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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glory Days: Stories Author: Simon Rich Narrator: John Mulaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: From the Thurber Prize–winning author of New Teeth, hailed as "a triumph of sustained humor" (Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review), comes a hilarious and powerful collection of short stories chronicling the plight of aging millennials. ​ Super Mario turns forty and is forced to "take-a stock" of his life and how "messed up it's-a become." Goliath struggles to control the media narrative in the lead-up to his death match against David, a small, beloved child. And a long-discarded participation trophy reminisces about the glorious field day in 1993, when he wound up in the arms of a jubilant, asthmatic Simon Rich.  High-stakes and heartfelt, Glory Days mourns the death of youthful innocence and hails the beginning of something approximating wisdom.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen B Author: Juno Dawson Narrator: Nicola Coughlan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 18, 2024 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL COVEN fantasy series takes us back to the reign of Henry VIII and the origins of Her Majesty's Royal Coven under the beautiful, the bewitching, Anne Boleyn. ‘There's revenge, high stakes and an impassioned heroine… a brilliant re-imagining of an iconic historical moment.' Glamour BOW DOWN WITCHES It's 1536 and the Queen has been beheaded. Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play – that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn and her coven. Wild with the loss of their leader – and her lover, a secret that if spilled could spell Grace's own end – she will do anything in her power to track down the traitor. But there's more at stake than revenge: it was one of their own, a witch, that betrayed them, and Grace isn't the only one looking for her. King Henry VIII has sent witchfinders after them, and they're organized like they've never been before under his new advisor, the impassioned Sir Ambrose Fulke, a cold man blinded by his faith. His cruel reign could mean the end of witchkind itself. If Grace wants to find her revenge and live, she will have to do more than disappear. She will have to be reborn. In this gripping, propulsive, sultry novella, Juno Dawson takes us back to the bloody beginnings of Her Majesty's Royal Coven to show us the strength, steel and sacrifice it takes to make a sisterhood. With beautiful illustrations from Emma Vieceli throughout. Readers are spellbound by HMRC: 'Juno Dawson is at the top of her game in this vibrant and meticulous take on witchcraft. Her characteristic wit and grit shine through' Samantha Shannon ‘I fell in love with her coven' Kiran Millwood Hargrave ‘A breath of fresh air' Joanne Harris ‘Utterly compelling' Louise O'Neill ‘I devoured this' Lindsey Kelk ‘Thrilling and hair-raising' Russell T Davies

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel Author: Rufi Thorpe Narrator: Elle Fanning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Audiobook Narrated by Elle Fanning! “The warmth of Thorpe’s tone, together with the thoroughness of her imagination and the artfulness of her pacing, means that skepticism is kept at bay. She sells us on both the characters and the plot . . . [in] this enormously entertaining and lovable book.” —Nick Hornby, New York Times Book Review  A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world—from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen. As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger. Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion—fast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: she’ll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx’s advice from the world of wrestling. Like how to craft a compelling character and make your audience fall in love with you. Before she knows it, she’s turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo’s problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price? Blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight, Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a tender tale starring an endearing young heroine who’s struggling to wrest money and power from a world that has little interest in giving it to her. It’s a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative, and an empowering portrait of coming into your own, both online and off.    ?“A wholly original novel. . . . Thorpe is both poetic and profound in the way she brings her remarkable story to an end.” —The Associated Press

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Author: Mark Harmon Narrator: Leon Carroll, Mark Harmon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 6 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Read by the author. 'A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.' — Publishers Weekly  A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever. Scrutinizing long-buried historical documents, NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger.  Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet.  Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu include posing undercover as a newspaper reporter, translating wiretaps on the Japanese Consulate, and interrogating America's first captured POW of World War II, a submarine officer found on the beach. Takeo Yoshikawa is a Japanese spy operating as a junior diplomat with the consulate who is collecting vital information that goes straight to Admiral Yamamoto. Their dueling stories anchor Ghosts of Honolulu's gripping depiction of the world-changing cat and mouse games played between Japanese and US military intelligence agents (and a mercenary Nazi) in Hawaii before the outbreak of the second world war.  Also caught in the upheaval are Honolulu's innocent residents - including Douglas Wada's father - who endure the war's anti-Japanese fervor and a cadre of intelligence professionals who must prevent Hawaii from adopting the same destructive mass internments as California.  