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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Café on Manor Lane Author: Amelia Kyazze Narrator: Jane Ajia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 9, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A stranger can change your life in a moment of kindness 1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo, a doctor from Nigeria, Archibald's Café is the only place they feel like they belong. 1977: With London tense with anger, Amara decides to take action. 2010: Gina is a daydreaming artist whose efforts crumble into disaster. Her hopes for a career are over as she finds herself making lattes at the café where her grandparents went on their first date. Across the lives of three generations of women, London can be a harsh and beautiful place. Yet, chance friendships hold people together, when the world feels like it is falling apart. Fans of Clare Pooley and Freya Sampson will love The Café on Manor Lane ‘A powerful story of hope, community and friendship… a real love letter to London’ Katie Lumsdon, author of The Secrets of Hartwood Hall ‘A beautiful story about the power of community and friendships’ Eleanor Goymer, author of The Fallback ‘A heartwarming and necessary story to make you fall in love with London’ Eve Edwards, author of The Summer of Wishful Thinking ‘Amidst all the ugliness in the world…friendship, kindness, chosen family and community can heal’ Tina Baker, author of What We Did in the Storm ‘THIS BOOK GIVES ME HOPE! It was so beautiful and so powerful! The impact of community in this book is amazing!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The story and situation is very unique… all elements of this book are done extremely well. I adored it!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A fun sweet read! Highly recommend’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The setting was beautifully done… I found the characters interesting and engaging and could only ask for more’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The author found the beautiful in the everyday and created a rich narrative firmly rooted in Lewisham’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A heartwarming tale of community, love, and new beginnings. Charming characters and a cozy setting make it an enchanting, feel-good read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relative Strangers Author: A.H. Kim Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy love affairs and one explosive secret that could ruin everything. Amelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia, the cancer retreat center where her sister volunteers, seems like as good an idea as any. Amelia’s sister, Eleanor, has too much on her plate, including being caught up in a court battle with a man who claims to be their half brother from Seoul and their late father’s only son—a secret love child from his Korean youth—who’s fighting for a piece of everything that belongs to the Bae-Wood women. And when Amelia adds herself to Eleanor’s list of problems, Eleanor must figure out what to hold on to—and when to let go—before things starts to unravel. A witty, wry and enormously entertaining retelling, the sisters’ journey of self-discovery as they reshape their lives gives this classic tale a modern, feminist twist, as it touches on themes of blended families, race, class and wealth.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nuclear Family Author: Kate Davies Narrator: Olivia Darnley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real’ SARAH WATERS ‘Rambunctiously funny’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'I can’t think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY FROM THE POLARI PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF IN AT THE DEEP END Who do you choose when the cracks begin to show? When Lena buys DNA testing kits for her father Tom and twin sister Alison, she has no idea the gift will blow her family apart. Tom, forced to admit that he isn’t his daughters’ biological father, is terrified they will reject him. Alison, trying to start a family with her wife, doesn’t think DNA should make a difference. But Lena is obsessed with tracking down their biological father – and soon discovers they have a famous half-brother. Then she becomes obsessed with him, too… From the Polari Prize-winning author of In at the Deep End, this is a hilarious and deeply moving novel about what it means to be a family. READERS ARE LOVING NUCLEAR FAMILY 'I raced through it over a 24-hour period' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I loved the mix of humour, warmth and empathy. It's such an insightful book that really got me thinking' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Davies writes fearlessly and movingly – I felt as though I was reading about family friends. A brilliant read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I chuckled, laughed, and cried… People are alive and breathing on the pages of this book. Please read it and enjoy' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Laugh-out-loud funny… A delight!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Code Noir Author: Canisia Lubrin Narrator: Mia Golden, K. C. Collins, Marsha Regis, Canisia Lubrin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Here is groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired writers. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art—a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple: it departs from the infamous real-life “Code Noir,” a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original Code had fifty-nine articles; Code Noir has fifty-nine linked fictions—vivid, unforgettable, multi-layered fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past.     Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of stories exists far beyond the enclosures of official decrees. This is a timely, daring, virtuosic book by a young literary star.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Inconvenient Earl Author: Julia London Narrator: Justin Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 1, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Should he reveal her secret…or fall in love? It’s been over a year since Emma Clark, Countess of Dearborn’s, abusive husband left on an expedition. Emma is now head of the household and enjoying her new freedom. But people are beginning to presume the earl is dead. If Emma were widowed her husband’s family would remove her from the estate, leaving her destitute. Regardless of the truth she must ensure the rumours stop. But when the Earl of Marlaine, Luka Olivien appears on her doorstep, Emma’s lifestyle is threatened. Luka has travelled from Egypt to meet Albert’s grieving widow and return his belongings. Only the woman standing in front of him doesn’t know he is dead… Or does she?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622036 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Talulah's Back in Town Series: #1 of Coyote Canyon Author: Brenda Novak Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Sometimes the past we leave behind leads us right where we belong. Talulah Barclay doesn’t like complications. Unfortunately, they seem to love her. Fourteen years after leaving her fiancé at the altar, Talulah returns to her hometown of Coyote Canyon, Montana, to settle her great-aunt’s estate. As she’d feared, her “runaway bride” reputation is waiting right where she left it, and her ex’s best friend, Brant, isn’t about to let her slip by unnoticed. Brant has always been a loyal friend, but Talulah’s decision to run isn’t the only thing he hasn’t forgotten. He remembers more about Talulah than he cares to admit. Vividly. And it’s increasingly difficult to ignore her now, especially when they find themselves in close quarters. Talulah has no plans to stay in town after she fixes up her aunt’s Victorian farmhouse, even if the unbridled sparks with Brant give her a good reason to linger. Besides, bailing on relationships is kind of her thing. But a lot has changed since Talulah last turned tail—maybe her heart has changed, too? Coyote Canyon Book 1: Talulah's Back in Town Book 2: The Talk of Coyote Canyon

