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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grown Women: A Novel Author: Sarai Johnson Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “This is a tender, deeply perceptive tale of what kin owes kin, and how we might work to mend old wounds together.”—Elle In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves. Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte, and Charlotte’s optimistic daughter Corinna see the world very differently. Though they love each other deeply, it’s no wonder that their personalities often clash. But their conflicts go deeper than run-of-the-mill disagreements. Here, there is deep, dark resentment for past and present hurt.   When Corinna gives birth to her own daughter, Camille, the beautiful, intelligent little girl offers this trio of mothers something they all need: hope, joy, and an opportunity to reconcile. They decide to work together to raise their collective daughter with the tenderness and empathy they missed in their own relationships. Yet despite their best intentions, they cannot agree on what that means. After Camille eventually leaves her mother and grandmother in rural Tennessee for a more cosmopolitan life in Washington, DC with her great-grandmother, it’s unclear whether this complex and self-contained girl will thrive or be overwhelmed by the fears and dreams of three generations she carries. As she grows into a gutsy young woman, Camille must decide for herself what happiness will look like.  In masterful, elegant prose, debut novelist Sarai Johnson has created a rich and moving portrait of Black women’s lives today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets for the Three Sisters Series: #2 of Three Sisters Author: Annie Groves Narrator: Alex Tregear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The heartwarming new novel from the author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk. It’s autumn 1940 and the Blitz has cast its shadow over London. Everyone is doing their bit to help, including the three Harrison sisters of the East End’s Victory Walk. Nurse Rose is snowed under in the hospital tending to victims of the bombings. Her sister Clover is on active duty on the south coast, while the baby of the family, Daisy, is growing up quickly working on the London Underground, now that thousands of people are taking shelter down below. Even in wartime, the sisters find time for a wedding, but the bride is keeping a secret, which threatens to come to light. Can the three sisters stick together, for each other, and for King and Country?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Must Not Think of Ourselves Author: Lauren Grodstein Narrator: Amir Levi, Sharon Freedman, Brad Griffith, Jesse Vilinsky, Rich Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller). On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls?  Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, they fall in love. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost ?  Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, and told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls: The new feel-good and festive WW2 historical fiction (The Railway Girls Series, 8) Author: Maisie Thomas Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The eighth, heartwarming instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series! This will be a Christmas to remember for the railway girls. . . Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts, she is desperate to return to work on the railways. Margaret's job in the engine shed is demanding. But when a friend finds herself in crisis, she knows she must do everything she can to help her. Alison is overjoyed at the prospect of organising a Christmas wedding until a long-held secret is revealed. Knowing the truth, can she find the strength to forgive those she holds most dear? As war rages on, the railway girls must also battle with matters of the heart. Can they overcome their troubles in time for Christmas? Readers LOVE the Railway Girls: 'Make yourself a cuppa and find a comfy spot on the sofa because you are not going to be able to put this down' 'I simply cannot wait for the next one - I am hooked!' 'Gives a vivid picture of women's lives in wartime Manchester' ©2023 Maisie Thomas (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas At The Shelter Inn Author: RaeAnne Thayne Narrator: Vanessa Johansson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘I would recommend this book to everyone who enjoys romance novels. It has all the feels to put you in the Christmas spirit.’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A heartwarming Christmas romance to curl up with this winter… Natalie Shepherd grew up in Shelter Springs. But worn down by too much heartache in her life she needed a fresh start, and when her older brother Jake dies in a tragic accident, Natalie has suffered all the loss she could stand and she leaves. But when her sister calls her needing help running the family inn, Natalie has no choice but to return. Back in Shelter Springs Natalie starts to see more than the tragedy she left behind as she helps her sister prepare for Christmas. The reappearance of her brother’s friend, Griffin, Natalie’s first crush, offers a happy distraction. But Griff was the last person to see Jake alive, and he knows more about the tragedy than he’s telling. Can Natalie learn to trust him and let go of the past for the chance of her own future happiness? Perfect for fans of: Cozy, Christmas romance ❄️ Second chance romance

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The List: A Novel Author: Yomi Adegoke Narrator: Arinzé Kene, Sheila Atim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! Recommended by The New York Times • Vogue • People • NPR • Vulture • The Guardian • Cosmopolitan • Rolling Stone • Publishers Weekly • The Sunday Times • and many more! In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist’s world is upended when her fiancé’s name turns up in a viral social media post. “Brilliantly written, intricately plotted and incredibly clever. Once I started, I could not put it down, and I am sure I'll be thinking about this book for a very long time.” — Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life. Young, beautiful, and successful, she and her fiancé, Michael, are considered the “couple goals” of their social network and seem to have it all. That is, until one morning when they both wake up to the same message: “Oh my god, have you seen The List?”  It began as a list of anonymous allegations about abusive men. Now it has been published online. Ola would usually be the first to support such a list—she'd call for the men to be fired, write article after article. Except this time, Michael's name is on it. With one month to the wedding, Ola gives Michael an ultimatum: prove his innocence or the wedding's off. But will the truth of what happened change everything for them both? Compulsively readable, wildly entertaining, and filled with sharp social insight, The List is a piercing and dazzlingly clear-sighted debut about secrets, lies, and the internet. “Topical, heartfelt, provocative and wise, Yomi Adegoke’s characters are tenderly realized . . . the entire cast of this ultimate millennial novel springs vividly to life.” — Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other  “The List asks ‘what if?’ and the answers will surely get people thinking. A vibrantly told exploration of the messy interface between virtual and offline relationships. A page-turning tale!” — Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prospectors: A Novel Author: Ariel Djanikian Narrator: Samara Naeymi, Jorjeana Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush. “Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail, The Prospectors immerses us in the Yukon Gold Rush so deeply, you can feel the grit on your hands.”—Celeste Ng ''Smart, surprising, and epic: the sort of adventure that brings to life both a nineteenth-century gold rush and a twenty-first century fight for the family riches that remain.''—Chris Bohjalian The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister’s husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice finally seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. What follows is an awakening of ambition for the quietly opportunistic Alice, who, by luck and circumstance, becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and brother-in-law’s newfound fortune, as well as the beginning of a generations-long family quest for wealth that unfolds against the icy Canadian wilderness and the booming oilfields of California. One hundred years later, in 2015, Alice’s great-great-granddaughter Anna must grapple with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation. Bringing the Klondike and turn-of-the-century California to vivid life, Ariel Djanikian weaves an ambitious narrative of claiming the American Dream and its rippling effects across generations. Sweeping and awe-inspiring, The Prospectors is an unforgettable story of family loyalties that interrogates the often-overlooked hostilities and inequities born during the Gold Rush era. