of that, Lizzie's best friend has deserted her for the punk craze, which Lizzie finds too exhausting to commit to herself. But Lizzie soon gets more commitment than she bargained for when she takes a job as a junior nurse at Paradise Lodge, a ramshackle refuge for the elderly that has seen better days. It's no place for a teenager, much less one with as little experience emptying a bedpan as Lizzie. What begins as away to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly turns into the education of a lifetime. Lizzie encounters a colorful cast of eccentric characters -- including a nurse determined to turn one of the patients into a husband (and a retirement plan); an efficient but clueless nun trying to modernize the place; and Lizzie's unlikely first love -- who become her surrogate family. When Paradise Lodge faces a crisis in the form of a rival nursing home with enough amenities to make even the comatose jealous, Lizzie must find a way to save her job before she loses the only place she's ever felt she belongs. A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Paradise Lodge proves that it's never too early -- or too late -- to grow up.
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Maureen Child, Elizabeth Lane - The Baby Inheritance & A Little Surprise for the Boss
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Baby Inheritance & A Little Surprise for the Boss Author: Maureen Child, Elizabeth Lane Narrator: Hollis Mccarthy, Gabrielle Cendese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The Baby Inheritance Is a family in the future for this wealthy bachelor? From USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child! Divorce attorney to the stars Reed Hudson knows there's no such thing as happily-ever-after. But the red-headed stunner who walks into his office with an infant in her arms will put him to the test. Lilah Strong just brought a baby girl to a man who splits up families for a living. Now he wants Lilah to stay on as temporary nanny to his niece. Reed Hudson's plush hotel suite is a world away from Lilah's rustic mountain home. Will their undeniable attraction end in heartbreak…or forever? A Little Surprise for the Boss A secret crush on the boss leads to keeping a little secret from the boss! When Terri Hammond's innocent errand lands her in her boss's bed, she knows the jig is up! But despite a red-hot encounter, resort guru Buck Morgan wants to maintain the status quo. He can't be this turned on by his deceased best friend's sister—not after he promised to look after her. But his beautiful secretary isn't playing nice. She's taunting and teasing him to distraction! Terri has managed his business for the past ten years. Certainly he can trust her with his heart…if they can both forgive each other for the secrets they've been keeping…
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Passport Diaries: A Novel [Written by Tamara Gregory]
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passport Diaries: A Novel Author: Tamara Gregory Narrator: Myra Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Kia Carson, a Los Angeles district attorney with beauty, brains, taste, and style, is about to turn thirty-five. There's just one problem with her picture-perfect life—she's not got one eligible man in sight. Well, thank God she has her career . . . at least until she gets suspended from her job. To regain her sense of purpose, she plans a restorative girl's night out—all the way to Europe. In this fresh and funny Los Angeles Times bestseller, Kia embarks on what becomes a defining journey to London, Paris, and Greece, where she finds a little bit of trouble, a whole lot of laughs, and what she didn't even know she was looking for—herself.
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Listen to The Second Half: A Novel by Lauraine Snelling
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Second Half: A Novel Author: Lauraine Snelling Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Religious Fiction Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling shares a heartfelt story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren. Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone University. They've already been making plans to travel, spend limitless hours in the garden, and Ken is looking forward to working on his woodworking and fishing with his grandchildren. It's what they deserve after years of careful planning. But things begin to unravel when Ken learns that office politics are about to destroy his department. Can he really just leave, abandoning the work he spent a lifetime achieving? Mona is eager to build her event planning business with Ken's help, but rather than supporting her, he expresses concern that the stress of the work will send her back into the depression she struggles with. Then, just days before Ken's last official day of work, their son, a Special Forces officer in the Army, learns he's being immediately deployed on a six-month mission in Pakistan. Since his wife left him, the only people he trusts to care for his two young children are his parents. In an instant, everything Ken and Mona spent their lives planning changes, and they will need to find strength, both physical and mental, to become parents once more. This is not the second half they wanted, and when their son fails to contact them as planned, they struggle to trust that it is God's plan, not theirs, that matters most.
