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Wyoming Homecoming by Diana Palmer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wyoming Homecoming Series: #11 of Wyoming Men Author: Diana Palmer Narrator: Todd Mclaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: She's haunted his dreams for years, and now she’s back to wreak havoc on his heart When Sheriff Cody Banks’ wife died, he blamed Abby Brennan and, in his grief, made sure she knew it. Looking back, he knows that his behaviour was likely the reason Abby left town years ago. So when he sees her—and the child she’s raising in town, Cody attempts to apologise, ashamed to see the fear he puts in her beautiful eyes and determined to show her he's no longer that same angry man. The only reason Abby returned to Wyoming was to bury her last living relative. She has avoided Cody Banks ever since he made it clear how much he resents her, focusing instead on raising her young niece and keeping her own family legacy alive. But when Abby inherits the property adjoining Cody’s, she can't help but face the handsome sheriff who still lingers in her memory. Circumstances keep pulling them together, but has time healed their wounds and given them a chance at a happily-ever-after?
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Louise Pentland - Time After Time: The must-read novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Pentland
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time After Time: The must-read novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Pentland Author: Louise Pentland Narrator: Yolanda Kettle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'A warm, witty novel about love and friendship with a fun time-travel twist' HELLO Magazine Number one bestselling author Louise Pentland is back with her brand new novel that will make you laugh, make you cry and thoroughly charm you! Sometimes you have to go back, to move forwards. Tabby is stuck. She still lives in the small town she grew up in . . . the town she's barely ever left. So, when her dad drops a bombshell over their weekly Sunday dinner, Tabby takes a look at her own life. She lives firmly in her comfort zone and doesn't know how to break out. Sometimes she wishes she could go back and start all over again. When she meets Bea, a free spirit like no one else she's ever known with an 'interesting' sense of style, Tabby quickly befriends her, recognising in Bea the change she's been craving. But soon it becomes clear that more has changed than her new friend. Somehow Tabby has been transported back to the 1980s. With the chance to reinvent herself in another time, will Tabby finally manage to move forward? 'Full of hope and courage and sisterhood' Emma B, Magic FM
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How to Be Eaten: A Novel by Maria Adelmann
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be Eaten: A Novel Author: Maria Adelmann Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. *Belletrist June Book Club Pick* Named a Best Book of May by TIME Magazine & Glamour One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
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The Birdcage: The spellbinding new mystery from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy pick The Glass House (By Eve Chase)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Birdcage: The spellbinding new mystery from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy pick The Glass House Author: Eve Chase Narrator: Taj Atwall, Aurora Dawson-Hunte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The new novel from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Pick The Glass House Some secrets need to be set free . . . Lauren, Kat and Flora are half-sisters who share a famous artist father - and a terrible secret. Over the years they've grown into wildly different lives. But an invitation to Rock Point, the Cornish cliff house where they once sat for their father's most celebrated painting, Girls and Birdcage, reunites them. Rock Point is a beautiful, windswept place, thick with secrets, electrically charged with the events of the summer - twenty years before - that the family daren't discuss. And there is someone in the shadows watching their every move. Someone who remembers the girls in the painting - and what they did. An emotional mystery full of dark secrets and twists, transporting the reader to the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall. 'Eve Chase does it again! A bittersweet, beautifully written, slow burn family drama with a killer kick in the closing chapters. I loved every word of it' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Night She Disappeared 'Gorgeously written, atmospheric and twisty . . . I devoured it!' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Couple at No. 9 'Immersive, tense and ultimately redemptive, while I was reading, it held me completely in its grip' Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal 'I loved it . . . engrossing, gripping and layered' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of That Night © Eve Chase 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Nobody But Us by Laure Van Rensburg
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nobody But Us Author: Laure Van Rensburg Narrator: Joshua Kane, Chloe Cannon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An “amazing” (NYT bestselling author of Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn) high-concept thriller in which a couple’s romantic weekend-getaway is not what is seems. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Bookish He’s not who he says he is. Then again, neither is she. Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed grad student. Together, they are driving south from New York for their first vacation: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of them, the promise of long, dark nights—and the chance to get to know each other better, away from prying eyes. It should be a perfect romantic getaway for two. But when a snowstorm strands them in the house, each realizes the other harbors a dangerous secret—and soon it becomes clear one of them won’t escape the weekend alive. By turns tantalizing, surprising, and thrilling, Nobody But Us heralds the arrival of an incredibly talented author of literary suspense.
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The Woman Who Took a Chance by Fiona Gibson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/516559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Took a Chance Author: Fiona Gibson Narrator: Eilidh Beaton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: ‘Cute, witty and fun!… Relatable and heart-warming. Loved it!’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Meet Jen. Flight attendant. Mum to a grown-up daughter. Permanently single. Age: Fifty (gulp) Number of children: One Number of husbands: Zero (it’s complicated) Number of failed first dates in the last month: Too depressing to contemplate Number of tickets for a romantic, once-in-a-lifetime trip: Two Number of days left to find her Mr Right to take on holiday: Quickly running out… A heart-warming and hilarious novel that proves age is just a number and it’s never too late for a second chance. Fans of Kristen Bailey, Sophie Kinsella and Jill Mansell will be totally hooked from the very first page. Readers love The Woman Who Took a Chance: ‘An honest to goodness sublime and funny five-star read… Do not miss this great story if you are after funny, but real’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Fabulous, warm and witty… Lots of laugh-out-loud moments… Fun-filled with a big heart’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I adored this book. Genuinely lovely and hilariously funny, it was an absolute pleasure to read’ NetGalley Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A treat I needed!… It was heartfelt and real, and I just wanted to keep on reading!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A totally relatable read… Hilarious… A fun fast read that I thoroughly enjoyed!’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I absolutely loved this… Fun, humorous and a real pick-you-up read… Fantastic’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Hilarious… Unexpected… Very entertaining’ NetGalley Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Such an uplifting and inspirational story!… Stays with you long after you finish the book. Highly recommend!’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A quick, easy uplifting and fun read that I finished in one sitting’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Funny, uplifting, true to life, relatable, and cheerful. If you need cheering up this is the perfect book for you’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heartwarming. It was the feel good story I needed’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Fiona Gibson's writing always makes me smile and this novel definitely did… A must read for fun!’ NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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The Damaged: An Insiders Novel (Authored by Tijan)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Damaged: An Insiders Novel Series: #2 of The Insiders Author: Tijan Narrator: Joe Arden, Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The Damaged marks the second in a page-turning trilogy from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Tijan! No longer an outsider, Bailey has a family and love that she never could’ve imagined. Used to living in the shadows, Kash will now do anything to protect his family and his woman. They will take on the world together… In the meantime, stunning motives, lies, and explosive secrets continue to unfold. 1. Quinn is in jail, awaiting trial. 2. Friends might actually be enemies. 3. And what is Calhoun plotting? More importantly, will Kash discover it before it’s too late Everything will come to a head as passion and danger ignite in The Damaged. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Griffin.
