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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/146356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Winter Dream Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Fred Berman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 30, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box and master of the holiday novel reimagines the biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colors in this inspiring modern story of family and forgiveness that will “move [you] to tears and laughter” (Kirkus Reviews). Joseph Jacobson is the twelfth of thirteen siblings, all of whom are employed by their father’s successful Colorado advertising company. But underneath the success runs a poisonous undercurrent of jealousy and hatred. When the father’s favorite and the focus of his brothers’ envy seems on the brink of being named heir, the brothers make their move, forcing Joseph from the company and his Denver home, severing his ties to his parents and ending his relationship with his soon-to-be-fiancée. Alone and lonely, Joseph must start a new life. Joseph joins a Chicago advertising agency where his creativity helps him advance high up in the company. He also finds hope for a lasting love with April, a kind woman with a secret. However, all secrets hold consequences, and when Joseph learns the truth about April’s past, his world is again turned upside down. Finally, Joseph must confront his own difficult past in order to make his dreams for the future come true.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/145830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Middlesteins: A Novel Author: Jami Attenberg Narrator: Molly Ringwald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 23, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle-- a whippet thin perfectionist-- is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too? With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silent House Author: Orhan Pamuk Narrator: Emrhys Cooper, Steve West, Jonathan Cowley, Juliet Mills, John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 9, 2012 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma, awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, ran afoul of the sultan’s grand vizier and arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her constant servant Recep, a dwarf—and the doctor’s illegitimate son. Despite mutual dependency, there is no love lost between mistress and servant, who have very different recollections—and grievances—from the early years, before Cennethisar grew into a high-class resort surrounding the family house, now in shambles. Though eagerly anticipated, Fatma’s grandchildren bring little consolation. The eldest, Faruk, a dissipated historian, wallows in alcohol as he laments his inability to tell the story of the past from the kaleidoscopic pieces he finds in the local archive; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgün, has yet to discover the real-life consequences of highminded politics; and Metin, a high school nerd, tries to keep up with the lifestyle of his spoiled society schoolmates while he fantasizes about going to America—an unaffordable dream unless he can persuade his grandmother to tear down her house. But it is Recep’s nephew Hasan, a high school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey’s tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, and terrifying, Silent House pulses with the special energy of a great writer’s early work even as it offers beguiling evidence of the mature genius for which Orhan Pamuk would later be celebrated the world over.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/145638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marriage Trap Author: Jennifer Probst Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The sexy second book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy by “one of the most exciting breakout novelists” (USA TODAY) Jennifer Probst. To satisfy his late father’s wishes, hot and single billionaire Michael Conte must find a bride—someone who will fit into his traditional family back home in Italy—and fast, so his engaged sister will be allowed to wed. With no intention of being tied down, Michael “proposes” to fiery, free-spirited photographer Maggie Ryan: if she will play the part of his fiancée during her trip to Milan for a photo shoot, he will keep away from her married best friend, Alexa, and stop making Maggie nuts with their too-close-for-comfort flirtations. But once in Italy, sexual tension sparks the hottest no-strings-attached arrangement on any continent. Could marriage be the most enticing trap of all?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Pale View of Hills Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Narrator: Roe Kendall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 14, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goodbye for Now: A Novel Author: Laurie Frankel Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In the spirit of ONE DAY, comes a fresh and warmhearted love story for the 21st century. Sometimes the end is just the beginning . . . Sam Elling works for an internet dating company, but he still can't get a date. So he creates an algorithm that will match you with your soul mate. Sam meets the love of his life, a coworker named Meredith, but he also gets fired when the company starts losing all their customers to Mr. and Ms. Right. When Meredith's grandmother, Livvie, dies suddenly, Sam uses his ample free time to create a computer program that will allow Meredith to have one last conversation with her grandmother. Mining from all her correspondence—email, Facebook, Skype, texts—Sam constructs a computer simulation of Livvie who can respond to email or video chat just as if she were still alive. It's not supernatural, it's computer science. Meredith loves it, and the couple begins to wonder if this is something that could help more people through their grief. And thus, the company RePose is born. The business takes off, but for every person who just wants to say good-bye, there is someone who can't let go. In the meantime, Sam and Meredith's affection for one another deepens into the kind of love that once tasted, you can't live without. But what if one of them suddenly had to? This entertaining novel, delivers a charming and bittersweet romance as well as a lump in the throat exploration of the nature of love, loss, and life (both real and computer simulated). Maybe nothing was meant to last forever, but then again, sometimes love takes on a life of its own.