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Night of the Animals: A Novel by Bill Broun
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night of the Animals: A Novel Author: Bill Broun Narrator: Ralph Lister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this imaginative debut, the tale of Noah’s Ark is brilliantly recast as a story of fate and family, set in a near-future London. Over the course of a single night in 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the London Zoo. When he was a young boy, Cuthbert’s grandmother had told him he inherited a magical ability to communicate with the animal world—a gift she called the Wonderments. Ever since his older brother’s death in childhood, Cuthbert has heard voices. These maddening whispers must be the Wonderments, he believes, and recently they have promised to reunite him with his lost brother and bring about the coming of a Lord of Animals . . . if he fulfills this curious request. Cuthbert flickers in and out of awareness throughout his desperate pursuit. But his grand plan is not the only thing that threatens to disturb the collective unease of the city. Around him is greater turmoil, as the rest of the world anxiously anticipates the rise of a suicide cult set on destroying the world’s animals along with themselves. Meanwhile, Cuthbert doggedly roams the zoo, cutting open the enclosures, while pressing the animals for information about his brother. Just as this unlikely yet loveable hero begins to release the animals, the cult’s members flood the city’s streets. Has Cuthbert succeeded in harnessing the power of the Wonderments, or has he only added to the chaos—and sealed these innocent animals’ fates? Night of the Animals is an enchanting and inventive tale that explores the boundaries of reality, the ghosts of love and trauma, and the power of redemption.
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First Comes Love: A Novel by Emily Giffin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Comes Love: A Novel Author: Emily Giffin Narrator: Emily Foster, Catherine Taber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 3.94 of Total 17 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A pair of sisters find themselves at a crossroads in this dazzling new novel from the author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only. First Comes Love is a story about family, friendship, and the courage to follow your own heart—wherever that may lead. Growing up, Josie and Meredith Garland shared a loving, if sometimes contentious, relationship. Josie was impulsive, spirited, and outgoing, Meredith hardworking, thoughtful, and reserved. When tragedy strikes, their delicate bond splinters. Fifteen years later, Josie and Meredith are in their late thirties, following very different paths. Josie, a first grade teacher, is single—and this close to swearing off dating for good. What she wants more than the right guy, however, is to become a mother—a feeling that is heightened when her ex-boyfriend’s daughter is assigned to her class. Determined to have the future she’s always wanted, Josie decides to take matters into her own hands. On the outside, Meredith is the model daughter with the perfect life. A successful attorney, she’s married to a wonderful man, and together they’re raising a beautiful four-year-old daughter. Yet lately Meredith feels dissatisfied and restless, secretly wondering if she chose the life that was expected of her rather than the one she truly desired. As the anniversary of their tragedy looms, and painful secrets from the past begin to surface, Josie and Meredith must not only confront the issues that divide them but also come to terms with their own choices. In their journey toward understanding and forgiveness, both sisters discover that they need each other more than they knew—and that in the search for true happiness, love always comes first. Praise for First Comes Love “An engaging story of sisterly love . . . Illuminating and engrossing.”—People “[Emily] Giffin delivers another emotionally honest work. . . . First Comes Love is a heart-stirring novel about the many layers of sibling rivalry.”—Associated Press “First Comes Love brings [Giffin] back with a vengeance. Tales of sisters have been at the core of other great novels, but Giffin turns that relationship upside down and makes her view a fascinating one.”—Huffington Post “Moving and complex, [First Comes Love] proves [that Emily Giffin is] still at the top of her game.”—Booklist “Giffin juggles Josie’s quest for motherhood and Meredith’s internal conflicts deftly. . . . Giffin paints a realistic portrait of the troubled and complex relationship between a pair of sisters.”—Kirkus Reviews “This is Giffin at her finest—a fantastic, memorable story.”—Publishers Weekly “First Comes Love is an un-put-down-able, smart, and thoughtful novel that will make you think about the nature of family and how our past informs our present.”—PopSugar “Giffin’s talent is pretty much unparalleled when it comes to the modern woman’s story about life, love and family.”—Redbook “[A] well-written family drama.”—Real Simple “Fans will be entertained by the author’s humor and satisfied by her storytelling”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Happy Ever After in Christmas by Debbie Mason
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy Ever After in Christmas Series: #7 of Christmas, Colorado Author: Debbie Mason Narrator: Becket Royce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: It's beginning to look a lot like love . . . As her thirtieth birthday approaches, deputy Jill Flaherty decides it's time to live a little. When she walks into Sawyer Anderson's bar in her sexiest dress, she's not thinking that he's her brother's best friend or about the many women he dated during his years as a pro hockey player. All she's thinking is that it's finally time to confess to her longtime crush how she truly feels. Sawyer is done being a player on and off the ice. Yet no one in the small town of Christmas seems to believe he's ready to settle down, not Jill, and certainly not Jack, who is determined to keep Sawyer from breaking his little sister's heart. But as Sawyer and Jill's relationship heats up, can he prove that he's her happy ever after?
