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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreaming of Autumn Skies Series: #3 of The Sutherland Series Author: V.C. Andrews Narrator: Caitlin Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A young girl does whatever’s necessary to take back her agency when she is sent to live with her controlling grandfather in this atmospheric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and the Landry series—now popular Lifetime movies. With her mother deceased and her father remarried, Caroline is forced to live with her domineering grandfather. But having endured so much loss and cruelty in her young life, she is determined to not let her suffering to have been in vain. Soon, Caroline embarks on a campaign to reclaim her own power and win over the most influential person in her family. She will stop at nothing to build the life—and the independence—she so desperately dreams of.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Childish Literature Author: Alejandro Zambra Narrator: Ben Balmaceda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Hopeful, funny, and full of wisdom. A meditation on fatherhood by one of our most perceptive writers.” —Tara Westover, author of Educated From the author of My Documents and Chilean Poet, a wise, humorous, and captivating literary exploration of the delights and absurdities of childhood, fatherhood, and family life Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's relationship to aging, intimacy, and time. Written in Alejandro Zambra’s brilliantly warm, playful, and philosophical voice, these pieces explore the lives of families and their stories through a wide variety of topics—from screen time and 'soccer sadness' to personal libraries, fishing, and psychedelics. Throughout, Zambra captures the texture of daily life and deep truths about how we feel and live, with particular insight into the ways parents and children challenge, enrich, and entertain each other. Simultaneously lighthearted and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award-winning translator Megan McDowell, Childish Literature is an intimate and unclassifiable new work by an internationally celebrated writer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Big Happy Family Author: Susan Mallery Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Susan Mallery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boardwalk Bookshop, returns with the joyful and utterly irresistible story of a mother who couldn't love her kids more but hopes that, just this once, they please don't come home for Christmas.  Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Julie Murphy!  Julie Parker’s kids are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honeymoon with his bride, Blair, while her daughter, Dana, will purge every reminder of the guy who dumped her. Again. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she’s secretly dating. But her plans go from cozy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie’s ex. She can’t refuse, even though she dreads their reactions to her new man when they realize she’s been hiding him for months. As the guest list grows in surprising ways, from Blair’s estranged mom to Heath’s precocious children, Julie’s secret is one of many to be unwrapped. Over this delightfully complicated and very funny Christmas, she’ll discover that more really is merrier, and that a big, happy family can become bigger and happier, if they let go of old hurts and open their hearts to love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crescent Moon Tearoom: A Novel Author: Stacy Sivinski Narrator: Nikki Massoud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER An “impossibly endearing” (Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel about three clairvoyant sisters who face an unexpected twist of Fate at the bottom of their own delicate porcelain cups. Ever since the untimely death of their parents, Anne, Beatrix, and Violet Quigley have made a business of threading together the stories that rest in the swirls of ginger, cloves, and cardamon that lie at the bottom of their customers’ cups. Their days at the teashop are filled with talk of butterflies and good fortune intertwined with the sound of cinnamon shortbread being snapped by laced fingers. That is, until the Council of Witches comes calling with news that the city Diviner has lost her powers, and the sisters suddenly find themselves being pulled in different directions. As Anne’s magic begins to develop beyond that of her sisters’, Beatrix’s writing attracts the attention of a publisher, and Violet is enchanted by the song of the circus—and perhaps a mischievous trapeze artist threatening to sweep her off her feet—it seems a family curse that threatens to separate the sisters is taking effect. With dwindling time to rewrite their future and help three other witches challenge their own destinies, the Quigleys set out to bargain with Fate. But in focusing so closely on saving each other, will they lose sight of themselves?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Reason to See You Again: A Novel Author: Jami Attenberg Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Religious Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.  The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her. But each woman must learn in her own way that running from the past can’t save you—and they must make life-altering decisions about what they want their family to be and what they need for themselves to move forward. Beginning in the 1970s and spanning forty years, A Reason to See You Again takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through motherhood, the American workforce, the tech industry, the self-help movement, inherited trauma, the ever-evolving ways we communicate with one another, and the many unexpected forms that love can take.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743459 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Holiday Cottage Author: Sarah Morgan Narrator: Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From USA TODAY bestselling author of The Book Club Hotel, Sarah Morgan returns with a heartfelt story of friendship, finding yourself, and the surprising ties that bring us together. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle and Jennifer Weiner. To the outside world, Imogen is a marketing dynamo. Her colleagues don’t know that while her high-achieving professional image is real, the happy childhood stories she spins are as fake as her pretend enthusiasm for Christmas. Working 24/7 has always been her solution to surviving the festive season—until burnout leads to a catastrophic blunder. Suddenly, Imogen is handed a holiday gift she definitely doesn’t want: enforced time off work to recuperate. Then an invitation arrives from her favorite client, Dorothy, to stay at her guest cottage in the Cotswolds. From the thatched roof to the cozy open fireplace, Holly Cottage is a picture-perfect haven… Can it provide the fresh start Imogen so desperately needs? For Dorothy, helping Imogen offers a longed-for chance to make reparations for her own past. But as her daughter Sara keeps reminding her, it brings risks, too. Yet Dorothy knows that only a leap of courage will allow her family to grow and heal. And perhaps this Christmas, with Dorothy’s help, the new life that Imogen is slowly piecing together could be better than anything either of them could imagine… Perfect for fans of: - The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan - Strong, hardworking women - Complex family relationships - Christmas Hallmark movies - Rebecca Serle and Jojo Moyes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lola in the Mirror: A Novel Author: Trent Dalton Narrator: Victoria Graves Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Unpredictable, fantastic. . . . It takes a charged narrative, like Dickens achieves, and as Dalton does too, to reach the heart and the brain. . . . To tell you more would spoil this complicated and surprising story. You should read it.”