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Land Girls at the Wartime Bookshop: Book 2 in the uplifting WWII saga series about a community-run bookshop, from the bestselling author Series: #2 of The Wartime Bookshop Author: Lesley Eames Narrator: Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The village of Churchwood has never needed The Wartime Bookshop, or its community, more. But when the bookshop comes under threat at the worst possible time, can Alice, Kate and Naomi pull together to keep spirits high? Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult, but she is struggling more than ever to find time for the bookshop, for her friends - and especially for handsome pilot Leo Kinsella. Can two Land Girls help? Or will they be more trouble than they're worth? Naomi has found new friends and purpose through the bookshop and is happier than she's been in a long time - until she finds evidence that her husband is being unfaithful. With old insecurities rearing up, she needs to uncover the truth. Alice worries for her fiancé Daniel away fighting in the war and frets over the loss of her financial independence following an injury to her hand. With no job opportunities in Churchwood, might she find work somewhere else? Land Girls at the Wartime Bookshop is the second novel in the uplifting Wartime Bookshop series, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Elaine Everest. **Real readers are LOVING The Wartime Bookshop series** 'BRILLIANT' 'Oh I loved this book... please carry on the good writing' 'Wow what a brilliant start to a new series' 'Outstandingly fabulous, warm and inviting... so glad there is going to be a follow-on' ©2023 Lesley Eames (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Western Alliances: A Novel Author: Wilton Barnhardt Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Caroline Hewitt narrates this tale of the wealthy Costa family so intimately that listeners will be convinced she has insider status with this dysfunctional group.'- AudioFile From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s Western Alliances is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. This laugh-out-loud, darkly funny novel follows the Costa family—whose members are every bit as richly absurd as the characters in HBO’s Succession. Salvador, the patriarch, runs one of Wall Street’s biggest banks the summer before everything collapses; Roberto and Rachel, his two children, have never worked a day in their lives; and Lena, his ex-wife, is a scheming hypochondriac. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father’s choices and the repercussions of his actions. Oozing with his signature satire and biting wit, Barnhardt invites listeners on a literary romp from an elegant Paris apartment to a hilariously-inept London hotel, ancient churches and crypts to gleaming Mediterranean coasts, hot dog stands in Providence, Rhode Island to the best places in Manhattan, and terrifying encounters in the Serbian countryside to dangerous liaisons in Moscow, as two grown-up rich kids are forced to come of age at last. In Western Alliances Barnhardt he delivers a riveting saga examining privilege, loyalty, ambition, and what family members owe to one another. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Peach Seed: A Novel Author: Anita Gail Jones Narrator: Anita Gail Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Anita Gail Jones's narration transports listeners across centuries and continents as she details the complex history of a Southern Black family.'- AudioFile This program is read by the author, who brings more than twenty-five years of experience as a professional oral-tradition storyteller of global folklore as well as original and personal stories from her southwest Georgia upbringing. Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart—and a mountain of secrets—in this debut exploring the repercussions of a single choice and how an enduring talisman challenges and holds a family together. On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia, widower Fletcher Dukes smells a familiar perfume, then sees a tall woman the color of papershell pecans with a strawberry birthmark on the nape of her neck. He knows immediately that she is his lost love, Altovise Benson. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage plans were disrupted when the police turned a peaceful protest violent. Before Altovise fled the South, Fletcher gave her a peach seed monkey with diamond eyes. As we learn via harrowing flashbacks, an enslaved ancestor on the coast of South Carolina carved the first peach seed, a talisman that, ever since, each father has gifted his son on his thirteenth birthday. Giving one to Altovise initiated a break in tradition, irrevocably shaping the lives of generations of Dukeses. Recently, Fletcher has made do on his seven acres with his daughter Florida’s check-ins, his drop biscuits, and his faithful dog. But as he begins to reckon with long-ago choices, he finds he isn’t the only one burdened with unspoken truths. An indelible portrait of a family, The Peach Seed explores how kin pass down legacies of sorrow, joy, and strength. And it is a parable of how a glimmer of hope as small as a seed can ripple across generations. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Were Always Mine Author: Jo Piazza, Christine Pride Narrator: Alexis Floyd, Jenni Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘Sits squarely at the tender intersection of race, class, and ethics – wrapped in beautiful prose and a killer plot that keeps you turning the pages’ JODI PICOULT ‘Oh my goodness this book; quite possibly one of the most emotionally powerful, heart wrenching books about motherhood that I have ever read … I laughed and cried, and I know that this book will stay with me forever … I would give this book six stars if I could’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘It is a beautifully written book with a sensitivity and nuance that makes it an immensely rewarding read. I couldn’t recommend it more highly and if you are looking for the perfect book club read, this is it!’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ * * * * Is the truest family the one we’re born into, or the one we make for ourselves? Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for everything she has – her marriage, a stable job as a career counsellor, and home of her own. She’s overcome the difficult circumstances of her childhood to build this life, and yet, she can’t help but wonder … is this all there is? Just nineteen years old, Daisy Dunlap has already faced her share of hardships, but she has big dreams for her future. A future which is threatened when she gets unexpectedly pregnant and, desperate and alone, she makes a drastic decision with devastating consequences. When Cinnamon finds an abandoned baby in the park, she takes the newborn into her home, not realising the chain reaction this will set off. Cinnamon must deal with the shocking judgements from friends, strangers, even her own husband, about why a Black woman like her would take in this blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby, but all Cinnamon wants is to do right by this innocent child. Then, Cinnamon’s fragile hold over the baby is threatened and she must fight for the family she wants – even if that costs her everything she once held dear … –– PRAISE FOR CHRISTINE PRIDE & JO PIAZZA: ‘A powerful story about friendship, race, love, forgiveness, and justice … Empathetic, riveting, and authentic’ Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me ‘An absolute must-read for your book clubs for debate and discussion’ Nina Pottell, Prima (Book of the Month) ‘Powerful and timely’ Guardian ‘Guaranteed to get people talking’ Good Housekeeping

