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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hold the Dream Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Narrator: Bea Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 21, 2019 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes the continuing story of indomitable heroine, Emma Harte Emma Harte is now eighty years old and ready to hand over the reins of the vast business empire she has created. To her favourite grandchild, Paula McGill Fairley, Emma bequeaths her mighty retailing empire with these heartfelt words: ‘I charge you to hold my dream.’ A towering international success, this is the powerfully moving tale of one woman’s determination to ‘hold the dream’ which was entrusted to her, and in so doing find the happiness and passion which is her legacy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Light Is Like Water Author: Molly McCloskey Narrator: katie beudert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 5, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of When Light is Like Water by Molly McCloskey, read by Katie Beudert. 'There are few things on earth smaller than this country.' Alice, a young American on her travels, arrives in the west of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. She falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in a place whose codes she struggles to crack. And then, in the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course. Years later, in the aftermath of her mother's death, Alice finds herself back in Ireland and contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband, and what pulled her away? And how do we know when we've found our place in the world? When Light is Like Water is at once a gripping story of passion and ambivalence and a profound meditation on the things that matter most: the definition of love, the value of family and the meaning of home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Fun of the Fair Author: Lynda Page Narrator: Becky Hindley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It's the 1950s and Grundy's Travelling Fair arrives in town. When night falls, the local town is drawn to the Fair. But when the fairgoers head home, the Grundys are left behind. Hours are long and the work back-breaking. But family and friends hold things together. Gemma married into the lifestyle, her reliable husband Solomon making the work worthwhile. Solly's Dad Samson is still the boss, but his other son, known as Sonny, is getting a reputation...Times are changing. Can the family – and the fair – survive?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Reckoning: A Novel Author: Linda Spalding Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 13, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It’s 1855, and the Dickinson farm, in the bottom corner of Virginia, is already in debt when a Northern abolitionist arrives and creates havoc among the slaves. Determined to find his mother and daughter, who are already free in Canada, Bry is the first slave to flee, and his escape inspires a dozen others. Soon, the farm, owned by one brother and managed by another, is forfeited to the bank. One of the brothers, who is also a circuit-riding preacher, gathers his flock into a wagon train to find a new life in the west. But John Dickinson has a dangerous secret that compels him to abandon the group at the last minute, and his wife, two daughters, and thirteen-year-old son, Martin, now face life on the trail and an unknown future alone. After a fateful encounter along the way, Martin and Bry will hatch a plot to get Bry safely to Canada, but each member of the family will be changed, tormented, excited, and exposed by the journey. Linda Spalding brings an astonishing empathy to the telling of the fate of each of the travelers and to their shifting inner lives—compoundedof grief, fear, anger, and hope. Rich in character and incident, A Reckoning brilliantly-creates an America that was: the undefiled beauty of its lands and the grand mix of settlers and Native Americans; blacks and whites; riverboat captains, small businessmen, and people leaving one life behind for another they can only just begin to see. It moves with irresistible force toward an ending at once cataclysmic, inevitable, and profound.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Flower Seller Author: Linda Finlay Narrator: Charlie Sanderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 8, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘Sure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans’ Dilly Court A charming and evocative tale of family and fortune from the queen of West Country saga, Linda Finlay. Isabella Carrington has been brought up in a life of privilege in London. Her life seems perfect, until her father suddenly announces bankruptcy. To save Isabella from destitution he sends her to stay with family she has never met, far away on a violet farm deep in Devon. Isabella is horrified to find her uncle expects her to work for her keep, packing up the flowers and selling them in the nearby market. However she soon discovers that life on a violet farm may not be so bad, especially when she meets handsome local farmer Felix Furneaux… Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn. Praise for Linda Finlay: ‘Sure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans’ Dilly Court 'Warm and atmospheric, you can practically taste the sea breeze' The Express