—Sydney Morning Herald Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, an irresistible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat and the police who want to make them pay for his death. Home is now a van with four flat tires in a junkyard by the edge of the Brisbane River. The girl has no name, because names are dangerous when you're on the run. But she has a dream. A vision of a life as an artist. A life outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld. A life of love with the boy who's waiting for her on the bridge above the deadly river. And once her mother can no longer protect her, there's only one person who can help make her dreams come true. That person is Lola. But she has to find her first. Internationally bestselling author Trent Dalton delivers a big, moving, darkly funny, violent, heartbreaking and beautiful novel of love and fate, life and death, and all the things we see when we look in the mirror: all our past, all our present, and all our possible futures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel Author: Anna Johnston Narrator: Tim Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A funny, heartfelt story about found family and seeing the silver lining in life. Fans of A Man Called Ove and Remarkably Bright Creatures will especially enjoy this new novel.”—Library Journal A zany case of mistaken identity allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family. “Would you mind terribly, old boy, if I borrowed the rest of your life? I promise I’ll take excellent care of it.” Frederick Fife was born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car, he’d return it washed with a full tank of gas. The problem is there’s nobody left in Fred’s life to borrow from. At eighty-two, he’s desperately lonely, broke, and on the brink of homelessness. But Fred’s luck changes when, in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, he takes the place of grumpy Bernard Greer at the local nursing home. Now he has warm meals in his belly and a roof over his head—as long as his poker face is in better shape than his prostate and that his look-alike never turns up.  Denise Simms is stuck breathing the same disappointing air again and again. A middle-aged mom and caregiver at Bernard's facility, her crumbling marriage and daughter's health concerns are suffocating her joy for life. Wounded by her two-faced husband, she vows never to let a man deceive her again. As Fred walks in Bernard’s shoes, he leaves a trail of kindness behind him, fueling Denise's suspicions about his true identity. When unexpected truths are revealed, Fred and Denise rediscover their sense of purpose and learn how to return a broken life to mint condition.  Bittersweet and remarkably perceptive, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife is a hilarious, feel-good, clever novel about grief, forgiveness, redemption, and finding family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel Author: Ayelet Tsabari Narrator: Yossi Zabari, Ayelet Tsabari, Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter—the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice. “A gorgeous, gripping novel filled with unforgettable characters.”—Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika 1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha’ayin, Yaqub, a shy young man, happens upon Saida, a beautiful girl singing by the river. In the midst of chaos and uncertainty, they fall in love. But they weren’t supposed to; Saida is married and has a child, and a married woman has no place befriending another man. 1995. Thirty-something Zohara, Saida’s daughter, has been living in New York City—a city that feels much less complicated than Israel, where she grew up wishing that her skin was lighter, that her illiterate mother’s Yemeni music was quieter, and that the father who always favored her was alive. She hasn’t looked back since leaving home, rarely in touch with her mother or sister, Lizzie, and missing out on her nephew Yoni’s childhood. But when Lizzie calls to tell her their mother has died, she gets on a plane to Israel with no return ticket. Soon Zohara finds herself on an unexpected path that leads to shocking truths about her family—including dangers that lurk for impressionable young men and secrets that force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, her heritage, and her own future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Circle Of Gold Series: #1 of The Men of Medicine Ridge Author: Diana Palmer Narrator: Todd McLaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sparks flew the moment Kasie Mayfield arrived at Gil Callister's sprawling Montana ranch to temporarily care for his two adorable daughters. Yet never in her wildest dreams did the innocent young woman imagine that her formidable new boss would sweep her off her feet with his potent charm. Before long, she was so deeply in love that it made her heart ache. But how did he feel? The enigmatic rancher was so difficult to read. Still, she couldn't imagine spending her life with anyone but Gil. Could Kasie convince the hard-edged widower that a circle of gold belonged on her finger?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In This Sign Author: Joanne Greenberg Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling modern classic by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden about a deaf couple, their hearing child, and the bond they create through sign language, featuring a new introduction by Sara Nović, author of the New York Times bestseller True Biz, and a new afterword by the author “Astute and wholly authentic . . . This novel isn’t only one of deaf hardship, but also one of bravery and great joy. . . . Over the course of it, I was often as gripped . . . as I am while reading a thriller.” —Sara Nović, from the Introduction A Penguin Classic Abel and Janice meet at a school for the deaf. Sign language brings them together, enabling them to survive and, indeed, to forge a love too powerful to be broken by the world into which they were born. Spanning forty years, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, In This Sign follows the lives of Abel, Janice, and their hearing daughter, Margaret, as they contend uneasily with the “Outside”—a world designed, often purposely, to be inhospitable to those like them. First published in 1970, only a decade after ASL’s formal recognition as a language and well before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, In This Sign stands out as a rare, compassionate portrait of the deaf community. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madwoman Author: Chelsea Bieker Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “The rare kind of book that lives in your bones” (Ashley Audrain), this novel tells a gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themselves and each other alive, marking the arrival of a major fiction talent. The world is not made for mothers. Yet mothers made the world… Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she’s landed the life of her dreams, complete with a safe husband and two adoring children who will never know the terror that was routine in her own childhood. If her buried anxiety threatens to breach the surface, Clove (if that is really her name) focuses on finding the right supplement, the right gratitude meditation.  But when she receives a letter from a women’s prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, entangling her in a dangerous game with memory and the people she thought she had outrun. As we race between her precarious present-day life in Portland, Oregon and her childhood in a Waikiki high-rise with her mother and father, Clove is forced to finally unravel the defining day of her life. How did she survive that day, and what will it take to end the cycle of violence? Will the truth undo her, or could it ultimately save her?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Indian Girl Author: Mansi Shah Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Direction of the Wind and The Taste of Ginger comes an immersive, fun and heartfelt novel about a disgraced Indian American divorcée who spends a summer in Italy, reconnecting with her passion for cooking and reckoning with cultural expectations to make the choice of a lifetime. Life's more fun when you ditch the recipe. Jyoti is the “perfect” Indian American daughter: She stayed out of trouble, looked after her younger sisters, and married a man her parents approved of. So when her husband, Ashok, pushes her to quit her dream job as head chef to focus on conceiving, she obliges, knowing this will please her parents—only for Ashok to leave her when she cannot carry to term. Now unemployed, childless, and divorced, a disgrace to her Gujarati family, Jyoti books a ticket to Tuscany for the summer to visit her best friend (and fellow social outcast), Karishma. Carbs, chianti, and la bella vita slowly restore Jyoti’s confidence, inspiring her to experiment with Indian-Italian fusion recipes. But when she unexpectedly goes viral for her impromptu cooking vlogs—and candid vent sessions—her gossiping aunties have a field day. And when a shocking reveal comes to light, Jyoti must choose between family acceptance, a fulfilling career, and even motherhood, all before the summer ends… Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maggie's Dad Author: Diana Palmer Narrator: Todd McLaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Hot-tempered rancher Powell Long had once stolen Antonia Haye's heart. But small-town lies tore their young love apart, forcing Antonia to flee. Years later, she's returned to find Powell raising a daughter alone. Fatherhood hasn't tempered his wild side or his feelings for the one woman he's always wanted–Antonia. Not even her pride could make her ignore the eager pull of her heartstrings. And taking a chance at a future family with Powell was simply too irresistible….

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sheltered In His Arms Author: Tara Taylor Quinn Narrator: Angela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sam Montford left Shelter Valley ten years ago. He's a direct descendant of the town's founder, the first Samuel Montford, and for him, Shelter Valley's expectations had become oppressive. Home had become smothering instead of sheltering. Sam returns to the town–and to his ex-wife, Cassie Tate–with a seven-year-old child. This is a complete shock to Cassie. When Sam left, he hadn't known she was pregnant. Or that she had lost their baby. Sam's back in Shelter Valley now, back to stay. But he refuses to become the man people expected him to be ten years ago. Can he be the man Cassie needs now?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Want Me, Cowboy Series: #5 of Copper Ridge: Desire Author: Maisey Yates Narrator: Suzanne Elise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Description coming soon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seduce Me, Cowboy Series: #3 of Copper Ridge: Desire Author: Maisey Yates Narrator: Suzanne Elise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Description coming soon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Darling Enemy Author: Diana Palmer Narrator: Todd McLaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Teddi Whitehall longed to escape from her hectic life as a New York model, and a summer in the wilds of Canada with her best friend's family sounded perfect. But arrogant rancher Kingston Devereaux seemed intent on making her feel anything but welcome. Teddi knew King was convinced she was nothing but a glamorous playgirl. She also knew that the truth wasn't about to change his mind. So why did she feel so alive when he was near? Giving her heart to a man who despised her was bad enough. But why did she have to go and fall in love with her best friend's brother?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happens On Vacation… Series: #4 of Westmoreland Legacy: The Outlaws Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Leon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Description coming soon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ballroom Girls Hit the Big Time Author: Jenny Holmes Narrator: Claire Storey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Live for the day' is the motto for the times, and our girls plan to waltz their worries away... Ever-ambitious Sylvia wants more from her life, so starts planning a Dance Weekend at the Winter Gardens – not easy in wartime when air raids could cancel an event at the last minute. What she doesn't expect is for the competition to bring the dashing Vernon into her life too! Could everything finally fall into place for Sylvia? Joy's life has entirely turned around in the last year. Newly married to her beloved Tommy and at the helm of her family's business in Manchester, she can't believe how far she's come. But will the plight of her young employee Mildred throw things off course? Or will she and Tommy still be able to perfect their waltz in time for the competition? Pearl is still longing for her darling Bernie to return from the war. Dancing is the best way to distract herself from her worries, so she throws herself into rehearsing the jive with handsome GI partner Errol. But as tongues begin to wag, will the ballroom still provide the solace she needs? As the war wears on, can the Ballroom Girls really hit the big time? The third book in heart-warming THE BALLROOM GIRLS series Praise for Jenny Holmes and The Ballroom Girls series 'Full of drama, romance and the thrill of dancing . . . a heartwarming and uplifting story' Lancashire Post 'Anyone who recalls dancing at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom . . . will love this latest romance' Choice Magazine 'Vivid characters, sparkling dialogue and a lively, heartwarming story' Vicki Beeby, author of The Ops Room Girls 'Definitely a book sure to please lovers of WW2 romance' Lizzie Lane, author of The Tobacco Girls 'A story vibrant with the atmosphere of the time and fuelled by the power of duty and friendship' Peterborough Telegraph ©2024 Jenny Holmes (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mina's Matchbox: A Novel Author: Yoko Ogawa Narrator: Nanako Mizushima Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. “A story of first enchantments and last gasps…Effervescent.' —New York Times Book Review “Yoko Ogawa is a quiet wizard, casting her words like a spell, conjuring a world of curiosity and enchantment, secrets and loss. I read Mina’s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.” —Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion—Tomoko’s dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family’s patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko’s cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko’s life. Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand—her uncle’s mysterious absences, her great-aunt’s experience of the Second World War, her aunt’s misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time—and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas Born / Smokin' Six-Shooter Author: B.J. Daniels, Diana Palmer Narrator: Adam Gold, Todd McLaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 8, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Texas Born Gabriel Brandon had been her hero ever since she was a girl and he'd rescued her, an orphan, from sure ruin. And Michelle Godfrey had loved him forever, the mysterious rancher with the dark eyes; he was her protector and guardian angel. Now she'd blossomed into a woman. But Michelle didn’t realise the secrets Gabriel kept… Smokin' Six-Shooter Russell Corbett’s all cowboy and he’s not about to let a woman tame him! But Dulcie Hughes has had him tied up in knots from the moment she nearly crashed into his car. She rode into town with her posh city clothes to claim her secret inheritance. And neither tall tales nor a gorgeous rancher will deter her from exposing a years-old cover-up. Dulcie’s determined to find answers, not fall in love. But, like the thunder on the horizon, she can’t fight the desire that’s threatening to take her over…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long, Tall Texans: Harden Series: #16 of Long, Tall Texans Author: Diana Palmer Narrator: Todd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 8, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: HARD-HEARTED LONER Born into a sprawling ranching family, rugged Harden Tremayne was the toughest, wildest man ever to come out of Texas cattle country. And the loneliest. Until he met Miranda Warren, the lovely Chicago widow who aroused feelings too long denied–and a yearning for something that could never be his…. Miranda had never felt anything as overwhelming as her passion for the long, lean cowboy. But was her love enough to melt his hard, hungry heart and help them make a new life–together?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain: A Novel Series: Part of Vintage International Author: James Baldwin Narrator: Roxane Gay, Joe Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man in the Moon Author: Andrew Barrow Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Are all aspiring stand-up comics as tragic as Baby Reindeer? If William is anything to go by, the answer is possibly ‘yes’. Nostalgic, razor-sharp and deliciously peculiar, this is a weird but wonderful comedy of manners by the award-winning author of The Tap Dancer. William is a lonely young man on the loose in the late 1960s. A disastrous appearance as a stand-up comic in a pub called The Man In the Moon is only the start of his adventures, in which he consorts with theatrical types, frenzied advertising men and accident-prone lodgers. William’s exploits lead him eventually to the consulting rooms of a Harley Street psychiatrist, where his delusions that he is a comic genius can finally be laid bare. Andrew Barrow’s second – and so far last – novel, first published in 1996, is a hilariously bittersweet comedy that follows in the footsteps of last year’s sensational reissue of The Tap Dancer, which drew praise from Alan Bennett (‘my favourite novel’), Craig Brown (‘sublime comedy’) and India Knight (‘hilariously funny’).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sister’s Fight Author: Emma Hornby Narrator: Victoria Riley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Bolton, Lancashire: 1943 Livvy knows that her family’s survival rests on her shoulders. With her parents gone, it falls to her to support her grandfather and her younger sister, Joan. But times are tough in the midst of war and most jobs only afford meagre pay, so Livvy makes the difficult decision to sell herself on the streets in order to make ends meet. Her choice brings harsh judgement from local gossips, but Livvy can ignore them for her family’s sake. Joan is growing up, and Livvy’s determined that her life will be free of care. It’s harder to keep her unsavoury secret from the good, kind man who’s falling in love with her. But then things take a darker turn. A US soldier begins harassing her – with dreadful consequences – and Livvy’s life spirals out of control . . . Will she be able to find the peace, love and happiness she deserves, or will she lose everything she's fought to protect? The third book in Emma Hornby's page-turning Worktown Girls at War series ©2024 Emma Hornby (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Self-Storage: The Complete Series 1 and 2: A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom Author: Barnaby Power, Tom Collinson Narrator: Phil Nichol, Susan Earl, Rosie Cavaliero, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Heap, Reece Shearsmith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 25, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All twelve episodes of the BBC comedy drama about a man forced to live in a storage unit, starring Reece Shearsmith When his marriage breaks up and he loses his job, Dave Preston has no choice but to move all his possessions – and himself – into The Storage Garden. But he’s not alone in his predicament – his fellow storage dweller, the mysterious and slightly psychotic Geoff, is in the same situation, and both are under the watchful eye of cultured security guard Ron. As he hunkers down among the boxes of pebbles, unidentifiable bits of metal and cups without saucers, Dave picks over his failed relationship with ex-wife Sarah, and prepares to face the future. But life gets a lot more complicated when his sister Judy has a string of rows with her husband and decides to move in with Dave. Then, just as he’s becoming resigned to his fate, Dave finds a new place to stay – but can he go through with it? Wry, warm and wonderfully written, this offbeat sitcom stars Reece Shearsmith (Inside No. 9) as Dave, Mark Heap (Upstart Crow) as Geoff, and Tom Goodman-Hill (Lewis) as Ron, with Rosie Cavaliero (Gentleman Jack) as Judy and Philip Jackson (Agatha Christie’s Poirot) as Dad. Production