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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Dennis Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 30, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Peter Webster pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair -- and in Sheila's troubled world. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course, and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions he has carefully been keeping at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel? A story about trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth, Rescue is a masterful portrayal of a family trying to understand its fractured past and begin again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Box: Tales from the Dark Room Author: Günter Grass Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters—four, five, six, eight in number—and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk…” In a great literary experiment, Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, and of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory—they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men, a shadowy but loving figure. There is one constant though: Marie, a family friend and photographer whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with inspiration for his novels. But her images offer much more; they reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, and grant the wishes, in visual form, of those photographed. Marie’s camera thus becomes a way for Grass to speak in the voices of his children’s hidden selves—their dreams, their disappointments, their secret desires and fears—and to see his own life from unexpected perspectives. Recalling J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Grass at his best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Corrections: A Novel Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing specatcularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man--or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to. Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the End of the Land Author: David Grossman Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 21, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the “notifiers” who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days’ leave being offered by their commander—a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a “war and peace” rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. Grossman’s rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widower's Tale Author: Julia Glass Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can he remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious joy of falling in love.   One relationship Percy treasures is the bond with his oldest grandchild, Robert, a premed student at Harvard. Robert has long assumed he will follow in the footsteps of his mother, a prominent physician, but he begins to question his ambitions when confronted by a charismatic roommate who preaches—and begins to practice—an extreme form of ecological activism, targeting Boston’s most affluent suburbs.   Meanwhile, two other men become fatefully involved with Percy and Robert: Ira, a gay teacher at the preschool, and Celestino, a Guatemalan gardener who works for Percy’s neighbor, each one striving to overcome a sense of personal exile. Choices made by all four men, as well as by the women around them, collide forcefully on one lovely spring evening, upending everyone’s lives, but none more radically than Percy’s.   With equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale about the loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a very particular family. Yet again, she plumbs the human heart brilliantly, dramatically, and movingly.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stoner Author: John Williams Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 15 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’ luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle on the 17th Green Author: James Patterson, Peter de Jonge Narrator: Brian Bascle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Just when we need some magic in our lives, bestselling author James Patterson and Peter de Jonge bring us a stirring tale of life, love, and the power of miracles. Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life - he has a job that he despises, a marriage that has lost its passion, children from whom he feels disconnected, and at age fifty, a sense that he has accomplished nothing of consequence with his life. But on Christmas Day, he goes out to play a round of golf, and for the first time, he finds himself in the 'zone'. He sees the putting line that has eluded him for years. Always a fairly good golfer, he finds himself playing like a pro and is so caught up in his excitement that he continues to play, sinking putt after putt, missing Christmas dinner with his wife and family. It is too much for his already troubled marriage. His family collapes--but Travis is soon too busy living his dream to notice. His amazing new golf skills catapult him into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach, where he advances to the final round with two of his heroes, Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. And with his wife, children,and a live television audience watching, a miracle takes place on the 17th green that will change Travis, and his family, forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confederate General Rides North: A Novel Author: Amanda C. Gable Narrator: Julia Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 26, 2010 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Debut author Amanda C. Gable places the 'emphasis of this quietly moving novel . on the daughter's inner journey toward maturity' (Publishers Weekly). It's the 1960s in Marietta, Georgia, and 11-year-old Katherine McConnell has been raised to see the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression. When her mother plans a business trip north, Katherine tags along, visiting historic battlefields along the way. But with each stop, her perspectives on the war, her mother, and her upbringing undergo drastic changes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: New York: The Novel Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 37 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel Author: John Irving Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 25 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River–John Irving’s twelfth novel–depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” From the novel’s taut opening sentence–“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long”–to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice–the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas List: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and Finding Noel. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. Dear Reader, When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Johnson, gave our class the intriguing (if somewhat macabre) assignment of writing our own obituaries. Oddly, I don't remember much of what I wrote about my life, but I do remember how I died: in first place on the final lap of the Daytona 500. At the time, I hadn't considered writing as an occupation, a field with a remarkably low on-the-job casualty rate. What intrigues me most about Mrs. Johnson's assignment is the opportunity she gave us to confront our own legacy. How do we want to be remembered? That question has motivated our species since the beginning of time: from building pyramids to putting our names on skyscrapers. As I began to write this book, I had two objectives: First, I wanted to explore what could happen if someone read their obituary before they died and saw, firsthand, what the world really thought of them. Their legacy. Second, I wanted to write a Christmas story of true redemption. One of my family's holiday traditions is to see a local production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. I don't know how many times I've seen it (perhaps a dozen), but it still thrills me to see the change that comes over Ebenezer Scrooge as he transforms from a dull, tight-fisted miser into a penitent, 'giddy-as-aschoolboy' man with love in his heart. I always leave the show with a smile on my face and a resolve to be a better person. That's what I wanted to share with you, my dear readers, this Christmas—a holiday tale to warm your season, your homes, and your hearts. Merry Christmas

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Song Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Pepper Binkley, Scott Sowers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 8, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 115 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 9 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From the author of A Walk to Remember comes a moving tale of redemption and first love when a rebellious teenager decides to spend the summer with her estranged father in a North Carolina beach town.Seventeen year old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts . . . and heal them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Moths Author: Christopher Barzak Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 21 minutes Release date: September 2, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A boy’s family travels to the Allegheny Mountains in order for his entomologist father to find an undiscovered moth he remembers seeing there in his youth. Over the course of the summer, the boy’s sister, who suffers from autism, finds she can speak the language of various insects and creatures of nature, allowing her to understand the world around her for the first time in her life. And as the boy himself comes of age, he discovers that he speaks a different sort of language as well. As each person journeys closer to their true nature, tension is eased within the sometimes strained relationships of this unique family. A Nebula Award Finalist, Barzak’s novella combines realism and fantasy to explore how we each experience the world through our own inimitable language, creating distance even from those closest to us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homer & Langley: A Novel Author: E.L. Doctorow Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Booklist Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers—wars, political movements, technological advances—and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Praise for Homer & Langley “Masterly.”—The New York Times Book Review  “Doctorow paints on a sweeping historical canvas, imagining the Collyer brothers as witness to the aspirations and transgressions of 20th century America; yet this book’s most powerfully moving moments are the quiet ones, when the brothers relish a breath of cool morning air, and each other’s tragically exclusive company.”— O: The Oprah Magazine “A stately, beautiful performance with great resonance . . . What makes this novel so striking is that it joins both blindness and insight, the sensual world and the world of the mind, to tell a story about the unfolding of modern American life that we have never heard in exactly this (austere and lovely) way before.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Wondrous . . . inspired . . . darkly visionary and surprisingly funny.” —The New York Review of Books “Cunningly panoramic . . . Doctorow has packed this tale with episodes of existential wonder that cpature the brothers in all their fascinating wackiness.”—Elle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Mountain Author: Carolina De Robertis Narrator: Christine Avila Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 25, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: On the first day of the millennium, a small town gathers to witness a miracle and unravel its portents for the century: the mysterious reappearance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a young woman in the capital city — Montevideo, brimming with growth and promise — Pajarita begins a lineage of fiercely independent women. Her daughter, Eva, survives a brutal childhood to pursue her dreams as a rebellious poet and along the hazardous precipices of erotic love. Eva’s daughter, Salomé, driven by an unrelenting idealism, commits clandestine acts that will end in tragedy as unrest sweeps Uruguay. But what saves them all is the fierce fortifying connection between mother and daughter that will bring them together to face the future. From Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a corner butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, the Firielli family traverses a changing South America and the uncharted terrain of their relationships with one another.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel Author: Gaile Parkin Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 18, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day Rwanda—introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungaraza—mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets—a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her. In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasions—cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.…A CIA agent’s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeter…a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling story…weary human rights workers…lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angel’s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits. In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is planned…a heartbreaking mystery—involving Angel’s own family—unravels…and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angel’s beautiful cakes…as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angel’s life—and the lives of those around her—in the most astonishing ways.