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/134940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel Author: M.L. Stedman Narrator: Noah Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 31, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 205 Ratings of Narrator: 3.62 of Total 47 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel Author: Liza Klaussmann Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 17, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena -- with their children, Daisy and Ed -- try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/131495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Bright River: A Novel Author: Patrick Somerville Narrator: Erin Bennett, David W. Collins, Scott Holst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a writer and producer of HBO's acclaimed apocalyptic drama series The Leftovers comes a compelling story of young love and old secrets. Ben Hanson's aimless life has bottomed out after a series of bad decisions, but an unexpected offer from his father draws him home to Wisconsin. There, he finds his family fractured, still reeling from his cousin's mysterious death a decade earlier. Lauren Sheehan abandoned her career in medicine after a series of violent events abroad. Now she's back in the safest place she knows -- the same small Wisconsin town where she and Ben grew up -- hiding from a world that has only brought her heartache. As Lauren cautiously expands her horizons and Ben tries to unravel his family's dark secrets, their paths intersect. Could each be exactly what the other needs? A compelling family drama and a surprising love story, This Bright River is the work of a natural storyteller, one whose dark humor and piercing intelligence provide constant, lasting delights.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red House: A Novel Author: Mark Haddon Narrator: Maxwell Caulfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 12, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time The set-up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings the world over. But because of Haddon's extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, The Red House becomes a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly-guarded secrets and illicit desires, all adding up to a portrait of contemporary family life that is bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt. As we come to know each character they become profoundly real to us. We understand them, even as we come to realize they will never fully understand each other, which is the tragicomedy of every family. The Red House is a literary tour-de-force that illuminates the puzzle of family in a profoundly empathetic manner -- a novel sure to entrance the millions of readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Author: Jess Walter Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 12, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 76 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 29 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his  funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.   “Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” —Richard Russo “A ridiculously talented writer.” —New York Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/130147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Came Back: A Novel Author: Christopher Coake Narrator: Scott Holst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 12, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Thirty-something midwesterner Mark Fife believes he has successfully moved past the accidental death of his young son Brendan, as well as his subsequent divorce from his college sweetheart Chloe. He's successful, he's in love again, and he believes he's mastered his own memories. But then he is contacted by a strange woman who tells him not only that she owns his old house, but that she believes it to be haunted by Brendan's ghost. Will Mark--who does not believe in ghosts--come to accept the mounting evidence that Brendan's is real? Will his engagement to his new love Allison be threatened by the reappearance in Mark's life of Chloe--who does believe? If the ghost is real, what can these two wounded parents do to help their son? You Came Back examines the beauty and danger of belief in all its forms--not only belief in the supernatural, but in the love that binds parents and children, husbands and wives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Innocents Author: Francesca Segal Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 5, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm.' --Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Newly engaged and unthinkingly self-satisfied, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is the prize catch of Temple Fortune, a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. He has been dating Rachel Gilbert since they were both sixteen and now, to the relief and happiness of the entire Gilbert family, they are finally to marry. To Adam, Rachel embodies the highest values of Temple Fortune; she is innocent, conventional, and entirely secure in her community--a place in which everyone still knows the whereabouts of their nursery school classmates. Marrying Rachel will cement Adam's role in a warm, inclusive family he loves. But as the vast machinery of the wedding gathers momentum, Adam feels the first faint touches of claustrophobia, and when Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York, she unsettles Adam more than he'd care to admit. Ellie--beautiful, vulnerable, and fiercely independent--offers a liberation that he hadn't known existed: a freedom from the loving interference and frustrating parochialism of North West London. Adam finds himself questioning everything, suddenly torn between security and exhilaration, tradition and independence. What might he be missing by staying close to home?