credits Written by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power Produced by Ed Morrish Cast Dave – Reece Shearsmith Geoff – Mark Heap Ron – Tom Goodman-Hill Judy – Rosie Cavaliero Sarah – Susan Earl Boss/Estate agent/Des – Phil Nichol Dad – Philip Jackson Liz – Nadia Kamil Mickey – Paul Putner Shop Assistant/Sioux/Stewardess – Helen Longworth Brian – Stephen Critchlow First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 19 September-24 October 2007 (Series 1), 5 November-10 December 2008 (Series 2) © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742165 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Divorce: The addictive family drama - sure to cause a stir in book clubs and living rooms everywhere Author: Moa Herngren Narrator: Cameron Krogh Stone, Sofia Engstrand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. WHICH ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE? Gripping and emotional, THE DIVORCE explores the unravelling of a marriage from first the wife, then the husband's point of view. Together for more than thirty years, Bea and Niklas live a comfortable life in Stockholm. But one evening, following a trivial argument, Niklas disappears. Weeks pass before it emerges that he has met someone else. To Bea's horror, he insists they must divorce. But is this divorce really coming out of the blue? Is the person who does the leaving always the one at fault? What emerges once you begin scratching the surface? 'Absorbing, bittersweet' PANDORA SYKES 'Compelling, emotional, thought-provoking' DAILY MAIL 'A stunning portrayal featuring both sides of a marriage breakdown. Gripping, heartrending and intimate, this is a book you can't put down. A brilliant read' JULIE OWEN MOYLAN, author of That Green Eyed Girl and 73 Dove Street 'Book club alert: who's been cruel and who's been clueless in this marriage that can't be saved? The Divorce deftly unmasks the secrets and stresses of an unraveling relationship that absolutely begs to be discussed' SALLY KOSLOW 'Pulls back a curtain on a long marriage, a close family, and in one moment reveals the devastating truth that has been hiding in plain sight. Moa Herngren writes with such compassion and insight, bringing the characters so vividly to life that their emotions and passions become our own. I love this novel' LUANNE RICE

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Mummy Drinks on Holiday Author: Gill Sims Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited sixth Why Mummy novel. When family life gives you lemons, trade them for grapes! Mummy Ellen is on a well-earned sabbatical from work, and she has A Vision. She is going to cherish *every* moment this holiday with her Precious Moppets Peter and Jane, alongside her ride-or-die best friend, Hannah. There will be wicker baskets! Vintage bicycles! Pink sunshine wine! And not an electronic babysitter in sight. But as she strives for her picture-perfect “Ultimate Family Summer” in the sun-kissed bliss of her almost-chateau, reality crashes the party. With small feral hell-beasts to keep alive on the daily, and Hannah suddenly and mysteriously MIA, wine o’clock gets earlier and earlier as each day crawls by. Can she keep The Vision alive without resorting to nightly beige ‘freezer tapas’ (aka guilt-flavoured chicken nuggets)? Or will she reach the end of her Gentle Parenting book and her tether as her dream holiday descends into a nightmare? Join Ellen on her uproarious quest to salvage one of the #18PreciousSummers, or simply find her Grape Escape.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 5: A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Series: #5 of Conversations from a Long Marriage Author: Jan Etherington Narrator: Joanna Lumley, Roger Allam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Roger Allam and Joanna Lumley star in the complete fifth series of the much-loved comedy drama ‘An endearing portrait of exasperation, laced with hard won tolerance – and something like love’ Guardian Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam are passionate, affectionate long-marrieds, still loving and laughing their way through life after 50 years together (on and off). We catch up with them as Joanna’s landmark birthday is looming, and – inspired by fond memories of ‘the Kerouac years’ – Roger surprises her with a nostalgic trip in a hippy love bus. Joanna, meanwhile, reminisces over their youthful Harley Davidson rides, indulges in a random act of kindness and relives old times when she visits an old friend in need. Though lack of communication causes complications for their loved ones, it’s not a problem Joanna and Roger are ever likely to have – and whether they’re rescuing spiders or planning Auntie Hilda’s wedding, they’re never short of conversation. But talking can’t solve everything – and when a huge shock rocks the foundations of their marriage, a devastated Joanna makes a decision that will break Roger’s heart... Conversations from a Long Marriage won the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2020, and was nominated for a Writers’ Guild Award in 2022 and a British Comedy Guide award in 2023. Scripted by award-winning journalist and comedy writer Jan Etherington (Second Thoughts, Faith in the Future), this beautifully crafted sitcom is by turns poignant and hilarious. Production credits Written by Jan Etherington Produced and directed by Claire Jones Sound engineer: Wilfredo Acosta Sound designer: Jon Calver Production coordinator: Katie Baum A BBC Studios Production First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 February-28 March 2024 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738304 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mouthing Author: Orla Mackey Narrator: Jessica Regan, Stephen Hogan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 30, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland from a refreshing new talent in literary fiction Welcome to Ballyrowan. This sleepy corner of rural Ireland may seem tranquil, but scratch the surface and you'll find a hotbed of gossip and intrigue - endless material for mouthing - and a town full of people only too happy to oblige in spreading the bad news. Narrated by several generations of villagers, Mouthing traces the fortunes of one small community from the mid-20th century to the early 21st, in a series of highly confessional and darkly hilarious monologues. The good people of Ballyrowan delight in twisting the knife, in tormenting one another, in perfecting the art of schadenfreude. And, it becomes clear, none of them are entirely reliable witnesses. As each character offers their version of 'the truth', upending our assumptions at every turn, we see how feuds are passed down through the generations, how families are estranged or reunited and fortunes made or lost, how strict social expectations can shift and loosen over decades (and how some things remain stubbornly unchanged). And we see how secret hopes and private sorrows, triumph and humiliation, pleasure and grief are all absorbed into the merciless chorus of mouthing. Mouthing is an acerbic, unsentimental love letter to rural Irish life, where everyone knows everyone else's business and everyone has an opinion on it - where 'community' is both a lifeboat and a life sentence. 