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Friendly Ones Author: Philip Hensher Narrator: Chetan Pathak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 8, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘It’s the book you should give someone who thinks they don’t like novels … Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget’ Melissa Katsoulis, The Times The things history will do at the bidding of love On a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a family barbecue. They are in the house in Sheffield that will do for the rest of their lives. In the garden next door is a retired doctor, whose four children have long since left home. When the shadow of death passes over Nazia and Sharif’s party, Doctor Spinster’s actions are going to bring the two families together, for decades to come. The Friendly Ones is about two families. In it, people with very different histories can fit together, and redeem each other. One is a large and loosely connected family who have come to England from the subcontinent in fits and starts, brought to England by education, and economic possibilities. Or driven away from their native country by war, murder, crime and brutal oppression – things their new neighbours know nothing about. At the heart of their story is betrayal and public shame. The secret wound that overshadows the Spinsters, their neighbours next door, is of a different kind: Leo, the eldest son, running away from Oxford University aged eighteen. How do you put these things right, in England, now? Spanning decades and with a big and beautifully drawn cast of characters all making their different ways towards lives that make sense, The Friendly Ones, Philip Hensher’s moving and timely new novel, shows what a nation is made of; how the legacies of our history can be mastered by the decision to know something about people who are not like us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324798 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Awayland: Stories Author: Ramona Ausubel Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion. Acclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels, Ramona Ausubel introduces us to a geography both fantastic and familiar in eleven new stories, some of them previously published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Elegantly structured, these stories span the globe and beyond, from small-town America and sunny Caribbean islands to the Arctic Ocean and the very gates of Heaven itself. And though some of the stories are steeped in mythology, they remain grounded in universal experiences: loss of identity, leaving home, parenthood, joy, and longing. Crisscrossing the pages of Awayland are travelers and expats, shadows and ghosts. A girl watches as her homesick mother slowly dissolves into literal mist. The mayor of a small Midwestern town offers a strange prize, for stranger reasons, to the parents of any baby born on Lenin's birthday. A chef bound for Mars begins an even more treacherous journey much closer to home. And a lonely heart searches for love online--never mind that he's a Cyclops. With her signature tenderness, Ramona Ausubel applies a mapmaker's eye to landscapes both real and imagined, all the while providing a keen guide to the wild, uncharted terrain of the human heart. Audiobook Table of Contents: 'You Can Find Love Now,' read by Kirby Heyborne with Emily Rankin 'Fresh Water From the Sea,' read by Rebecca Lowman 'Template for a Proclamation to Save the Species,' read by Danny Campbell 'Mother Land,' read by Cassandra Campbell 'Departure Lounge,' read by Kate Rudd 'Remedy,' read by Karissa Vacker 'Club Zeus,' read by Macleod Andrews 'High Desert,' read by Amanda Carlin 'Heaven,' read by Vikas Adam 'The Animal Mummies Wish to Thank the Following,' read by Bruce Mann 'Do Not Save the Ferocious, Save the Tender,' read by Mark Bramhall

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea of Memories Author: Fiona Valpy Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: When Kendra first visits her ailing grandmother, Ella has only one request: that Kendra write her story down, before she forgets… In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella’s life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the beautiful Île de Ré and meets the charismatic, creative Christophe. They spend the summer together, exploring the island’s sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, and, for the first time in her life, Ella feels truly free. But the outbreak of war casts everything in a new light. Ella is forced to return to Scotland, where she volunteers for the war effort alongside the dashing Angus. In this new world, Ella feels herself drifting further and further from who she was on the Île de Ré. Can she ever find her way back? And does she want to? From the windswept Île de Ré to the rugged hills of Scotland, Sea of Memories is a spellbinding journey about the power of memory, love and second chances.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where We Belong Author: Lynn Austin Narrator: Mary Beth Light Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 1, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sisters Rebecca and Flora Hawes are not typical Victorian ladies. Their love of adventure and their desire to use their God-given talents has brought them to the Sinai Desert, on a quest to find an important biblical manuscript. As the journey becomes more dangerous and uncertain, they sift through memories of their past, recalling the events that shaped them and the circumstances that brought them to this time and place.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All She Left Behind Author: Jane Kirkpatrick Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 1, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. Jennie cares for an elderly woman using skills she's developed on her own. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become entangled with the woman's widowed husband, a man many years her senior. Their unlikely romance may lead her to her ultimate goal, but the road will be winding and the way forward will not always be clear.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties: A Novel Author: Camille Pagán Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough. At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she’s also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears: falling air conditioners, the IRS, identity theft, skydiving, and airbag recalls. But never once did Maggie worry that her husband of nearly thirty years would leave her. On the day Adam walks out the door, everything that makes Maggie secure goes with him. Only then does she realize that while she’s been busy caring for everyone else, she’s become invisible to the world—and to herself. Maggie cautiously begins to rebuild her life with a trip to Rome, a new career, and even a rebound romance. But when a fresh crisis strikes and an uncertain future looms, she must decide: How much will she risk to remain the woman she’s just become?