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family Corleone Author: Ed Falco Narrator: Bobby Cannavale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence and of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather. New York, 1933: The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Sweet Mister: A Novel Author: Daniel Woodrell Narrator: Nicholas Tecosky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 24, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce, with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. When he and Glenda begin a torrid affair, a series of violent events is inevitably set in motion. The outcome will break your heart. 'This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, Give Us a Kiss and Tomato Red, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime.'-Otto Penzler, Penzler Pick, 2001

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up From the Blue: A Novel Author: Susan Henderson Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 10, 2012 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Elegant and engrossing….Henderson is a talent to watch.” —Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology  “This is not a book you’ll soon forget.” —Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants The gripping debut novel from Litpark.com founder and Pushcart Prize-nominee Susan Henderson, Up From the Blue is a dazzling tour de force that unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s America—a tumultuous era of desegregation, school busing, and the early rise of modern-day feminism. The story of an imaginative young girl struggling to make sense of her mother’s mysterious disappearance, Up From the Blue is enthralling fiction that delves into complex family relationships, in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Katrina Kittle, and Laura Kasischke.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calico Joe Author: John Grisham Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 10, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball… “Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shatters all rookie records. Calico Joe quickly becomes the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing New York Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faces Calico Joe, Paul is in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his dad. Then Warren throws a fastball that will change their lives forever. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beginner's Goodbye Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 3, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances—in their house, on the roadway, in the market.   Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, self-dependent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy’s unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace.   Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family’s vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye.   A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler’s humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gilly Salt Sisters Author: Tiffany Baker Narrator: Angela Brazil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 14, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic-tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm. In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her family's salt farm, while Claire is popular, pretty, and yearns to flee the salt at any cost. But the Gilly land hides a dark legacy that proves impossible to escape. Although the community half-suspects the Gilly sisters might be witches, it doesn't stop Whit Turner, the town's wealthiest bachelor, from forcing his way into their lives. It's Jo who first steals Whit's heart, but it is Claire--heartbroken over her high school sweetheart--who marries him. Years later, estranged from her family, Claire finds herself thrust back onto the farm with the last person she would have chosen: her husband's pregnant mistress. Suddenly, alliances change, old loves return, and new battle lines are drawn. What the Gilly sisters learn about each other, the land around them, and the power of the salt, will not only change each of their lives forever, it will also alter Gilly history for good.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: A Novel Author: Peter Troy Narrator: Barrie Kreinik, Adam Lazarre-White, Allyson Johnson, John Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Four unique voices, two parallel love stories, one sweeping novel rich in the history of nineteenth-century America. This remarkable debut draws from the great themes of literature—famine, war, love, and family—as it introduces four unforgettable characters. Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom. All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide. Written in gorgeous language that subtly captures the diverse backgrounds of the characters and interspersed with letters, journals, and dreams, this unforgettable story, rendered in cinematic detail, is about having faith in life's great meaning amidst its various tangles.