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undiscovered: A Novel Author: Gabriela Wiener Narrator: Elena Rey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE “An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive  Award-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough in this ''appealingly raw'' (NPR) and ''incisive'' (Publishers Weekly) work of autofiction that explores colonialism through one woman’s family ties to both the colonized and colonizer.  Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces, each resembling her own, she sees herself in them—but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles Wiener.  In the wake of her father’s death, Gabriela returns to Peru. In alternating strands, she begins to probe her father’s infidelity, her own polyamorous relationship, and the history of her colonial ancestor, unpacking the legacy that is her birthright. From the eye-patched persona her father adopted to carry out his double life to the brutal racism she encounters in her ancestor Charles’s book, she traces a cycle of abandonment, jealousy, and fraud, in turn reframing her own personal struggles with desire, love, and race.  Translated by Julia Sanches

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Home: A Novel Author: Graham Norton Narrator: Graham Norton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Wonderful. . . . Dark, funny, full of emotional intelligence and gripping from the start . . . beautifully written.”—Daily Mail The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel that casts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation. Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging—and sparks a flurry of speculation. What does a woman like her see in a man like that? What happened to his wife who abandoned him and his children all those years ago? Carol and Declan know their relationship is the talk of the town, but the gossip only serves to bring the couple closer. When Declan becomes ill, their relationship falters. His children are untrusting and cruel, and Carol is forced to leave their beloved home, with its worn oak floors and elegant features, and move back with her parents. Carol’s mother is determined to get to the bottom of things—she won't see her daughter suffer this way. It seems there are secrets in Declan's past, strange rumors that were never confronted, and suddenly the house they shared takes on a more sinister significance that affects them all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wellness: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) Author: Nathan Hill Narrator: Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart. 'A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time—it's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.” —NPR When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.    For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman of Courage Author: Rita Bradshaw Narrator: Elaine Claxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Survival means fighting back. Set across Sunderland and New York in the late 19th century, A Woman of Courage is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling Believing in Tomorrow. It's 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is handsome and charismatic, sweeping Josie off her feet with his beguiling lies and promises. He charms her into marrying him on her sixteenth birthday, but on her wedding night the fairy tale ends. Josie finds herself trapped in a living nightmare and there's no one to help her. Events spiral out of control, and when her life is put in danger she escapes with her baby son. Fleeing to a different country, Josie fights to make a good life for her child and then love beckons again. But the McGuigan family's power is far reaching. When the day of reckoning comes, can Josie survive it?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flipping Boxcars: A Novel Author: Cedric The Entertainer Narrator: Cedric The Entertainer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric “The Entertainer,” an engaging and entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II. Babe is a charismatic and widely loved man, a gambler with a gift for gab that often gets him out of tricky situations. He’s also a dreamer, something he shares with his patient and loving wife, Rosie. They both yearn for financial stability and see the land they own as insurance for future generations. But when Babe and a few comrades enlist in a scheme that improbably falls apart, he endangers the little security the family has.  On the verge of losing everything, what’s a family man to do? If you’re a gambler like Babe, you double down and risk it all for one big score—this time, a plan involving railroad boxcars. Will Babe succeed? Will Rosie continue to support her husband? Are the Feds on to his make-or-break scheme? Flipping Boxcars is Cedric “The Entertainer” at his most engaging best—a charming, fast-paced novel that pays homage to his beloved grandfather and a generation past, anchored by rich, multi-dimensional characters and oozing with irresistible charm.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How (Not) to Have an Arranged Marriage: A funny, heart-warming unputdownable novel about love and family Author: Amir Khan Narrator: Amir Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 7, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: How (Not) to Have an Arranged Marriage is written and read with poignant honesty by Dr Amir Khan, bestselling author of The Doctor Will See You Now. Heartwarming and hilarious, it follows the adventures of a young Muslim student doctor, torn between his traditional family and his whirlwind romance. He’s the perfect catch (according to his mother). Yousef is the golden child to his strict Pakistani parents. As he finishes his medical degree in London, Yousef’s life appears to be mapped out for him: become a doctor, marry a suitable girl of his parents’ choosing and, above all, make his family proud. Then Yousef meets Jess. A fellow medical student, Jess presents a complication to the plan. Suddenly, Yousef finds himself torn between two worlds – keeping each a secret from the other. But, as graduation day looms, Yousef’s mother informs him that she’s started looking for his wife . . . Dr Amir Khan is a resident doctor for ITV's Lorraine and Good Morning Britain. His debut fiction novel is a timely, heartfelt look at all aspects of modern arranged marriages. 'Full of the compassion, humanity and mischievous sense of fun you would expect from Dr Amir. This is a complete delight from a born storyteller.' - Lorraine Kelly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Others Were Emeralds: A Novel Author: Lang Leav Narrator: Shiromi Arserio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Others Were Emeralds kept me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. With lyrical and moving prose, Lang tells a stunning tale of love, loss, and the true power of friendship. A deep, beautiful novel.'' — Etaf Rum, New York Times bestselling author of A Woman is No Man Internationally acclaimed poet Lang Leav’s debut adult novel combines her poetical lyricism and emotional acumen to create an enthralling coming of age narrative set against the backdrop of anti-Asian sentiment sweeping Australia in the late 90’s. A stirring portrayal of guilt, loss, and memory, Others Were Emeralds explores the inherent danger of allowing our misconceptions to shape our reality. What comes first, the photograph or the memory? The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now the late '90s and despite their parents' harrowing past, Ai and her tightknit group of school friends: charismatic Brigitte, sweet, endearing Bowie, shy, inscrutable Tin, and politically minded Sying, lead seemingly ordinary lives, far removed from the unimaginable horrors suffered by their parents. But that carefree innocence is shattered in their last year of school when Ai and her friends encounter a pair of racist men whose cruel acts of intimidation spiral into senseless violence. Grappling with the magnitude of her grief at such a young age, Ai leaves Whitlam for college before her trauma has a chance to fully resolve.  In her second year of college Ai suffers a mental health crisis, driving her back home to Whitlam, a place she swore never to return. There, she reconnects with those she left behind and together they are compelled to look back on the tragedy that shaped their adolescence and examine the role they may have unwittingly played.