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Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reckless Girls Author: Rachel Hawkins Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 28, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The gripping new thriller and instant New York Times bestseller, perfect for escapist reading! The holiday of your dreams… When Lux and Nico get the chance to sail to a remote island off the coast of Hawaii, they’re thrilled. It’s the trip they’ve been dreaming of their whole lives. A tropical paradise… Despite a dark history of shipwrecks and murder, the island is beautiful. But they’re not alone – another group is already there. No one will hear your screams… It’s not long before cracks emerge, and someone goes missing. Then a body surfaces, and Lux starts to wonder if any of them are going to make it back to shore alive… ‘A thriller worth staying up all night to finish’ Julie Clark, author of The Flight ‘Tantalises from page one’ Katherine St. John, author of The Lion's Den ‘You’ll tear breathlessly through the pages’ Kate White, author of Have You Seen Me?
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The Roughest Draft by Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Roughest Draft Author: Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley Narrator: Imani Jade Powers, Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: One of... Amazon's Best Romances of January Popsugar's Best New Romances of 2022 Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels of 2022 Buzzfeed, GMA.com, Shondaland, and Bustle's Best of January Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Romances of 2022 E! News' Books to Add To Your Reading List in January Bookbub's Most Anticipated Romances of Winter The Nerd Daily’s Swoonworthy 2022 Releases They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract. Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel. While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.
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Other Parents by Sarah Stovell
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other Parents Author: Sarah Stovell Narrator: Elaine Claxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 20, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sarah Stovell’s gripping new novel, Every Happy Family is available now! Hilarious, unputdownable, suspenseful fiction, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Motherland They all have opinions. They all have secrets. ‘Both funny and engaging while tackling some serious stuff’ Jane Fallon ‘Deft, wry and perceptive, this drama targets class and modern parenting’ Daily Mail ‘Set to be one of the most talked-about books of 2022’ HELLO! ‘Sensitive, sharply observed and often funny’ Adele Parks, Platinum ‘Touted as the new Liane Moriarty, Stovell is one to watch’ Woman & Home ‘Cringe-inducing, agonising, truthful, heartbreaking and hilarious’ Janice Hallett In a small town like West Burntridge, it should be impossible to keep a secret. Rachel Saunders knows gossip is the price you pay for a rural lifestyle and outstanding schools. The latest town scandal is her divorce – and the fact that her new girlfriend has moved into the family home. Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town. She and her son Max don’t really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she’s trying to hide. When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate. But the problem with having your nose in everyone else’s business is that you often miss what is happening in your own home. What readers are saying about Other Parents 'This is definitely a contender for the best book I have read this year' ‘So well written I wish it had carried on for another 400 pages’ 'I genuinely couldn't put this book down! I was completely engrossed' 'I could see this being loved by anyone who liked Little Fires Everywhere or Big Little Lies' ‘Beautifully written and the characters are just so realistic and relatable’ ‘This was like watching an amazing Netflix drama’
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Joan Is Okay: A Novel by Weike Wang
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518042 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joan Is Okay: A Novel Author: Weike Wang Narrator: Catherine Ho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang masterfully probes the existential uncertainty of being other in America.”—Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, Vox Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life by their own cultural and social expectations. Once Joan and her brother, Fang, were established in their careers, her parents moved back to China, hoping to spend the rest of their lives in their homeland. But when Joan’s father suddenly dies and her mother returns to America to reconnect with her children, a series of events sends Joan spiraling out of her comfort zone just as her hospital, her city, and the world are forced to reckon with a health crisis more devastating than anyone could have imagined. Deceptively spare yet quietly powerful, laced with sharp humor, Joan Is Okay touches on matters that feel deeply resonant: being Chinese-American right now; working in medicine at a high-stakes time; finding one’s voice within a dominant culture; being a woman in a male-dominated workplace; and staying independent within a tight-knit family. But above all, it’s a portrait of one remarkable woman so surprising that you can’t get her out of your head.
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Carol Wallace presents Our Kind of People
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Kind of People Author: Carol Wallace Narrator: Suzanne Barbetta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Fans of Bridgerton will love this 'exuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age' (Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra) as we follow the Wilcox family's journey through riches and ruin. Among New York City's Gilded Age elite, one family will defy convention. Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional--if happy--marriage has made the girls' social position precarious. Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes first? As daughters Jemima and Alice navigate the rise and fall of their family--each is forced to re-examine who she is, and even who she is meant to love. From the author of To Marry an English Lord, an inspiration for Downton Abbey, comes a charming and cutthroat tale of a world in which an invitation or an avoided glance can be the difference between fortune and ruin.
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Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weather Girl Author: Rachel Lynn Solomon Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: One of... Amazon's Best Romances of January Apple Books' Best Books of January Goodreads' Hottest Romances of January Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 Popsugar, Parade.com, The Nerd Daily, and Fangirlish's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this electrifying romance from the author of The Ex Talk. Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station’s news director, to give Ari the mentorship she wants. Ari, who runs on sunshine and optimism, is at her wits’ end. The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet but reserved sports reporter Russell Barringer. In the aftermath of a disastrous holiday party, Ari and Russell decide to team up to solve their bosses’ relationship issues. Between secret gifts and double dates, they start nudging their bosses back together. But their well-meaning meddling backfires when the real chemistry builds between Ari and Russell. Working closely with Russell means allowing him to get to know parts of herself that Ari keeps hidden from everyone. Will he be able to embrace her dark clouds as well as her clear skies?
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The Horsewoman by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Horsewoman Author: James Patterson, Mike Lupica Narrator: Chloe Cannon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This "hugely entertaining, riveting page-turner" (Louise Penny) follows the complicated relationship between mother and daughter as they face off in the Olympics—and into a ride they can barely control. Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world. Coronado is Maggie’s horse. An absolutely top-tier Belgian warmblood. Sky is Becky’s horse. A small, speedy Dutch warmblood. Only James Patterson could bring you such breakneck speed, hair-raising thrills and spills. Only hall of fame sportswriter Mike Lupica could make it all so real.