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Dervish: A Novel Author: Ayad Akhtar Narrator: Ayad Akhtar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 9, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Abandon: A Novel Author: Joe Dunthorne Narrator: Tom Lawrence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 3, 2012 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: At a once vibrant communal-living property in the British countryside, back-to-basics fervor has given way to a vague discontent. A place that once buzzed with activity, from the polytunnels to the pottery shed, now functions with a skeleton crew. Founder Don Riley surveys his domain with the grim focus of someone who knows what’s best for everyone—and isn’t afraid to let them know. Especially when those people are related to him. Don’s wife, Freya, can’t quite decide whether not liking someone anymore is enough reason to end a twenty-year marriage. So she decamps to a mud yurt in the woods to mull it over. Their seventeen-year-old daughter, Kate, enrolls in school for the first time in her life: the exotic new world of fellow teenagers and surprisingly tasty cafeteria food beckons, and she is quickly lured into the arms of a “meathead” classmate. In his sister’s absence, eleven-year-old Albert falls under the spell of an outlandish new visitor to the community who fills his head with strange notions of the impending end of the world. Faced with the task of rescuing his son from apocalyptic fantasies, his daughter from the clutches of suburbia, and his wife from her increasingly apparent desire to leave him, Don convinces himself that the only way to save the world he’s created is . . . to throw the biggest party of his life. Will anyone show up? From the acclaimed young author of Submarine, Wild Abandon is a strange and wonderful look at love—familial and romantic, returned and rebuffed—and the people and places we choose to call home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin movie tie-in: A Novel Author: Lionel Shriver Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 27, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 3.71 of Total 17 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ''Impossible to put down. . . . Who, in the end, needs to talk about Kevin? Maybe we all do.” — Boston Globe Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver's gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry Shriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities. Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. Like Shriver’s charged and incisive later novels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost December Author: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: John Dossett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From one of America’s most beloved storytellers comes his most spiritual book since The Christmas Box and The Walk series with this modern-day, Christmas-themed retelling of the story of the prodigal son. It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place. This is the story of my second chance. When Luke Crisp graduates from business school, his father, CEO and cofounder of Fortune 500 Crisp’s Copy Centers, is ready to share some good news: he wants to turn the family business over to his son. But Luke has other plans. Taking control of his trust fund, Luke leaves home to pursue a life of reckless indulgence. But when his funds run out, so do his friends. Humbled, alone, and too ashamed to ask his father for help, Luke secretly takes a lowly job at one of his father’s copy centers. There he falls in love with a struggling single mother and begins to understand the greatest source of personal joy. Lost December is New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans’s modern-day holiday version of the biblical story of the prodigal son, an “inspiring” (Ventura County Star), “beautiful” (Desert News) tale of redemption, hope, and the true meaning of love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Wedding Author: Richard DiLallo, James Patterson Narrator: Susan Mcinearny, Kathleen Mcinerney, Allyson Johnson, Ax Norman, Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 17, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.95 of Total 21 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married--and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day--she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays. But the wedding isn't Gaby's only surprise--she has one more gift for her children, and it could change all their lives forever. With deeply affecting characters and the emotional twists of a James Patterson thriller, The Christmas Wedding is a fresh look at family and the magic of the season.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stranger's Child Author: Alan Hollinghurst Narrator: James Daniel Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. Rich with Hollinghurst’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism—The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything We Ever Wanted: A Novel Author: Sara Shepard Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Sara Shepard delivers the perfect read….A brilliant storyteller.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine “[Written] with unflinching honesty and unstinting compassion.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author The Deep End of the Ocean “This riveting, provocative and well-crafted family drama surprised and delivered at every turn. I could not put it down.” —Sarah Mlynowski, author of Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) Sara Shepard, the bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, delivers a powerful novel of family dreams, lies, and delusions.  Everything We Ever Wanted begins with a phone call with allegations that rock an upper crust Philadelphia family to its very foundations, unlocking years of secrets and scandals that expose the serious flaws in outwardly perfect lives. A moving, intelligent, and unforgettable novel, Shepard’s Everything We Ever Wanted is exceptional contemporary women’s fiction that will be embraced by book clubs everywhere.