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tropicália: A Novel Author: Harold Rogers Narrator: André Santana, Gisela Chípe, Vanessa Moyen, Cindy Kay, Cynthia Farrell, Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Old secrets are brought to light when a family matriarch returns to Brazil after years away in this “original and highly immersive” (Good Morning America) debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds. Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind. He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his drug-dealing aunt and uncle, his mother makes her unwanted return, years after she fled to marry another American fool like his father. Misfortune, however, is a Cunha family affair, and no generation is spared. Not Daniel’s grandfather João—poor João—born to a prostitute and forced to raise his siblings while still a child himself. Not João’s wife, Marta, branded as a bruxa, reviled by her mother, and dragged from her Ilha paradise by her scheming daughter, Maria. And certainly not Maria, so envious of her younger sister’s beauty and benevolence that she took her vicious revenge and fled to the States, abandoning her children: Daniel and Lucia, both tainted now by their half-Americanness and their mother’s greedy absence. There’s poison in the Cunha blood. They are a family cursed, condemned to the pain of deprivation, betrayal, violence, and, worst of all, love. But now Maria has returned to grieve her father and finally make peace with Daniel and Lucia, or so she says. As New Year’s Eve nears, the Cunha family hurtles toward an irrevocable breaking point: a fire, a knife, and a death on the sands of Copacabana Beach. Amid the cacophony of Rio’s tumult—rampant poverty, political unrest, the ever-present threat of violence—a fierce chorus of voices rises above the din to ask whether we can ever truly repair the damage we do to those we love in this “fiery debut novel” (The Washington Post).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Human Failings Author: Megan Nolan Narrator: Jessica Regan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024. A Highly Anticipated Novel of 2023 in The Times, i-D, Esquire and the Guardian. When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the 'peasants' - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and 'bad apples': the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there's nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations. ©2023 Megan Nolan (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631150 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Husband: A Novel Author: Maud Ventura Narrator: Kiiri Sandy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love? A Belletrist Book Club Pick • An Amazon UK Best Book of the Year • Winner of France’s First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Vogue • theSkimm • Oprah Daily • The Millions At forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband, whose wealthy background allows her to transcend her own social class. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she’s never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, testing him to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met. Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far . . . “Fans of Caroline Kepnes’ You or Gillian Flynn will find My Husband to be a new, satisfying, and unnerving take on the relationship-suspense genre.” —Booklist (starred review)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pete and Alice in Maine: A Novel Author: Caitlin Shetterly Narrator: Joe Knezevich, Sarah Naughton, Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Gripping.”—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls “Shetterly’s debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film.”—Allegra Goodman, New York Times Book Review ''Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family, in crisis—set during the plague years when the entire world was in crisis. As she investigates the insidious effect of lies, betrayal, fear, and anger, not to mention the mundane joys and wrenching heartaches of everyday life, Caitlin Shetterly gets to the heart of what it means to be a family.” — Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles A powerful and beautifully written debut novel that intimately explores a fractured marriage and the struggles of modern parenthood, set against the backdrop of the chaotic spring of 2020. Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family and flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary—from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic and her faltering marriage. Putting distance between herself and the stresses and troubles of the city, Alice begins to feel safe and relieved. But the locals are far from friendly. Trapped and forced into quarantine by hostile neighbors, Alice sees the imprisoning structure of her life in this new predicament. Stripped down to the bare essentials of survival and tending to the needs of her two children, she can no longer ignore all the ways in which she feels limited and lost—lost in the big city, lost as a wife, lost as a mother, lost as a daughter and lost as a person. As the world shifts around her and the balance in her marriage tilts, Alice and her husband, Pete, are left to consider if what keeps their family safe is the same thing as what keeps their family together.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Banyan Moon: A Novel Author: Thao Thai Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Catherine Ho, Cindy Kay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick ''A riveting mother-daughter tale.'' — Elle ''Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington Post A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.  When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste—but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng. Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together. Running parallel to this is Minh’s story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond. Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Happiness Plan Author: Susan Mallery Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Three women search for joy in #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery’s new novel of hope, heartache, and the power of friendship.   Heather is happy . . . ish. She has a successful business, a cute but contemptuous cat, and best friends Daphne and Tori who know where she’s broken and love her anyway. So why does she feel crushed when her ex gets serious about someone new? No problem, she has a plan. More connections will hold her together while her world falls apart, so she finally reaches out to the stranger who might be her dad.   Daphne isn’t having an emotional affair, despite what her husband believes.  He started the rift in their marriage when he said they weren’t ready for a baby. They used to be the closest couple she knew. Can they find their way back to one another before it’s too late?   When Tori forms an inconvenient crush on Daphne’s brother-in-law, she suppresses her feelings. Until her apartment floods, and she moves in with the dog-loving doctor. If things go wrong, she could lose her friends. . . but if they go right, she could lose her heart. Don't miss #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery's joyful and utterly irresistible holiday tale, One Big Happy Family, about a mother who couldn't love her kids more hopes that, just this once, they don't come for Christmas.   Discover more by Susan Mallery: - Beach Vibes - One Big Happy Family - For the Love of Summer - The Summer Book Club - The Boardwalk Bookshop

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Café At Beach End Author: RaeAnne Thayne Narrator: Vanessa Johansson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The new summer romance for 2023 Finding happiness at The Cafe at Beach End… When Meredith Collins inherits a café in Cape Sanctuary, it is the perfect escape. After her ex-husband was convicted of embezzlement, she lost everything. Her only choice is to return to her hometown and start again, even if that means facing her cousin, Tori. The once inseparable cousins fell out when Meredith’s husband swindled their grandmother and have not spoken since. But back in the small town, Meredith starts to find new purpose and her relationship with Tori begins to heal. Until the arrival of a stranger in Cape Sanctuary, with an interest in Meredith’s past, puts at risk everything they have rediscovered. With so much uncertainty can Meredith really start again?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Run Baby Run Author: Melissa Lenhardt Narrator: Alex Picard, Natalie Duke, Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: "A compelling story of second chances and being true to yourself." —Harper Bliss, author of Seasons of Love,on The Secret of You and Me A mother, a daughter and a road trip that’s about to take a hard left turn in this heartfelt and witty story about the sacrifices we make for love. Darcy Evans is getting married. In a week. To a man who is her childhood dream come true. But a late-night confession from her best friend changes everything and before she even has time to unpack it, she must endure a road trip to the ceremony with her estranged mother, Marja. It was always the two of them against the world…until Marja ghosted Darcy three years ago. No car in the world has enough room for all of their baggage. The drive from Austin to Chicago is nostalgic, claustrophobic, incredibly messy and exactly what both women need. As they each find themselves at a crossroads in their lives, long-held secrets are revealed—ones that reshape Darcy’s memories of the past and forever alter the future she’d recently been so certain of. She hadn’t known what a reunion with her mother might bring, but sometimes following your heart means taking a path you never planned…and finding a love you never imagined.