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  • The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy

    The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761430 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Magnificent RuinsAuthor: Nayantara RoyNarrator: Deepa SamuelFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 12 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: In this "rare feast" of a novel, an Indian woman inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). Lila De is on the verge of a career breakthrough when she gets a call from her mother in Kolkata, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate–so she returns home after a decade with no contact. Her extended family isn’t so easy to win over, and to make matters worse, Lila is caught between her old boyfriend and her occasional lover–her star author–who suddenly wants to define the relationship. As Lila come to terms with both past and present, suppressed family secrets emerge, culminating in a shocking act of violence. Lila has no choice but to finally address her family’s inherited custom of keeping everything under the surface. Perfect for fans of Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane and All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, The Magnificent Ruins is an unforgettable novel about the millennial immigrant experience and the desire for belonging.

  • We Shall Be Monsters by Alyssa Wees

    We Shall Be Monsters by Alyssa Wees

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751775 to listen full audiobooks.Title: We Shall Be MonstersAuthor: Alyssa WeesNarrator: Valerie Lohman, Zura JohnsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 46 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A dark, lyrical fantasy blending the world of the Fae with the stories mothers tell to keep their daughters safe - and the consequences of disregarding the truth, no matter how sinister. Gemma lives with her mother in an isolated antique shop in Michigan, near a small patch of woods that conceals an enchanted gateway to fairyland. She knows she's not supposed to go into the woods - her mother Virginia has warned her multiple times about the monsters that lurk there - and yet defiantly, curiously, she goes anyway. Virginia understands her daughter's defiance. She knows the lure of the woods all too well. Her own mother warned her about the monsters that resided there, and she also did not listen. Until a witch cursed her true love, Ash - Gemma's father - into the form of a beast in the days before Gemma's birth. And if Virginia cannot break the curse before her daughter turns fifteen, Ash will eat Virginia's heart and Gemma will belong to the witch. So Virginia will do whatever she can to protect her daughter - even if it means stealing Gemma's memories away. But everything changes when Gemma inadvertently gets too close to the truth, and the witch steals Virginia away instead. Now it is up to Gemma to venture deep into Fae lands to try and rescue her mother and break the curse. Told in alternating viewpoints between Gemma and Virginia, this lyrical novel is not only a tale of a girl's fantastical quest through a darkly magical fairyland, but also an examination of the complex bonds of love and resentment that lie between parents and their children. © Alyssa Wees 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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  • Fire by John Boyne

    Fire by John Boyne

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755795 to listen full audiobooks.Title: FireAuthor: John BoyneNarrator: Anna FrielFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 24 minutesRelease date: November 7, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn’t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness. Did what happened to Freya as a child one fateful summer influence the adult she would become – or was she always destined to be that person? Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being? In Fire, John Boyne takes the reader on a chilling, uncomfortable but utterly compelling psychological journey to the epicentre of the human condition, asking the age-old question: nurture – or nature? © John Boyne 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

  • Second Chance Season by Emily March

    Second Chance Season by Emily March

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761420 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Second Chance SeasonAuthor: Emily MarchNarrator: Brittany WilkersonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 5 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: From a New York Times bestselling author, a heartwarming story about secrets, sisters, and the enduring power of family ties. Zoey Hillcrest thought the hard part was over once she and her fiancĂ©, Cooper, settled on a venue for their destination wedding. But as the date approaches, Zoey faces professional burnout, her estranged mother’s terminal illness, and a worrisome distance from her fiancĂ©. When presented with a excuse to return to Colorado, she flees to the peaceful lakeside hotel to figure out what she truly wants in life. After all the hard work Genevieve Prentice and her sister Helen McDaniel put into renovating their rustic waterfront lodge, the two finally have time to take a breath and celebrate the lives they’ve built in Lake in the Clouds, Colorado. Then a chance run-in with their latest bride turns their lives upside down. Helen has never laid eyes on Zoey before, but something about her feels familiar. And when the three women uncover a devastating family secret, they must make peace with the past in order to fully embrace what the future has to offer.