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stage Four: A Novel Author: Sander Kollaard Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: February 20, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From an award-winning Dutch author comes a heartbreaking and poetic novel about a couple’s lasting love and their dedication to living out their dream. Dutch couple Sarie and Barend Vervoort celebrate their retirement by buying a camper van and hitting the road. Their intention is to drive around Europe, fulfilling Sarie’s wanderlust and returning to some of the places they traveled together when they first met, in 1968. But then Sarie falls seriously ill—diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. The tragic discovery forces them to completely redefine their trip. Bravely, they hold on to what has bound them together from the beginning: the wish to live fulfilling lives, based on a great love. As Sarie decides to squarely face what is coming, Barend protects her physically, emotionally, and mentally by enabling this last, unbearably intimate trip as they retrace the entirety of their life—from its beginnings to its inevitable end. A novel of an extraordinary journey, Stage Four explores the beautiful and painful devotion that comes from love, unexpected deliverance, and directing a life slowly slipping away.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Asymmetry: A Novel Author: Lisa Halliday Narrator: Aden Hakimi, Fiona Hardingham, Candace Thaxton, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub* NPR * O, The Oprah Magazine * Shelf Awareness The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, hailed as “extraordinary” by The New York Times, “a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war” by The Wall Street Journal, and “a literary phenomenon” by The New Yorker. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is “a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction” (The New York Times Book Review), and a “masterpiece” in the original sense of the word” (The Atlantic). Lisa Halliday’s novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning - The Complete Novel Author: S. Block Narrator: Leanne Best Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 25, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1940, Great Paxford, Cheshire: When a spitfire crashes in the village, the lives of an extraordinary community of women will change forever: Frances Barden's greatest challenge is only just beginning; Pat Simms received a respite when her abusive husband went to war, but now he's home Pat doesn't know who to turn to; and for newlyweds Teresa and Nick, the plane crash on their wedding day may just be the start of their troubles. Meanwhile, the life of the Campbell family will never be the same following a devastating tragedy…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning - Part Four - A Soldier Returns... Series: #4 of Keep the Home Fires Burning Author: S. Block Narrator: Leanne Best Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: January 25, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1940, Great Paxford, Cheshire: When a spitfire crashes in the village, the lives of an extraordinary community of women will change forever: Frances Barden's greatest challenge is only just beginning; Pat Simms received a respite when her abusive husband went to war, but now he's home Pat doesn't know who to turn to; and for newlyweds Teresa and Nick, the plane crash on their wedding day may just be the start of their troubles. Meanwhile, the life of the Campbell family will never be the same following a devastating tragedy…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gingerbread Girl: A heartwarming tale of wartime London Author: Sheila Newberry Narrator: Cindy Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 25, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: While in hospital, seven-year-old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings a gift of a gingerbread man. Little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her. When tragedy strikes, she moves to London with her new guardian, Eliza. As war approaches and the past comes knocking, everything changes again. Is Cora destined to repeat her parents' mistakes?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Yellow Mocker Calls Series: #1 of Two Feather's Legacy Author: Lila M. Beckham Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 24, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the South Carolina Hills, along the Savannah River Watershed, in the fall of 1829, fourteen-year-old, three-quarter Cherokee, Sahani, whose Christian name is Charity, sets out on a journey with her eighty-three-year-old maternal, white grandfather to Fort Charlotte, for what she thinks is a trip to trade the pelts he has accumulated in order to replenish their supplies. However, Charity soon discovers that her grandfather's objective in making this trip is to get her married off and settled somewhere. Since her beloved grandmother's passing several months earlier, her grandfather has worried about what would become of Charity should he, too, pass away. And, given his advanced age, he somehow senses that time is near; he does not want to die and leave young Charity alone and desolate. He and his wife reared Charity after her mother and father both died in a yellow fever epidemic when she was three years old. As they travel to Fort Charlotte, her grandfather tells her that before going to Fort Charlotte they will be making an overnight stop at his friend's house. And, that a year or so earlier, he and his long-time friend, Eli Gulledge, talked about what would happen to Charity should both he and his wife pass away and have arranged for Charity and Eli's son Henry to meet before that time comes to see if they will take a liking to one another. When Charity, who has never met Eli or his family, hears that, she threatens to act rude in order to make them not like her so that she can go back home with him, but her grandfather tells her that she cannot go back home with him and assures her that if young Henry doesn't take a liking to her, he is sure that some young buck down in Fort Charlotte will be looking for a wife. Faced with the stark realization that her life is changing and she has no control of that change, many thoughts run through young Charity's mind—she even contemplates running away, but doesn't want to leave her grandfather alone. When her grandfather suddenly passes away that night at Eli's house, that threat never comes to fruition. Young, Charity is forced to abide by her grandfather's wishes and stay there with Eli's family . . . Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brass: A Novel Author: XHENET ALIU Narrator: Thérèse Plummer, Lauren Fortgang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 23, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A fierce, big-hearted, unflinching debut”* novel about mothers and daughters, haves and have-nots, and the stark realities behind the American Dream *Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere WINNER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND REAL SIMPLE A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naïve, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams—and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Back when the brass mills were still open, this bustling factory town drew one wave of immigrants after another. Now it’s the place they can’t seem to leave. Elsie, herself the granddaughter of Lithuanian immigrants, falls in love quickly, but when she learns that she’s pregnant, Elsie can’t help wondering where Bashkim’s heart really lies, and what he’ll do about the wife he left behind. Seventeen years later, headstrong and independent Luljeta receives a rejection letter from NYU and her first-ever suspension from school on the same day. Instead of striking out on her own in Manhattan, she’s stuck in Connecticut with her mother, Elsie—a fate she refuses to accept. Wondering if the key to her future is unlocking the secrets of the past, Lulu decides to find out what exactly her mother has been hiding about the father she never knew. As she soon discovers, the truth is closer than she ever imagined. Told in equally gripping parallel narratives with biting wit and grace, Brass announces a fearless new voice with a timely, tender, and quintessentially American story. Praise for Brass “Lustrous . . . a tale alive with humor and gumption, of the knotty, needy bond between a mother and daughter . . . [Brass] marks the arrival of a writer whose work will stand the test of time.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “An exceptional debut novel, one that plumbs the notion of the American Dream while escaping the clichés that pursuit almost always brings with it . . . [Xhenet] Aliu delivers a living, breathing portrait of places left behind.”—The Boston Globe “The writing blazes on the page. . . . So much about the book is also extraordinarily timely, especially when it focuses on class and culture, and what they really mean.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Aliu is witty and unsparing in her depiction of the town and its inhabitants, illustrating the granular realities of the struggle for class mobility.”—The New Yorker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hattie's Home Author: Mary Gibson Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 12, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Hattie finds herself relegated to the factory floor on her return from the war. Her work mates are unforgiving at Hattie's attempt to raise herself up and she is soon ostracised. After journeying to Australia to marry her husband, Clara is betrayed and returns penniless, homeless and trying to raise a child alone. Lou's daughter and parents are killed by a bomb blast. By day, she works at the factory, by night she roams the bombsites half mad with grief. These women forge a bond that will ultimately allow them to find hope.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart Spring Mountain: A Novel Author: Robin MacArthur Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a devastating storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret. It’s August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away—while tending bar in New Orleans—Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her. Though the hometown Vale comes back to is not the one she left eight years earlier, she finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she thought she’d long since left behind. As Vale begins her search, the narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three generations of women—a farming widow, a back-to-the-land dreamer, and an owl-loving hermit—as they seek love, bear children, and absorb losses. All the while, Vale’s search has her unwittingly careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined. Written with a striking sense of place, Heart Spring Mountain is an arresting novel about returning home, finding hope in the dark, and of the power of the land—and the stories it harbors—to connect and to heal. It’s also an absorbing exploration of the small fractures that can make families break-and the lasting ties that bind them together.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortalists Author: Chloe Benjamin Narrator: Maggie Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 112 Ratings of Narrator: 4.12 of Total 25 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Marie Claire • New York Public Library • LibraryReads • The Skimm • Lit Hub • Lit Reactor  AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A captivating family saga.”—The New York Times Book Review “This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.”—People Magazine (Book of the Week) If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Afterlives: A Novel Author: Thomas Pierce Narrator: Thomas Pierce, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out). Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if anything--awaits us on the other side.  Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, messages from the beyond, and a machine that connects the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history and fumble through faith, they confront the specter of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love. Funny, fiercely original, and gracefully moving, The Afterlives will haunt you. In a good way.