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel Author: Richard Ford Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives—sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent—Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days. In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on displays the prose, wit, and intelligence that make him one of our most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reproduction: A Novel Author: Louisa Hall Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in a country in crisis A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist’s own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life. In telling a story that ranges from pregnancy to miscarriage to traumatic birth, from motherhood to the frontiers of reproductive science, Louisa Hall draws powerfully from her own experiences, as well as the stories of two other women: Mary Shelley and Anna, a scientist and would-be parent who is contemplating the possibilities, and morality, of genetic modification. Both devastating and joyful, elegant and exacting, Reproduction is a powerful reminder of the hazards and the rewards involved in creating new life, and a profoundly feminist exploration of motherhood, female friendship, and artistic ambition.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nightbloom Author: Peace Adzo Medie Narrator: Sarah Dorgbadzi, Jessica Sarkodie, Ekua Ekumah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick His Only Wife, this moving novel about the unbreakable power of female friendship follows two estranged women in Ghana who reconnect in a crisis. When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and studious. They would do anything for each other, imploring their parents to let them be together, sharing their secrets and desires and private jokes. Then Selasi begins to change, becoming hostile and quiet; her grades suffer; she builds a space around herself, shutting Akorfa out. Meanwhile, Akorfa is ac-cepted to an American university with the goal of becoming a doctor.  Although hopeful that America will afford her opportunities not available to her in Ghana, she discovers the insidious ways that racism places obstacles in her path once in Pittsburgh. It takes a crisis to bring the friends back together, with Selasi’s secret revealed and Akorfa forced to reckon with her role in their estrangement. A riveting depiction of class and family in Ghana, a compelling exploration of memory, and an eye-opening story of life as an African-born woman in the US, Nightbloom is above all a gripping and beautifully written novel attesting to the necessity of female bonds in the face of societies that would silence them. This assured follow-up to Peace Adzo Medie’s much-heralded debut is perfect for readers of The Girl with the Louding Voice, Americanah, and Of Women and Salt.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Watch Us Shine: A Novel Author: Marisa De Los Santos Narrator: Nan Mcnamara, Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Marisa de los Santos returns to the world of her beloved, bestselling novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in an enthralling tale of sisterhood, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love. “Bring me the Northern Lights.” Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs Cornelia to bring her the Northern Lights, and despite her confusion at this mysterious plea, Cornelia vows to do so: “She was my mother and she wanted the Northern Lights; I was her daughter and would have given her anything, anything.” With the help of her prickly sister, Ollie, Cornelia embarks on a mission to piece together the lost years of their mother’s life: people, places, and events spanning Ellie’s late teens through her mid-twenties. Cornelia and Ollie’s quest takes them to unexpected places and into the worlds of strangers whose lives Ellie touched and irrevocably changed. As the sisters uncover truths about their mother’s life—some beautiful, some ugly, some tragic—Cornelia herself begins to heal, to forgive herself, and to find her way back home. Alternating between two timelines—Cornelia’s story in the present, and that of the young Eleanor Campbell in the 1960s—Watch Us Shine explores the complicated bonds between sisters, the impossible demands of motherhood, and the power of human love to save us again and again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Magnolia Summer: A Novel Author: Victoria Benton Frank Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “[B]y writing My Magnolia Summer, a novel of low country food, family drama, and just the right amount of romance, Victoria Benton Frank shows that she is the rightful heir to the crown of summertime storytellers. Her mother would be so proud.” — Ann Patchett  Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, struggling to find her place in the world when she receives a phone call bringing her back to her hometown of Sullivan's Island. In New York City winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan’s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything. Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie’s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she finds that her hometown of Sullivan’s Island holds even more secrets. The Magic Lantern, the restaurant owned and run by generations of women in her family, is now rudderless, and her sister seems headed for a savage breakup. Once she is between the marsh grasses and dunes of South Carolina, she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind, and a new and different version of herself—one who can see how a minor crash into the back of a very handsome farmer’s truck may become fortunate. Or perhaps it’s even… fate? When the three generations of South Carolina women join forces—the family pillar Gran, troubled Lily, impulsive Violet, and redoubtable Maggie—anything is possible.  With stunning descriptions of the magic of the Lowcountry, this novel will transport you to a world of treasured family traditions and unexpected twists of fate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charm City Rocks: A Love Story Author: Matthew Norman Narrator: Kristen Dimercurio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When a single dad meets the former rock-star crush of his youth, everything they thought they knew about happiness and love is thrown into chaos in this hopeful, heartwarming romantic comedy. “Bound to charm readers from page one . . . You’ll root for everyone in this sweet love story.”—Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask Billy Perkins is happy. And why wouldn’t he be? He loves his job as an independent music teacher and his apartment in Baltimore above a record shop called Charm City Rocks. Most of all, he loves his brainy teenage son, Caleb. Margot Hammer, on the other hand, is far from happy. The former drummer of the once-famous band Burnt Flowers, she’s now a rock-and-roll recluse living alone in New York City. When a new music documentary puts Margot back in the spotlight, she realizes how much she misses her old band and the music that gave her life meaning.   Billy has always had a crush on Margot. But she’s a legitimate rock star—or, at least, she was—so he never thought he’d meet her. Until Caleb, worried that his easygoing dad might actually be lonely, cooks up a scheme to get Margot to perform at Charm City Rocks. It’s the longest of long shots, but Margot’s label has made it clear that any publicity is an opportunity she can’t afford to miss. When their paths collide, Billy realizes that he maybe wasn’t as happy as he thought—and Margot learns that sometimes the sweetest music is a duet.