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Brown Girls: A Novel by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brown Girls: A Novel Author: Daphne Palasi Andreades Narrator: Tashi Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. “An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster FINALIST: The New American Voices Award, The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, The New American Voices Award, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil . . . Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent of the Atlantic Ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Within one of New York City’s most vibrant and eclectic boroughs, young women of color like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and countless others, attempt to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture in which they come of age. Here, they become friends for life—or so they vow. Exuberant and wild, together they roam The City That Never Sleeps, sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs, yearn for crushes who pay them no mind—and break the hearts of those who do—all while trying to heed their mothers’ commands to be obedient daughters. But as they age, their paths diverge and rifts form between them, as some choose to remain on familiar streets, while others find themselves ascending in the world, beckoned by existences foreign and seemingly at odds with their humble roots. A blazingly original debut novel told by a chorus of unforgettable voices, Brown Girls illustrates a collective portrait of childhood, adulthood, and beyond, and is a striking exploration of female friendship, a powerful depiction of women of color attempting to forge their place in the world today. For even as the conflicting desires of ambition and loyalty, freedom and commitment, adventure and stability risk dividing them, it is to one another—and to Queens—that the girls ultimately return.
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30 Things I Love About Myself by Radhika Sanghani
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 30 Things I Love About Myself Author: Radhika Sanghani Narrator: Radhika Sanghani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When Nina Mistry's life hits rock bottom, she decides to change her stars by falling in love...with herself—a hilarious, heartfelt story from outrageously funny novelist Radhika Sanghani. Nina didn't plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pajamas, locked in a holding cell. There's no Wi-Fi, no wine, no carbs—and no one to celebrate with. Unfortunately, it gives Nina plenty of time to reflect on how screwed up her life is. She's just broken up with her fiancé, and now has to move back into her childhood home to live with her depressed older brother and their uptight, traditional Indian mother. Her career as a freelance journalist isn’t going in the direction she wants, and all her friends are too busy being successful to hang out with her. Just as Nina falls into despair, a book lands in her cell: How to Fix Your Shitty Life by Loving Yourself. It must be destiny. With literally nothing left to lose, Nina makes a life-changing decision to embark on a self-love journey. By her next birthday, she's going to find thirty things she loves about herself.
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Duke Gone Rogue: A Love on Holiday Novel by Christy Carlyle
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duke Gone Rogue: A Love on Holiday Novel Series: #1 of Love on Holiday Author: Christy Carlyle Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Christy Carlyle dazzles with the first romance in her enchanting Love on Holiday series. Will Hart, the Duke of Ashmore, is everything his father was not: scrupulously honest, forbidding, and apparently joyless. As a duke, he’s a catch, but as a grumpy stick-in-the mud, no lady knows quite how to catch his eye. When his sisters concoct a plan for him to visit a run-down family property in Cornwall, he reluctantly agrees, hoping it will be a chance for him to rediscover the carefree man he once was. Madeline Ravenwood believes she can do anything she puts her mind to, including running the gardening business she inherited from her father and being a founding member of the Royal Visit Committee. Hard at work preparing for Princess Beatrice’s visit to judge their annual flower show, the appearance of a stern, handsome duke is a distraction Maddie doesn’t need. Tasked by the committee to convince the duke to repair his ramshackle manor house in time for the royal visit, he agrees, if she will join him as he explores Cornwall. Spending their days, and nights, together, Will’s love for Maddie becomes too strong to ignore. But Maddie knows how different their worlds are and when the burdens of his title reappear, can Will convince her that she’s the woman he’s been waiting for?
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Without a Hitch (Authored by Asher Fogle Paul, Mary Hollis Huddleston)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Without a Hitch Author: Asher Fogle Paul, Mary Hollis Huddleston Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 47 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Sweet Home Alabama?meets?Emily in Paris?in this hilarious romp through the world of extravagant southern weddings. Ringless, jobless, and hopeless, Lottie Jones commits to doing the only thing she truly studied in school: wedding planning. When floundering and unlucky-in-love twenty-something Lottie Jones lands a new career as a wedding planner at a top-tier boutique event firm, she begins navigating a cutthroat workplace specializing in over-the-top details, unlimited budgets, and a broad spectrum of taste. Whether planning for parachute landings or wrangling intoxicated groomsmen, she has her hands full at every million-dollar wedding she helps organize. After her boss announces he's opening a new office, Lottie sees her chance to finally carve out her place, and earn an income that justifies her dating app subscription fees. The weddings get bigger, the clients get wilder, the mishaps get funnier, and the stakes get higher. And Lottie's forced to discover what she'll risk for love and how far she'll go to find herself. Set against the glamorous, ruthless world of high-end Southern weddings and inspired by real events in the authors' lives,?Without a Hitch is a hilarious romp about taking ownership, facing fears, planning your ex-boyfriend's wedding, and choosing a happy ending that wasn't what you once expected. 'A sweet, Southern confection of a book about what it takes to orchestrate everyone else's happily ever after when your own heart has been broken. This sneak peek into the world of high-end wedding planning will keep you laughing as Lottie deconstructs the fairy tale and finds her authentic self.' -Jodi Picoult,?New York Times?bestselling author of?Wish You Were Here
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Forever Home by Elysia Whisler
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Home Series: #2 of Dogwood County Author: Elysia Whisler Narrator: Lisa Larsen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: If home is where the heart is, Dogwood County may have just what Delaney Monroe needs Newly retired from the Marine Corps, Delaney is looking for somewhere to start over. It’s not going to be easy, but when she finds the perfect place to open her dream motorcycle shop, she goes for it. What she doesn’t expect is an abandoned pit bull to come with the building. The shy pup is slow to trust, but Delaney is determined to win it over. Detective Sean Callahan is smitten from the moment he sees Delaney, but her cool demeanor throws him off his game. When her late father's vintage motorcycle is stolen from Delaney's shop, Sean gets to turn up in his element: chasing the bad guy and showing his best self to a woman who’s gotten under his skin in a bad way. Delaney isn't used to lasting relationships, but letting love in—both human and canine—helps her see that she may have found a place she belongs, forever. "Complex, quietly compelling characters… A poignant reminder that ‘home’ is often more than a place." —Maggie Wells, author of Love Game Dogwood County Book 1: Rescue You Book 2: Forever Home
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Wish You Were Here: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wish You Were Here: A Novel Author: Jodi Picoult Narrator: Marin Ireland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 294 Ratings of Narrator: 4.46 of Total 57 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six) Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available August 20! Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes. Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they’d booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders. In the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.