  • The Memory Dress by Jade Beer

    The Memory Dress by Jade Beer

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760971 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Memory DressAuthor: Jade BeerNarrator: Annabelle Dowler, Heather Long, Gordon GriffinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 52 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: 'An endearing story of loss and recovery, mystery and memory, heartache and love...completely captivating.'—Shelley Noble, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiffany Girls and The Colony Club A missing husband and a dress once owned by Princess Diana set two very different women on paths of discovery that will change both their lives forever in this dazzling new novel from the author of The Last Dress from Paris. England, 2018: Jayne is quiet. She keeps to herself and has no grand expectations for her days. But after a chance encounter with her elderly neighbor, Meredith, Jayne is forced to reevaluate her determination to keep the world at a distance. Meredith's dust-covered home is chaotic and neglected. And slowly, Jayne starts to grasp that Meredith herself is quite lost. She can't seem to remember anything: what she last ate, when she last went out or saw her daughter, or even Jayne's name, despite what are becoming frequent visits. But most alarmingly, Meredith can't remember where her husband is. Unable to sit by and watch Meredith hurting, Jayne promises she'll find William. But how can she when the biggest clue Jayne has is a mystery itself: a stunning couture gown with a note declaring it a personal gift to Meredith...from Princess Diana. England, 1988: Meredith is always calm. You have to be when working for one of the most iconic women in the world. Just as the stitches she uses to create Princess Diana’s wardrobe are steady and stable, so is Meredith. Until she finds herself feeling off-kilter and untethered by an unexpected connection with someone in the workshop. As Meredith finds herself swept up in life and love for the first time, everything she’s ever dreamed about seems in reach
if only she can be brave enough to take it. 'A moving exploration into how clothes make up the layers of our lives, as well as a wonderful insight into the worlds of dressmaking, royalty and friendship across generations.'—Jessica Fellowes, international bestselling author of The Mitford Murders

  • Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

    Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756143 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Pony ConfidentialAuthor: Christina LynchNarrator: Blair Young, Erin MoonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 29 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: In this one-of-a-kind mystery with heart and humor, a hilariously grumpy pony must save the only human he’s ever loved after discovering she stands accused of a murder he knows she didn’t commit. Pony has been passed from owner to owner for longer than he can remember. Fed up, he busts out and goes on a cross-country mission to reunite with Penny, the little girl who he was separated from and hasn’t seen in years. Penny, now an adult, is living an ordinary life when she gets a knock on her door and finds herself in handcuffs, accused of murder and whisked back to the place she grew up. Her only comfort when the past comes back to haunt her is the memory of her precious, rebellious pony. Hearing of Penny’s fate, Pony knows that Penny is no murderer. So, as smart and devious as he is cute, the pony must use his hard-won knowledge of human weakness and cruelty to try to clear Penny’s name and find the real killer. This acutely observant, feel-good mystery reveals the humanity of animals and beastliness of humans in a rollicking escapade of epic proportions.

  • Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

    Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756999 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Blood Over Bright HavenAuthor: M. L. WangNarrator: Moira QuirkFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 21 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever in this standalone dark fantasy from the author of The Sword of Kaigen. For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fuelled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and Industry. When Sciona finally achieves her ambition and becomes a Highmage, she finds her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues are determined to make her feel unwelcome – and instead of a qualified lab assistant they give her a janitor. What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was not always a janitor. Ten years ago he was a nomadic hunter who lost his family on their perilous journey from the wild plains to the city. But now he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland – and keep the privileged in power. At first, mage and outsider have a fractious relationship. But working together, they uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever – if it doesn’t get them killed first. ©2024 M. L. Wang (P)2024 Penguin Audio

  • Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel by Susan Rieger

    Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel by Susan Rieger

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752240 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Like Mother, Like Mother: A NovelAuthor: Susan RiegerNarrator: Rebecca LowmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 59 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: An enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secrets buried in their family’s past. “What a delight! Like Mother, Like Mother is sharp, fun, and witty.”—Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello Beautiful “A sprawling family saga, briskly told with the lightest of touches and an often-surprising sense of humor.”—Rumaan Alam, bestselling author of Leave the World Behind Detroit, 1960. Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum. Lila never sees her mother again. Three decades later, having mustered everything she has—brains, charm, talent, blond hair—Lila rises to the pinnacle of American media as the powerful, brilliant executive editor of The Washington Globe. Lila unapologetically prioritizes her career, leaving the rearing of her daughters to her generous husband, Joe. He doesn’t mind—until he does. But Grace, their youngest daughter, feels abandoned. She wishes her mother would attend PTA meetings, not White House correspondents’ dinners. As she grows up, she cannot shake her resentment. She wants out from under Lila’s shadow, yet the more she resists, the more Lila seems to shape her life. Grace becomes a successful reporter, even publishing a bestselling book about her mother. In the process of writing it, she realizes how little she knows about her own family. Did Lila’s mother, Grace’s grandmother, die in that asylum? Is refusal to look back the only way to create a future? How can you ever be yourself, Grace wonders, if you don’t know where you came from? Spanning generations, and populated by complex, unforgettable characters, Like Mother, Like Mother is an exhilarating, portrait of family, marriage, ambition, power, the stories we inherit, and the lies we tell to become the people we believe we’re meant to be.

  • Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith

    Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760710 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fat Girls DanceAuthor: Cathleen MeredithNarrator: Jasmin Walker, Andrea Emmes, Victoria Villareal, Dominique Franceschi, Jolene KimFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 6 minutesRelease date: October 22, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: Irreverent, witty, full of surprises, and based on a fabulous true story, this dynamic debut reveals what happens when three very different, very talented, fat women break all the rules, go viral—and discover life’s most breathtaking moves 
Liv. Reese. Faith. Yes, they are plus-size, curvy, thick, whatever. Point is, they are past sick of society’s relentless body shaming defining them. Liv slays in dance classes, where she shakes off her frustrations as a struggling writer. Introverted Reese avoids “taking up too much space” by staying in the background as Liv’s sidekick. And while diva-cold professional dancer Faith aces countless auditions, she’s “too big” for starring roles. At the end of their respective ropes, all it takes is one more insult 
 for Liv to suddenly have an idea that will unite them all. It’s a shake-it-up, zero Fs challenge in which women like her will choreograph and perform a demanding new dance every week. For a year. Online. And just like that 
 after a boatload of hard work, FatGirlsDance becomes an Internet phenomenon, racking up thousands of followers, clicks—and controversy. More important, FGD creates a precious space for community. And it gives the three ladies an impossible shot: a major competition featuring the world’s best amateur dancers. Yet while Liv is determined to prove FGD can go from amazing to outstanding, Faith thinks they’re reaching too high, and Reese is caught in the middle. As the grueling practices and new goals start taking a toll, the trio soon finds their friendship stretched to the breaking point. With their biggest test ahead of them as their drama spins out of control, can these gutsy women pull it together to remake their futures—and become the women they were meant to be?“Highly recommend. Fat Girls Dance is a can’t-put-down adventure. I’m cheering, I’m laughing, welling up a bit at the truth of it all. When it was over, I was still dancing.”—Kanoa Greene, Fat Activist, Trainer, and Body Positivity Influencer

  • It Will Only Hurt for a Moment: A Novel by Delilah S. Dawson

    It Will Only Hurt for a Moment: A Novel by Delilah S. Dawson

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752255 to listen full audiobooks.Title: It Will Only Hurt for a Moment: A NovelAuthor: Delilah S. DawsonNarrator: Carlotta BrentanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 19 minutesRelease date: October 22, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: In this highly atmospheric thriller from the Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of The Violence, a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists’ colony . . . only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past. “Filled to the brim with righteous fury and fright that cannot be quelled, this novel solidifies Dawson as an unstoppable force.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters Sarah Carpenter is starting over. She’s on the run—leaving behind her unsupportive, narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic, abusive mother—and headed for a new beginning at Tranquil Falls, a secluded artists’ colony on the grounds of a closed hotel. There, with no cell signal or internet to distract her, she hopes to rediscover her love for pottery and put the broken pieces of her life back together. But when Sarah uncovers the body of a young woman while digging a hole for a pit kiln, things start to fall apart. Her fellow artists begin to act in troubling ways. The eccentric fiber artist knits an endless scarf. The musician plays the same carousel song over and over until his fingers bleed. The calligrapher grins with ink-stained teeth. Not to mention the haunting dreams Sarah has night after night. When she discovers glass shards in her clay, Sarah wonders if someone is out to get her—or if she’s losing her grip on reality out here in the wilds, where the pounding of the waterfall never, ever fades. As she investigates the beautiful valley and the crumbling resort looming over them all, she unearths a chilling past that refuses to remain buried . . .