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1105 Yakima Street Series: #11 of Cedar Cove Series Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Sandra Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 30, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 1105 Yakima Street,Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Listener,You’ve probably heard that my wife has left me. Rachel’s pregnant, and she says she can’t handle the stress in our household anymore. My thirteen-year-old daughter, Jolene, is jealous of her. Maybe it’s my fault. As a widower I spoiled her- Jolene was reading over my shoulder just now and says that’s not true. She claims Rachel ruined everything. But that’s not true. The real question is: How can I get my wife back? I don’t even know where she is. She’s not with Teri Polgar or any of her other friends from the salon. The other question is…when will Jolene grow up and stop acting like such a brat? Of course, I’m not the only one in town with problems. Linc Wyse’s father-in-law is trying to destroy his business. And you know Charlotte Rhodes? Seems she’s becoming forgetful, and the family’s worried about her and Ben. Lots of other stuff going on—but Rachel is better at keeping up with it than I am. If you have any idea where my wife is, give me a call. Please. Bruce Peyton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/139569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between the Tides: A Novel Author: Patti Callahan Henry Narrator: Shannon McManus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 30, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nine months after Catherine Leary’s father, a literature professor, passed away, she still has not fulfilled his final wish: that she scatter his ashes in the Seaboro River in South Carolina. The scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move, Seaboro is the last place Catherine wants to see again. But on the evening of her thirtieth birthday, her father’s young colleague—whom she once dated—pays a visit.…Forrest Anderson offers a challenge from Catherine’s father: three probing questions that he had planned to put inside a birthday letter to his daughter. But it’s the news that Forrest plans to memorialize her father in an article that includes the family’s time in Seaboro—and the surprising revelation that her father visited there in recent years—that sends Catherine reeling. Hoping to stop Forrest from exposing her family’s secrets, she agrees to accompany him to her once–beloved Lowcountry town—and embarks on a poignant trip into the past…a journey that might lead her into a new life of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery.…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Buddha in the Attic Author: Julie Otsuka Narrator: Samantha Quan, Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird” —The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture brides’ nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war. In language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/100130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel Author: Hisham Matar Narrator: Khalid Abdalla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees her, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri’s father with whom Mona falls in love and whom she eventually marries. And their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he wishes his father would disappear. Nuri will, however, soon regret what he wished for. His father, long a dissident in exile from his homeland, is taken under mysterious circumstances. And, as the world that Nuri and his stepmother share is shattered by events beyond their control, they begin to realize how little they knew about the man they both loved. Anatomy of a Disappearance is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition. In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one disappears, how does their absence shape the lives of those who are left?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Next to Love: A Novel Author: Ellen Feldman Narrator: Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 26, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.   Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose lives are unmoored when their men are called to duty. And yet the changes that are thrust upon them move them in directions they never dreamed possible—while their husbands and boyfriends are enduring their own transformations. In the decades that follow, the three friends lose their innocence, struggle to raise their children, and find meaning and love in unexpected places. And as they change, so does America—from a country in which people know their place in the social hierarchy to a world in which feminism, the Civil Rights movement, and technological innovations present new possibilities—and uncertainties. And yet Babe, Millie, and Grace remain bonded by their past, even as their children grow up and away and a new society rises from the ashes of the war.   Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship, and illuminates a transformational moment in American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Northwest Corner: A Novel Author: John Burnham Schwartz Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 26, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road “a triumph,” and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road’s unforgettable characters in a superb new work of fiction that stands magnificently on its own. Northwest Corner is a riveting story about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life’s most difficult and unexpected challenges. Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn’t revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he’s hidden. Sam, Dwight’s estranged college-age son, has shown up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way, Sam’s sense of guilt is as crushing as his father’s. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption and love. In turn, they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex-wives, mothers, and lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past. Told in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the emotional riptide of lived life, Northwest Corner is at once tough and heart-lifting, an urgent, powerful story about family bonds that can never be broken and the wayward roads that lead us back to those we love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel Author: Melanie Benjamin Narrator: Kim Mai Guest Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 26, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration—and whose most daunting limitation became her greatest strength.   “Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead, I would define it.”   She was only two-foot eight-inches tall, but her legend reaches out to us more than a century later. As a child, Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, married the tiny superstar General Tom Thumb in the wedding of the century, and transformed into the world’s most unexpected celebrity. Here, in Vinnie’s singular and spirited voice, is her amazing adventure—from a showboat “freak” revue where she endured jeering mobs to her fateful meeting with the two men who would change her life: P. T. Barnum and Charles Stratton, AKA Tom Thumb. Their wedding would captivate the nation, preempt coverage of the Civil War, and usher them into the White House and the company of presidents and queens. But Vinnie’s fame would also endanger the person she prized most: her similarly-sized sister, Minnie, a gentle soul unable to escape the glare of Vinnie’s spotlight. A barnstorming novel of the Gilded Age, and of a woman’s public triumphs and personal tragedies, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is the irresistible epic of a heroine who conquered the country with a heart as big as her dreams—and whose story will surely win over yours.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close Your Eyes: A Novel Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann, Meera Simhan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 26, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets. For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer. Before the horrific tragedy, Lauren led a sheltered life in a wealthy corner of America, in a town outside Manhattan on the banks of Long Island Sound, a haven of luxurious homes, manicured lawns, and seemingly perfect families. Here Lauren and her older brother, Alex, thought they were safe. But one morning, six-year-old Lauren and eight-year-old Alex awoke after a night spent in their tree house to discover their mother’s body and their beloved father arrested for the murder. Years later, Lauren is surrounded by uncertainty. Her one constant is Alex, always her protector, still trying to understand the unraveling of his idyllic childhood. But Lauren feels even more alone when Alex reveals that he’s been in contact over the years with their imprisoned father—and that he believes he and his sister have yet to learn the full story of their mother’s death. Then Alex disappears. As Lauren is forced to peek under the floorboards of her carefully constructed memories, she comes to question the version of her history that she has clung to so fiercely. Lauren’s search for the truth about what happened on that fateful night so many years ago is a riveting tale that will keep readers feverishly turning pages.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Devil All the Time Author: Donald Ray Pollock Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 12, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree.  In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic over­tones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi­cial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill­ers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Homecoming of Samuel Lake: A Novel Author: Jenny Wingfield Narrator: Catherine Taber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 12, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. The children embrace the reunion as a welcome escape from the prying eyes of their father’s congregation; for Willadee it’s a precious opportunity to spend time with her mother and father, Calla and John. But just as the reunion is getting under way, tragedy strikes, jolting the family to their core: John’s untimely death and, soon after, the loss of Samuel’s parish, which set the stage for a summer of crisis and profound change. In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee’s outspoken eleven-year-old daughter, Swan, is a bright light. Her high spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced and bedeviled three generations of the family. But it is Blade Ballenger, a traumatized eight-year-old neighbor, who soon captures Swan’s undivided attention. Full of righteous anger, and innocent of the peril facing her and those she loves, Swan makes it her mission to keep the boy safe from his terrifying father. With characters who spring to life as vividly as if they were members of one’s own family, and with the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic—and triumphant—aspects of human nature, Jenny Wingfield emerges as one of the most vital, engaging storytellers writing today. In The Homecoming of Samuel Lake she has created a memorable and lasting work of fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Summer Author: David Baldacci Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy, Ron McLarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 14, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: David Baldacci delivers a moving, family drama about learning to love again after terrible heartbreak and loss in this classic New York Times bestseller—now a Hallmark original movie.  