Ghosts of Honolulu depicts the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence and the need to define what is real and what only appears to be real.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Persuasión Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Cecilia Toussaint Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 11, 2022 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Cecilia Toussaint nos regala su voz y magnífica narración para contarnos Persuasión, la última novela de Jane Austen. Publicada póstumamente en 1818, presenta un cuadro de familia sumamente austeniano: un viudo pomposo que sólo lee el baronetario, una hija soltera llena de pretensiones, una hija casada hipocondríaca y caprichosa, una multitud ruidosa de parientes y vecinos que aparecen por todas partes… y, al fondo, en el último rincón, una heroína sensible, paciente y menospreciada. Una mujer que «había dejado atrás la edad de ruborizarse; pero no, desde luego, la de las emociones»; y que ahora, ocho años después de haber rechazado, persuadida por un mal consejo, al hombre que amaba, ve como éste reaparece en su vida, rico, honorable, pero aún despechado. Una mujer que, quizá por primera vez en la historia de la novela, debe luchar para que el amor le conceda una segunda oportunidad.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Author: Emily Austin Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 8, 2021 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist Grace. It's not the most obvious job - she's queer and an atheist for starters - and so in between trying to learn mass, hiding her new maybe-girlfriend and conducting an amateur investigation into Grace's death, Gilda must avoid revealing the truth of her mortifying existence. A blend of warmth, deadpan humour, and pitch-perfect observations about the human condition, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling exploration of what it takes to stay afloat in a world where your expiration - and the expiration of those you love - is the only certainty. A BUZZFEED 'HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BOOK' FOR 2021 Introducing the bumbling, anxious, helplessly kindhearted heroine we all need right now. Gilda might be an accidental Catholic, a lapsed lesbian, and an inept receptionist, but she's awfully good at helping us reckon-hilariously, tenderly-with our impending deaths. ? Courtney Maum, author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You As a queer woman whose brain can be a terrifying place, I devoured this novel about a panic-ridden lesbian who hides her sexuality to work at a Catholic Church. While the narrator is anxious beyond measure, the prose is self-assured - brisk and effortless, moving through time and space with ease. At its core, the novel is about the fragility of human life, kept fresh with an intriguing mystery and subtle moments of tenderness. Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a dreary truth but a delightful read. ? Anna Dorn, author of VAGABLONDE Everyone in this book will touch your heart. Austin's writing is spare yet exciting, each page sparkles with keen observation about the fleeting nature of life, yes, but also our profound ability to make lasting impact on those around us. I already can't wait to read what she writes next. ? Steven Rowley, New York Times bestselling author of The Editor Anxious death-obsessed lesbians unite! I cackled and cringed in recognition while following the exploits of Gilda, who is plagued by intrusive thoughts about death and the absurdity of the human condition. Emily Austin is a unique and wry writer, and her debut novel manages to be both hilarious and profound, a winning combination. ? Celia Laskey, author of Under the Rainbow The perfect blend of macabre and funny ? Buzzfeed There's some strange magic at play here. A book about the anxiety of being someone else that possesses a genuine warmth and comfort? A book about death and depression that's laugh-out-loud funny? A book written in straightforward unadorned prose that nonetheless feels entirely distinctive? I don't know how Emily Austin does what she does, and honestly I don't care. I just want more. ? Sean Adams, author of The Heap Emily Austin's protagonist, Gilda - an atheist, animal-loving lesbian who has worried about death since childhood-spoke directly to the deepest, darkest parts of myself. Did I mention that she's also hilarious? This is not just a tender-hearted story, it swerves like a thriller, and I couldn't put it down. ? SARA QUIN, band member of Tegan and Sara, co-author of New York Times bestseller High School Dark, edgy humor and starting to buzz ? Library Journal, Spring/Summer Bests Gilda, Emily Austin's anxious and endearing

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/465586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel Author: Emily Austin Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death. Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence. With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/465569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Animal: A Novel Author: Lisa Taddeo Narrator: Emma Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an “intoxicating” (Entertainment Weekly), “fearless” (Los Angeles Times), and “explosive” (People) novel about “what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning” (Esquire). Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child—that has haunted her every waking moment—while forging the power to finally strike back. Animal is a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/465611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Black Girl: A Novel Author: Zakiya Dalila Harris Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aja Naomi King, Bahni Turpin, Heather Alicia Simms Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 101 Ratings of Narrator: 3.65 of Total 23 Genres: Unmissable Debut Authors Publisher's Summary: Now a Hulu Original Series “Riveting, fearless, and vividly original” (Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author), this instant New York Times bestseller explores the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career. Having joined Wagner Books to honor the legacy of Burning Heart, a novel written and edited by two Black women, she had thought that this animosity was a relic of the past. Is Nella ready to take on the fight of a new generation? “Poignant, daring, and darkly funny, The Other Black Girl will have you stressed and exhilarated in equal measure through the very last twist” (Vulture). The perfect read for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or overlooked in the workplace.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Frankenstein Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Narrator: Octavi Pujades Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 30, 2021 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: En el verano de 1816, Lord Byron invita al poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley y a su joven esposa, Mary, a su casa de Suiza. Los días son lluviosos y el anfitrión propone que cada uno escriba un relato de fantasmas. Así surgirá 'Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo', publicada en 1818 y considerada la primera novela del género de ciencia ficción. Atrapado en los hielos del Ártico, Victor Frankenstein es rescatado por el capitán Walton. Dedicará sus últimos días a narrarle la trágica historia de sus experimentos en búsqueda del poder de dotar de vida a la materia inerte y cómo el ser que creó se rebelaría contra él. Un clásico de la narrativa gótica del siglo XVIII, relacionada con el género de terror, leído por el médico y actor español Octavi Pujades. Fotografía Octavi Pujades: Anna Senan.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501855 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country Author: Amanda Gorman Narrator: Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration "Stunning." —CNN  "Dynamic." —NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting." —Vogue On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her poem "The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country" can now be cherished in this special audiobook. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/491860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Sean Astin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman who chose another man. He waits for her every night, using a green light at the end of his dock to call out to her from across the water. Daisy, stuck in a loveless marriage, dreams of what could have been—and gets a taste for it after she is re-acquainted with Gatsby through Nick. Considered by critics to be one of the greatest novels ever written, this 1925 masterpiece is a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that’s full of literary intrigue, resounding metaphors, and decadent glimpses into the glitz and glam of early twentieth-century America. As relevant today as ever, it offers a cautionary tale of the American Dream, warning against the temptation to believe that enough money paired with equal desire can achieve anything—even reverse the deepest regrets.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Read & Listen Books: Peter Pan: DK Classics Author: J. M. Barrie Narrator: Dawn French Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 3, 2020 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: DK Audio presents the beautifully adapted and sound designed audiobook of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Originally introduced in 1902 in another Barrie novel, The Little White Bird, Peter's story was expanded as a standalone novel in 1911 and since then has been memorably adapted for the movies, for television, and for the stage. The story's emotional truths about youth, freedom, and responsibility continue to touch the heart and thrill the imagination. Barrie works an indisputable magic on listeners of all ages in this classic tale. Peter grows up in Neverland, along with the Lost Boys and the fairy Tinker Bell, after falling out of his pram. Years later, Peter visits England where he meets Wendy, John and Michael Darling, all of whom accompany Peter to Neverland. There they have many adventures, meeting mermaids and fighting pirates, most notably, Captain Hook. Brought to life by British actress, writer, comedian and presenter, Dawn French, who is best known for starring in and writing for the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. © 1911; 2000 J M Barrie; Michael Johnstone © 2000 DK Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Read & Listen Books: Pinocchio: DK Classics Author: Carlo Collodi Narrator: Robert Lindsey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 4 minutes Release date: December 3, 2020 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Pinocchio - the wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy - is loved by children everywhere. As he bungles his way through life from one escapade to another will he finally realise his heart's desire? Seen as one of the greatest works of Italian literature, this Young Classic audiobook helps children come to a fuller understanding of this remarkable tale and to enjoy it both as an exciting adventure story and as a moral fable. Follow the mischievous adventures Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. With an intricate soundscape full of beautiful music and motifs, Robert Lindsay adds his voice as narrator to this stunning audiobook. Lindsay is known for his stage and television work, including Captain Pellew in Hornblower, Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, and Ben Harper in My Family. He has won a BAFTA, a Tony Award, and three Olivier Awards for his work. © 1883; 2000 Carlo Collodi; Jane Fior © 2000; 2020 DK Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Author: Stephen Fry Narrator: Stephen Fry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 1 minute Release date: June 2, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes. Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly finds resonance with our own modern minds and hearts. • Each adventure is infused with Fry's distinctive voice and writing style. • Connoisseurs of the Greek myths will appreciate this fresh-yet-reverential interpretation, while newcomers will feel welcome. • Retellings brim with humor and emotion. 'Mostly Chiron saw in the child, and the young man he became, boundless courage, athleticism, intelligence, and ambition. He saw too lots of words beginning with 'self,' which gave him pause. Self-belief, self-possession, self-righteousness, self-confidence, self-love. Perhaps these characteristics are as necessary to a hero as courage.' In Heroes, Fry draws out the humor and pathos in both tender love affairs and heroic battles, and reveals each myth's relevance for our own time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Institute: A Novel Author: Stephen King Narrator: Santino Fontana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 1234 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 263 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: 2020 THRILLER/SUSPENSE AUDIE AWARD WINNER! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose "storytelling transcends genre" (Newsday) comes "another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable" (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, "like the roach motel," Kalisha says. "You check in, but you don't check out." In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don't, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is "first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen" (The Washington Post).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355214 to listen full audiobooks. Publisher's Summary: One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival. Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver’s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland meadow. But here they face their most difficult challenges of all. A stirring epic of courage and survival against the odds, Watership Down has become a beloved classic for all ages. Both an exciting adventure story and an involving allegory about freedom, ethics, and human nature, it has delighted generations with its unique and charming world, winning many awards and being adapted to film, television, and theater. Title: Watership Down Author: Richard Adams Narrator: Peter Capaldi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 7, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 119 Ratings of Narrator: 4.84 of Total 25 Genres: Classics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queenie Author: Candice Carty-Williams Narrator: Shvorne Marks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 19, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 84 Ratings of Narrator: 4.74 of Total 23 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: *NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES* *ONE of NPR's and TIME's BEST BOOKS of the YEAR * NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of the YEAR by WOMAN'S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, and BOOK RIOT!* "A book that sneaks up on you...I am hooked." —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author This acclaimed and "welcome debut from a seriously talented author" (New York Post) is a disarmingly honest, unapologetically black, and undeniably witty novel that will speak to those who have gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, "What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?"—all of the questions today's woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her. "A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all" (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author), Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today's world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Tie-in Edition): A Novel Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Narrator: Pablo Schreiber, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Jennifer Beals Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 1103 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 322 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is Back REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • COMING SOON AS AN ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY REESE WITHERSPOON Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice. Includes a PDF of song lyrics from the book Cast List: Daisy Jones, read by Jennifer Beals             Billy Dunne, read by Pablo Schreiber Graham Dunne, read by Benjamin Bratt Eddie Loving, read by Fred Berman Warren Rhodes, read by Ari Fliakos Karen Karen, read by Judy Greer Camila Dunne, read by January LaVoy Simone Jackson, read by Robinne Lee Narrator / Author, read by Julia Whelan Jim Blades, read by Jonathan Davis Rod Reyes, read by Henry Leyva Artie Snyder, read by Oliver Wyman Elaine Chang, read by Nancy Wu Freddie Mendoza, read by P.J. Ochlan Nick Harris, read by Arthur Bishop Jonah Berg, read by Holter Graham Greg McGuinness, read by Brendan Wayne Pete Loving, read by Pete Larkin Wyatt Stone, read by Alex Jenkins Reid Hank Allen, read by Robert Petkoff Opal Cunningham, read by Sara Arrington Praise for Daisy Jones & The Six “Daisy Jones & The Six is just plain fun from cover to cover. . . . Her characters feel so vividly real, you’ll wish you could stream their albums, YouTube their concerts, and google their wildest moments to see them for yourself.”—HelloGiggles “Reid delivers a stunning story of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll in the 1960s and ’70s in this expertly wrought novel. Mimicking the style and substance of a tell-all celebrity memoir . . . Reid creates both story line and character gold. The book’s prose is propulsive, original, and often raw.