'A bittersweet love letter to small-town Irish life over several generations, in the vein of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge' Irish Times, 'Fiction to look out for in 2024' ©2024 Orla Mackey (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aliss at the Fire Author: Jon Fosse Narrator: Kåre Conradi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on. Aliss at the Fire is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rogue For The Dutiful Duchess Author: Louise Allen Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The scandal of the season Must be stopped! Widowed duchess Sophie will do anything to protect her son and his inheritance—even ask roguish Lord Nicholas Pascoe to retrieve her late husband’s diaries before the secrets they contain bring down the government and the monarchy! Sophie knows she must maintain her distance from Nicholas…only she can’t help but respond to the desire in his eyes. Their mission is treacherous, but will it prove as dangerous as their unexpected attraction?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Maddening Matchmaker Series: #2 of A Very Village Scandal Author: Virginia Heath Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: They say opposites attract… But do they wed? A Very Village Scandal story. Ned Parker has spent years restoring his family’s fortunes, leaving no time for courting. Now, childhood friend and self-appointed matchmaker Isobel has decided to transform this ‘scruffy brute’ into an eligible gentleman. Though he has no interest in re-joining Society, Ned senses Izzy needs the distraction and reluctantly goes along with her plans. Despite their differing views, a surprising new attraction grows…but Ned’s doing his best to avoid it!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hebrew Teacher Author: Maya Arad Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life’s work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson and discovers cracks in the family’s perfect façade. Efrat, another Israeli in California, is determined to help her daughter navigate the challenges of middle school and crosses forbidden lines when she follows her into the minefield of social media. In these three stirring novellas—comedies of manners with an ambitious blend of irony and sensitivity—celebrated Israeli author Maya Arad probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap that her heroines must confront.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Juja Author: Nino Haratischvili Narrator: Helen Day Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about. Then, in 2004, two women from opposite corners of the globe—Amsterdam and Sydney—rediscover Jeanne Saré’s book and set out to discover who the author was and what happened to her. Women across the ages have attached their own stories to Saré’s, often with devastating results, but the truth about her may be even stranger than the fictions they have invented.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milking Time Author: Rachael Treasure Narrator: Hannah Fredericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 1, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The gorgeously funny, uplifting and entertaining new novel from Rachael Treasure, author of iconic, bestselling and much-loved stories of Australian rural life, including Jillaroo and The Farmer's Wife. Connie Mulligan, daughter of a fourth-generation Tasmanian dairy farmer, feels like she doesn't belong – anywhere. She's got big dreams and big ideas, but she made a mess of her university degree and has been sent home in disgrace. The man who was responsible for her failure won't get out of her nightmares, her father won't listen to any of her ideas on how to make environmentally positive changes to the way the dairy farm is being run, her mum thinks she should go on anti-depressants, and she keeps having what her psychologist calls 'episodes'. Connie is stifled, frustrated, out of sorts and out of step – with her family, her town, her community and her time. It's not until an opportunity arises to travel to Ireland that a chance encounter with a wise old woman – and a knock on the head – sees Connie regain her confidence. And it is in Ireland that Connie realises that everything she wants back home – family, friends, community and a healthy, healing land – is within her grasp; she's just got to reach out for what she wants and make it happen. The story of how Connie Mulligan uses all her wit, willpower and a community of strong women to seize the day, save her family farm and transform herself, her life and her small town will have you standing up and cheering. Earthy, funny, truthful and wise, this is Rachael Treasure at her emotional, heartfelt and feelgood best. 'Milking Time puts social rebellion ahead of romance, without being preachy or losing the charm of the genre, and paints a vivid portrait of the challenges and triumphs of small-town farming community. Filled with authentic, gutsy characters Milking Time is a brilliant return to writing for Treasure.' The Australian 'Rachael Treasure is back and better than ever.' Better Reading

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meet the Huggetts: Selected Episodes from the Classic BBC Radio Comedy Author: Eddie Maguire Narrator: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Post-war comedy drama with Britain’s most popular family Rediscover the most popular family in Britain! The Huggetts dominated the airwaves in the 1950s. For nearly a decade their family capers entertained listeners with the trials and tribulations of everyday life in post-war Britain. An unashamedly working-class family, the Huggetts epitomise the spirit of a united nation relishing simple pleasures with a cheery, down-to-earth smile. Only seven of these era-defining episodes have survived in the archive, and they are now available together for the first time. This light-hearted, feel-good comedy is as fresh and funny as it was when it was first broadcast. Listen now and laugh along with a family from a bygone era and enjoy this piece of wonderful radio history. In episode one, ‘All at Sea’ has Joe and Ethel in a mess over money when a factory outing looms. Chaos reigns in ‘No Fear’ when young Bobby Huggetts sets out to play the hero. ‘Loser Pays’ has Joe and Fred attempting to teach their wives a lesson, but it backfires. The family are baffled by a mystery letter that arrives from America in ‘Transatlantic Tangle’. A summer heat wave has the family suffering in ‘What Unusual Wallpaper’ and in ‘Clean Linen’ there is a mix-up at the launderette sparking a whole pile of embarrassment for the Huggetts. Finally, in ‘'Ail and Hearty’ Dad Joe is spotted calling in at the doctor's surgery. Should the family be worried? Enjoy these seven lost episodes, available to download now. Due to the age of these recordings, the sound quality may vary. Written by Eddie Maguire Produced by Jacques Brown and Peter Eton Cast Joe - Jack Warner Ethel - Kathleen Harrison Jane - Marion Collins / Alanna Boyce Bobby - George Howell / James Langley / Malcolm Ranson Fred Stebbings - Charles Leno Mrs Stebbings - Beatrice Varley Mr Campbell/Charlie/Insurance Salesman - Kenneth Connor Clara - Molly Lumley Mamie Webb - Patricia Hayes Detective - Alan Keith with Bill Pertwee and Ralph Hallett First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme, August 1954 - June 1961 ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bonjour, Sophie Author: Elizabeth Buchan Narrator: Emily Joyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 4, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert Knox, and his frustrated wife Alice, is stultifying. She finds diversion and excitement in a love affair, but soon realizes that if she wants to live life on a bigger canvas she must take matters into her own hands. She dreams of escape to Paris, the Wartime home her French mother fled before her birth. Getting there will take spirit and ingenuity, but also offers the chance to discover more about her family background, and perhaps find a place where she can finally belong. When Sophie eventually arrives in the city of her dreams it's both everything she imagined, and not at all what she expected.