It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie's death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreams of Joy: A Novel Series: #2 of Shanghai Girls Author: Lisa See Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 31, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy’s and Pearl’s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China’s history threatens their very lives. Acclaimed for her richly drawn characters and vivid storytelling, Lisa See once again renders a family challenged by tragedy and time, yet ultimately united by the resilience of love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vaclav & Lena: A Novel Author: Haley Tanner Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 17, 2011 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted mother. Vaclav imagines their story unfolding like a fairy tale, or the perfect illusion from his treasured Magician’s Almanac, but among the many truths to be discovered in Haley Tanner’s wondrous debut is that happily ever after is never a foregone conclusion. One day, Lena does not show up for school. She has disappeared from Vaclav and his family’s lives as if by a cruel magic trick. For the next seven years, Vaclav says goodnight to Lena without fail, wondering if she is doing the same somewhere. On the eve of Lena’s seventeenth birthday he finds out. Haley Tanner has the originality and verve of a born storyteller, and the boldness to imagine a world in which love can overcome the most difficult circumstances. In Vaclav & Lena she has created two unforgettable young protagonists who evoke the joy, the confusion, and the passion of having a profound, everlasting connection with someone else. Praise for Vaclav & Lena   “Wonderful and wrenching . . . Vibrant characters, believable romance and dark undertones make for a moving tale.”—The New York Times   “From the moment they meet, Vaclav and Lena make magic together. . . . Through all the twists and turns of the book, the most enduring theme of the novel is love.”—NPR   “Haley Tanner’s assured narrative voice finds new ways to describe emotion and character, stunning the reader again and again with small shocks of awareness. This book is sad, funny, true, and shot through with grace.”—Judy Blundell, National Book Award–winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied   “Highly recommended . . . Tanner’s captivating debut novel is a love story of unusual innocence and intensity [and] a suspenseful, literary work that is hard to put down.”—Library Journal   “A debut to savor . . . Tanner’s charming story unfolds as gracefully as a flower.”—People   “The magic Tanner makes is as dazzling as it is profound.”—Booklist

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/96085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story of Beautiful Girl Author: Rachel Simon Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: 'Hide her.' And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/141360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butterfly's Daughter Author: Mary Alice Monroe Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, once again touches hearts with her lyrical, poignant, and moving novel The Butterfly’s Daughter! Every year, the monarch butterflies—las mariposas—fly more than two thousand miles on fragile wings to return to their winter home in Mexico. Now Luz Avila makes that same perilous journey south as she honors a vow to her beloved abuela—the grandmother who raised her—to return her ashes to her ancestral village. As Luz departs Milwaukee in a ramshackle old VW Bug, she finds her heart opened by a series of seemingly random encounters with remarkable women. In San Antonio, however, a startling revelation awaits: a reunion with a woman from her past. Together, the two cross into Mexico to await the returning monarchs in the little village Abuela called home, but they are also crossing a border that separates past from present . . . and truth from lies.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beware The Kids (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3) Author: Fiona Evans, Karen Laws Narrator: Tony Neilson, Max Watson, Jane Holman, Judi Earl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 1, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A BBC Radio 3 drama that was developed with a community group in Byker, Newcastle which takes a journey into the reality of neglect as one child's life spirals out of control. Originally broadcast as part of the 'Drama on 3' collection on 25 October 2009. In a fractured society Lives a fractured family. In their fractured home Lies a fractured body. Recorded in front of an audience as part of the 'Free Thinking 2009' Festival of Ideas at The Sage in Gateshead, this hard-hitting play explores how a tragedy can unfold right before the eyes of a child's family and carers. 'Beware the Kids' stars Matthew McNulty as Mark and Rosie Stancliffe as Jaden. Also featured amongst the cast are Judi Earl, Jane Holman, Tony Neilson and Max Watson. Written by Karen Laws and Fiona Evans, and directed by Kate Rowland.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once Upon a Time, There Was You: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Home Safe and The Last Time I Saw You comes a beautiful and moving novel about a man and woman, long divorced, who rediscover the power of love and family in the midst of an unthinkable crisis.  