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day in December: Reese's Book Club: A Novel Author: Josie Silver Narrator: Eleanor Tomlinson, Charlie Anson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 323 Ratings of Narrator: 4.59 of Total 74 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me.”—Reese Witherspoon (A Reese’s Book Club Pick) “The perfect book to get lost in . . . Josie Silver’s characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic . . . and then her bus drives away. Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend, Sarah, giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah, and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming, and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What If It's Us Author: Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli Narrator: Froy Gutierrez, Noah Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 87 Ratings of Narrator: 4.76 of Total 21 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller! Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in this smart, funny, heartfelt collaboration about two very different boys who can't decide if the universe is pushing them together—or pulling them apart. ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it's that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. BEN thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn't be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend's things. But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them . . . ? Maybe nothing. After all, they get separated. Maybe everything. After all, they get reunited. But what if they can't nail a first date even after three do-overs? What if Arthur tries too hard to make it work and Ben doesn't try hard enough? What if life really isn't like a Broadway play? But what if it is? What if it's us? Plus don't miss Here's to Us! Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera reunite to continue the story of Arthur and Ben, the boys readers first fell for in What If It's Us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ladybird Tales of Adventurous Girls: With an Introduction From Jacqueline Wilson Author: Ladybird Tales Narrator: Vanessa Kirby, Jacqueline Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Ladybird Tales of Adventurous Girls retold by Julia Bruce, read by Jacqueline Wilson and Vanessa Kirby. Girls can save the day too, and they always have . . . Join six adventurous girls from around the world as they use their wits, courage and strength to overcome the odds. With an introduction from award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson. Gretel and Hansel Tamasha and the Troll Tokoyo and the Sea Serpent Chandra and the Elephants Sea Girl and the Golden Key The Snow Queen Perfect for bedtime, these empowering tales show that girls can be the heroes of any story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day in December: The uplifting, feel-good, Sunday Times bestselling Christmas romance you need this festive season Author: Josie Silver Narrator: Eleanor Tomlinson, Charlie Anson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 23, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of One Day in December by Josie Silver, read by Eleanor Tomlinson and Charlie Anson. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Laurie thinks she'll never see the boy from the bus again. But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Who is, of course, the boy from the bus. Determined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life. But what if fate has other plans? Following Laurie, Sarah and Jack through ten years of love, heartbreak and friendship, One Day in December is a joyous, heart-warming and immensely moving love story that you'll want to escape into forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Order of Time Author: Carlo Rovelli Narrator: Benedict Cumberbatch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 58 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 10 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade 'Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book.' --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to 'flow'? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Circe Author: Madeline Miller Narrator: Perdita Weeks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.51 of Total 440 Ratings of Narrator: 4.94 of Total 145 Genres: Popular on #BookTok Publisher's Summary: This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times Bestseller -- named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Murder on the Orient Express [Movie Tie-in]: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Author: Agatha Christie Narrator: Kenneth Branagh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 144 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 25 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: A new recording of the most widely read mystery of all time, performed by Kenneth Branagh. Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, releasing November 10, 2017 and directed by Kenneth Branagh. “The murderer is with us - on the train now...” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. “What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?”—New York Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel Author: Jesmyn Ward Narrator: Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Chalk, Rutina Wesley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 156 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 34 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: *Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a "tour de force" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic. Jesmyn Ward's historic second National Book Award–winner is "perfectly poised for the moment" (The New York Times), an intimate portrait of three generations of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. "Ward's writing throbs with life, grief, and love… this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it" (Buzzfeed). Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn't lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won't acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister's lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children's father is White. She wants to be a better mother but can't put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances. When the children's father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love. Rich with Ward's distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and "an odyssey through rural Mississippi's past and present" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dead Zone Author: Stephen King Narrator: James Franco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 281 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 54 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestseller and "compulsive page-turner" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) about a reluctant clairvoyant man who must weigh his options when he suddenly sees the terrible future awaiting mankind—from master storyteller Stephen King. When Johnny Smith was six years old, head trauma caused by a bad ice-skating accident left him with a nasty bruise on his forehead and, from time to time, those hunches…infrequent but accurate snippets of things to come. But it isn't until Johnny's a grown man—now having survived a horrifying auto injury that plunged him into a coma lasting four-and-a-half years—that his special abilities really push to the fore. Johnny Smith comes back from the void with an extraordinary gift that becomes his life's curse…presenting visions of what was and what will be for the innocent and guilty alike. But when he encounters a ruthlessly ambitious and amoral man who promises a terrifying fate for all humanity, Johnny must find a way to prevent a harrowing predestination from becoming reality.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel Author: George Saunders Narrator: Megan Mullally, Julianne Moore, Keegan-Michael Key, Carrie Brownstein, Lena Dunham, Nick Offerman, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Susan Sarandon, Kirby Heyborne, Ben Stiller, David Sedaris, Don Cheadle, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.84 of Total 135 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 25 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The "devastatingly moving" (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • One of Paste's Best Novels of the Decade February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? The 166-person full cast features award-winning actors and musicians, as well as a number of Saunders' family, friends, and members of his publishing team, including, in order of their appearance:   Nick Offerman as HANS VOLLMAN David Sedaris as ROGER BEVINS III Carrie Brownstein as ISABELLE PERKINS George Saunders as THE REVEREND EVERLY THOMAS Miranda July as MRS. ELIZABETH CRAWFORD Lena Dunham as ELISE TRAYNOR Ben Stiller as JACK MANDERS Julianne Moore as JANE ELLIS Susan Sarandon as MRS. ABIGAIL BLASS Bradley Whitford as LT. CECIL STONE Bill Hader as EDDIE BARON Megan Mullally as BETSY BARON Rainn Wilson as PERCIVAL "DASH" COLLIER Jeff Tweedy as CAPTAIN WILLIAM PRINCE Kat Dennings as MISS TAMARA DOOLITTLE Jeffrey Tambor as PROFESSOR EDMUND BLOOMER Mike O'Brien as LAWRENCE T. DECROIX Keegan-Michael Key as ELSON FARWELL Don Cheadle as THOMAS HAVENS and Patrick Wilson as STANLEY "PERFESSER" LIPPERT with Kirby Heyborne as WILLIE LINCOLN, Mary Karr as MRS. ROSE MILLAND, and Cassandra Campbell as Your Narrator

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281471 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Human Acts: A Novel Author: Han Kang Narrator: Jae Jung, Raymond J. Lee, Keong Sim, Jennifer Kim, Greta Jung, Sandra Oh, Deborah Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE   "[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."—from the Nobel Prize citation The internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian presents a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice. "Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent."—The New York Times Book Review Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, HuffPost, Medium, Library Journal Amid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.   The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.   An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity. Read by Sandra Oh, Greta Jung, Jae Jung, Jennifer Kim, Raymond J. Lee, and Keong Sim, with an introduction read by Deborah Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Midnight Series: #1 of The Dark Artifices Author: Cassandra Clare Narrator: Morena Baccarin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 156 Ratings of Narrator: 4.49 of Total 49 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in this #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel. It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering who killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her battle partner Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions… Making things even more complicated, Julian's brother Mark—who was captured by the faeries five years ago—has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind—and they need the Shadowhunters' help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn't recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it? Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare's Dark Artifices series.