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beach Music: A Novel Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Jonathan Marosz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 51 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 19 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths. Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary list of classics that his body of work has already become. PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweeping Up Glass: A Novel Author: Carolyn Wall Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 4, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family. Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain–and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s madness, building toward a fiery crescendo. Her daughter’s flight to California, leaving her to raise Will’m, her beloved grandson. And most of all, her town’s fear, for Olivia has real and dangerous enemies. Now this proud, lonely woman will face her mother and daughter, her neighbors and the wolf hunters of Big Foley Mountain. And when she does, she’ll ignite a conflict that will embroil an entire community–and change her own life in the most astonishing of ways.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Yu Hua Narrator: Louis Changchien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed novelist Yu Hua became the first Chinese author to win the distinguished James Joyce Foundation Award. Controversial in his own country for his biting satire, he creates insightful portraits of Chinese society. Step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang couldn't be more different. While Baldy is a girl-chasing teen, Song is quiet and studious. The two come of age in a vibrant Chinese culture struggling with constant change.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story Sisters: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Nancy Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 2, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding coming of age novel about three sisters and the relationships and choices that shape their lives from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic   'This bewitching novel explores the bonds of sisterhood like a haunting modern fairy tale.'—Glamour Each of three sisters—Elv, Claire, and Meg—has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this luminous novel asks. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of sensual longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. It confirms Alice Hoffman’s reputation as 'a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled' (The Chicago Tribune).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shanghai Girls: A Novel Series: #1 of Shanghai Girls Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 26, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules. At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are: Shanghai girls. Praise for Shanghai Girls “A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.”—Booklist “A rich work . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.”—Denver Post

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While My Sister Sleeps Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 17, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Molly and Robin Snow are sisters, and like all sisters they share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. Their careers are flourishing–Molly is a horticulturist and Robin is a world-class runner–and they are in the prime of their lives. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, she couldn’t be more shocked. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never regain consciousness. As Robin’s parents and siblings struggle to cope, the complex nature of their relationship is put to the ultimate test. Molly has always lived in Robin’s shadow, and her feelings for her have run the gamut, from love to resentment and back. The last time they spoke, they argued. But now there is so much more at stake. Molly’s parents fold under the devastating circumstances, and her brother retreats into the cool reserve that is shattering his own family. It’s up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that destroy some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel Author: Jamie Ford Narrator: Feodor Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 27, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 84 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 13 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country. Praise for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war—not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.”—Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants “A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and Juliet . . . The period detail [is] so revealing and so well rendered.”—The Seattle Times “A poignant story that transports the reader back in time . . . a satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.”—Deseret Morning News “A lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable . . . Ford does wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.”—The Oregonian

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Novel Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Originally titled Grace, this award-winning novel gets a brand-new look in this beautiful repackage. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Mistletoe Promise comes a novel filled with hope and redemption about two teens who turn to each other to find trust and love. If only I could stay with you forever. I would. Eric is having a hard time adjusting to his family’s move from California to Utah. Then he meets Grace—his classmate and a runaway—dumpster diving behind the burger joint where he works. Eric decides the only thing to do is to hide Grace in the clubhouse in his backyard. With the adults concerned about the looming Cuban Missile Crisis and his father recovering from an immune disorder, Eric grows closer to Grace but can their new relationship survive the harsh realities of life? In this poignant, sensitive, and realistic narrative, Richard Paul Evans shares Grace’s heartbreaking predicament and Eric’s realization that everything is not as simple as it might appear.