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Bridge: A Novel Author: Yasuko Thanh Narrator: Yasuko Thanh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Mistakes to Run With, a heartrending tale of a mother hell-bent on saving her family after her daughter's suicide attempt—despite the destruction it might mean for herself. When Rose’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Juliet, attempts suicide, she does everything she can to hold her family together despite the inevitable unraveling that follows. Her husband Syd thinks their daughter is fine, that she’s going through a phase, and tells Rose she’s overreacting—as do the doctors, the school principal, and even Juliet herself. But Rose knows her daughter better than anyone. Doesn’t she? Rose and Juliet begin to drift apart and then fade into each other until they aren’t sure who’s saving whom—or if they’re saving each other. As Rose struggles to navigate this unknown territory, the family unwittingly makes decisions that suddenly send them all into an escalated tailspin toward disaster. Capturing the tightly coiled tension of seeing someone on the edge of a bridge about to jump, Yasuko Thanh takes us on a journey into the psyche of a woman grappling to understand why her daughter would want to die, and how to protect her child when she’s chosen not to protect herself. Haunting, emotional, and unforgettable, To the Bridge shows how a bridge is not something to leap from, but something to cross—how a mother and her daughter can find a way to connect, even when there is a river of difference raging between them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Graceland: A Novel Author: Nancy Crochiere Narrator: Hayden Bishop, Courtney Patterson, Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Graceland is a sparkling, warm-hearted, witty debut. I so enjoyed joining these three generations of women on their action-packed road trip to Memphis!” —Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author Hope Robinson can’t seem to please anyone lately, especially not her mother, the flamboyant soap star Olivia Grant. Olivia loves Elvis more than Jesus and, convinced she’s dying, insists on a final visit to Graceland. Unfortunately, that’s the one place Hope can’t take her. Hope fled Memphis years ago with a shameful secret and a vow never to return. Olivia, though, doesn’t understand the word no. Instead, she wrangles Hope’s pink-haired daughter, Dylan, to drive her to Memphis by promising to reveal the mystery of her long-lost father. Hope must stop them before they expose the truth and all hell breaks loose. As the women race from Boston to Memphis, encountering jealous soap actors, free-range ferrets, and a trio of Elvis-impersonating frat boys, everyone’s secrets begin to unravel. In order to become the family they long to be, Hope, Olivia, and Dylan must face hard truths about themselves and one another on the bumpy road to acceptance, forgiveness, and ultimately, grace. ''Irresistible, addictive, and utterly entertaining, Graceland is bound to win readers' hearts... This story of family secrets, broken promises, and the healing power of love will stay with you long after the final page is turned.'' —Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author ''Nancy Crochiere writes with such warmth and wit that I felt I was there alongside the women, cheering them on at every step of their crazy journey.'' — Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author of The Cactus

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Celebrants: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel Author: Steven Rowley Narrator: Steven Rowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle. It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation from Berkeley when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they’ve reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living—that their lives mean something, to one another if not to themselves. But this reunion is different. They’re not gathered as they were to bolster Marielle as her marriage crumbled, to lift Naomi after her parents died, or to intervene when Craig pleaded guilty to art fraud. This time, Jordan is sitting on a secret that will upend their pact. A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley’s signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid the deepest challenges of living.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orphanage Girls Come Home Series: #3 of The Orphanage Girls Author: Mary Wood Narrator: Nneka Okoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.' - Lancashire Evening Post Heartfelt and moving, The Orphanage Girls Come Home is the beautiful conclusion to the Orphanage Girls series, set during WW1 and travelling from London's East End to Montreal, Canada. London, 1910. When Amy is chosen to be a part of a programme to resettling displaced children in Canada, her life changes overnight. Her great sadness is having to say goodbye to Ruth and Ellen, the friends who became family to her during the dark days at the orphanage. As she steps on board the ship to Montreal, the promise of a new life lies ahead. But during the long crossing, Amy discovers a terrifying secret. Canada, 1919. As the decades pass, Amy’s Canadian experience is far from the life she imagined. She always kept Ruth’s address to hand – longing to return to London and reunite with her dear friends. With the world at war, it seems an impossible dream . . . Separated by oceans, will Amy the orphanage girl ever come home? The Orphanage Girls Come Home is the third and final book in the Orphanage Girls series, which began with The Orphanage Girls and The Orphanage Girls Reunited. For more beautiful saga writing from Mary Wood, try The Guernsey Girls – available now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Enchanted Hacienda Author: J.C. Cervantes Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “This summer’s sweetest confection is J.C. Cervantes’s The Enchanted Hacienda. This book is like dipping your brain into a jar of serotonin.” —New York Times Book Review "This is a contemporary coming-of-age story, with a sprinkling of magic, that’s one of my most anticipated reads of the year." —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author, in Elle Magazine When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York City to the one place she can always call home—the enchanted Hacienda Estrada. The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance of charmed flowers cultivated by Harlow’s mother, sisters, aunt, and cousins. By harnessing the magic in these flowers, they can heal hearts, erase memories, interpret dreams—but not Harlow. So when her mother and aunt give her a special task involving the family’s magic, she panics. How can she rise to the occasion when she is magicless? But maybe it’s not magic she’s missing, but belief in herself. When she finally embraces her unique gifts and opens her heart to a handsome stranger, she discovers she’s far more powerful than she imagined. With unforeseen twists, romance, and a heavy sprinkle of magic, The Enchanted Hacienda is a captivating coming-of-age debut exploring identity, unconditional family love, and uncovering the magic within us all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Garnett Girls: A Novel Author: Georgina Moore Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this brilliant debut novel full of heart and warmth, three very different sisters—and their free-spirited mother—must grapple with life, responsibilities, and family secrets. “Gorgeously written and utterly absorbing…a rare and wonderful delight.” — Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author Love makes you do things you never thought you were capable of… Forbidden, passionate and all-encompassing, Margo and Richard’s love affair was the stuff of legend—but, ultimately, doomed. When Richard walked out, Margo locked herself away, leaving her three daughters, Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha, to run wild. Years later, charismatic Margo entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of Richard and her painful past. But her silence is keeping each of the Garnett girls from finding true happiness. Rachel is desperate to return to London but is held hostage by responsibility for Sandcove, their beloved but crumbling family home. Dreamy Imogen feels the pressure to marry her kind, considerate fiancé, even when life is taking an unexpected turn. And wild, passionate Sasha, trapped between her fractured family and controlling husband, is weighed down by a secret that could shake the family to its core… The Garnett Girls, the captivating debut novel from Georgina Moore, asks whether children can ever be free of the mistakes of their parents.