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The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bourbon Thief Author: Tiffany Reisz Narrator: Kim Staunton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150–year–old mystery When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen—a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and operated Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War, until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows… No one except Paris. In the small hours of a Louisville morning, Paris unspools the lurid tale of Tamara Maddox, heiress to the distillery that became an empire. Theirs is a legacy of wealth and power, but also of lies, secrets and sins of omission. Why Paris wants the bottle of Red Thread remains a secret until the truth of her identity is at last revealed, and the century-old vengeance Tamara vowed against her family can finally be completed.
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Lady Pirate : Lynsay Sands
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Pirate Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Lorna Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Valoree no longer has to masquerade as her murdered brother and scourge the oceans as Captain Red. She no longer has to command his pirate band in a quest to regain his birthright. She has been named heir to Ainsley Castle. But no executor would ever hand over the estate to an unmarried pirate wench and her infamous crew—no matter to whom she’d been born. And the will distinctly states that in order to inherit, Valoree must be married to a nobleman . . . and pregnant. Upon learning that, the virgin captain is ready to return to the seas—but her crew has other ideas— and for those rascally cusses she would do anything. If they could find a way to put on her a sweet face that would fool the ton, she would handle the rest, even with a drunken prostitute as an “aunt” and her merry cutthroat crew as “servants.” But to herself she swears one thing: she will only marry a man who fires her blood, a man who is not afraid of a . . . Lady Pirate
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Someone Must Die by Sharon Potts
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Must Die Author: Sharon Potts Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When her six-year-old nephew vanishes from a neighborhood carnival, Aubrey Lynd’s safe, snow-globe world fractures; it shatters when the FBI’s investigation raises questions about her own family that Aubrey can’t answer. Aubrey picks apart the inconsistencies to expose the first of many lies: a ransom note—concealed from the FBI—with a terrifying and impossible ultimatum. Aubrey doesn’t know what to believe or whom to trust. The abduction is clearly personal—but why would someone play a high-stakes game with the life of a child? The more she presses for answers, the more Aubrey is convinced that her mother is hiding something. Desperate to save her young nephew, Aubrey must face harsh truths and choose between loyalty to her family and doing the right thing. And she’d better hurry, because vengeance sets its own schedule, and time is running out.
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Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invincible Summer Author: Alice Adams Narrator: Georgia Dolenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey. Eva, Benedict, Sylvie, and Lucien graduate in 1997, into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and keen to shrug off the socialist politics of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work for a big bank. Benedict, a budding scientist who's pined for Eva for years, embarks on a physics PhD, and siblings Sylvie and Lucien pursue more freewheeling existences -- she as an aspiring artist and he as a professional partier. But as their dizzying twenties evaporate into their thirties, the once close-knit friends, now scattered and struggling to navigate thwarted dreams, lost jobs, and broken hearts, find themselves drawn together once again in stunning and unexpected ways. A dazzling depiction of the highs and lows of adulthood, Invincible Summer is a story about finding the courage to carry on in the wake of disappointment and a powerful testament to love and friendship as the constants in an ever-changing world.
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All the Missing Girls: A Novel by Megan Miranda
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Missing Girls: A Novel Author: Megan Miranda Narrator: Rebekkah Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.95 of Total 281 Ratings of Narrator: 4.06 of Total 36 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** A New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” Entertainment Weekly — Thriller Round-Up The Wall Street Journal — 5 Killer Books Hollywood Reporter — Hot Summer Books…16 Must Reads “This thriller’s all of your fave page-turners (think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl) rolled into one.” —TheSkimm “Both [Gillian] Flynn’s and Miranda’s main characters also reclaim the right of female characters to be more than victim or femme fatale… All the Missing Girls is set to become one of the best books of 2016.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Extremely interesting…a novel that will probably be called Hitchcockian.” —The New York Times Book Review “Are you paying attention? You’ll need to be; this thriller will test your brain with its reverse chronological structure, and it’s a page-turner to boot.” —Elle Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse. It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched. The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing. Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago. Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.