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649336 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Tamarind Tree Author: Nigar Alam Narrator: Sneha Mathan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A compellingly heartbreaking debut novel about the echoes of Partition and four friends whose dark secrets lead to a life-changing night that comes back to haunt them decades later. One night. Four friends. Countless secrets. 1964. Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena is running out of time. She'll lose her home—her parents' safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition—if her medical career doesn't take off soon. But success may come with an unexpected price. Meanwhile the interwoven lives of her childhood best friends—Haaris, Aalya, and Zohair—seem to be unraveling with each passing day. The once small and inconsequential differences between their families' social standing now threaten to divide them. Then one fateful night someone ends up dead and the life they once took for granted shatters. 2019. Rozeena receives a call from a voice she never thought she’d hear again. What begins as an ask to look after a friend’s teenaged granddaughter struggling with her own demons grows into an unconventional friendship—one that unearths buried secrets and just might ruin everything Rozeena has worked so hard to protect.  Captivating and atmospheric, Under the Tamarind Tree shows us the high-stakes ripple effects of generational trauma, and the lengths people will go to protect the ones they love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wolf Hunt: A Novel Author: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Narrator: Gilli Messer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful husband and stable marriage, and a teenage son, Adam, with whom she has always felt a particular closeness. Israeli immigrants, the family has now lived in the U.S. long enough that they consider it home. But after a brutal attack on a local synagogue shakes their sense of safety, Adam enrolls in a self-defense class taught by a former Israeli Special Forces officer. There, for the first time, he finds a sense of confidence and belonging. Then, tragedy strikes again when an African American boy dies at a house party, apparently from a drug overdose. Though he was a high school classmate, Adam claims not to know him. Yet rumors begin to circulate that the death was not accidental, and that Adam and his new friends had a history with Jamal. As more details surface and racial tensions in the community are ignited, Lilach begins to question everything she thought she knew about her son. Could her worst fears be possible? Could her quiet, reclusive child have had something to do with Jamal’s death? Praised for “instilling emotional depth into a thriller plot” (New York Times Book Review on Waking Lions), Ayelet Gundar-Goshen once again brings together taut, page-turning suspense, superb writing, and razor-sharp insight into the fault lines of race, identity, and privilege and the dark secrets we hide from those we love most.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disruptions: Stories Author: Steven Millhauser Narrator: Vas Eli, Gisela Chípe, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. Disruptions is a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of August: A Novel Author: Yu Miri Narrator: Sue Jean Kim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. She summons Korean shamans to hold an intense, transcendent ritual to connect with Lee Woo-cheol. When his ghost appears, alongside those of his brother Lee Woo-Gun, and their young neighbor, who was forced to become a comfort woman to Japanese soldiers stationed in China during World War II, she must uncover their stories to free their souls. What she discovers is at the heart of this sweeping, majestic novel about a family that endured death, love, betrayal, war, political upheaval, and ghosts, both vengeful and wistful. A poetic masterpiece that is a feat of historical fiction, epic family saga, and mind-bending story-telling acrobatics, The End of August is a marathon of literature.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Speech Team: A Novel Author: Tim Murphy Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A tender-hearted novel and a dream to read. I loved this book.” -- Matt Haig #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library “so so so so good…[Speech Team] is a MUST…It has all the feels and brilliant writing to boot.”  -- Elin Hilderband (on Instagram) #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Five Star Weekend A funny, gossipy and ultimately poignant novel about four Gen X teen friends turned 21st-century adults who awkwardly come back together to confront an influential teacher whose brutal remarks have haunted them all for years. In his early forties, nonprofit writer Tip Murray is just getting past the wreckage of his youth and settling into semi-humdrum married New England domesticity. Things take an unusual turn when he receives shocking news from his high school best friend, hippie farmer Natalie, that one of their former teammates from speech team, Pete, has committed suicide. Surprisingly mentioned in Pete’s final Facebook post?  A devastating comment made to him by their speech team coach, Gary Gold. Feeling nostalgic for their 80s adolescence, Tip and Nat decide to reconnect with two long lost friends from the team, haughty menswear designer Anthony and tightly wound college professor Jennifer. The reunited quartet quickly discover an unsettling thread: all were quietly wounded by Mr. Gold’s deeply cutting remarks. The silver lining? Gold is still alive, and a quick Google search shows that he has retired to Florida. There’s only one thing left to do: fly down to a posh resort to confront him. What happens next is far from what any of them could have imagined. Fueled by cringe-y confrontations and 80s nostalgia, a literary mashup of The Breakfast Club and The Big Chill, Speech Team explores what it means to take account of the pain that can suffuse a life and what it means, years on, to move forward. 'Tim Murphy is a genius at sweeping, character-driven stories that suck you in until the very last page, and Speech Team is no exception.' —Andy Cohen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming To Find You Author: Jane Corry Narrator: Meg Travers, Olivia Darnley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. You can run away from your life. But you can't run away from murder. When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers, Nancy decides to disappear. Her grandmother's beautiful Regency house in a quiet seaside village seems like the safest place to hide. But the old house has its own secrets and a chilling wartime legacy . . . Now someone knows the truth about the night Nancy's mother and stepfather were murdered. Someone knows where to find her. And they have nothing to lose . . . So what really happened that night? And how far will she go to keep it hidden? DON'T MISS THE CAPTIVATING NEW BOOK FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JANE CORRY Praise for Jane Corry 'I devoured We All Have Our Secrets in one sitting' Teresa Driscoll, I Am Watching You 'Full of intrigue and twists galore' BA Paris, The Therapist 'An unputdownable read' Emma Curtis, Invite Me in ©2023 Jane Corry (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untethered Author: Ayesha Inoon Narrator: Khema De Silva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 7, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: HIGHLY COMMENDED - The ACT Book of the Year 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED - ACT Literary Awards 2024, Fiction. Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon. Zia secretly longs to go to university but as a young woman in a traditional Muslim family, she does what is expected of her and agrees to an arranged marriage to Rashid, a man she barely knows. Cocooned by the wealth and customs of her family, Rashid's dark moods create only the smallest of ripples in their early life together. When growing political unrest spurs them to leave Sri Lanka and immigrate to Australia, Zia is torn between fear of leaving her beloved family and the possibility of new freedoms. While on paper their new country welcomes them with open arms, their visas come with many restrictions and for the first time Zia faces isolation, poverty and an increasingly unstable marriage that forms a cage stronger than any she's known before. Determined to carve a place for herself in this new country, Zia sets out on uncertain terrain and discovers friendship, devastating loss and hope for a different future. One that asks her to consider not just who she is, but who she might become. Partially drawn from her own experiences, debut author Ayesha Inoon's novel weaves the threads of family, culture and tradition together with the uncertainty and freedom of starting anew to create a complex tapestry of identity, resilience and hope. 'A nuanced and moving exploration of what it means to leave the only home you've ever known for the promise of a better life, Ayesha Inoon's Untethered examines the crushing disappointments that can await immigrants and the ever-present question of whether they did the right thing.' - Tracey Lien, award-winning author of All That's Left Unsaid 'By turns gentle and searing, rich with life, yearning and the search for self, Ayesha Inoon's beautifully written debut novel is an unmissable read.' - Kim Lock, bestselling author of The Other Side of Beautiful & The Fancies PRAISE: 'Untethered is a study in cultural difference, written with fluidity and honesty. It's thought-provoking and invites cultural self-examination.' - The Canberra Bookshelf 'Untethered is about uprooting and relocating, and it is about the resilience of one woman, determined to take control of her own life.' - The Weekend Australian, Notable Books