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Time Author: Steve Jones Narrator: Steve Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The enthralling debut novel from Channel 4 F1 presenter Steve Jones - it's Sliding Doors meets High Fidelity. Bob Bloomfield is, in the words of his best friend's wife, a 'selfish, arrogant a*sehole', who hasn't spent a great deal of time making friends in his 49 years on earth. But what if he could change? What if Bob could stop the very thing that has made him the man he is, the death of his younger brother, Tom in 1986. If he could save Tom, could he save himself? . . . And what if all it took was a phone call? ©2023 Stephen Jones (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of Burning Author: Janika Oza Narrator: Kp Upadhyayula, Lipica Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This epic, sweeping historical novel full of "wondrous complexity” spans continents and a century, and reveals how one act of survival can reverberate through generations (Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin). ​ In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African Railway. Far from home, Pirbhai commits a brutal act in the name of survival that will haunt him and his family for years to come. So begins Janika Oza’s masterful, richly told epic, where the embers of this desperate act are fanned into flame over four generations, four continents, throughout the twentieth century. Pirbhai’s children are born in Uganda during the waning days of British colonial rule, and as the country moves toward independence, his granddaughters, three sisters, come of age in a divided nation. Latika is an aspiring journalist, who will put everything on the line for what she believes in; Mayuri’s ambitions will take her farther away from home than she ever imagined; and fearless Kiya will have to carry the weight of her family’s silence and secrets. In 1972, the entire family is forced to flee under Idi Amin’s military dictatorship. Pirbhai’s grandchildren are now scattered across the world, struggling to find their way back to each other. One day a letter arrives with news that makes each generation question how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to defy, to secure their own place in the world. A History of Burning is an unforgettable tour de force, an intimate family saga of complicity and resistance, about the stories we share, the ones that remain unspoken, and the eternal search for home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Alone: A Novel Author: Sarah K. Jackson Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating debut novel, tracing the harrowing journey of a mother and son fighting for survival and a future in a world ravaged by environmental disaster • 'Not Alone kept me breathless with tension… [A] gripping adventure story.” —Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room and Haven Five years ago, a microplastic storm wiped out most of the population. No infrastructure. No safe havens. No goodbyes. Since then, Katie and Harry have lived in isolation in their small flat outside London. Katie forages, hunts the surviving animal population, and provides for Harry, who was born after the storm, and who has never left their little home. After years without human contact, Katie and Harry are shocked by the arrival of a threatening newcomer, just as Katie’s persistent cough seems to have taken a turn for the worse. But this proof of life beyond their familiar environment spurs Katie to undertake a previously unthinkable journey, in search of her fiancé, Jack, who never came home the day of the storm, and a different kind of life for Harry. Outside of their protected bubble, Katie and Harry encounter an altered world, full of new dangers, other survivors--both friend and foe--and many surprises. Katie's resources, energy, and parenting abilities are pushed to the brink, as Harry's life and safety waver in the balance, knowing that the further they get from their flat, the harder it will be to return if things go wrong. Sarah K. Jackson combines beautiful language, palm-sweating adventure, and a deep, true-to-life parent-child bond that transcends its post-apocalyptic setting, in a debut that emphasizes the importance of resilience, hope, and sustainability today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half Moon: A Novel Author: Mary Beth Keane Narrator: Norbert Leo Butz, Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “An insightful, riveting study of marriage.” —People From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and “absorbing” (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing. Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger success, but struggles to stay afloat. His smart and confident wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career. After years of trying for a baby, she is facing the idea that motherhood may not be in the cards for her. Like Malcolm, she feels her youth beginning to slip away and wonders how to reshape her future. “A quick and impactful read that will stay with you long after you finish it” (theSkimm), The Half Moon takes place over the course of one week when Malcolm learns shocking news about Jess, a patron of the bar goes missing, and a blizzard hits the town of Gillam, trapping everyone in place. With a deft eye and generous spirit, Mary Beth Keane explores the disappointments and unexpected consolations of midlife, the many forms forgiveness can take, the complicated intimacy of small-town living, and what it means to be a family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rogue’s Rules for Seduction Series: #3 of Last Chance Scoundrels Author: Eva Leigh Narrator: Mary Jane Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A second chance at love After Dominic Kilburn left Lady Willa Ransome at the altar she vowed never to reveal how badly she was hurt. Determined to move on with her life she accepts an invitation to a friend’s house party on an isolated Scottish isle. The perfect escape, until she comes face to face with the man responsible for her humiliation. When dark secrets from his past surfaced right before his wedding, leaving Willa was Dom’s only option. To escape the memories of all he lost, Dom heads to a friend’s Scottish estate. Yet one of the other guests is the very woman who haunts his every thought. Thrown together Willa and Dom try to resist their attraction, but soon the line between love and loathing begins to blur. Can they find a way to rekindle what they lost, or will Dom’s past once again come between them?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Build a Boat: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS Author: Elaine Feeney Narrator: Ciaran O'brien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 20, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating and overwhelming, he finds two people who might just be able to help him. How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy and his mission transforms the lives of his teachers, Tess and Tadhg, and brings together a community. Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone. ©2023 Elaine Feeney (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battling the Bluestocking Series: #3 of The Donovans Series Author: Martha Keyes Narrator: Ella Lynch, Rupert Degas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Phineas Donovan is possessed of a sharp intellect. Fresh from Cambridge, he obtains a generous live-in position as tutor for the son of the wealthy Lord Bettencourt. If he can prove his value, he has hopes of being given the patronage of his employer, allowing him to take up a position as vicar. There, he can pursue his intellectual endeavors in peace and relative financial comfort. In her humble but informed opinion, Lady Sarah Danneville is possessed of an even sharper intellect. If anyone should be tutoring her younger brother, it is she, not the reserved, bespectacled gentleman her father has employed to do the job. He is not fit to instruct a Danneville of Bettencourt. But as Sarah works to undermine him, Mr. Donovan shows more pluck than she expects, not to mention that he harbors a secret hobby that would be laughable if it weren’t so dreadfully unsophisticated. If she can use this secret against him, she can finally persuade her father she is more than bait to lure a prosperous match. Now, if only she can avoid being drawn into the dearth of sophistication—and Mr. Donovan’s eyes—herself. Battling the Bluestocking is the third in Martha Keyes's The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 44 Scotland Street: The Complete Series 