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Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship by Annabel Abbs
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Ell Potter, Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * A Country Living Best Book of Fall * A Washington Post Best Feel-Good Book of the Year * One of the New York Times's Best Historical Fiction Novels of Fall In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses—until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman, Eliza has few options. Although she’s never set foot in a kitchen, she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. Much to her surprise she discovers a talent – and a passion – for the culinary arts. Eliza hires young, destitute Ann Kirby to assist her. As they cook together, Ann learns about poetry, love and ambition. The two develop a radical friendship, breaking the boundaries of class while creating new ways of writing recipes. But when Ann discovers a secret in Eliza’s past, and finds a voice of her own, their friendship starts to fray. Based on the true story of the first modern cookery writer, Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen is a spellbinding novel about female friendship, the struggle for independence, and the transcendent pleasures and solace of food.
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The Christmas Bookshop: A Novel by Jenny Colgan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Bookshop: A Novel Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Eilidh Beaton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller! “Sublime…Colgan infuses her latest book with humor, wit, suspense and a perfectly cast love triangle.”--USA Today ''The Christmas Bookshop is literary hot chocolate with a bourbon shot: hot, sweet but with a surprising emotional kick.''--The Times (UK) Perfect for the holidays! A brand-new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas at the Island Hotel. Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal. Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs help revitalizing his shabby old bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job. Thrown rather suddenly into the inner workings of Mr. McCredie’s ancient bookshop on the picturesque streets of historic Edinburgh, Carmen is intrigued despite herself. The store is dusty and disorganized but undeniably charming. Can she breathe some new life into it in time for Christmas shopping? What will happen when a famous and charismatic author takes a sudden interest in the bookshop—and Carmen? And will the Christmas spirit be enough to help heal her fractured family?
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A Special Cornish Christmas | Phillipa Ashley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Special Cornish Christmas Author: Phillipa Ashley Narrator: Emma Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: November 11, 2021 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: ‘Heart-warming … Fantastic to curl up in your chair with a cup of coffee in front of the fire with and smile, laugh and cry your way through. It will really bring out your Christmas spirit!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For Bo Grayson, Christmas has always been the most wonderful time of the year. Well, until she had her heart broken last December… When Bo Grayson and her friends meet a mysterious fortune teller, she gives each woman the same prediction: You will meet the love of your life by Christmas Day. But Bo quickly dismisses this as nonsense. And with the festive season in full swing, she has plenty to keep her busy: creating the seasonal menu for her Boatyard Café, getting her rock and roll dance group ready for their Christmas show – and avoiding thinking about last December, when her fortune took a turn for the worse… Besides, she definitely isn’t ready to open her heart again. But will fate – and perhaps a sprinkle of Christmas magic – change her mind? Pour yourself a mug of hot chocolate and settle down in front of the fire with this perfect, uplifting Christmas read! Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Heidi Swain. Readers love A Special Cornish Christmas: ‘The perfect Christmas book!!… This book will lift your heart and warm your cockles!! Just a joy’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Pure festive escapism… Such a delight… This charming book has it all’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heart-warming festive read… Gives you a wonderful and warm Christmasy feeling’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Philippa Ashley writes such great heart-warming stories and this is one to wrap you up in a warm hug’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Such a fabulous festive story… Magical’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Gave me so much joy… I think this book will bring happiness to all that read it’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I couldn’t put this down and finished it in an evening… It couldn’t be better’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A must read to get yourself into the Christmas spirit… I truly adored this book… Another smasher from Phillipa Ashley!’ NetGalley review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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An Italian Scandal by Lady Cecil Cameron
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Italian Scandal Author: Lady Cecil Cameron Narrator: Madeleine Leslay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 11, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A captivating story of romance, passion and adventure set in nineteenth century London and Italy. London 1859. Carina Temple has put away the stifling black crepe demanded by the death of her father – but with it she has also cast aside society’s expectations of what a single young lady should be and do. When Carina’s uncle summons her to Belgrave Square to inform her that her reputation is ruined, thanks to a certain Lord Danby, he tells her that she must travel to Italy until the gossip recedes and a suitable match can be found for her. But Italy is a tempestuous place – her grandmother and cousins soon tell her of the fault lines between the states and the dangerous rebels fighting for freedom. Chief among these is Ben Mavrone – and when he and Carina meet, he distrusts her society pedigree, and she considers him a violent extremist. When trouble comes to Carina’s door, it is Ben who saves her – reluctantly – and as they go on the run, they must learn to understand each other to stay alive. Meanwhile back in England, Carina’s family has plans for the life Miss Temple should lead – if she ever returns…
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Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories by Lily King
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories Author: Lily King Narrator: Stacey Glemboski, Christa Lewis, Bronson Pinchot, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Award-winning Lily King’s first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King’s books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most “brilliant” (New York Times), “wildly talented” (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories—half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new—opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller’s unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl’s loss of innocence at the hands of her employer’s son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter’s hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King’s enduring subject of love. Lily King’s literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.
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Trashlands by Alison Stine
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trashlands Author: Alison Stine Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "This thought-provoking apocalypse noir fires on all cylinders.” –Publishers Weekly starred review From the author of Road Out of Winter, winner of the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award, comes a resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we love A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club's violent owner rules as unofficial mayor. Amid the polluted landscape, Coral works desperately to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In her stolen free hours, she does something that seems impossible in this place: Coral makes art. When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. But is it possible to choose a future for herself? Told in shifting perspectives, Trashlands is a beautifully drawn and wildly imaginative tale of a parent's journey, a story of community and humanity in a changed world. “A harrowing tale that is a natural extension of our current climate crisis.... Highly recommended.” –Booklist, starred review
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The Hidden Child: A Novel by Louise Fein
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Child: A Novel Author: Louise Fein Narrator: Marisa Calin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An international bestseller! “The Hidden Child is a heart-wrenching depiction of a golden couple in the 1920s…. Shocking, emotive, and compelling, but ultimately a story of hope. I loved it.” -- Deborah Carr, USA Today bestselling author Londoners Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have it all. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they’re harboring a shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life? Eleanor Hamilton is happily married and mother to a beautiful four-year-old girl, Mabel. Her husband, Edward, is a leading light in the burgeoning Eugenics movement, which is designing the very ideas that will soon be embraced by Hitler. But when Mabel develops debilitating epileptic seizures and Eleanor discovers Edward has been keeping secrets, Eleanor's world fractures. In order to save her daughter, she takes matters into her own hands. Vividly rendered and deeply affecting, The Hidden Child is a sweeping story and a richly drawn portrait of a family torn apart by shame, deceit, and dangerous ideals.
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The Book of Mother: A Novel by Violaine Huisman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Mother: A Novel Author: Violaine Huisman Narrator: Tosca Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize A New York Times Notable Book A Library Journal Best Book of 2021 A “marvelous…superbly effective” (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes. Met by rave reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more, this stunning translation of Violaine Huisman’s “witty, immersive autofiction showcases a Parisian childhood with a charismatic, depressed parent” (Oprah Daily). Beautiful and magnetic, Catherine, a.k.a. “Maman,” smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly, and her daughter Violaine wouldn’t have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother’s return, once she’s back Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine’s own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive. With spectacular ferocity of language, a streak of dark humor, and stunning emotional bravery, The Book of Mother is an exquisitely wrought story of a mother’s dizzying heights and devastating lows, and a daughter who must hold her memory close in order to surrender, and finally move on.