Even on their wedding day, John and Irene sensed that they were about to make a mistake. Years later, divorced, dating other people, and living in different parts of the country, they seem to have nothing in common—nothing except the most important person in each of their lives: Sadie, their spirited eighteen-year-old  daughter. Feeling smothered by Irene and distanced from John, Sadie is growing more and more attached to her new boyfriend, Ron. When tragedy strikes, Irene and John come together to support the daughter they love so dearly. What takes longer is to remember how they really feel about each other. Elizabeth Berg has once again created characters who embody the many shades of the human spirit. Reading Berg’s fiction allows us to reflect on our deepest emotions, and her gifts as a writer make Once Upon a Time, There Was You a wonderful novel about the power of love, the unshakeable bonds of family, and the beauty of second chances.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/91916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tiger's Wife: A Novel Author: Téa Obreht Narrator: Robin Sachs, Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.95 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle)   “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly   “Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace.”—Time ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times; Entertainment Weekly; The Christian Science Monitor; The Kansas City Star; Library Journal In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife.   Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, hailed by Colum McCann as “the most thrilling literary discovery in years,” has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Economist, Vogue, Slate, Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, Dayton Daily News, Publishers Weekly, Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Stages of Amazement: A Novel Author: Carol Edgarian Narrator: Anne Twomey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestseller, a “furiously compelling” (New York Times) and richly compassionate novel about marriage, ambition, and reclaiming of love—by novelist and cofounder of the online fiction magazine Narrative. Set in San Francisco, Three Stages of Amazement takes readers on a spellbinding journey across a landscape of national unease, when the fragility of one marriage reflects the tenuous state of the American Dream. Lena Rusch and her husband, Charlie Pepper, still believe they can have it all—sex, love, marriage, children, career, brilliance. But when life delivers surprises and tests, they must face, for the first time in their lives, real limitation. Told with eloquence and compassion, Three Stages of Amazement is a true thriller of the heart—about confronting adversity, gaining wisdom, and finding great love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If Wishes Were Horses: A Novel Author: Robert Barclay Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In the spirit of Nicholas Sparks comes If Wishes Were Horses. Author Robert Barclay has crafted a deeply moving story of love, hope, and forgiveness, as two damaged souls torn apart by a common tragedy slowly find a way to heal. Destined to be a much-beloved classic on a par with Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County, Barclay's If Wishes Were Horses is a story rich in emotion that will touch the heart of every reader who fervently believes in second chances at love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Ties Author: Ernest Hill Narrator: Korey Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 7, 2011 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author Ernest Hill-who Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler called 'one of our finest writers'-has drawn favorable comparisons to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison with his powerful novels. Hill's Family Ties tells the story of D'Ray Reid, who has put prison behind him and wants to repair his broken relationship with his mother. But when D'Ray comes home, lies and legal troubles haunt his every move. 'A skilled storyteller.'-New York Times Book Review

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Peyton Place Author: Barbara Delinsky Narrator: Julia Gibson, Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: A picture-perfect New Hampshire town hides a history of scandal and intrigue -- a legacy Annie Barnes has never shaken since growing up in tiny Middle River. Five decades ago the area was rocked by a bombshell of a book, Peyton Place, and its author, Grace Metalious, who seemed to know everyone's most intimate secrets. Now a bestselling novelist herself, Annie has come home to find answers to the strange circumstances of her mother's recent death, which leads her to uncover a shocking truth about the local paper mill. The townspeople fear Annie intends to pen a Peyton Place of her very own, and no one wants her stirring up trouble. But one intriguing man is captivated by Annie's determined spirit -- and he wants to give the people of Middle River something to talk about....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Self Storage: The Complete Series 2 Author: Tom Collinson Narrator: Susan Earl, Rosie Cavaliero, Mark Heap, Reece Shearsmith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Release date: December 1, 2010 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: BBC Radio 4 Sitcom by Tom Collinson starring Reece Shearsmith, Mark Heap and Rosie Cavaliero. In the wake of a marital break-up, Dave finds himself living in the storage unit in which he keeps his belongings. Dave is accompanied by his fellow inhabitant, the borderline psychotic Geoff, and cultured security guard Ron. In this second series Dave's sister moves in with him, he celebrates his birthday, is offered a job and finally has to face up to the possibility of moving out. Starring: Reece Shearsmith ('The League of Gentleman'), Mark Heap ('Spaced'), Tom Goodman-Hill ('Ideal'), Rosie Cavaliero ('Saxondale') and Susan Earl. Originally broadcast November - December 2008.