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Emma’s Secret Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Narrator: Bea Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 4, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns… The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns… At the centre of this sweeping saga stands Paula O'Neill, beloved granddaughter of Emma and the guardian of her vast business empire. Paula believes that all that Emma left to the family is secure. However, beneath the surface sibling rivalry and discontent are beginning to flare. Into this volatile mix walks Evan Hughes, a young American fashion designer. On her deathbed, Evan's grandmother told her to find Emma Harte. But Emma has been dead for thirty years; and Evan bears an uncanny resemblance to Paula O'Neill. Troubled by Evan's presence, Paula turns to Emma's recently discovered war-time diaries to find the truth… The decades fall away. It is London during The Blitz and Emma Harte comes vividly back to life. Working hard under war-time conditions, she is also holding her family together as bombs drop, sirens wail and her sons go off to war. As she struggles to cope, the indomitability, will power and strength that have forged Emma into the woman she is all come to the fore. As the pages unfurl, Paula discovers the secret Emma Harte took to the grave to protect others. Emma's Secret is vintage Barbara Taylor Bradford. Emotion, drama, intrigue and passion fill the pages in a spellbinding novel which only she could write.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Noble Series: Part of Rapid Reads Author: William Kowalski Narrator: Karen Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.59 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Linda is a young, hardworking single mom struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck. When she learns that her son Dre needs a kidney transplant, her family's already precarious financial situation takes a turn for the worst. Then she discovers that the only one who can help Dre is his half-brother LeVon, a drug-dealing gangbanger who thinks only of himself. Somehow Linda must get through to LeVon in order to save her son. Though she is deathly afraid of LeVon and the world he lives in, Linda knows she must conquer her fear and meet him on his own turf if she is to have any hope of success. Linda is finally able to teach LeVon the value of doing something noble with his life. And to her surprise, she learns she has room in her heart for one more kid, a boy from the streets who never had a chance. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Liverpool Girls Series: #3 of Mersey Author: Pam Howes Narrator: Georgia Maguire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 14, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sisters Carol and Jackie haven't had the easiest of childhoods, but as they grow up and begin their own lives, both hope for happier times ahead. Stylish Carol works in Lewis' department store, while Jackie dreams of a career on the stage. But the sisters are heartbroken when they discover they have been dating the same man and an unexpected pregnancy causes a rift between them. As the sisters' troubles spiral, will their sisterly bond be destroyed forever?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning - Part Three - Strangers Amongst Us Author: S. Block Narrator: Leanne Best Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 14, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1940, Great Paxford, Cheshire: In Britain's darkest hour, an extraordinary community of women strive to protect the Home Front. When a plane crashes in the village, every one of their lives will change forever. The women of Great Paxford are no strangers to hardship and the extraordinary power of what women can achieve when they work together. Can Frances, Sarah, Pat, Steph and the women of the WI survive their greatest challenge yet?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer House Party Author: Caro Fraser Narrator: Helen Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 30, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister; Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider; Madeleine, the children's nanny; and artist Henry Haddon? As these guests gather at a country house party, none has any inkling that the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and beyond.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning - Part Two - A Woman's Work... Series: #2 of Keep the Home Fires Burning Author: S. Block Narrator: Leanne Best Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 23, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1940, Great Paxford, Cheshire: In Britain's darkest hour, an extraordinary community of women strive to protect the Home Front. When a plane crashes in the village, every one of their lives will change forever. The women of Great Paxford are no strangers to hardship and the extraordinary power of what women can achieve when they work together. Can Frances, Sarah, Pat, Steph and the women of the WI survive their greatest challenge yet?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Prodigal Return Series: #5 of Irish Family Saga Author: Jean Reinhardt Narrator: Michael Healy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It's the 1880s, and James and Mary McGrother's family has been divided by emigration, like many of their neighbors in the village of Blackrock in county Louth. The couple who survived the Great Hunger have had to watch more than half their family leave the parish. The responsibility to care for one another extends beyond blood or marriage ties for the McGrother family in New York, when a young Irishman goes missing in America. Back in Ireland, at a time when James and Mary least expect it, a family member returns—but not everyone is pleased with the reunion.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hazards of Good Breeding Author: Jessica Shattuck Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This 'richly appointed and generously portrayed' (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack Dunlap, is carrying on stoically after the breakup of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking of Rosita, the family housekeeper he fired almost six months ago. Caroline's little brother, Eliot, is working on a giant papier-mâché diorama of their town—or is he hatching a plan of larger proportions? As the real reason for Rosita's departure is revealed, the novel culminates in a series of events that assault the fragile, sheltered, and arguably obsolete world of the Dunlaps. Opening a window into a family's repressed desires and fears, The Hazards of Good Breeding is a startlingly perceptive comedy of manners that heralds a new writer of dazzling talent.