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Midnight in the Snow by Karen Swan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Midnight in the Snow Author: Karen Swan Narrator: Juliette Burton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 14, 2021 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Set amongst the snow-covered mountains of the Austrian Alps, Midnight in the Snow is the story of a forbidden attraction that will reveal long-buried secrets, from Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas at Tiffany's, Karen Swan. Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high when she encounters Kit Foley; a surfer and snowboarder as well-known for controversy as he is for winning championships. Involved in an accident that had devastating consequences for a bitter rival, Kit has never spoken about what really happened that day. Determined to find out the truth, Clover heads to the snowy wilderness of the Austrian Alps, sharing a romantic winter wonderland with a man who can’t stand her. But as she delves deeper, Clover finds herself both drawn to Kit, and even more convinced he’s hiding something. Is Kit Foley really as cold as he seems? *** What readers are saying about Midnight in the Snow: ‘Heartwarming, romantic, uplifting. Great writing that wraps you like a blanket’ ‘Real and wonderfully, subtly painted so that, yet again, her novel makes you stay up until silly o’clock’ ‘An amazing gift for taking you to fabulous locations & gradually unwrapping secrets about her characters’ ‘Glamorous, thrilling and unashamedly romantic’
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No One Will Miss Her: A Novel (Written by Kat Rosenfield)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Will Miss Her: A Novel Author: Kat Rosenfield Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla, Sophie Amoss, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: ''Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original — a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you.''— A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The Window ''Clever and surprising...The superb character-driven plot delivers an astonishing, believable jolt.''—Publishers Weekly (starred review) ''Deserves two big thumbs up. Readers will be gripped by this astonishing story in which one gasp-inducing twist follows on the heels of another. A unique page-turner that just begs to be turned into a movie.'' —Booklist (starred review) ''Sly, sinister...a white-knuckled read. There are gasp-worthy surprises, of course, and the exquisite and lurid twists will reveal themselves in time.''--Vanity Fair A smart, witty, crackling novel of psychological suspense in which a girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock even the most savvy reader. On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead—with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. As scandal ripples through the community, Detective Ian Bird’s inquiries unexpectedly lead him away from small-town Maine to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards, blonde and fabulous social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire, had been renting Lizzie’s tiny lake house as a country getaway…even though Copper Falls is anything but a resort town. As Adrienne’s connection to the case becomes clear, so too does her connection to Lizzie, who narrates their story from beyond the grave. Each woman is desperately lonely in her own way, and they navigate a relationship that cuts across class boundaries: transactional, complicated, and, finally, deadly. A Gone Girl for the gig economy, this is a story of privilege, identity, and cunning, as two devious women from opposite worlds discover the dangers of coveting someone else’s life. ''Both amusingly satirical and darkly bloody.''—The Washington Post
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Santa Cruise: A Fun and Festive Holiday Story [Written by Fern Michaels]
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Santa Cruise: A Fun and Festive Holiday Story Author: Fern Michaels Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Fun, friendship and romance are on board as four lifelong friends embark on a holiday singles cruise in this heartwarming Christmas novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.The perfect gift for fans of Robyn Carr, Mary Kay Andrews, RaeAnne Thayne, and Hallmark Christmas Movies!At Ridgewood High, Amy, Frankie, Rachael, and Nina formed a deep bond. Now, fifteen years after leaving school behind, they’re back for a reunion, laughing, reminiscing, and chatting about how much has changed—and how much hasn’t. All four are strong, successful, and somehow, still looking for the right partner. But Frankie has an idea to help solve that: a singles cruise for the holidays.In late December, the four friends gather in Miami, ready to board their state-of-the-art cruise ship. The entertainment options are endless, the food is to die for, and the passenger list includes hundreds of eligible men. The highlight of the week will be a magnificent New Year’s Eve celebration with multiple theme parties, dancing, and fireworks. The ladies are happy to give Cupid a helping hand here and there, but holidays—like the path of love itself—don’t always go exactly as planned. And over the course of one festive, unforgettable week, all four will set sail on surprising new adventures …“Full of laughter, delight, and a dash of holiday fun.”—Woman’s World
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The Duchess Hunt (By Lorraine Heath)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Duchess Hunt Series: #2 of Once Upon a Dukedom Author: Lorraine Heath Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath continues her Once Upon a Dukedom series with this lush love story of a duke who discovers what he desires in a wife may not be what he needs… Hugh Brinsley-Norton, the Duke of Kingsland, is in need of a duchess. However, restoring the dukedom—left in ruins by his father—to its former glory demands all his time, with little room for sentiment. He places an advert encouraging the single ladies of the ton to write why they should be the one chosen, and leaves it to his efficient secretary to select his future wife. If there exists a more unpleasant task in the world than deciding who is to marry the man you love, Penelope Pettypeace certainly can’t imagine what it might be. Still, she is determined to find the perfect bride for her clueless, yet ruthlessly charming employer. But when an anonymous note threatens to reveal truths best hidden, Kingsland has no choice but to confront the danger with Penelope at his side. Beguiled by the strong-willed, courageous beauty, he realizes he’s willing to risk everything, including his heart, to keep her safe within his arms. Could it be the duchess he’s hunting for has been in front of him all along?
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Eight Perfect Hours: A Novel by Lia Louis
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/507598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eight Perfect Hours: A Novel Author: Lia Louis Narrator: Emma Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ONE OF THE BEST FEEL-GOOD BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE WASHINGTON POST “I read Eight Perfect Hours in one sitting, in four perfect hours, because I couldn’t bear to put it down without knowing the ending.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author In this romantic and heartwarming novel, two strangers meet in chance circumstances during a blizzard and spend one perfect evening together, thinking they’ll never see each other again. But fate seems to have different plans. From the acclaimed author of the “swoon-worthy…rom-com” (The Washington Post) Dear Emmie Blue. On a snowy evening in March, thirty-something Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes. With a blizzard closing off roads, she finds herself stranded, alone in her car, without food, drink, or a working charger for her phone. All seems lost until Sam Attwood, a handsome American stranger also trapped in a nearby car, knocks on her window and offers assistance. What follows is eight perfect hours together, until morning arrives and the roads finally clear. The two strangers part, positive they’ll never see each other again but fate, it seems, has a different plan. As the two keep serendipitously bumping into one another, they begin to realize that perhaps there truly is no such thing as coincidence. With plenty of charming twists and turns and Lia Louis’s “bold, standout voice” (Gillian McAllister, author of The Good Sister), Eight Perfect Hours is a gorgeously crafted novel that will make you believe in the power of fate.