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat and Get Gas Author: J. A. Wright Narrator: Lyssa Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Thirteen-year-old Evan Hanson is always the last in her family to know what's going on. Her father, Gene, who's been meaner since he began serving in Vietnam, isn't around much, and she likes it better that way. But then her brother, Adam, gets drafted and her anti-war mother, Endura, takes him across the border to Canada, leaving Evan alone with Gene and her younger, special needs brother, Teddy. When he realizes Endura isn't returning, Gene takes Evan and Teddy to Eat and Get Gas, his mother's café and gas station. There, as well as her no-nonsense but loving grandma, Evan encounters Aunt Vivian, a teasing but caring know-it-all; Uncle Frankie, injured in Vietnam and suffering from PTSD; Paco, the draft dodger Frankie is hiding; Hal and Hubert, the strange but gentle next-door neighbors; and Louanne, Frankie's reserved sister. She is drawn in particular to Louanne, who was disfigured by a car accident that killed the rest of her and Frankie's family. Evan finds a new freedom, and she starts to carve out a place for herself. She eventually, too, learns some of the family secrets she's been kept in the dark about—and comes to understand that her mother isn't coming back any time soon. Then, after reading a letter that wasn't meant for her, Evan discovers the biggest secret of all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Robert Louis Stevenson: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and more Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Wally K. Daly, Tony Osoba, Phyliss Logan, Stuart Mcquarrie, Michael Nardone, Jack Lowden, Madeleine Worrall, John Dougall, Nina Wadia, David Tennant, Full Cast, Peter Jeffrey, David Rintoul, Alan Cumming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of tales Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, his figures swiftly became the shorthand for piracy, monstrous medicine, and the slave trade in America. A master of atmosphere and an enthusiast of foreign travel, Stevenson wrote countless stories which have been enjoyed in film, television and theatre adaptations throughout the years. In this fantastic collection, enjoy the ripping adventures of Treasure Island, with young Jim Hawkins discovering a treasure map in a pirate's chest and soon finding himself drawn into a world of danger and high seas adventure with the charismatic Long John Silver. The next two stories are introduced by David Tennant (Doctor Who, Good Omens): Kidnapped, the thrilling tale of one young man's escape from the Jacobite rebellions, only to be press-ganged onto a slave ship heading for the plantations of America, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the terrifying story of a scientist experimenting on himself, and the terrible dark discovery he makes, featuring Stuart McQuarrie (The Crown, Shetland) and John Dougall (The Girl on the Train, Holby City). Five further stories follow: 'The Bottle Imp', a twisted tale about a magic bottle, The Master of Ballantrae, a buccaneering tale of two rival brothers, and Weir of Hermiston, Stevenson's unfinished novel of passion and rebellion in the Lowlands. In 'Olalla', a family is hiding a terrible secret in the Spanish hills, and in 'Markheim', an unusual stranger is suspiciously helpful. Finally, two fascinating pieces of non-fiction: Travels with a Donkey, Stevenson's account of attempting to travel the French mountains with only a donkey for company and Great Lives, an episode of the series featuring Stevenson as the examined life. Starring such acclaimed actors as David Tennant, Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey, Lovejoy), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Mary Queen of Scots) and Alan Cumming (The High Life, The Good Wife), this is a collection not to be missed by any fan of literature or adventure. Contents List Treasure Island Kidnapped The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 'The Bottle Imp' The Master of Ballantrae Weir of Hermiston 'Olalla' 'Markheim' Travels with a Donkey Great Lives - Robert Louis Stevenson ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Love and Loss Author: Bart Yates Narrator: Curtis Michael Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Readers of Mad Honey will adore this clever, deeply touching, buoyant new novel from an award-winning author. When his difficult mother is diagnosed with ALS, a sharp-witted yet sensitive artist reluctantly returns to his New Hampshire hometown—and all the ghosts he left behind. As it turns out, you can go home again. But sometimes, you really, really don't want to . . . Home, for Noah York, is Oakland, New Hampshire, the sleepy little town where Noah's mother, Virginia, had a psychotic breakdown and Noah got beaten to a pulp as a teenager. Then there were the good times—and Noah's not sure which ones are more painful to recall. Now thirty-seven and eking out a living as an artist in Providence, Rhode Island, Noah looks much the same—and swears just as colorfully—as he did in high school. Virginia has become a wildly successful poet who made him the subject of her most famous poem, 'The Lost Soul,' a label Noah will never live down. And J.D., the one who got away—because Noah stupidly drove him away—is in a loving marriage with a successful, attractive man whom Noah despises wholeheartedly. Is it any surprise that Noah wishes he could ignore his mother's summons to come visit? But Virginia has shattering news to deliver, and a request he can't refuse. Soon, Noah will track down the sister and extended family he never knew existed, try to keep his kleptomaniac cousin out of jail, feud with a belligerent neighbor, confront J.D.'s jealous husband—and face J.D. himself, the ache from Noah's past that never fades. . . . All the while, contending with his brilliant, unpredictable mother. Bittersweet, hilarious, and moving, and as unapologetically candid and unforgettable as Noah himself, The Language of Love and Loss is a story about growing older, getting lost—and finding your way back to the only truths that really matter.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos Author: Nash Jenkins Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real.”––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People          Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens          When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack Obama begins his first term as president; Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit bump from the newly debuted iPhone; teenagers share confidences and rumors over BlackBerry Messenger and iChat; and the internet as we know it is slowly emerging from its cocoon. So, too, is Foster emerging—a transfer student and anxious young man, Foster is stumbling through adolescence in the wake of his parents’ scandalous divorce. But Foster soon finds himself in the company of Annabeth Whittaker and Jack Albright, the twin centers of Kennedy’s social gravity, who take him under their wing to navigate the cliques and politics of the carelessly entitled.          Eighteen months later, Foster will be expelled, following a tragic scandal that leaves Kennedy and its students irreparably changed. When our nameless narrator inherits Foster’s old dorm room, he begins an epic yearslong investigation into what exactly happened. Through interviews with former classmates, Foster’s blog posts, playlists, and text archives, and the narrator’s own obsessive imagination, a story unfurls—Foster’s, yes, but also one that asks us who owns our personal narratives, and how we shape ourselves to be the heroes or villains of our own stories.         Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos is about privilege and power, the pitfalls of masculinity and its expectations, and, most distinctly, how we create the mythologies that give meaning to our lives. With his debut novel, Nash Jenkins brilliantly captures the emotional intensities of adolescence in the dizzying early years of the twenty-first century. *Includes a downloadable PDF of Foster Dade's iTunes Playlists