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/242703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries: Four original short stories Author: John Taylor Narrator: Benedict Cumberbatch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 76 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor 'An Inscrutable Masquerade'/ 'The Conundrum of Coach 13'/ 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny'/ 'The 10.59 Assassin' Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales. In a drawer in his bureau, Dr Watson keeps a locked cedarwood chest - a 'box of secrets'. It contains an archive of notes referring to some of Holmes' cases that, for one reason or another, never saw the light of day. Now, for the first time, Watson has decided to reveal the truth to the world... In these four thrilling stories, Holmes experiments with the science of ballistics, locates some missing gold bullion, investigates the theft of a large amount of money and solves the baffling mystery of the Stovey murder. ©2015 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2015 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Kill a Mockingbird Series: #1 of To Kill A Mockingbird Author: Harper Lee Narrator: Sissy Spacek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 2824 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 233 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories Author: B. J. Novak Narrator: B. J. Novak, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Jason Schwartzman, Rainn Wilson, Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Katy Perry, Mindy Kaling, Emma Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 11 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook.  Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down. Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Author: Agatha Christie Narrator: Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.49 of Total 255 Ratings of Narrator: 4.72 of Total 43 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!   “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”   Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.   Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.   “What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?”—New York Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz Narrator: Lin-Manuel Miranda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 159 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 67 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Now a major motion picture starring Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, and Eva Longoria! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Dive into the award-winning, internationally renowned book that is a "tender, honest exploration of identity" (Publishers Weekly) and distills lyrical truths about family and friendship—featuring images from the film! Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tales of the City Author: Armistead Maupin Narrator: Frances McDormand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.64 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Introduction written and read by Rachel Maddow • Narrated by Frances McDormand The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City “A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.”— Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of ten novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brideshead Revisited Author: Evelyn Waugh Narrator: Jeremy Irons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 11, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. Read by Jeremy Irons, star of the acclaimed 1981 television series based on the novel.  The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece -- a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. "A genuine literary masterpiece." --Time "Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel." --Los Angeles Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leviathan Series: #1 of Leviathan Trilogy Author: Scott Westerfeld Narrator: Alan Cumming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 65 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 24 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peter Pan Author: J. M. Barrie Narrator: Tim Curry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 5, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: TIM CURRY READS THE CLASSIC TALE! 'ALL CHILDREN, EXCEPT ONE, GROW UP.' And so begins the story of one of the most beloved characters in children's literature, Peter Pan. J.M. Barrie's classic tale, completely unabridged, features a boy who refuses to grow up, Tinker Bell the fairy, and the Darling children -- Wendy, John, and Michael. Their great adventure begins on the night that Peter flies into the Darling home looking for his shadow and teaches Wendy, John, and Michael how to fly with him back to the Neverland, where adventures happen every day. Look for Tim Curry's brilliant reading of Geraldine McCaughrean's authorized sequel to Peter Pan: Peter Pan in Scarlet!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Series: #2 of Chronicles of Narnia Author: C.S. Lewis Narrator: Michael York Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 24, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 1050 Ratings of Narrator: 4.49 of Total 81 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over sixty years. This is a stand-alone read, but if you would like to explore more of the Narnian realm, follow up with The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stargirl Movie Tie-In Edition Author: Jerry Spinelli Narrator: John Ritter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 14, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 87 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 12 Genres: Celebrity Narrators Publisher's Summary: ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME  •  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A modern-day classic from Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli, this beloved celebration of individuality  is now an original movie on Disney+! And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday! Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’ s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Don’t miss the sequel, Love, Stargirl, as well as The Warden’s Daughter, a novel about another girl who can't help but stand out.   “Spinelli is a poet of the prepubescent. . . . No writer guides his young characters, and his readers, past these pitfalls and challenges and toward their futures with more compassion.” —The New York Times