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A Yuletide Kiss by Sabrina Jeffries, Madeline Hunter, Mary Jo Putney
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511809 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Yuletide Kiss Author: Sabrina Jeffries, Madeline Hunter, Mary Jo Putney Narrator: Beverley A. Crick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The reigning queens of Regency Romance return with another delightful Christmas collection of three sparkling holiday romances, as stranded travelers find merriment, mistletoe, and holiday romance awaiting at a quaint country inn …AN UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS GIFT by Madeline HunterJenna Waverly has closed her inn, anticipating a blissfully quiet Christmas, until a snowstorm brings the first of several strangers to her property. Lucas Avonwood, as charming as he is secretive, is on a mission to track down a scoundrel, but the inn’s lovely owner is giving him a more compelling reason to stay …WHEN WE FINALLY KISS GOODNIGHT by Sabrina JeffriesWhen Flora Younger first met Konrad Juncker, she thought she’d found her match, only to have her hopes dashed. Konrad is now a famous playwright whose plays Flora has secretly panned in reviews. But a chance meeting in a secluded inn may help them rewrite this starcrossed romance …WHEN STRANGERS MEET by Mary Jo PutneyKate McLeod is shocked to find that her fellow guest in the snowbound inn is the dashing soldier who may or may not be her husband. Daniel Faringdon barely remembers that longago night when he rescued her from disaster, but the desire they discover now will be impossible to forget, or to ignore …
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The Devil's Own Duke by Lenora Bell
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Devil's Own Duke Series: #2 of Wallflowers vs. Rogues Author: Lenora Bell Narrator: Beverley A. Crick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: USA Today bestseller Lenora Bell returns to her Wallflowers vs. Rogues series with a romance between a lady and the scoundrel claiming to be next-in-line for her father’s title. Lady Henrietta Prince is far too busy for romance. She's dedicated her life to turning her family vineyards into a profitable sparkling wine venture. But when she shares a thrilling kiss at midnight with a handsome stranger, she's captivated...until he claims to be the distant heir to her father's dukedom. Ash Ellis is a gambler who lives life on the edge. Now he's locked his sights on a glittering prize and nothing will stand in his way. When Henrietta is forced to marry the wicked rogue to keep her beloved vineyards, she vows that Ash will never have her trust, or her love. Even if his kisses are more intoxicating than the finest champagne. His new bride is certainly beautiful, but biddable? Not so much. Ash will settle for nothing less than Henrietta's total surrender...but is he the one in danger of losing his heart?
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The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova: A Novel by Ruth Hogan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova: A Novel Author: Ruth Hogan Narrator: Nina Wadia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things—an uplifting, slightly magical story about how it’s never too late to find out who you really are. ''Ruth Hogan is the queen of uplifting fiction and Madame Burova reminds us why. The writing crackles with humor and warmth. I can't imagine a better book in which to lose yourself at the moment. Stunning, immersive and absolutely wonderful.'' --Annie Lyons, author of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett Madame Burova—beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant—is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront. After inheriting her mother’s fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other people’s secrets, Madam Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to do—to fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them. In London, it is time for another woman to make a fresh start. Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world when a sudden and unlikely discovery leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail…which leads to Brighton, the pier, and directly to Madame Burova’s door. In a story spanning over fifty years, Ruth Hogan has conjured a magical world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, eccentrics, heroes and villains, the lost and the found. Young people will make careless choices which echo down the years….but it’s never too late to put things right.
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Olga: A Novel by Bernhard Schlink
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Olga: A Novel Author: Bernhard Schlink Narrator: Nathalie Buscombe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink’s] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”—Booklist “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”—Evening Standard A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age. Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures Unfolding across decades—from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century—and across continents—from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west—Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman’s devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shines—revealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable. Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlink’s magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman and her world. Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
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Never Saw Me Coming: Grade A student. Grade A psychopath. by Vera Kurian
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/515792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Saw Me Coming: Grade A student. Grade A psychopath. Author: Vera Kurian Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 9, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. I've never met someone like me, but when I do, eventually, I think it will be like two wolves meeting in the night, sniffing and recognizing a fellow hunter. Meet Chloe. First-year student, ordinary, legging-wearing, girl next door...and diagnosed psychopath with an IQ of 135. Her hobbies include yogalates, parties, and plotting to kill Will Bachman. Chloe is part of a secret clinical study of young psychopaths run by the university's Psychology Department. Most psychopaths aren't criminals, but when a string of murders on campus causes upheaval, Chloe's private vendetta is sidelined. Partnered with fellow study participants she can't trust - and distracted by typical university life - Chloe has to walk the line between hunter and prey. Never Saw Me coming is a sharp, electrifying and hugely entertaining thriller with an antiheroine who will work her manipulative magic on you. 'Gripping! With a college campus setting, charming psychopaths, and a bitingly clever voice, Never Saw Me Coming is a dazzling debut from a bold new talent.' Tess Gerritsen © Vera Kurian 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Have Your Cake: A delicious BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama by Amanda Whittington, Nicola Baldwin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Have Your Cake: A delicious BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama Author: Amanda Whittington, Nicola Baldwin Narrator: Nisha Nayar, Neil Dudgeon, Louise Brealey, Tamsin Greig, Lesley Sharp, Sheila Hancock, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 9, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A delicious culinary drama about a cake-making club and their very special creations Every year, Tess and Maggie meet up to try a different activity, something they've never done together before. This year, it's baking, and for a few hours each Friday afternoon, they put the rest of their lives on hold to make cakes. And not just ordinary cakes, but spectacular, unique and glorious gateaux, to celebrate special occasions and commemorate landmark events. When they help a neighbour in distress, they create their first showstopper - a dark, sultry Bitter Chocolate Cake. Soon, the Cake Club is cooking up a host of teatime treats, from sticky, gingery parkin, to feather-light fairy cakes, to the challenging Scripture Cake, with a recipe that consists entirely of Bible verses. As they measure out sugar, butter, eggs and flour, they share their secrets, problems and personal dilemmas - and forge friendships that will last long after the final cake crumbs have been consumed... Written by award-winning dramatists Nicola Baldwin and Amanda Whittington, this gentle, heartwarming series features an outstanding cast including Lesley Sharp, Tamsin Greig, Nisha Nayar, Neil Dudgeon, Louise Brealey and Sheila Hancock. Production credits Written by Nicola Baldwin and Amanda Whittington Produced by Steven Canny, Abigail le Fleming, Gemma Jenkins and Luke Fresle Cast Maggie - Lesley Sharp Tess - Tamsin Greig Ray - Neil Dudgeon Sabina - Nisha Nayar Neil - Stephen Hogan Leanne - Louise Brealey Nicky - Matthew Dunster Momo - Leena Dhingra Chrissie - Stephanie Leonidas Janice - Sheila Hancock Matty - Joe Prospero First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 25 January-29 February 2008 © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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The Wish Book Christmas (Written by Lynn Austin)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wish Book Christmas Author: Lynn Austin Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A nostalgic and charming tale that evokes the wonder and miracle of ChristmasBest friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson can't wait to celebrate Christmas in postwar America. They are thrilled about starting new traditions with their fiveyear-old sons, even daring to hope there might be fresh beginnings ahead for both of them, too. But when the 1951 Sears Christmas Wish Book arrives and the boys start obsessing over every toy in it, Audrey and Eve realize their most important task is teaching them the true meaning of the holiday by giving presents, not just asking for them.The heartwarming tale that unfolds reminds us all that sometimes the most meaningful gifts are the ones we least expect and often don't deserve.