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Last One Home: A New Beginnings Novel by Debbie Macomber
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last One Home: A New Beginnings Novel Series: #1 of New Beginnings Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 23, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The first ever stand-alone novel from international bestseller Debbie Macomber, author of Blossom Street Brides and Rose Harbor in Bloom. A story about the enduring bond between sisters, the power of forgiveness, and a second chance at love. Twelve years ago, Cassie Carter chose the wrong man, and one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now, hoping to leave her past behind, Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don’t live too far away, she doesn’t expect to see them. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with raising her two children. And Nichole, the youngest, is a stay-at-home mum whose husband indulges her every whim. But one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering the hope of reconciliation. As Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities – making amends with her sisters, finding love once more – she realises the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start.
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The Billionaire's Ruthless Affair & Di Sione's Innocent Conquest by Carol Marinelli, Miranda Lee
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Billionaire's Ruthless Affair & Di Sione's Innocent Conquest Author: Carol Marinelli, Miranda Lee Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti, Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The Billionaire's Ruthless Affair To-do list of a billionaire playboy's secretary: 1. Filing: ensure all ex-girlfriends are kept safely out of sight. 2. Expenses: all jewelry must be received one week from termination of relationship. 3. Diary management: there must be no clashes in his heavy dating schedule. When Harriet McKenna's own relationship goes up in smoke, her ruthless boss, Alex Katona, challenges her to take a leaf out of his book and embark on an illicit affair with him! This means being at his beck and call beyond office hours, and in return Alex promises to show Harriet how pleasurable life can be… Di Sione's Innocent Conquest "Matteo, I want that necklace. Whatever it takes, find it and bring it to me." Prickly, buttoned-up racing team owner Abby Ellison isn't legendary playboy Matteo Di Sione's type. But Abby has something he needs—a necklace prized by his grandfather—and where his lethal charm doesn't work, sponsorship of her team does! As they travel from Dubai to Monte Carlo to Brazil, Matteo thrives on the thrill of the racing world and the surprising allure of innocent Abby. But when he discovers the secret that drives Abby's ambition, Matteo realises he can't just take the necklace and walk away…
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A Measure of Love by Sophie Jackson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266036 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Measure of Love Series: #5 of A Pound of Flesh Author: Sophie Jackson Narrator: Grace Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From award-winning fanfic phenomenon Sophie Jackson, the third novel in the sexy and emotionally intense blockbuster A Pound of Flesh series. Life in New York for ex-con Riley Moore is pretty damn good, until a call from his mother shatters the calm: his father has suffered his second heart attack in two years and is in a critical condition. Leaving everything behind, Riley flies home to Michigan for the first time in five years to support his mother and do his best to make amends with his father. He also tries not to think about Lexie Pierce, the only girl he ever truly cared about, and who broke his heart. When they inevitably meet, memories of their love make Riley yearn to reconnect, despite the pain they both suffered. Though she's wary, and has a secret she’s hidden from him for five years, Lexie has little willpower when it comes to Riley and she agrees. Besides, after all that has gone before, she owes it to both of them to find out if they can love each other again. Can they both overcome their sorrow and secrets and finally share their life together? A powerful new voice in modern romance, Sophie Jackson has crafted a passionate love story with unforgettable characters that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
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By The Numbers by Jen Lancaster
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By The Numbers Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Best of Enemies serves up a hilarious new novel of the “sandwich generation.” Actuary Penny Sinclair has a head for business, and she always makes rational decisions. Knowing that 60% of spouses cheat and 50% of marriages end in divorce, she wasn’t too surprised when her husband had an affair. (That he did so with a woman their daughter’s age? Well, that part did sting a bit.) She just made sure she got everything in the divorce, including their lovely old Victorian house. And as soon as her younger daughter has her hipster-fabulous wedding in the backyard, she’s trading it in for a condo in downtown Chicago... Well within the average market time in her area, Penny gets an offer on the house. But then life happens. Her children, her parents and her ex come flying back to the nest, all in need of Penny’s emotional—and financial—support. Spread thin, Penny becomes the poster child for the “sandwich generation,” when all she really wanted to do was make managing director, buy a white couch, and maybe go on a Match.com date...