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rose & Poe Author: Jack Todd Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Set in mythical Belle Coeur County in a time not too far from our own, Rose & Poe gloriously re-imagines Shakespeare's The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother. Rose and her giant, simple son, Poe, live quietly on the fringes of their town—tending their goats and working at odd jobs. Prosper Thorne, banished from his big-city law practice and worrying about his fading memory, obsessively watches over his beloved daughter Miranda. When Poe erupts from the forest one day carrying Miranda's bruised and bloody body, he is arrested, despite his protestations of get help-get help-get help. Overnight, Rose and Poe find themselves pariahs in the county where they have lived all their lives. In the face of bitter hatred and threats from her neighbors, the implacable Rose devotes all her strength to proving Poe's innocence and saving him from prison or worse. Rose & Poe is a tale of a mother's boundless love for an apparently unlovable child, and a stunning fable for our own troubled times. It will stick in your memory like sweet wild honey.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Floating World: A Novel Author: C. Morgan Babst Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes listeners into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdorés, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family's fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from a freed slave who became one of the city's preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic—the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of C. Morgan Babst's haunting, lyrical novel. Cora's sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the life she has tried to build in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city, and the trauma of destruction that was not, in fact, some random act of God, but an avoidable tragedy visited upon New Orleans's most helpless and forgotten citizens.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Darkest Sunrise Author: Aly Martinez Narrator: Nelson Hobbs, Kasha Kensington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. Whoever coined that phrase is a bald-faced liar. Words are often the sharpest weapon of all, triggering some of the most powerful emotions a human can experience. “You're pregnant.” “It's a boy.” “Your son needs a heart transplant.” Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. Lies. Syllables and letters may not be tangible, but they can still destroy your entire life faster than a bullet from a gun. Two words—that was all it took to extinguish the sun from my sky. “He's gone.” For ten years, the darkness consumed me. In the end, it was four deep, gravelly words that gave me hope of another sunrise. “Hi. I'm Porter Reese.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Switched Author: N.R. Walker Narrator: Joel Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 20, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Israel Ingham's life has never been easy. He grew up in a house devoid of love and warmth. Nothing he ever did was good enough. The fact Israel is gay just added to the long list of his father's disappointments. Then a letter from Eastport Children's Hospital changes everything. A discovery is made, one of gross human error. Twenty-six years ago two baby boys were switched at birth and sent home with the wrong families. Sam, Israel's best friend, has been his only source of love and support. With Sam beside him every step of the way, Israel decides to meet his birth mother and her son, the man who lived the life Israel should have. Israel and Sam become closer than ever, amidst the tumultuous emotions of meeting his birth family, and Sam finds himself questioning his feelings toward his best friend. As Israel embraces new possibilities, he needs to dissect his painful relationship with his parents in order to salvage what's left. Because sometimes it takes proof you're not actually family to become one. Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Across the China Sea: A Novel Author: Gaute Heivoll Narrator: Alex Bloch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the waning days of the German occupation of Norway, Karin and her husband move from Oslo to a tiny village in the south with their young son, the narrator. There they aim to live out their dream of caring for those who can't look after themselves. They have spent months building a modest house with rooms for patients, and it's soon filled with three adult men who are psychologically unstable—including Karin's uncle Josef, who suffered a head injury in a carriage accident—and five siblings whose parents have been declared unfit, and who are the subjects of much conversation in the village. This small and idiosyncratic community persists for nearly three decades. After his parents' deaths, the son returns to clean out this unusual home. The objects of his childhood retain a talisman-like power over him, and key objects—including an orange crate where he and his sister slept as infants, Josef's medal of honor, his mother's beloved piano, and many others—unlock vivid memories.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314751 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Turning of the Tide Series: #3 of Irish Family Saga Author: Jean Reinhardt Narrator: Michael Healy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 29, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The mid-1800s is a time of great change for James McGrother and his family. Friendship and loyalty draw the Irish fisherman into a world he would rather stay away from. Choices must be made that could bring the wrath of an old enemy upon James's head. How many fresh starts should a person have to make in their lifetime? Why is it that just when you think your boat has reached the shore, the tide turns and sweeps you back out to a stormy sea? As these questions torment James McGrother, two members of his young family must deal with distressing events that will change their lives forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Year of Broken Promises Series: #2 of Irish Family Saga