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Open Heart Author: Elvira Lindo Narrator: Ana Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War. In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells the story of her parents—the story of an excessive love, passionate and unstable, forged through countless fights and reconciliations, which had a profound effect on their entire family. Manuel Lindo came from nothing, but stubbornly worked his way up at the Dredging and Construction Company. Obliged to move from city to city for his job, the family couldn't put down roots, and Elvira and her siblings' childhood was marked by unpredictability. As they pass through temporary homes, they're caught between Manuel's outsized temper and their young mother's worsening illness, which would tragically take her life. Beginning with nine-year-old Manuel's experience in Madrid in 1939, Open Heart takes us on a sweeping journey through Spain full of beautifully observed insights about love in its many forms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World Is Full of Champions Author: Julie Sullivan Narrator: Michelle Cole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The World Is Full of Champions spans more than thirty years from the ’60s to the late ’90s in race-torn Philadelphia as two proud Black families—one wealthy, the other not—confront major change when tragedy strikes and the daughter of the working-class Smythe family falls in love with the son of the affluent Whitman family.Georgia Smythe and her mother live on the rough side of town. As a young girl, she loses her father in a tragic mining accident, but overcomes her loss to become a thoughtful and attractive young woman. She falls in love with Lawrence, the handsome son of the Whitman family for whom her mother works as a maid. The Whitmans, recovering from the death of Lawrence’s brother in a hit-and-run car accident, have other ideas about whom their remaining son should marry and are concerned about how such a liaison will affect their social position.How will the two families deal with Georgia and Lawrence’s relationship and the unintended divulging of a closely guarded secret?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wilsons Save the World: Series 1-3: A BBC Radio 4 comedy Author: Marcus Brigstocke And Sarah Morgan Narrator: Jasmine Sakyiama, Aine Mcnamara, Mia Jenkins, India Brown, Kerry Godliman, Caitlin Moran, Full Cast, Marcus Brigstocke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The complete Series 1-3 of the full-cast BBC comedy about trying to live ethically and do the right thing Michael (Marcus Brigstocke) and Maxine (Kerry Godliman) Wilson and their teenage daughters, Lola and Cat, (plus their bearded dragon Chomsky, and about 150,000 bees) have resolved to live a cleaner, greener, serener life. They are attempting to live ethically... whatever that means. The Wilsons conscientiously tackle tricky situations and dilemmas; from balancing the need of hot sun on holiday to a carbon-neutral campsite, explaining the pitfalls of online relationships to their daughter by drawing parallels to Brexit or protesting library closures when, according to Cat, everything can be found online anyway. The family, good folk that they are, are trying about 20% harder and learning to live with about 19% more failure in trying to save the world. They are not giving up. Written by Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan Produced by Julia McKenzie and Suzy Grant A BBC Studios Production Cast Mike - Marcus Brigstocke Max - Kerry Godliman Lola - India Brown/Jasmine Sakyiama Cat - Mia Jenkins/Aine McNamara BMW Paul/Postman/Marlin - Mike Wozniak Phillip - Rupert Vansittart Jennifer - Vicki Pepperdine Pauline - Liza Tarbuck Till/Frankie/TV Presenter - Shannon Murray Herself - Caitlin Moran Shopkeeper - George Fouracres Mrs Denton/Cosmos/DC Hunter - Nimisha Odedra Various - Kiell Smith-Bynoe First broadcast in November 2017 (Series 1), February-March 2019 (Series 2), November 2020 (Series 3) ©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunrise Over Mercy Court Author: Fiona Mccallum Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 5, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: There's life in these old dogs yet ... and they're about to discover it. A heartwarming and humorous story about rediscovering the small pleasures that make life worthwhile, from Australia's master storyteller. Howard and Elsie Manning were born on the same day, met at kindergarten, and have been married for 59 years. They have lived sensible, productive lives, and raised two self-sufficient daughters. Now, at 78, they are bored with the predictability of life, fed up with contemporary society, have aching joints and dwindling finances, and - funeral by funeral - their circle of friends is shrinking. Worst of all, they are grieving for their beloved, recently deceased dog Maisie. Together Howard and Elsie consider bringing their lives to a peaceful end, but it turns out leaving this world is not easy, especially if they want to avoid pain or mess. Even the apparently simple methods have much room for error, as they discover. Then a knock at the door changes everything ... Praise for Fiona McCallum 'Fiona McCallum is one of Australia's favourite authors, and Her Time to Shine is another inspiring tale about finding strength and overcoming obstacles.' -CANBERRA WEEKLY

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman's Work Author: Victoria Purman Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 5, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women - our mothers and grandmothers - in a beautifully realised post-war Australia. It's 1956, and while Melbourne is in a frenzy gearing up for the Olympics, the women of Australia are cooking up a storm for their chance to win the equivalent of a year's salary in the extraordinary Australian Women's Weekly cookery contest. For two women, in particular, the prize could be life-changing. For war widow and single mum Ivy Quinn, a win would mean more time to spend with her twelve-year-old son, Raymond. Mother of five Kathleen O'Grady has no time for cooking competitions, but the prize could offer her a different kind of life for herself and her children, and the chance to control her own future. As winter turns to spring both women begin to question their lives. For Kathleen, the grinding domesticity of her work as a wife and mother no longer seems enough, while Ivy begins to realise she has the courage to make a difference for other women and tell the truth about the ghosts from her past. But is it the competition prize that would give them a new way of seeing the world - a chance to free themselves from society's expectation and change their own futures - or is it the creativity and confidence it brings? Praise for Victoria Purman 'Heart-achingly raw yet filled with the beauty of the human spirit, [The Nurses' War] is a triumph that will linger in the heart and psyche.' Karen Brooks, author of The Good Wife of Bath 'A richly crafted novel ... [The Women's Pages] graphically depicts life during those harrowing years. A touching tale and an enthralling read.' Reader's Digest