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Fault Lines: A Novel by Emily Itami
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fault Lines: A Novel Author: Emily Itami Narrator: Lydia Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD ''What is the cost of a mother’s desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy.'' -- New York Times Book Review ''The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami.'' -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry. Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives—and in the end, we can choose only one. Funny, provocative, and startlingly honest, Fault Lines is for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and asked, who am I and how did I get here? A bittersweet love story and a piercing portrait of female identity, it introduces Emily Itami as a debut novelist with astounding resonance and wit.
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Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo: A Story in English and Spanish by Sandra Cisneros
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo: A Story in English and Spanish Author: Sandra Cisneros Narrator: Sofia Leal De La Rosa, Carlotta Brentan, Sandra Cisneros Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully written by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a dual-language edition. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone. But the months of befriending panhandling artists in the métro, sleeping on crowded floors, and dancing the tango at underground parties are given a lasting glow by her intense friendships with Martita and Paola. Over the years the three women disperse to three continents, falling out of touch and out of mind—until a rediscovered letter brings Corina’s days in Paris back with breathtaking immediacy. Martita, I Remember You is a rare bottle from Sandra Cisneros’s own special reserve, preserving the smoke and the sparkle of an exceptional year. Told with intimacy and searing tenderness, this tribute to the life-changing power of youthful friendship is Cisneros at her vintage best, in a beautiful dual-language edition.
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The Collector's Daughter: A Novel of the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb by Gill Paul
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Collector's Daughter: A Novel of the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb Author: Gill Paul Narrator: Imogen Church Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the woman who took the very first step into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and who lived in the real Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, and the long after-effects of the Curse of Pharaohs. Lady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922, their dreams came true when they discovered the burial place of Tutankhamun, packed full of gold and unimaginable riches, and she was the first person to crawl inside for three thousand years. She called it the “greatest moment” of her life—but soon afterwards everything changed, with a string of tragedies that left her world a darker, sadder place. Newspapers claimed it was “the curse of Tutankhamun,” but Howard Carter said no rational person would entertain such nonsense. Yet fifty years later, when an Egyptian academic came asking questions about what really happened in the tomb, it unleashed a new chain of events that seemed to threaten the happiness Eve had finally found.
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The Beginning by Beverly Lewis
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beginning Author: Beverly Lewis Narrator: Leah Horowitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'I wish there was something I could do,' Cousin Verena said, her voice cracking.'But what?' Susie whispered, wiping her eyes. 'The boy I've always loved thinks of me as his sister … and always has.'Susie Mast's Amish life in Lancaster County has been shaped by events beyond her control, with the tragic deaths of her Dat and close-in-age brother casting long shadows. Now twenty-two, Susie remains unmarried despite her longtime affection for friend Obie Yoder.Unfortunately, her concerns are soon multiplied due to her mother's worsening health and her younger sister's urgent desire for answers about her adoption. Once again, Susie faces the possibility of loss. Will long-held family secrets and missed opportunities dim Susie's hopes for the future? Or is what seems like the end only the beginning?
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The Royal Correspondent: A Novel by Alexandra Joel
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Royal Correspondent: A Novel Author: Alexandra Joel Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel—set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s—about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret. Breaking into the newspaper business in 1960s Sydney—a competitive world dominated by hard-edged men—isn’t easy for a woman. But Blaise Hill is far from ordinary. The only female in The Clarion’s newsroom, her long-held dream of being a reporter has come true. Blaise isn’t chasing stories just to make a name for herself; she’s helping support her family and her beloved sister Ivy, whose life has been transformed by polio. But the ambitious young journalist’s confidence is shaken when she secretly witnesses the murder of a top crime boss—a death that rocks the Sydney underworld. One of the few people who knows what really happened—and what Blaise knows—is the handsome, enigmatic Adam Rule, who helps cover up the murder. When she gets a plum assignment—moving to England to cover the British royal family—Blaise hopes to put it all behind her. Carving her own path among the scandal and intrigue of the Swinging Sixties in London, life is just about perfect—until the night she attends Queen Elizabeth’s gala in honor of the upcoming nuptials of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. Among the exclusive crowd is the last man she ever wanted to see—Adam Rule. Is Blaise’s dark secret coming back to hurt her—or is this the beginning of something far more dangerous? In this mesmerizing novel, Alexandra Joel brings to life the thrilling, colorful world of 1960s Sydney and London, when fashion, music, society, and even the royal family rode the waves of change—and a spirited, ambitious heroine dared to make her way in a man’s world.