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Karussell des Lebens Author: Rosamunde Pilcher Narrator: Lisa Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 31, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Es wird allmählich Zeit, dass du heiratest.' Prue Shackleton, jung, schön und eigenwillig, kann die Ermahnungen ihrer Mutter nicht mehr hören. Statt sich um einen vielversprechenden Heiratskandidaten zu kümmern, fährt sie kurz entschlossen zu ihrer exzentrischen Tante ans Meer. In der einsamen Landschaft Cornwalls findet Prue Ruhe und Abstand. Doch damit ist es vorbei, als sie dem jungen Künstler Daniel begegnet...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Und Großvater atmete mit den Wellen (Autorisierte Lesefassung) Author: Trude Teige Narrator: Yara Blümel Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 27, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Überleben in dunklen Zeiten. Für Zukunft und Liebe. Ihr Großvater Konrad war immer der Fels in der Brandung für die junge Juni. Doch nie hat er von dem Ort gesprochen, der ihn am meisten geprägt hat. Erst jetzt erfährt Juni, wo ihr liebevoller Großvater gelernt hat, mit den Wellen zu atmen. 1943: Das Handelsschiff der Brüder Konrad und Sverre wird im Indischen Ozean angegriffen. Im Krankenhaus verliebt sich Konrad in die Krankenschwester Sigrid. Doch ihr Glück ist bedroht: Sie werden in eines der berüchtigten japanischen Arbeitslager gebracht. Getrennt voneinander versuchen sie, zu überleben und menschlich zu bleiben. Gibt es für sie eine Zukunft hinter dem Meer? Das ergreifende neue Werk der renommierten norwegischen Autorin Trude Teige über ein unbekanntes Stück Geschichte. Ein Roman, der zeigt, was wahre Menschlichkeit bedeutet und wie uns die Vergangenheit prägt bis in die nächsten Generationen. 'Egal, ob es stürmt oder ganz ruhig ist, die Wellen treffen das Land immer im selben Rhythmus. Und wenn du Angst hast oder traurig bist, musst du mit dem Meer atmen.' Konrad Eine große Fortsetzung, aber auch ganz unabhängig zu hören: die dramatische Geschichte von Konrad, dem Großvater aus Als Großmutter im Regen tanzte, erzählt von der Enkelin Juni. Yara Blümel liebt Sprache. Neben ihrer langjährigen Bühnenerfahrung hat sie bereits über 100 Hörbücher eingesprochen und ist aus der Hörbuchlandschaft nicht mehr wegzudenken. Ob Liebesroman, Spannung oder Familiengeschichte - für jedes Genre findet sie ihren besonderen Ton.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bereaved: A Novel Author: Julia Park Tracey Narrator: Aven Shore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Based on her research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train. In 1859, women have few rights, even to their own children. When her husband dies and her children become wards of a predator, Martha—bereaved and scared—flees their beloved country home taking the children with her to the squalor of New York City. But as a naïve woman alone, preyed on by male employers, she soon finds herself nearly destitute. The Home for the Friendless offers free food, clothing, and schooling to New York's street kids and Martha secures a place temporarily for her children there. When she returns for them, she discovers that the Society has indentured her two eldest out to work via the Orphan Train, and has placed her two youngest for adoption. The Society refusing to help and with the Civil War erupting around her, Martha sets out to reclaim each of them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kräuter der Provinz: Roman Series: #1 of Die Maierhofen-Reihe Author: Petra Durst-Benning Narrator: Sabine Menne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 22, 2024 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Eine Prise Glück, ein Löffel Freude und jede Menge Liebe – so schmeckt das echte Leben. Bürgermeisterin Therese liebt ihre schwäbische Heimat – Wiesen mit sattgelbem Löwenzahn, ein paar sanft geschwungene Hügel und mittendrin Maierhofen. Doch die jungen Leute ziehen weg, und der Dorfplatz wird immer leerer. Als Therese krank wird und das Dorf kurz vor dem Aus steht, raufen sich alle Bewohner zusammen – seien es die drei Greisen, die immer auf der Bank sitzen, der linkische Metzgermeister Edi oder die schüchterne Christine. Und sie haben nur noch ein Ziel: ihre schöne kleine Stadt zu retten und das erste Genießerdorf entstehen zu lassen – einen Ort, an dem der echte Geschmack König ist!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Geschichtenmacher Author: Kjell Johansson Narrator: Reiner Unglaub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: March 21, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Dieser eine Moment, in dem alles richtig zu sein scheint - es ist der Augenblick, als der kleine Kjell zum ersten Mal seinen Vater sieht, der zu seiner Familie nach Stockholm zurückkehrt: Die Mutter läuft ihm leichtfüßig entgegen, die Kinder werden fest in den Arm genommen. Alles könnte federleicht sein wie in einem Traum ... doch so ist es nicht. Die Johanssons leben in einem armseligen Haus an der Flutwiese des Vororts Midsommarkransen. Der Vater säuft, um seinen Dämonen zu entkommen, das Geld ist knapp. Und trotzdem hüten die Johanssons einen Schatz: Die Gabe, sich ganz und gar in einem Buch zu verlieren und selbst Geschichten zu erfinden, die das Herz bewegen und die Fantasie beflügeln ... Zwischen grauer Realität und magischem Empfinden: Ein autobiographisches Hörbuch von großer erzählerischer Kraft - voller kleiner, zarter Momente, die lange in Erinnerung bleiben werden.