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Author: Janelle Brown Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel Series: #1 of Elizabeth I Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen. Before she is three, Elizabeth learns of the tragic fate that has befallen her mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that she herself has been declared illegitimate, an injustice that will haunt her all her life. What comes next is a succession of stepmothers, bringing with them glimpses of love, fleeting security, tempestuous conflict, and tragedy. The death of her father puts the teenage Elizabeth in greater peril, leaving her at the mercy of ambitious and unscrupulous men. Like her mother two decades earlier, she is imprisoned in the Tower of London–and fears she will also meet her mother’s grisly end. Power-driven politics, private scandal and public gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, “Bloody” Queen Mary, all cement Elizabeth’s resolve in matters of statecraft and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time–whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Brave, Young and Handsome Author: Leif Enger Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor–a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him. In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself. Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but the guilt he harbors for abandoning his wife, Blue, over two decades ago, has finally lured him from hiding. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Glendon aims to travel back into his past–heading to California to seek Blue’s forgiveness. Beguiled and inspired, Monte soon finds himself leaving behind his own family to embark for the unruly West with his fugitive guide–a journey that will test the depth of his loyalties, the inviolability of his morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee from the relentless Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton who’s been hunting Glendon for years, Monte falls ever further from his family and the law, to be tempered by a fiery adventure from which he may never get home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Narrator: Ajay Naidu, Sarita Choudhury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.   In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories–a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate–we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gardens of Water: A Novel Author: Alan Drew Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 12, 2008 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew’s stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families–one Kurdish, one American–and the sacrifice and love that bind them together. In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old son’s coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, İrem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, there was no such festive observance–only the wrapping of her head in a dark scarf and strict rules that keep her hidden away from boys and her friends. But even before the night of the celebration, İrem has started to change, to the dismay of her Kurdish father. What Sinan doesn’t know is that much of her transformation is due to her secret relationship with their neighbor, Dylan, the seventeen-year-old American son of expatriate teachers. İrem sees Dylan as the gateway to a new life, one that will free her from the confines of conservative Islam. Yet the young man’s presence and Sinan’s growing awareness of their relationship affirms Sinan’s wish to move his family to the safety of his old village, a place where his children would be sheltered from the cosmopolitan temptations of Istanbul, and where, as the civil war in the south wanes, he hopes to raise his children in the Kurdish tradition. But when a massive earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the Basioglu family is faced with greater challenges. Losing everything, they are forced to forage for themselves, living as refugees in their own country. And their survival becomes dependent on their American neighbors, to whom they are unnervingly indebted. As love develops between İrem and Dylan, Sinan makes a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that push him toward a betrayal that will change everyone’s lives forever. The deep bonds among father, son, and daughter; the tension between honoring tradition and embracing personal freedom; the conflict between cultures and faiths; the regrets of age and the passions of youth–these are the timeless themes Alan Drew weaves into a brilliant fiction debut.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Children: A Novel Author: Charles Bock Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 22, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book   “One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost every page. . . . [Charles Bock] knows how to tug at your heart, and he knows how to make you laugh out loud, often on the same page, sometimes in the same sentence.”—Newsweek One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what’s become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell’s vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. The people of Beautiful Children are “urban nomads,” each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, every one of them searching for salvation and barreling toward destruction, weaving their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance. In this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humor to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption heralding the arrival of a major new writer. Praise for Beautiful Children   “Exceptional . . . This novel deserves to be read more than once because of the extraordinary importance of its subject matter.”—The Washington Post Book World   “Magnificent . . . a hugely ambitious novel that succeeds . . . Beautiful Children manages to feel completely of its moment while remaining unaffected by literary trends. . . . Charles Bock is the real thing.”—The New Republic   “A wildly satisfying and disturbing literary journey, led by an author of blazing talent.”—The Dallas Morning News   “Wholly original—dirty, fast, and hypnotic. The sentences flicker and skip and whirl.”—Esquire   “An anxious, angry, honest first novel filled with compassion and clarity . . . The language has a rhythm wholly its own—at moments it is stunning, near genius.”—A. M. Homes   “From start to finish, Bock never stops tantalizing the reader.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “Rich and compelling . . . captures the hallucinogenic setting like a fever dream.”—Los Angeles Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Living Author: Annie Dillard Narrator: Laurence Luckinbill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 23, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go.”  — San Francisco Chronicle This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of pioneer life navigated by European settlers and Lummi natives in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. The Living is a tale full of gold minors, friendly railroad speculators, doe-eyed sweethearts, shifty card players, and 19th century adventures that will stay with you long after you close the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Almost Moon Author: Alice Sebold Narrator: Joan Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 16, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.91 of Total 32 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gift Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 9, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box and Finding Noel from New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans. Sure to be a classic, this new tale brings to life the joy of the season and demonstrates the redemptive power of love: there is no hurt so great that love cannot heal it. Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a cancelled flight, and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son would show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles. From the beloved author of the international bestseller The Christmas Box comes another timeless story of faith, hope, and healing.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice Author: Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 24, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 165 Ratings of Narrator: 4.18 of Total 28 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Opposites attract in this moving #1 New York Times bestseller about love lost and found between a medical student and the man who captures her heart. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guardians: A Novel Author: Ana Castillo Narrator: Ana Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 7, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From American Book Award—winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo’s father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel’s gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo’s gangbanger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Between the ruthless “coyotes” who exploit Mexicans while smuggling them to America and the border officials who are out to arrest and deport the illegal immigrants, looming threat is a constant companion on the journey. Ana Castillo brilliantly evokes the beautiful, stark desert landscape and creates vivid characters with strong voices and resilient hearts. The Guardians serves as a remarkable testament to enduring faith, family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Matters Most Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice brings back two of her most beloved characters to tell of two undying love affairs. . . . Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For Tom, Bernadette’s choice meant giving up his fortune and taking the job as caretaker at Star of the Sea, where he could be close to the woman he could no longer have but never stopped loving. And somewhere in Dublin a young man named Seamus Sullivan is also on a search, dreaming of being reunited with his own first love, the only “family” he’s ever known. They’d been inseparable growing up together at the orphanage, until Kathleen Murphy’s parents claimed her and she vanished to America. Now that very girl, grown to womanhood, works as a maid and waits for the miracle that will bring back the only boy she’s ever loved. That miracle is at hand–for life’s greatest rewards are reached only by those who dare to risk everything . . . for what matters most.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Season of Regret Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Light Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the isolated hills of Montana, an aging college professor clashes with trespassing hunters and reckons with his mortality. The basis for the feature film God’s Country starring Thandiwe Newton and directed by Julian Higgins. A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Night Johnny Ace Died Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out to Sea Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON​ One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina. In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke’s stories, which cover the scope of the human experience—from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Village Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Molester Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water People Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burning of the Flag Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas City, 1947 Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: July 10, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forgive Me Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 19, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost comes a gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood. Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned to South Africa, or opened her heart–until she hears the story of Jason Irving. Jason, an American student, was beaten to death by angry local youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason’s killers have applied for amnesty. Jason’s parents pack their bags and fly from Nantucket to Cape Town. Filled with rage, Jason’s mother resolves to fight the murderers’ pleas for forgiveness. As Nadine follows the Irvings to beautiful, ghost-filled South Africa, she is flooded with memories of a time when the pull toward adventure and intrigue left her with a broken heart. Haunted by guilt and a sense of remorse, and hoping to lose herself in her coverage of the murder trial, Nadine grows closer to Jason’s mother as well as to the mother of one of Jason’s killers–with profound consequences. In a country both foreign and familiar, Nadine is forced to face long-buried demons, come to terms with the missing pieces of her own family past, and learn what it means to truly love and to forgive. With her dazzling prose and resonant themes, Amanda Eyre Ward has joined the ranks of such beloved American novelists as Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett. Gripping, darkly humorous, and luminous, Forgive Me is an unforgettable story of dreams and longing, betrayal and redemption.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Out To Sea Collection: Stories Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 5, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON? One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina. In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke’s stories, which cover the scope of the human experience—from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46390 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Man: A Novel Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: John Slattery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 15, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skylight Confessions: A Novel Author: Alice Hoffman Narrator: Mare Winningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 11, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.