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A Sinful Calling by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sinful Calling Series: #13 of A Reverend Curtis Black Novel Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . . Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married a woman named Raven, decided he was going to become a minister, and then founded a church right in the center of his living room. Today he's pastor of a 1,000-plus-member congregation, and new members are joining weekly. Sadly, behind closed doors, Dillon is far from being a saint. Dillon has become more like the man his father was thirty years ago-consumed with money, power, and lots of women. His family may have let bygones be bygones, but they continue to keep their distance. Not Alicia, though. This daughter of Curtis Black joins Dillon's congregation, leaving her father's church behind. The family has forgiven Alicia for marrying Levi Cunningham, the former drug dealer she had an affair with, but once Alicia realizes they will never fully accept Levi, she decides to see her family less and less. She and Levi are truly happy, however, guilt from her betrayal of Phillip and its aftermath casts a shadow over their wedded bliss. But when Raven decides she wants a higher position in the church and Alicia hides a devastating secret, the entire family is affected in ways they don't see coming. In the end, no one will be able to trust anyone . . . and for very good reason.
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Vinegar Girl: William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Retold: A Novel by Anne Tyler
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vinegar Girl: William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Retold: A Novel Series: Part of Hogarth Shakespeare Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There’s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost. When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying – as usual – on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he’s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men’s touchingly ludicrous campaign to bring her around?
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My Last Continent: A Novel by Midge Raymond
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Last Continent: A Novel Author: Midge Raymond Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This unforgettable debut, set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape, is “refreshingly different, vivid, and immediate. Midge Raymond has an extraordinary gift for description that puts the reader bang in the middle of its dangerous and endangered world” (M.L. Stedman, New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans). It is only among the glacial mountains, cleaving icebergs, and frigid waters of Antarctica that Deb Gardener and Keller Sullivan feel at home. For a few blissful weeks each year they study the habits of Emperor and Adelie penguins and find solace in their work and in one another. But Antarctica, like their fleeting romance, is a fragile place, imperiled by the world to the north. Each year, Deb and Keller play tour guide to the passengers on the small expedition ship that ferries them to their research station. But this year, when Keller fails to appear on board, Deb begins to reconsider their complicated past and the uncertainty of any future they might share. Then, shortly into the journey, Deb’s ship receives an emergency signal from The Australis, a cruise liner that has hit desperate trouble in the ice-choked waters of the Southern Ocean. Soon Deb’s role will change from researcher to rescuer; among the crew of that sinking ship, Deb learns, is Keller. As Deb and Keller’s troubled histories collide in this “original and entirely authentic love story” (Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project), Midge Raymond takes us on an unforgettable voyage deep into the wonders of the Antarctic and the mysteries of the human heart. My Last Continent is “a sensitive exploration of how the smallest action can ripple through an ecosystem—seemingly impenetrable, but as fragile as the human heart” (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “Atmospheric and adventurous...The story and vivid writing will keep readers glued to the pages” (Library Journal).
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 Author: Lionel Shriver Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction. In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the “almighty dollar” plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the “bancor.” In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. “Deadbeat Nation” being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains to savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their ninety-seven-year-old patriarch dies. Once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also—as the U.S. economy spirals into dysfunction—the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent, Avery is petulant that she can’t buy olive oil, while her sister, Florence, absorbs strays into her cramped household. An expat author, their aunt, Nollie, returns from abroad at seventy-three to a country that’s unrecognizable. Her brother, Carter, fumes at caring for their demented stepmother, now that an assisted living facility isn’t affordable. Only Florence’s oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, will save this formerly august American family from the streets. The Mandibles is about money. Thus it is necessarily about bitterness, rivalry, and selfishness—but also about surreal generosity, sacrifice, and transformative adaptation to changing circumstances.