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baggage: The Complete Series 1-4: A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Author: Hilary Lyon Narrator: Adie Allen, June Watson, Hilary Lyon, Stuart Mcquarrie, Robin Cameron, Phyllis Logan, Peter Capaldi, Full Cast, David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All four series of the comedy drama set in Edinburgh, following the lives of three fortysomething best friends 'Warmth, realism, humour... a continuing pleasure' The Guardian Caroline, Fiona and Ruth are lifelong friends, who've grown up together, laughed and cried together, and stood by each other through thick and thin. They may not always see eye to eye, and they might drive each other crazy, but they can't do without each other. But life's got a lot more complicated since they were 22, when the only things they carried around were handbags. Now, in midlife, they've got more baggage than the average airport carousel. Caroline's been dumped by her politician husband of 10 years, Alistair; single mother Ruth is struggling with her monosyllabic teenage son; and Fiona's walked out on her husband Roddy - and moved in with Caroline, in her poky top-floor Marchmont flat. Over the course of several manic Midsummers, crisis-ridden Christmases and hopeful Hogmanays, they grapple with ex-husbands and new lovers; broodiness and babies; divorce, dementia and alcoholism - only to find themselves climbing their biggest mountain yet. Aided by Roddy, Fiona's elderly mum Gladys, and Caroline's larger-than-life dad Hector, they set about forging their own new, strangely shaped, thoroughly 21st Century family... Written by Hilary Lyon, who also stars as Caroline, this funny, poignant sitcom is a love letter to female friendship - and to one of Europe's loveliest capital cities, Edinburgh. Phyllis Logan and Adie Allen co-star as Fiona and Ruth, with Peter Capaldi and Stuart McQuarrie as Alistair, Robin Cameron as Roddy, June Watson as Gladys and David Rintoul as Hector. Production credits Written by Hilary Lyon Produced by Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy Directed by Marilyn Imrie Broadcast Assistant: Sarah Tombling Sound Engineer: Phil Horne Studio Manager: Alison McKenzie Theme song by Nusa An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4 Cast Caroline - Hilary Lyon Fiona - Phyllis Logan Ruth - Adie Allen Roddy - Robin Cameron Caitlin - Holly Wagner Mike/Simeon - Stuart McQuarrie Rev Nicholas/Tax man - Moray Hunter Alistair - Peter Capaldi/Stuart McQuarrie Kir - Peter Capaldi Caitlin - Holly Wagner Gladys - June Watson Fats/Waiter - Gordon Kennedy Janie - Hilary MacLean Gillian - Carolyn Bonnyman Trampy little nurse/Miriam/Polly/Wifie - Nicola Grier Malcolm/Peter - Jack Docherty Preston - Roger May Hector - David Rintoul First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6 April-11 May 2005 (Series 1), 4 August-1 September 2006 (Series 2), 5 December 2007-9 January 2008 (Series 3), 8 July-12 August 2009 (Series 4) © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Coronation Party: The heart-warming and uplifting new saga for fans of Nancy Revell Author: Norma Curtis Narrator: Deryn Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 16, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Summer, 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street, the bunting is being brought out, and Britain is getting ready to crown its new Queen. Except Helen Jones doesn't feel much like celebrating. Her father passed away last year, on the very same day as King George. Life hasn't felt the same ever since. Her husband Tad has a plan. As the newly-appointed chair of the small town's Coronation Tea Party committee, he's hoping that the day will be the perfect moment to bring a spark of joy back to their little family - and to the whole community. But then Helen gets a letter from her mum in London, and she realises she has a bigger dream - she's going to go to see the new Queen... ©2023 Norma Curtis (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Im Tal der Kolibris Series: #4 of Liebe & Schicksal in fernen Ländern Author: Danielle Stevens Narrator: Elektra Jessica Tiziani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Hamburg, 19. Jahrhundert: Unsicher umklammert die junge Charlotte das goldene Medaillon – das Einzige, was ihr von ihrer geliebten Mutter geblieben ist. In wenigen Minuten wird sie sich auf die Reise ins ferne Chile begeben. Dort soll sie den mächtigen Großgrundbesitzer Miguel Duarte heiraten. Und vielleicht, so hofft sie, kann sie in dem ungezähmten Land endlich das Geheimnis um das Verschwinden ihrer Mutter lüften. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne für sie: Auf der Überfahrt verliert Charlotte ihr Herz an den einfachen Maat Leander. Lieber will sie mit ihrer Familie und den Regeln der Gesellschaft brechen, als ohne ihn zu sein! Aber bevor sie nach ihrer Ankunft in Chile ihre Verlobung lösen kann, erreicht sie eine furchtbare Nachricht ...-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Aleksandra (Ungekürzt) Author: Lisa Weeda Narrator: Nellie Thalbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 24, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Lisa Weedas Großmutter heißt Aleksandra und stammt aus der Ostukraine. Über dieses Land, auf das heute alle Welt schaut, hat ihre Enkelin einen fulminanten Roman geschrieben. Die Nummer 1 aus den Niederlanden, übersetzt in zahlreiche Sprachen. 'Meine Familie lebt in einem Gebiet, das seit hundert Jahren von Konflikten geprägt ist. Das Schreiben dieses Buches ist meine Art, mich an dem Kampf zu beteiligen. Es ist ein Denkmal für meine Familie, die durch all diese schrecklichen Ereignisse hindurch stark geblieben ist.' Auf Geheiß ihrer 94-jährigen Großmutter Aleksandra reist die Erzählerin Lisa nach Luhansk, um das Grab ihres Onkels Kolja zu suchen, der seit 2015 verschwunden ist. Das verfluchte Geburtsland ihrer Oma sei gefährlich und kein Ort für Stippvisiten, warnt der Soldat am Checkpoint. Lisa gelingt die Flucht durchs Kornfeld - und landet plötzlich in der Vergangenheit: im magischen Palast des verlorenen Donkosaken. In seinen unzähligen Räumen entfaltet sich ein packendes Jahrhundertpanorama, das nic˝ht nur die Geschichte ihrer Familie lebendig werden lässt, sondern die Historie dieses ganzen Landes, einer Region, die nie zur Ruhe kommt.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Erbe der Teehändlerin - Die Ronnefeldt-Saga, Band 3 (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Susanne Popp Narrator: Astrid Kohrs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 22, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Die große Welt des Tees, die bewegende Geschichte einer Frau, die ihren Weg geht und das Schicksal einer Kaufmannsfamilie - der dritte Band der Ronnefeldt-Saga Frankfurt, 1889: Friederike Ronnefeldt ist stolz, dass der Teehandel, den einst ihr Mann Tobias gegründet hat, auch in der dritten Generation fortgeführt werden soll. Sie ist ein Vorbild für ihren Enkel Rolf, der die Geschäfte übernehmen möchte. Um Erfahrungen rund um den Teeanbau und -handel zu sammeln, geht er auf eine Weltreise, die ihn unter anderem nach Indien, Ceylon und China führt. Und Rolf ist sich sicher: Er möchte seine innovativen Ideen wieder mit nach Frankfurt nehmen. Zu Hause wartet nicht nur das Familienunternehmen auf ihn, sondern auch die Unternehmerstochter Anna Reither, die ihm seit ihrer ersten Begegnung mit ihrer klugen und engagierten Art nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gehen will.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gleißendes Licht (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Marc Sinan Narrator: Tim Seyfi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 22, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Türkisch, deutsch, armenisch. Eine Familiengeschichte zwischen drei Kulturen, voller Glanz, Tragik und Gewalt. Als der Berliner Komponist Kaan zu einem Stipendienaufenthalt nach Istanbul reist, geht seine Welt entzwei: Deutlich und unerwartet überkommt ihn das Trauma seiner Großmutter, deren Familie bei dem Völkermord an den Armeniern ausgelöscht wurde. Kaan beginnt zu erinnern: an seine Großeltern, sie Armenierin, er Türke, die in den Jahren der Republik unter Atatürk zu Wohlstand kamen, um am Ende doch alles zu verlieren. An seine Mutter, die ihre türkische Heimat für ihren deutschen Mann hinter sich lässt. An seine eigene Kindheit, Besuche bei den Großeltern am Schwarzen Meer, die nach grünen Bohnen und salzigem Fisch schmeckten, nach der Wärme der Ba_lama klangen und in den Farben der Wellen leuchteten... In allem war für den Jungen Musik. Und während Kaan erzählt, erfasst ihn ein Wunsch nach Rache: an einem türkischen Präsidenten, der den ersten großen Genozid der Moderne nach über hundert Jahren noch immer leugnet. Ein Roman, der ein ganzes Jahrhundert erzählt, von den 10er Jahren in der Türkei über München in den 80er Jahren bis ins Berlin der Gegenwart: Marc Sinans Debüt verfängt durch überbordende Fantasie, poetische Raffinesse und unbändige Erzähllust.