1-5: Full-cast BBC Radio adaptations of the much-loved novels Author: Alexander McCall Smith Narrator: Samuel Keefe, Belle Jones, Anita Vettesse, James Mackenzie, Carol Ann Crawford, Crawford Logan, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The complete BBC radio adaptations of Alexander McCall's bestselling series Inspired by Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, 44 Scotland Street started life as a serial in The Scotsman. It was a huge hit, and was soon novelised, adapted on stage and dramatised for BBC Radio 4. Collected here are all five radio series, in which we follow the interconnected lives of the residents of adjoining flats in a tenement in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town. There's Pat, a young tenant who arrives at 44 Scotland Street to flat-share with handsome surveyor Bruce (a man with more of an eye for the ladies than for a sound property); Matthew, setting up the Something Special Gallery with little knowledge of art; and child prodigy Bertie Pollock, who wants the life of an ordinary little boy, but instead has psychotherapy, yoga and Italian conversation lessons. And at the local café, owner Big Lou is looking for love - but seems doomed to romantic disappointment... Their chance day-to-day criss-crossings, quirky foibles and comic adventures are all observed by Number 44's longest-term resident, anthropologist Domenica MacDonald, her painter friend Angus Lordie - and Angus' dog, Cyril, the only canine in Scotland with a gold tooth. Full of charm, humour and empathy, these delightful dramas star Carol Ann Crawford and Crawford Logan, with a superb cast including James Mackenzie, Samuel Keefe, Belle Jones and Anita Vettesse. Also included is an edition of Radio 4's Bookclub, in which Alexander McCall Smith talks about his novel 44 Scotland Street with James Naughtie and readers. Written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith Produced and directed by David Ian Neville Music by Tom Cunningham Cast Domenica/Mrs MacGillvray - Carol Ann Crawford Raeburn Todd/Dr Fairbairn/Angus Lordie/Glasgow Man/Dr Fairbairn - Crawford Logan Bruce - James Mackenzie/James Rottger Ian Rankin - James Mackenzie Irene - Rosalind Syndney/Emma Currie Bertie - Euan Lee/Simon Kerr Matthew - Samuel Keefe Pat - Belle Jones Stuart - Tom Freeman/David Jackson Young Big Lou/Antonia/Miss Harmony/Glasgow Woman/Stewardess/Fiona/Claire/Barmaid - Anita Vettesse Markus/Lawyer - Matthew Zajac Social Worker - Molly Innes Olive - Sophie Lawrence Alec/Gerry - Simon Donaldson Lard O'Connor - Iain Agnew The New Pretender - David Jackson Young Secretary/Mr Lawrence - Richard Conlon Torquil MacLean/Hotel Clerk - James Bryce Edinburgh Man - David Jackson Young Andy - Daniel Aitken Katie - Helen Mackay Miss Campbell - Nicola Roy Neill - Gavin Jon Wright First broadcast BBC Radio 4: 30 April-4 May 2012 (Series 1), 9-13 February 2015 (The Blue Spode Tea Cup), 30 May-3 June 2016 (Edinburgh for Pretenders), 20-24 February 2017 (Series 4), 20-24 August 2018 (Series 5) © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Belly of the Congo Author: Blaise Ndala Narrator: Christel Mutombo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: April 1958. Organizing the Brussels World’s Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert Dumont cedes to pressure from the royal palace: there will be a “Congolese village” in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven members of this “human zoo” assembled to put on a show at the foot of the Atomium is the young Tshala, daughter of the intractable king of the Bakuba. From her native Kasai to Brussels via Léopoldville, the princess’s journey unfolds—until her forced exhibition at Expo 58, where we lose track of her. Summer 2004. Newly arrived in Belgium, a niece of the missing princess crosses paths with a man haunted by the ghost of his father—Francis Dumont, professor of law at the Free University of Brussels. A breathtaking series of events will reveal to them a secret the former subcommissioner of Expo 58 carried to his grave.From one century to the next, In the Belly of the Congo confronts History with a capital “H” to pose the central question of the colonial equation: Can the past pass?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623721 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Home Scar: from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky Author: Kathleen Macmahon Narrator: Beau Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky 'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.' 'Wait, they leave the rock?' 'Of course. How else would they survive? On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past. When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer, the last before their mother died. But their journey uncovers memories of a far less happy summer - one that had tragic consequences. Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake, Cassie and Christo are forced to face their past and - ready or not - to deal with the messy tangle of parental love and neglect that shaped them. The Home Scar is a luminous and precise story about the inheritance of loss and the possibility of finally making peace with it. Praise for Nothing But Blue Sky 'A piece of perfection . . . the best book I've read all year' Irish Examiner 'Touching and enthralling' Sunday Times 'What a beautiful novel . . . Elegant, understated, subtly powerful and rings so perfectly true' Donal Ryan ©2023 Kathleen MacMahon (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Nemesis: A Novel Author: Charmaine Craig Narrator: Charmaine Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples. Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more—but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship. While Tessa’s husband, Milton, enjoys Charlie’s company on his visits to the East Coast, Charlie’s mixed-race Asian wife, Wah, is a different case, and she proves to be both adversary and conundrum to Tessa. Wah’s traditional femininity and subservience to her husband strike Tessa as weaknesses, and she scoffs at the sacrifices Wah makes as adoptive mother to a Burmese girl, Htet, once homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. But Wah has a kind of power too, especially over Charlie, and the conflict between the two women leads to Tessa’s martini-fueled declaration that Wah is “an insult to womankind.” As Tessa is forced to deal with the consequences of her outburst and considers how much she is limited by her own perceptions, she wonders if Wah is really as weak as she has seemed, or if she might have a different kind of strength altogether. An exercise in empathy, an exploration of betrayal, and a charged story of the thrill of a shared connection—and the perils of feminine rivalry—My Nemesis is a brilliantly dramatic and captivating story from a hugely talented writer whose portrayals are always gracefully phrased and keenly observed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Confirmed Rake Series: #2 of The Donovans Series Author: Martha Keyes Narrator: Ella Lynch, Rupert Degas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: When Rebecca Russell’s brother marries, she finally has the opportunity she has been dreaming of: to leave the seclusion of her reclusive grandfather’s home and enter into society. But when her inexperience has her making blunders and courting embarrassment, help comes from an unexpected source: the brooding, irritable brother of her chaperone. Valentine Donovan is a rake, mountains of gaming debt and all. With his only hope for financial relief tied up in the Admiralty Court, he must temporarily rely on his father’s charity—and all the strings attached to it. His father demands Valentine show evidence that he is changing his ways, so when the engaging but naïve young woman living with his sister presents a plan, he can’t refuse the opportunity to fulfill some of his father’s requirements, albeit reluctantly. But Valentine is unprepared for Rebecca’s guileless optimism and how impossible he finds it to say no to her increasingly onerous requests—requests that put both their hearts and reputations in danger. A Confirmed Rake is the second in Martha Keyes's The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Music Author: An Yu Narrator: Vera Chok Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. When she married, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels start to show up on the doorstep and Song Yan’s dreams become troubling and claustrophobic. Striking out alone through the winter city, she finds herself pulled into the ancient hutongs to confront the source of her unease. In a still, silent room in a timeless house, can she find the notes she needs to make sense of all the pain and beauty in her life?Evocative, magical and endlessly surprising, Ghost Music is a captivating journey through memory, expression and self-discovery towards the shimmer of new beginnings.