Author: Jean Reinhardt Narrator: Michael Healy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A Year of Broken Promises continues the story of James and Mary McGrother, a young Irish fisherman and his wife, who were the main characters in A Pocket Full of Shells. Even with the famine years behind them, tragedy and hardship does not stop. Promises made in good faith are broken, along with the hearts of those making them. A solicitor, a constable, and a secretive organization all play a part in determining the fate of a young couple whose only desire is to provide for their family and live a simple life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Pocket Full of Shells Series: #1 of Irish Family Saga Author: Jean Reinhardt Narrator: Michael Healy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 14, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1846 a baby girl is born to a young Irish fisherman and his wife. It is the second year of the Great Hunger and the young couple choose to remain in Ireland, while family and friends are leaving. Their story takes place in the fishing village of Blackrock, Dundalk, but with the cities of Liverpool and Sunderland playing a critical part in their lives. Is their love for each other and their homeland enough to sustain them, or will they be forced to join the one and a half million who emigrate? This is the story of a young man's love for his wife and child and the struggle to provide for his family in one of the darkest periods of Ireland's history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lake and the Lost Girl Author: Jacquelyn Vincenta Narrator: Christina Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An intricately plotted debut about love, obsession, and the destruction of a family from the inside out It's 1999 in White Hill, Michigan, and Lydia Carroll's husband is in love with a dead woman. English Professor Frank Carroll has invested years searching for the lost works of local poet Mary Stone Walker, whose mysterious disappearance in 1939 is only rivaled by the beautiful words she left behind. When Frank's single-minded pursuit for Mary's lost poems puts his family in jeopardy, Lydia throws herself into the mystery, hoping to solve it and bring peace back to her home. But as Lydia begins investigating, her son takes action with a plan of his own.one that will bring the family to a breaking point and change Lydia's destiny forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Practicing Normal Author: Cara Sue Achterberg Narrator: Charles Constant, Andi Arndt, Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The houses in Pine Estates are beautiful McMansions filled with high-achieving parents, children on the fast track to top colleges, all of the comforts of modern living, and the best security systems money can buy. Welcome to normal upper-middle-class suburbia. The Turners know in their hearts that they're anything but normal. Jenna is a high-schooler dressed in black who is fascinated with breaking into her neighbors' homes, security systems be damned. Everett genuinely believes he loves his wife . . . He just loves having a continuing stream of mistresses more. JT is a genius kid with Asperger's who moves from one obsession to the next. And Kate tries to manage her family, manage her mother (who lives down the street), and avoid wondering why her life is passing her by. And now everything is changing for them. Jenna suddenly finds herself in a boy-next-door romance she never could have predicted. Everett's secrets are beginning to unravel on him. JT is getting his first taste of success at navigating the world. And Kate is facing truths about her husband, her mother, and her father that she might have preferred not to face.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just for the Holidays Author: Sue Moorcroft Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 18, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘Effortlessly engaging…a magical must!’ Heat The #1 bestselling author returns for summer! Grab your sun hat, a cool glass of wine, and the only book you need on holiday… In theory, nothing could be better than a summer spent basking in the French sun. That is, until you add in three teenagers, two love interests, one divorcing couple, and a very unexpected pregnancy. Admittedly, this isn’t exactly the relaxing holiday Leah Beaumont was hoping for – but it’s the one she’s got. With her sister Michele’s family falling apart at the seams, it’s up to Leah to pick up the pieces and try to hold them all together. But with a handsome helicopter pilot staying next door, Leah can’t help but think she might have a few distractions of her own to deal with… A glorious summer read, for you to devour in one sitting – perfect for fans of Katie Fforde, Harriet Evans and Trisha Ashley.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lilli de Jong: A Novel Author: Janet Benton Narrator: Erin Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a charity for wronged women to deliver her child. She is stunned at how much her infant needs her and at how quickly their bond overpowers her heart. Mothers in her position have no sensible alternative to giving up their children, but Lilli can’t bear such an outcome. Determined to chart a path toward an independent life, Lilli braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive. Confiding their story to her diary as it unfolds, Lilli takes readers from an impoverished charity to a wealthy family's home to the perilous streets of a burgeoning American city. Lilli de Jong is at once a historical saga, an intimate romance, and a lasting testament to the work of mothers. 'So little is permissible for a woman,' writes Lilli, 'yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Perfectly Good Family Author: Lionel Shriver Narrator: Jennifer Woodward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 4, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Following the success of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not. After having escaped for years to London, Corlis McCrea returns to the grand Reconstruction mansion where she grew up in North Carolina, now willed to the three grown children following the death of their parents. All three want the house. Fiscal necessity dictates that two must buy a third out. Just as she was torn as a girl, the sister must choose between her decent younger brother and the renegade eldest—the black sheep who covets his legacy in order to destroy it. The adult siblings re-enact the deep enmities and loyalties of childhood, as each bids for a bigger slice of the pie.