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Als Großmutter im Regen tanzte (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Trude Teige Narrator: Yara Blümel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 22, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Drei Frauen, drei Generationen, verbunden durch die Liebe und ein tragisches Geheimnis der Nachkriegszeit Als Juni ins Haus ihrer verstorbenen Großeltern auf der kleinen norwegischen Insel zurückkehrt, entdeckt sie ein Foto: Es zeigt ihre Großmutter Tekla als junge Frau mit einem deutschen Soldaten. Wer ist der unbekannte Mann? Ihre Mutter kann Juni nicht mehr fragen. Das Verhältnis zwischen ihrer Mutter und ihrer Großmutter war immer von etwas Unausgesprochenem überschattet. Die Suche nach der Wahrheit führt Juni nach Berlin und in die kleine Stadt Demmin im Osten Deutschlands, die nach der Kapitulation von der russischen Armee überrannt wurde. Juni begreift, dass es um viel mehr geht als um eine verheimlichte Liebe. Und dass ihre Entdeckungen Konsequenzen haben für ihr eigenes Glück. Großmutter tanzte im Regen erzählt davon, wie uns die Vergangenheit prägt bis in die Generationen der Töchter und Enkelinnen. Doch vor allem ist es eine Geschichte über die heilende Kraft der Liebe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forsaking All Others Author: LaVyrle Spencer Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved stories—about a woman who must look past the surface to see true beauty within . . . Allison Scott has her mind on her career. As an up-and-coming photographer, she has neither the time nor the inclination for an affair—especially since her last attempt at love with a handsome model shattered her dreams of rising to the top with a partner by her side. Now, Allison is determined to stay detached from the beautiful men she must photograph every day. But Rick Lang, who only models to pay the bills, can see through Allison's aloofness to the aching heart beneath. And while it's clear that Allison isn't about to let him in without a fight, Rick knows that he's the right man to be trusted with the gift of her love . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Young Mungo (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Douglas Stuart Narrator: Julian Horeyseck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 20, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Für die hypermaskuline Welt der Arbeiterviertel im Glasgow der 90er Jahre ist Mungo zu hübsch und zu sanft. Sein Bruder Hamish, gefürchteter Bandenführer, will ihn zum Mann machen und schleift ihn zu den brutalen Kämpfen zwischen Protestanten und Katholiken - nur wer hart genug ist, kann hier überleben. Dann trifft Mungo auf James und mit ihm kann er sein, wie er ist. Mit ihm lernt er ein Begehren kennen, das geächtet ist, das ihn mit Scham erfüllt, aber auch mit Glück, das er selbst vor seiner Schwester Jodie verleugnen muss, mit der er sonst alles teilt. Denn die Liebe, die zwischen den Jungen wächst, ist lebensgefährlich - und zugleich ihre Rettung. Ein großartiger Roman über Liebe in einer von Gewalt geprägten homophoben Welt und die Verheißung von Aufbruch und Befreiung.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Caldwell Girls - Zeiten der Entbehrung - Die große Caldwell Saga, Band 2 (Ungekürzt) Author: Rowena Summers Narrator: Eva Becker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 17, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Es gibt zwei Arten von Krieg: Den Krieg an der Front und den Krieg in dir. Und beide werden Opfer fordern. Eine schreckliche Tragödie hat die Familie Caldwell auseinandergerissen und die Caldwell Girls in alle Richtungen zerstreut: Imogen hat sich dem Kriegsdienst angeschlossen. Elsie scheint ihr Glück in der Ehe zu finden. Und Daisy? Daisy fühlt sich verloren ... Mittlerweile lebt sie weit weg von zu Hause und vermisst ihre Familie. Sie findet zwar neue Freunde, geht aus und flirtet, aber überall breiten sich die Schrecken des Krieges weiter aus. Tod. Krankheiten. Verwundete. Schmerzen. Die Arbeit als Krankenschwester bringt Daisy zusehends an ihre Grenzen. Während das Chaos des Zweiten Weltkriegs immer heftiger wütet und ihr eigenes Leben in Scherben zerfällt, träumt Daisy von wahrer Liebe, echter Freundschaft und von der Hoffnung auf ein anderes, besseres Leben. Aber hat sie dafür noch die Kraft? Drei Schwestern. Drei Schicksale. Der zweite Teil der großen Caldwell Saga.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Storchenherzen Author: Fritzi Teichert Narrator: Sandra Voss, Anne Sofie Schietzold Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Die Störche fliegen tief: zwei Hebammen zwischen Chaos und LiebeHelga betreibt zusammen mit Kollegin Monika eine kleine Hebammenpraxis. Zwar liebt Helga ihren Job, aber nicht alle werdenden Mütter können mit ihrer ruppigen Art etwas anfangen. Zum Glück taucht Madita auf: Sie ist seit Kurzem ausgebildete Hebamme, zwanzig Jahre jünger und strotzt vor Tatendrang.Helga ist entsetzt: Madita redet ohne Punkt und Komma, ist ekelhaft fröhlich und macht laufend esoterische Verbesserungsvorschläge. Zu allem Überfluss hat Helga eine handfeste Ehekrise ...Auch für Madita ist der Start ruckelig: An ihrem ersten Tag verursacht sie beinahe einen Unfall: Doch statt der Versicherung tauchen plötzlich lästige Verliebtheitsschmetterlinge auf ...-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lesson Learned: The new heartwarming novel from Sunday Times bestseller Rosie Goodwin Author: Rosie Goodwin Narrator: Charlie Sanderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Nuneaton, 1850 Growing up on a canal boat has meant life for young Saffie Doyle has been hard. Her mother, Olivia, was cast out by her well-to-do family when she fell in love with Saffie's father, a lowly boatman named Reuben. But as the years have passed, Reuben has become a bitter and cruel drunk, forced to work for the local crook, Seth Black, to keep their family afloat. Saffie always dreamed of becoming a teacher, despite her father's insistence that she had no need to read and write. Keen to nurture her ambitions, Olivia hoped to introduce Saffie to a childhood friend - the kindly and wealthy Marcus - who runs a free school for the local children, but when Olivia falls ill, she's unable to. One night, Saffie's 17-year-old brother and her father go out on a job with Seth Black and never return home. Saffie is forced to place her dreams on hold as she steps up to look after her family. With her younger siblings relying on her, will Saffie ever be able to live the life she hopes for?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Habichtland: Roman Author: Florian Knöppler Narrator: Heiko Grauel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 10, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Wie kann man leben und lieben, wenn die Welt im Irrsinn versinkt? Deutschland 1941: Hannes und Lisa leben mit ihren Kindern zurückgezogen auf einem kleinen Hof in der Elbmarsch. Sie wollen sich von allem fernhalten, was nach Politik riecht. Doch Lisa fällt das immer ­schwerer. Sie kann nicht länger stillhalten, wenn der Bürgermeister seine Reden schwingt, wenn die Lehrerin ihren Kindern Härte predigt. Als Hannes einen offiziellen Posten im Dorf annimmt, um seine Familie zu schützen, spricht Lisa kaum noch mit ihm. Kurz darauf trifft Hannes seine Jugendliebe Mara wieder, die ihn bittet, ein großes Wagnis einzugehen ... In der Fortsetzung seines erfolgreichen Romans 'Kronsnest' erzählt Florian Knöppler mit großer sprachlicher Intensität von einer Familie, die an den Verhältnissen der Zeit zu zerbrechen droht. 'Florian Knöppler hat ein feines Gespür für die Charaktere und deren Dialoge, für Landschaften und das Lebensgefühl in einer dunklen Zeit.' Hauke Harder | Buchhandlung Almut Schmidt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Fundación e Imperio (Ciclo de la Fundación 4) Series: #4 of Ciclo de la Fundación Author: Isaac Asimov Narrator: Raúl Lloréns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Fundación e Imperio es el cuarto volumen del «Ciclo de la Fundación», pero también la segunda parte de la original «Trilogía de la Fundación» o «Ciclo de Trántor», que puede leerse independientemente y que fue galardonada con el Premio Hugo a la mejor serie de ciencia ficción de todos los tiempos. Guiada por su fundador, el gran psicohistoriador Hari Seldon, la Fundación ha logrado sobrevivir a la amenaza de barbarie de sus planetas vecinos. Pero ahora debe enfrentarse al Imperio, que, pese a su decadencia, sigue siendo la fuerza más poderosa de la galaxia. Y nadie ha podido prever el nacimiento de una extraordinaria criatura llamada el Mulo, una inteligencia mutante dotada de poderes paranormales capaces de convertir al humano más combativo en un dócil esclavo. «Una profunda comprensión de la ciencia y su significado». The New York Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El mundo Author: Juan José Millás Narrator: Juan José Millás Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: LA NOVELA MÁS PERSONAL DE JUAN JOSÉ MILLÁS, GANADORA DEL PREMIO NACIONAL DE NARRATIVA Y DEL PREMIO PLANETA «Guarda en sus páginas verdades sobrecogedoras, auténticas y emocionantes sobre el poder de las palabras». Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País «El mejor Millás». Soledad Puértolas «Qué habría ocurrido si aquel día lejano de mi infancia no hubiera regresado al sótano por el mismo agujero por el que había salido de él. Tal vez la vida hubiera mantenido siempre aquel brillo o aquella fiebre». «Hay libros que, al modo del automóvil que se salta un semáforo, se cruzan violentamente en tu existencia. Este es de los que se saltan el semáforo —explica Millás—. Me habían encargado un reportaje sobre mí mismo, de forma que comencé a seguirme. Un día me dije: “Mi padre tenía un taller de aparatos de electromedicina”. Entonces se me apareció el taller, conmigo y con mi padre dentro. Él estaba probando un bisturí eléctrico sobre un filete. De súbito, me dijo: “Fíjate, Juanjo, cauteriza la herida en el momento mismo de producirla”. Comprendí que la escritura, como el bisturí, cicatrizaba las heridas en el instante de abrirlas e intuí por qué era escritor. Acababa de ser arrollado por una novela». Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa y del Premio Planeta, alabada por la crítica y los lectores, El mundo narra con maestría el tránsito a la vida adulta de un adolescente, pero también el descubrimiento de una manera original e imaginativa de observar y entender la realidad. La crítica ha dicho: «Para no hacerlo sentir incómodo, finjamos que Millás no es uno de nuestros mejores escritores». Sergi Pàmies, La Vanguardia «La escritura de Juan José Millás, el Buster Keaton de nuestra literatura, es única e inimitable». J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, Cultura/s (La Vanguardia) «Una mirada transgresora y llena de sutileza que transforma la realidad, la reinterpreta y la ficcionaliza». Íñigo Urrutia, El Diario Vasco «Millás derriba el mundo y descubre su trastienda, se divierte con la demolición, aunque describa el triste escaparate de los días. Millás, está claro, sigue siendo un maestro». Saúl Fernández, La Nueva España «Juan José Millás es dueño de un territorio fantástico de incuestionable personalidad». J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País «Millás tiene la capacidad de ver donde otros no alcanzamos ni siquiera a vislumbrar nada». César Coca, El Correo «Millás es uno de los escritores con más verdad por centímetro cuadrado de página». Antonio Iturbe, Qué Leer «Millás se aprovecha de la actualidad para contarnos la vida, para expresar su perplejidad, que es la nuestra, ante el discurrir del mundo. [...] Navegar por él permite viajar a nuestra imaginación». Fernando Delgado, La Opinión «Aquí está el mejor Millás, el autor en estado puro, liberado de la tiranía del género y del convencionalismo de tener que idear un personaje, urdir un argumento y atarse mínimamente a unas reglas cuyo dominio está sobradamente probado». Iñaki Ezquerra, El Correo Español (sobre La vida a ratos) «Una pirueta, un salto mortal del acróbata Juan José Millás [...]. Y sin red». Manuel Llorente, La Esfera (El Mundo) (sobre Que nadie duerma)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sibir (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Sabrina Janesch Narrator: Julia Nachtmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Furchterregend klingt das Wort, das der zehnjährige Josef Ambacher aufschnappt: Sibirien. Die Erwachsenen verwenden es für alles, was im fernen, fremden Osten liegt. Dorthin werden Hunderttausende deutscher Zivilisten - es ist das Jahr 1945 - von der Sowjetarmee verschleppt, unter ihnen auch Josef. Kasachstan ist das Ziel. Dort angekommen, findet er sich in einer harten, aber auch wundersamen, mythenvollen Welt wieder - und er lernt, sich gegen die Steppe und ihre Vorspiegelungen zu behaupten. Mühlheide, 1990: Josef Ambacher wird mit seiner Vergangenheit konfrontiert, als nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion eine Woge von Aussiedlern die niedersächsische Kleinstadt erreicht. Seine Tochter Leila steht zwischen den Welten und muss vermitteln - und das zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem sie selbst den Spuk der Geschichte zu begreifen und zu bannen versucht. Sabrina Janesch erzählt mitreißend und in leuchtenden Farben die Geschichte zweier Kindheiten, einmal in Zentralasien nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, einmal fünfzig Jahre später in Norddeutschland. Dabei spannt sie meisterhaft einen Bogen, der unbekannte, unerzählte Kapitel der deutsch-russischen Geschichte miteinander verbindet. Ein großer Roman über die Suche nach Heimat, die Geister der Vergangenheit und die Liebe, die sie zu besiegen vermag.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Union of Smokers Author: Paddy Scott Narrator: Paddy Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 30, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Kaspar Pine begins his day with a simple task: replace a pet canary. By day’s end, as Kaspar is being loaded into an ambulance, he delivers one hell of a “theme essay,” covering such subjects as his ability to source and catalogue the cigarette butts he harvests; information on maintaining the social order of chickens, along with general and historic farming details that run from Saskatchewan to Ontario; insinuating himself between other kids and people who wish to do them harm; fire marshalling; and his inability to maintain an essayist’s cool detachment in the face of unrequited first love. The Union of Smokers details the heartfelt and heroic last day in the life of a reluctant, irreverent, and oddly wise hero.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Tierärztin - Mutige Wege - Tierärztin-Saga, Teil 3 (Gekürzt) Author: Sarah Lark Narrator: Nicole Engeln Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 27, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Australien, 1955: Daphne hat ihr Tiermedizinstudium beendet. Nun könnte sie im Zoo von Perth arbeiten, den ihre Eltern Maria und Bernhard leiten. Aber Daphne entscheidet sich, eine Forschungsstelle anzunehmen, was sie schließlich in den Kongo führen wird. Doch die belgische Kolonie ist im Umbruch und bald ist Daphne dort nicht mehr sicher ... Paris: Völlig unerwartet verstirbt Grits Vater bei einer gemeinsamen Konzertprobe. Im Gedenken an ihn führt sie dennoch die Tournee zu Ende. Als sie aber feststellt, dass sie von dem Cellisten Vincent schwanger ist, nimmt sie das nächste Schiff nach Neuseeland zu ihrer Mutter, der Tierärztin Nellie. Dort taucht die berühmte Pianistin ein in eine völlig andere Welt und muss sich mit ihrer Vergangenheit auseinandersetzen, bevor sie an die Zukunft denken kann. Neuseeland: Helena sieht ihre Träume von der Übernahme des Gestüts zerplatzen, nachdem ihr Großvater auf einen männlichen Nachfolger zu setzen scheint. Als dann auch noch ihre Mutter anreist, zu der sie bisher kaum Kontakt hatte, steht Helenas Welt Kopf ... Das fesselnde Finale der großen Familiengeschichte Der in sich abgeschlossene dritte Teil der erfolgreichen TIERÄRZTIN-Saga

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La razón de estar contigo. La historia de Ellie Author: W. Bruce Cameron Narrator: Juan Magraner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 27, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: «Una experiencia totalmente refrescante para el alma.» Loca por los libros Ellie es una perrita muy especial con una razón de vida muy importante. Desde que era un cachorro, Ellie ha sido adiestrada para la búsqueda y el rescate; puede rastrear desde un niño perdido en el bosque hasta un herido entre las ruinas de un edificio. Pero ahora Ellie tendrá otra misión; sus dueños, Jakob y la solitaria Maya, la necesitan. Los humanos pueden perderse de diversas maneras, y para que Ellie pueda realizar el trabajo para el que nació, primero deberá encontrar el camino para salvar a quienes más la aman. - W. Bruce Cameron (Petoskey, Michigan 1960). Escritor, guionista y humorista, saltó a la fama en 2010 con la publicación de La razón de estar contigo. Es autor de varios libros más, todos ellos grandes éxitos de venta internacional.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Haus über den Klippen Series: #3 of Liebe & Schicksal in fernen Ländern Author: Danielle Stevens Narrator: Elektra Jessica Tiziani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 27, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Voller Hoffnung auf Antworten macht sich Vicky Tancredi auf den Weg nach Neuseeland – zu ihrem Vater. In diesem Land der Gegensätze voll grüner Hügel und dichten Urwalds will sie endlich herausfinden, warum er vor fast zwanzig Jahren seine Familie verließ und für immer verschwand. Aber dort, in dem Haus über den Klippen, erwartet Vicky eine erschütternde Nachricht. Als sie kurz darauf Notizen findet, die auf ein altes Geheimnis hindeuten, ist sie entschlossen, dieses zu lüften und in Neuseeland zu bleiben. In dem gutaussehenden James, dem Nachbarn ihres Vaters, findet sie einen Vertrauten. Doch was hat es zu bedeuten, dass die Geschichte seiner Familie untrennbar mit den Geheimnissen ihrer Vergangenheit verwoben scheint?-