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Summer Sister Author: Rachel Cullen Narrator: Lexi Mae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Fantasy Publisher's Summary: The Summer sisters don't have much in common other than shared DNA. But when their father's untimely death reveals an earth-shattering secret, everything they thought they knew about their family—and their future—changes overnight. Jen spent her childhood feeling like the ugly duckling, while Lynn longed to be appreciated for something other than her looks. Jen still hasn't forgiven Lynn for fleeing to California to follow her dreams, leaving Jen to tend to their father and the family insurance business. Meanwhile, Lynn is living in exile in Los Angeles, forced to endure the pain of her humiliating divorce in silence because she is too ashamed to reveal her mistakes. As the youngest of the trio, Courtney's life is also turned upside down due to her father's death, only for an entirely different reason; Courtney didn't even know he existed until after he was gone. Now she has to figure out what life looks like with two older sisters who can't stand each other while attempting to piece together her fractured youth. Only time will tell if the bonds of sisterhood are strong enough to mend past transgressions or if the sisters, and their secrets, will destroy the Summer family forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lockhart Women: A Novel Author: Mary Camarillo Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brenda Lockhart’s family has been living well beyond their means for too long when Brenda’s husband leaves them―for an older and less attractive woman than Brenda, no less. Brenda has never worked outside the home, and the family’s economic situation quickly declines. Oldest daughter Peggy is certain she’s heading off to a university, until her father offers her a job sorting mail while she attends community college instead. Younger daughter Allison, a high school senior, can’t believe her luck that California golden boy Kevin has fallen in love with her. Meanwhile, the chatter about the O. J. Simpson murder investigations is always on in the background, a media frenzy that underscores domestic violence against women and race and class divisions in Southern California. Brenda, increasingly obsessed with the case, is convinced O. J. is innocent and has been framed by the Los Angeles Police Department. Both daughters are more interested in their own lives―that is, until Peggy starts noticing bruises Allison can’t explain. For a while, it feels to everyone as if the family is falling apart, but in the end, things come together in unexpected ways.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Hotel Flanagans Series: #1 of [Spanish Edition] Flanagans Author: åsa Hellberg Narrator: Anna Mestre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: December 16, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Londres, Nochevieja de 1959. Todo el mundo celebra el cambio de década. Los corchos de las botellas de champán y el entrechocar de las copas resuenan en los salones del lujoso hotel Flanagans. Los invitados brindan por la adorada dueña del hotel, Linda Lansing, que ha estado a cargo del negocio desde la muerte de su padre y ha logrado convertirlo en uno de los mejores hoteles de la ciudad, a pesar de las continuas trabas impuestas por parte de sus envidiosos primos. Mientras tanto, en la cocina, las empleadas Emma y Elinor sueñan con una vida mejor. Hasta el momento, Linda no ha tenido tiempo para el amor, pero el año nuevo trae a su vida no solo a un hombre que consigue que su corazón lata más deprisa, sino también nuevas alianzas y una amenaza que podría arruinar todo aquello por lo que ha luchado.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Irish Boarding House Series: #1 of The Irish Boarding House Author: Sandy Taylor Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 118 Ratings of Narrator: 4.64 of Total 53 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Dublin, 1952. When Mary Kate Ryan receives a surprise inheritance from the woman who abandoned her as a tiny baby, she’s stunned. All her life, she has longed to know why her mother disappeared, and now she’s devastated to realize that every lonely night she spent without a home or family of her own, her mother knew exactly where she was. Mary Kate is about to refuse the money when she sees a beautiful, deserted house for sale and something sparks in her heart. She will reawaken it, as the Dublin Boarding House for Single Ladies, and provide a shelter for others as lost and alone as her. Can she help the two young girls left at the local orphanage, desperate for a home of their own? Or the pregnant teenager on the run, who only wants to keep her baby safe? The boarding house brings Mary Kate love and friendships she never dreamed of, but just as her heart is about to burst with joy, a new guest arrives. The stern older woman won’t speak about her past, but when Mary Kate uncovers her story, it reveals a devastating secret about her mother. With her life in turmoil once more, can Mary Kate draw on the strength of the women in the house to help her face her past, or will the tragedy she uncovers spell disaster for them all?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories Author: Toni Ann Johnson Narrator: Toni Ann Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They're cosmopolitan. Sophisticated. They're also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart. We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they've made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from. As she grows up and realizes her father is sleeping with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or perhaps precisely because of, her family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Osprey Reef Author: Annie Seaton Narrator: Taryn Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Love. Greed. Revenge. And a desperate search for answers ... Against the stunning backdrop of the Great Barrier Reef, two women in different eras discover how their hearts and fortunes are swayed by the secrets of the sea. 2019: Bethany Kristensen faces her toughest challenge to date, skippering the family charter business. With rivals doing their utmost to undercut her prices and reputation, the Kristensens' operation hangs by a thread. Winning the tender for a new scientific research program headed out to the farthest edge of the reef is her last chance to keep the business going. But when rumour and vandalism turn to outright sabotage, things take a drastic turn... 1934: Stella Booth flees a future of domestic drudgery in small-town outback Queensland, heading for employment and an independent life in Mackay. But fate has other plans and an accident en route sends her life spinning in a most unexpected direction... Linked by a family mystery, decades apart, Bethany and Stella will both need to dig deeper than ever before to forge their place among the turbulent seas of the reef. Australian author Annie Seaton applies her passion for conservation of our iconic landscape to a compelling mystery and family saga of belonging.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wonder Author: Emma Donoghue Narrator: Tara Egan Langley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Now a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh: In this “old-school page turner” (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review) by the bestselling author of Room, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle—a girl said to have survived without food for months—and soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels -- a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Acclaim for The Wonder: "Deliciously gothic.... Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep" (USA Today, 3/4 stars) "Heartbreaking and transcendent"(New York Times) "A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body.... Donoghue keeps us riveted" (Chicago Tribune) "Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief" (Newsday)