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/317949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Legend: A Novel Author: Nadeem Aslam Narrator: Deepti Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud—a fellow architect—is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival—a revelatory portrait of the human spirit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reservoir 13: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD Author: Jon McGregor Narrator: Matt Bates Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside. WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE ‘A rare and dazzling feat of art’ George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo ‘McGregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation’ Sarah Hall, author of The Wolf Border ‘Reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary – the way it’s structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which Jon McGregor lets the characters breathe and age’ Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/321780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: History of Wolves Author: Emily Fridlund Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 3, 2017 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!'-Aimee Bender Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn't understand. Over the course of a few days, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do-and fail to do-for the people they love. Winner of the McGinnis-Ritchie award for its first chapter, Emily Fridlund's propulsive and gorgeously written History of Wolves introduces a new writer of enormous range and talent.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Steptoe & Son: The BBC Radio Collection: Series 1 & 2: 21 episodes of the classic BBC radio sitcom Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson Narrator: Wilfred Brambell, Harry H. Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 4, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Series 1 and 2 of the classic radio sitcom starring Harry H. Corbett and Wilfred Brambell, adapted from the much-loved TV series. Steptoe and Son ran for eight series on BBC TV and even spawned two feature films. Such was the series' popularity in the mid-1960s that the cast specially recorded several episodes for BBC radio. Here, collected together for the first time, are all 21 episodes from the first and second radio series, scripted by Hancock's Half Hour creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and adapted by Gale Pedrick. Among the classic comic incidents in these timeless episodes, Albert's 65th birthday turns into a disaster; Harold finds love with a French girl; Albert is upset by Harold's plans for a proper bathroom; and the duo get an irresistible offer. Plus, Albert and Harold's creditors arrive seeking payment; two coffins lead to a burst of superstition; Harold regrets taking Albert to the cinema; and Albert disrupts Harold's Labour Party meeting. The episodes included are The Offer; The Bird; Sixty-Five Today; The Stepmother; The Economist; Wallah-Wallah Catsmeat; The Diploma; Steptoe à la Cart; The Holiday; The Bath; The Lead Man Cometh; A Musical Evening; The Bonds That Bind Us; The Siege of Steptoe Street; Pilgrim's Progress; The Wooden Overcoats; Sunday for Seven Days; The Piano; My Old Man's a Tory; Homes Fit for Heroes; Crossed Swords. Also included are two bonus features: a short 1966 Steptoe & Son sketch from The Ken Dodd Show and a selection of trailers prepared for overseas broadcast.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/321600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Must Be the Place Author: Maggie O'Farrell Narrator: Graham Rowat, Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The dazzling new novel from bestselling, award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back? THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses continents and time zones, giving voice to a diverse and complex cast of characters. At its heart, it is an extraordinary portrait of a marriage, the forces that hold it together and the pressures that drive it apart. Maggie O'Farrell's seventh novel is a dazzling, intimate epic about who we leave behind and who we become as we search for our place in the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Waiting Is Long Author: Barbara J. Taylor Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: July 12, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All Waiting Is Long tells the stories of the Morgan sisters, a study in contrasts. In 1930, twenty-five-year-old Violet travels with her sixteen-year-old sister Lily from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the Good Shepherd Infant Asylum in Philadelphia, so Lily can deliver her illegitimate child in secret. In doing so, Violet jeopardizes her engagement to her longtime sweetheart, Stanley Adamski. Meanwhile, Mother Mary Joseph, who runs the Good Shepherd, has no idea the asylum's physician, Dr. Peters, is involved in eugenics and experimenting on the girls with various sterilization techniques. Five years later, Lily and Violet are back home in Scranton, one married, one about to be, each finding her own way in a place where a woman's worth is tied to her virtue. Against the backdrop of the sweeping eugenics movement and rogue coal mine strikes, the Morgan sisters must choose between duty and desire. Either way, they risk losing their marriages and each other.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Letter From America Author: Geraldine O'Neill Narrator: Caroline Lennon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 7, 2016 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Late 1960s, Tullamore, County Offaly: Life is full of exciting possibilities for Fiona Tracey as she prepares to leave Ireland to work for a wealthy family in New York. Then, a sudden tragedy forces Fiona to postpone her departure. As her mother sinks into illness and depression, Fiona's responsibilities mount, and she uncovers information which explodes old family secrets…