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Everything to Gain by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything to Gain Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Mallory Keswick can’t imagine how her life could possibly be better. She has a wonderful, fulfilling marriage to a man who loves, supports, and nurtures her. She has a lovely home and beautiful twins who bring joy to her days, to all of which she devotes herself wholeheartedly. Mallory feels she has finally found the elusive sense of family that never quite rang true in her own childhood—until an exceptionally cruel act of violence tears apart the fabric of her happiness. Devastated, distraught, and wondering how she will ever go on, suddenly Mallory’s spirit is being tested as never before, forcing her to discover new reserves of courage and strength to confront the darkness that has left her with nothing more to lose and … Everything To Gain
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Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here's to Us Author: Elin Hilderbrand Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.96 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Three romantic rivals in one crowded house equals plenty of room for jealousy in this surprising and heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe—a celebrity chef with an insatiable appetite for life—and a passionate dislike of one another. All three are remarkable, spirited women, but they couldn't be more different. Laurel: Deacon's high school sweetheart and an effortlessly beautiful social worker; Belinda: a high-maintenance Hollywood diva; and Scarlett: a sexy southern belle floating by on her family money and her fabulous looks. They've established a delicate understanding over the years—they avoid each other at all costs. But their fragile detente threatens to come crashing down after Deacon's tragic death on his favorite place on earth: a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage. Deacon's final wish was for his makeshift family to assemble on his beloved Nantucket to say good-bye. Begrudgingly, Laurel, Belinda, and Scarlett gather on the island as once again, as in each of their marriages, they're left to pick up Deacon's mess. Now they're trapped in the crowded cottage where they all made their own memories—a house that they now share in more ways than one—along with the children they raised with Deacon, and his best friend. Laurel, Belinda, and Scarlett each had an unbreakable bond with Deacon—and they all have secrets to hide. Before the weekend is over, there are enough accusations, lies, tears, and drama to turn even the best of friends—let alone three women who married the same man—into adversaries. As his unlikely family says good-bye to the man who brought them together—for better or worse—will they be able to put aside their differences long enough to raise a glass in Deacon's honor?
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The Course of Love: A Novel by Alain de Botton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Course of Love: A Novel Author: Alain de Botton Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership. We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” The Course of Love explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. We see, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading. As The New York Times says, “The Course of Love is a return to the form that made Mr. de Botton’s name in the mid-1990s….love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods, and insecurities to the page.” This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term. The result is a sensory experience—fictional, philosophical, psychological—that urges us to identify deeply with these characters and to reflect on his and her own experiences in love. Fresh, visceral, and utterly compelling, The Course of Love is a provocative and life-affirming novel for everyone who believes in love. “There’s no writer alive like de Botton, and his latest ambitious undertaking is as enlightening and humanizing as his previous works” (Chicago Tribune).
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The Key Ingredient by Susan Wiggs
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Key Ingredient Author: Susan Wiggs Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 9 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs comes a wonderful short story, and companion tale to her unforgettable novel Family Tree Every great love story has a beginning. Annie Rush’s started at a food cart in a vibrant city park. Annie, then a film student, came across a ruggedly handsome, charismatic chef serving up gourmet street food to an ever-growing clientele lining up for his creations. Together, Annie and Martin Harlow conceived The Key Ingredient, a cooking show featuring Martin as the star while Annie handles production. As they travel to Annie’s Vermont hometown to film their pilot episode, she realizes that she might want to create more than television magic with Martin. But does he feel the same way? The weather is miserable, their shoot is a disaster, and the maple syrup just isn’t flowing. While Annie tries to cling to her vision for their show, she can’t help but wonder if she could be as unlucky in work as she is in love. Is she always destined to stay behind the scenes? Just as some recipes only come together at the last minute with the addition of a key ingredient, sometimes a single moment can change everything—turning Annie’s life into a cornucopia of good fortune, the feast of her dreams.
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Enjoy Unbreak My Heart from Nicole Jacquelyn
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbreak My Heart Series: #1 of Fostering Love Author: Nicole Jacquelyn Narrator: Charlotte North, Alastair Haynesbridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A 'heartbreaking, heartwarming' (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author) love story that asks the question: what do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes. After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it . . . liking her. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves - with or without Shane. . .
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Love on Lavender Island (Authored by Lauren Christopher)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love on Lavender Island Series: #2 of A Lavender Island Novel Author: Lauren Christopher Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: What’s worse than Paige Grant getting stuck in a window while breaking into her late grandmother’s Lavender Island ranch? Being discovered—and saved—by next-door neighbor Adam Mason. The Grants and Masons haven’t exactly been friendly in recent decades, despite Paige’s teenage crush on handsome, standoffish Adam. But the down-on-her-luck actress now needs more than saving: she wants to use part of Adam’s property to pull off a dramatic wedding for her idol, screen legend Dorothy Silver, in exchange for a movie role that could make her dreams come true. Adam has been struggling with emotional and financial burdens inherited from the recent death of his father. Yet he reluctantly agrees to help Paige prepare the ranch for the wedding. As they continue to spend time together, sparks fly. But Paige is troubled by a secret that could ruin any hopes they have for a future together. When fire destroys the land that holds the key to both their dreams—and the secrets they carry make tensions run even hotter—can love rise from the ashes on Lavender Island?
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