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Foolish Hearts by Synithia Williams
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foolish Hearts Series: #4 of Jackson Falls Author: Synithia Williams Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: “Full of drama among the beautiful and powerful, the series would make a fabulous soap opera.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer All they need is a second chance… It’s been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell—and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn’t dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last…and nobody taught her that better than her own family. But when her grandmother unexpectedly dies, leaving Ashiya in charge of a multimillion-dollar company, Russell is the only one who can help her…and things get complicated fast. Russell Gilchrist would do anything to be named COO of Robidoux Holdings—with all of the power and money that comes along with it. He’s been desperate to solve the disappearance of his brother, Roderick, for years, and the Robidoux influence could finally turn this cold case hot—and give his family some much-needed closure. The job is his…if he helps Ashiya manage her new business. He’ll just do his work and get out—that’s the plan. But being so close to the woman who broke his heart is dangerous. Seeing her smile and feeling her touch makes him want to forget the past. But will this second chance at love burn them both? A Jackson Falls Novel Book 1: Forbidden Promises Book 2: Scandalous Secrets Book 3: Careless Whispers Book 4: Foolish Hearts
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HighLites: Series 1-6: A BBC Radio 4 comedy by Steve Chambers, Phil Nodding
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: HighLites: Series 1-6: A BBC Radio 4 comedy Author: Steve Chambers, Phil Nodding Narrator: Priyanga Burford, Adam Nagaitis, Angela Lonsdale, Lorraine Ashbourne, Sheila Reid, Rhys Jennings, Rosie Cavaliero, Adjoa Andoh, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 19, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: All six series of the BBC radio comedy centred around a village hairdressing salon - plus pilot episode Based in the little town of Bridgeford, High-Lites salon boasts the most misanthropic hairdresser in Britain: sharp-tongued, mean-minded Bev. With the help of her soft-hearted (though slightly dim) assistant Shirley, she tends to the tresses of a motley crew of local characters. As she cuts their hair, she finds out everything that's going on in their lives - and wastes no time in spreading some gossip of her own... In the pilot episode, one of her little lies takes on a life of its own - and a dodgy dryer nearly spells disaster. Series 1 finds the salon on the brink of bankruptcy, forcing Bev to take desperate measures to keep it afloat. In HighLites: Retouched, the two stylists go mobile when their premises are shut down by Environmental Health, and in HighLites: Split Ends, Bev tries to undercut her rival, Anton, to secure a lucrative wedding hair gig. HighLites: Wash and Blow finds the hairdressing duo heading out on a cruise, hoping to drum up a little business below deck. But it's not all plain sailing... In HighLites: Dye Another Day, Bev and Shirl are faced with a huge tax bill, and connive to inherit from a wealthy old man's will. And in HighLites: Natural Bounce, the world's worst hairdressers discover that there's money to be made in fitness, and decide to open a gym above the salon - but is this an expansion too far? Co-written by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding, this fast-paced, farcical comedy stars Lorraine Ashbourne as Bev and Rosie Cavaliero as Shirley, with a supporting cast including Marlene Sidaway, Sheila Reid, Angela Lonsdale, Adjoa Andoh, Adam Nagaitis and Joel MacCormack. Production credits Written by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding Produced by Jessica Dromgoole Directed by Colin Guthrie and Liz Webb First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15 December 2009 (Pilot), 13-17 February 2012 (HighLites), 8-12 October 2012 (HighLites: Retouched), 2-6 December 2013 (HighLites: Split Ends), 5-9 May 2014 (HighLites: Wash and Blow), 8-12 June 2015 (HighLites: Dye Another Day), 25-29 July 2016 (HighLites: Natural Bounce) Cast Beverley - Lorraine Ashbourne Shirley - Rosie Cavaliero Matthew - Rhys Jennings/Owen Pullar Alice - Emerald O'Hanrahan/Marlene Sidaway Enid - Kate Layden/Nicola Sloane/Sheila Reid/Susan Jameson Nigel - John Biggins/Simon Bubb/John Norton/Chris Pavlo Lois - Joannah Tincey/Stephanie Racine Butt - Ewan Hooper/James Lailey/Robert Blythe/Sean Murray Paramedic - Joseph Cohen-Cole John - Carl Prekopp Henry - Gerard McDermott Melvin - Adam Billington Diane - Alex Rivers/Angela Lonsdale Wendy - Victoria Inez Hardy/Eleanor Crooks/Rhiannon Neads/Nicola Ferguson Harriet - Adjoa Andoh/Carolyn Pickles Hilary - Nicola Sloane Belinda - Stephanie Racine Satnav/Nurse/Tannoy - Sarah Thom Antony - Adam Nagaitis Gordon - Ben Crowe Lucinda - Liza Sadovy Ronnie - Michael Bertenshaw Liz - Christine Absalom Tess - Priyanga Burford Captain Andersen - Joel MacCormack Julie - Carys Eleri Doug - Stephen Critchlow Annabeth - Jane Slavin Daz/Tony - Sam Rix Beryl - Melanie Kilburn With Adie Allen and Scarlett Brookes ©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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The Full Concerto by Annabel Joseph
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Full Concerto Series: #4 of A Quartet of Pleasures Author: Annabel Joseph Narrator: Connor Crais, Ava Lucas, Jason Clarke, Teddy Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 9 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The good news is that the Gold Quartet has been invited to play one of their favorite concertos as guest artists with the noted Berlin Philharmonic. The bad news? The concert falls on Ruby’s birthday, so she’ll be traveling to Europe with her fellow musicians instead of celebrating at home with family and friends. The guys hatch a plan to make it up to her, a plan to celebrate Ruby’s birthday in a way she’ll never forget. Playing with one of the foremost orchestras in the world is cool, but fulfilling one of Ruby’s naughtiest fantasies is even better. Her three trusted friends and lovers take her on a ride of deep, passionate surrender, bringing this quartet of sensual stories to a spectacular close.
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Night Music: A Novel by Jojo Moyes
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/508690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Music: A Novel Author: Jojo Moyes Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Now published in the United States for the first time—an early novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes. Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she and her two children are forced to abandon their home and move to the Spanish House, a now-dilapidated manor Isabel inherited in the English countryside. With the house falling down around them, and the last of her savings disappearing fast, Isabel turns to her neighbors for help, not knowing that her mere presence there has stirred up long-standing obsessions. As she fights to make her house a home, passions and lives collide. Isabel will discover an instinct for survival she never knew she had— and that a heart can play a new song. . . .
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Her Turn: A Novel by Katherine Ashenburg
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Turn: A Novel Author: Katherine Ashenburg Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A delightful novel in the vein of Younger and The Unbreakables, with a hint of Nora Ephron, about a journalist who stumbles into an unusual relationship with the woman married to her former husband. A journalist in Washington, DC, Liz has turned lemons into lemonade after her husband walked out on her a decade ago. She likes her life—she’s the editor of My Turn, a weekly column in which readers write about their lives, has a few romantic nibbles—some better than others—a good relationship with her teen-aged son, and has come to terms with the shock and heartbreak of her divorce. Or so she thinks. One day at work, she receives a letter for the column she can’t ignore, because it’s written by her ex-husband’s current wife—AKA the other woman. It is the beginning of an unexpected correspondence between the two women—but only Liz knows the truth about their connection. Could it be she still cares? How far will she take this unusual relationship? And what happens if the truth comes out? Her Turn is an immensely readable, joyful novel about fidelity and forgiveness that explores one woman’s second act in life, and the ties that still bind her to the first.
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