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rudy’s Rare Records: The Complete Series 1-4: A BBC Radio Comedy Author: Danny Robins Narrator: Joe Jacobs, Larrington Walker, Lenny Henry, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 14, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lenny Henry stars in this family comedy set in the finest, feistiest old reggae record shop in Birmingham ‘A joy’ Chris Campling, The Times Rudy Sharpe is the irrepressible owner of a tiny, ramshackle record store, stacked from floor to ceiling with piles of vinyl. It’s a place with real soul, where the slogan is ‘If we don't have it – them don't mek it’. Helping out behind the counter is Tasha, Handsworth’s only Black goth girl, while Rudy’s best friend Clifton regularly drops in to talk music, women and rum. When Rudy has a 'heart attack', his long-suffering, middle-aged son Adam reluctantly returns from London to look after him, leaving behind his own classical music shop, Bach to Basics. Accompanying Adam is his teenage son, Richie, who is less than thrilled with the prospect of going to Birmingham, but bonds with his granddad over their shared love of reggae and ska. Crammed together, sharing the minuscule flat above the shop, the trio collide on a daily basis. Forced to survive each other’s company, can they put their differences aside, keep the store afloat and keep the vinyl dream alive? Starring Lenny Henry as Adam, Larrington Walker as Rudy and Joe Jacobs as Richie, this feelgood comedy celebrates three generations of Sharpe men bantering, bickering, breaking up and making up – all to a terrific, toe-tapping soundtrack. Credits Starring Lenny Henry Written by Danny Robins, Dan Tetsell and Paula Hines from an original idea by Lenny Henry Script edited by Danny Robins Additional material by Doc Brown and Leah Chillery Produced by Lucy Armitage and Katie Tyrell Cast Adam Sharpe – Lenny Henry Richie Sharp – Joe Jacobs Rudy Sharpe – Larrington Walker Doreen/Ms Rogers/Carolina – Claire Benedict Jamelia/Tasha – Natasha Godfrey Clifton – Jeffery Kissoon Alison/Doctor – Tracy-Ann Oberman Customers – Colin Hoult/Doc Brown Francis – Michael Fenton Stevens DJ Karel/Police officer/Sgt Popper – Andrew Brooke Landlord – Gresby Nash Diabolicus – Adam de Ville Trev the Hoodie/Rapper – Doc Brown Tunde – Femi Elufowoju Karen – Susie Riddell Craig/RSPCA man/Hoodie 2 – Joe Sims Darnell – Javone Prince Secret Shopper/Lucinda – Sarah Thom Ainsley Harriott – Himself Twitch/Trader/Customer/Dealer/Hoodie/Attila/Receptionist – Adam Nagaitis Bernard Sheedy – Justin Moorhouse Brinsley Forde – Himself Katerina – Liza Sadovy Miss Reenie – Angela Wynter First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 February-18 March 2008 (Series 1), 14 October-4 November 2009 (Series 2), 18 January-22 February 2011 (Series 3), 9 October-13 November 2012 (Series 4) © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inheritance of Loss Author: Kiran Desai Narrator: Meera Simhan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge's chatty cook watches over her, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS, forced to consider his country's place in the world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they, too, are forced to confront their colliding interests. The nation fights itself. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own role in this grasping world of conflicting desires-every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal. A novel of depth and emotion, Desai's second, long-awaited novel fulfills the grand promise established by her first.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Golden Girls vom Niederrhein - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt) Author: Anne Gesthuysen Narrator: Jörg Thadeusz, Anne Gesthuysen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 43 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Drei Schwestern, drei Leben, drei Lieben - und das Porträt eines ganzen Jahrhunderts. Anne Gesthuysen hat mit 'Wir sind doch Schwestern' ein mitreißendes Buch über ihre Großtanten geschrieben, die zusammen 298 Jahre alt geworden sind. Anlässlich ihres 100. Geburtstags hat Gertrud ihre Schwestern Katty und Paula eingeladen. Sie wollen ihre Zukunft planen, doch vorher müssen sie die Vergangenheit klären. So komisch wie berührend, so liebevoll wie wahrhaftig. Mod.: Jörg Thadeusz. Ein Gespräch mit Lesung im Rahmen der lit.COLOGNE 2013.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Haus der Wiederkehr (Autorisierte Lesefassung) Author: Jojo Moyes Narrator: Luise Helm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Lottie und Celia sind in dem Küstenstädtchen Merham wie Schwestern aufgewachsen. Während Celia gegen die Enge der Kleinstadt aufbegehrt, liebt Lottie den idyllischen Ort und vor allem das Meer. Besonders fasziniert sie ein prächtiges Artdéco-Haus direkt am Strand, in dem eine bunte Gruppe von Künstlern lebt. Gemeinsam tauchen Celia und Lottie ein in eine aufregende, fremde Welt. Bis Celia eines Tages ihren Verlobten Guy mit nach Hause bringt - und vom ersten Augenblick an weiß Lottie, dass er auch ihre große Liebe ist ... Ein halbes Jahrhundert später werden das Haus am Strand und seine Geheimnisse wieder lebendig. Und es stellt sich die Frage: Kann man die Vergangenheit jemals hinter sich lassen? Überarbeitet und neu übersetzt von Karolina Fell, der Übersetzerin von Ein ganzes halbes Jahr.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wie deine Seele mich berührt - Crosston Creek, Teil 2 (Ungekürzt) Author: Cara Lay Narrator: Julian Horeyseck, Corinna Dorenkamp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Schon lange fühlt sich Everly fremdbestimmt: Als Tochter einer Unternehmerfamilie ist ihr beruflicher Weg vorgeschrieben. Und ihre Eltern halten Benedict, den Sohn einer einflussreichen und wohlhabenden Familie, für die beste Wahl eines Ehemannes. Am Tag ihrer Verlobungsparty wird ihr alles zu viel. Überstürzt flieht sie aus Denver und landet im beschaulichen Örtchen Crosston Creek. Inmitten der wilden Natur kann Everly endlich über ihr Leben nachdenken. Als sie jedoch einen verwahrlosten Welpen findet, ist es schlagartig vorbei mit der Ruhe. Denn der Tierarzt Noah Amaro ist alles, was Everlys Verlobter nicht ist: feinfühlig, empathisch und humorvoll. Sofort fühlt Everly sich zu ihm hingezogen. Und auch Crosston Creek mit seinen sympathischen Einwohnern ist der völlige Gegensatz zu ihrem bisherigen Leben - und Everly gerade deswegen bereits ans Herz gewachsen. Wird sie es schaffen, zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben ihren Gefühlen zu folgen? Teil 2 der neuen, romantischen Reihe von Cara Lay. Crosston Creek, ein malerischer Ort am Fuße der Rocky Mountains, wo Herzen zueinander finden.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Loreley - Die Frau am Fluss - Loreley-Romane, Band 1 (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Susanne Popp Narrator: Verena Wolfien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Bestsellerautorin Susanne Popp (Die Teehändlerin) führt an die Ufer des Rheins und den sagenumwobenen Felsen in die Zeit von Heine und Brentano Bacharach am Rhein, 1817. Julie ist eine mittellose Waise und lebt bei einer Pflegefamilie, die ihr keine Liebe entgegenbringt. Die Schönheit des Mädchens sorgt immer wieder für Eifersucht und Streit. Der Pfarrer des Ortes fühlt sich durch Julie sogar regelrecht bedroht und verlangt, dass sie Bacharach verlassen soll, so dass ihr Vormund beschließt, sie mit dem Fährmann von Sankt Goar zu verheiraten. Knielingen bei Karlsruhe zur selben Zeit: Johann ist der Sohn eines erfolglosen Goldwäschers. Nachdem er seine Familie verloren hat, versucht er, auf der Großbaustelle der Rheinbegradigung unter dem genialen Ingenieur Tulla sein Auskommen zu finden. Dann wird er Schiffer auf dem breiten Fluss. Julie und Johann lernen sich kennen und lieben, aber die Geister der Vergangenheit machen keinen Halt vor dem jungen Glück. Das Schicksal am sagenumwobenen Loreley-Felsen nimmt seinen Lauf.