  • The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy

    The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752211 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Christmas CountdownAuthor: Holly CassidyNarrator: Holly Cassidy, Amy HallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 20 minutesRelease date: October 22, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: From the author of The Christmas Wager comes a charming holiday rom com about a young, recently heartbroken woman who is tasked by her sister to complete Advent calendar challenges in the lead up to Christmas to reignite her belief in herself, the holidays, and love again. She’s given up on love and Christmas
but fate has other plans. All Callie wants for Christmas is to hibernate. She's still reeling from being dumped by her childhood sweetheart, and under no circumstances will she go home for the holidays considering her ex will be right next door with his new, perfect partner. Callie is officially in grinch mode, but her meddling sister, Anita, won’t let her give up on life, love, and Christmas quite so easily. Anita stages a Christmas intervention for Callie with a homemade Advent calendar challenge—cheerful tasks to push Callie out of her comfort zone and into the holiday spirit, inspired by a childhood tradition. Callie reluctantly plays along, but when she comes face-to-face with a charming baker who just might be the spoonful of sugar she needs, her strict rules on love and the holidays are tested. As they strike a deal to do the activities together, could the twenty four little doors on Callie’s Advent calendar not only open up one, but two closed-off hearts?

  • How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?: A Novel by Anna Montague

    How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?: A Novel by Anna Montague

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746320 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?: A NovelAuthor: Anna MontagueNarrator: Cynthia NixonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 58 minutesRelease date: October 22, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates. She’s mourning the recent loss of her best friend, Sara, but has brokered a tentative truce with Sara’s prickly widower as she helps him sort through the last of Sara’s possessions. She’s fine. But in going through Sara’s old journal, Magda discovers her friend’s last directive: plans for a road trip they would take together in celebration of Magda’s upcoming seventieth birthday. So, with Sara’s urn in tow, Magda decides to hit the road, crossing the country and encountering a cast of memorable characters—including her sister, from whom she’s been keeping secrets. Along the way she stumbles upon a jazz funeral in New Orleans and a hilarious women’s retreat meant to “unleash one’s divine feminine energy” in Texas, and meets a woman who challenges her conceptions of herself—and the hidden truths about her friendship with Sara. As the trip shakes up her careful routines, Magda finally faces longings she locked away years ago and confronts questions about her sexuality and identity she thought she had long put to rest. And as she soon learns, it’s never too late to start your next journey.

  • The Beast Takes a Bride: The Palace of Rogues by Julie Anne Long

    The Beast Takes a Bride: The Palace of Rogues by Julie Anne Long

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746319 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Beast Takes a Bride: The Palace of RoguesSeries: #8 of The Palace of RoguesAuthor: Julie Anne LongNarrator: Justine EyreFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 57 minutesRelease date: October 22, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good name
 but neither are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them. A blue-blooded beauty bartered to a Beast
 He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her family’s fortunes, a shocking betrayal sunders her marriage to a taciturn brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins. Five years of icy separation later, a scandal—with Alexandra at the middle—reunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continent—forever. But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle begins—between pride and the unexpected volcanic passion stirring between them. The danger is real: Magnus rediscovers why Alexandra is the only woman who could ever break him. And even as she lays bare the beautiful heart beating beneath the battered hide of the near-stranger she married, Alexandra knows she may have already lost him—even as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.

  • Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth

    Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760667 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Libby Lost and FoundAuthor: Stephanie BoothNarrator: Mia BarronFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 58 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-bestselling fantasy series the Falling Children—written as “F. T. Goldhero” to maintain her privacy. With the final manuscript months overdue to her publisher and rabid fans around the world growing impatient, Libby is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Already suffering from crippling anxiety, Libby’s symptoms quickly accelerate. After she forgets her dog at the park one day—then almost discloses her identity to the journalist who finds him—Libby has to admit it: she needs help finishing the last book.Desperate, she turns to eleven-year-old superfan Peanut Bixton, who knows the books even better than she does. Finding the ending they need will take them down paths they never expected.With the zany verve of Lessons in Chemistry and the unexpected, unlikely friendship of Remarkably Bright Creatures, Libby Lost and Found is a book for people who don’t know who they are without the books they love. It’s about the stories we tell ourselves and the chapters of our lives we regret. Most importantly, it’s about the endings we write for ourselves.“A book for those of us lucky enough to have ever really, truly fallen in love with one.”—Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is

  • Clean: A Novel by Alia Trabucco ZerĂĄn

    Clean: A Novel by Alia Trabucco Zerán

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752234 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Clean: A NovelAuthor: Alia Trabucco ZerĂĄnNarrator: Silvana KaneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 5 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! WINNER OF THE 2024 PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER Shortlisted for the Medicis Etranger Prize 'A masterclass in suspense 
 Extraordinary.' – Paula Hawkins “Terrifying, explosive and exhilarating” – Katie Kitamura 'A modern masterpiece.' -LitHub From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking point A young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death. Estela came from the countryside, leaving her mother behind, to work for the señor and señora when their only child was born. They wanted a housemaid: “smart appearance, full time,” their ad said. She wanted to make enough money to support her mother and return home. For seven years, Estela cleaned their laundry, wiped their floors, made their meals, kept their secrets, witnessed their fights and frictions, raised their daughter. She heard the rats scrabbling in the ceiling, saw the looks the señor gave the señora; she knew about the poison in the cabinet, the gun, the daughter’s rebellion as she grew up, the mother’s coldness, the father’s distance. She saw it all. After a series of shocking betrayals and revelations, Estela stops speaking, breaking her silence only now, to tell the story of how it all fell apart. Is this a story of revenge or a confession? Class warfare or a cautionary tale? Building tension with every page, Clean is a gripping, incisive exploration of power, domesticity, and betrayal from an international star at the height of her powers.

  • A Christmas Duet by Debbie Macomber

    A Christmas Duet by Debbie Macomber

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752209 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Christmas DuetAuthor: Debbie MacomberNarrator: Andi ArndtFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 45 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‱ A solo holiday trip inspires one woman to rediscover her passion—and remember that, sometimes, duets are more fun—in this romantic Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. “A perfectly delicious Christmas bonbon of a novel.”—Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Santa Suit and Bright Lights, Big Christmas Hailey Morgan’s life has always revolved around music. She once had big dreams of becoming a professional songwriter, but the reality of life has led her to working as an assistant high school band teacher in Portland. As the holidays approach, Hailey dreads the annual tradition of spending Christmas with her family and dodging her mother’s meddling questions about her love life. When Hailey’s close friend offers her the use of her family’s empty cabin for a rejuvenating solo holiday retreat, Hailey finally decides to do something to make herself happy. However, her arrival in the small town of Podunk, Oregon, is anything but peaceful when she discovers the cabin has been invaded by several wild animals. Luckily, Jay, the son of the town’s main store proprietor—and an incredibly handsome and charming former musician to boot—is more than willing to help. Soon Hailey and Jay are nearly inseparable, chopping down and decorating a Christmas tree, sipping hot cocoa in front of a cozy fire, and best of all, playing music together. Jay’s positive feedback and encouragement inspire Hailey to believe she might succeed as a songwriter after all. But even in her snow-dusted oasis, family holiday drama still finds Hailey, interrupting and threatening her newfound peace and confidence. Meanwhile revelations from Jay present complications of their own. Suddenly her Christmas paradise has become a winter storm and Hailey must weather through the challenges to stand up for herself and embrace the holiday spirit.

  • A Winter Wish: A Novel by Emily Stone

    A Winter Wish: A Novel by Emily Stone

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752210 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Winter Wish: A NovelAuthor: Emily StoneNarrator: Meg TraversFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 55 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Genres: Contemporary WomenPublisher's Summary: When an unexpected inheritance forces two total opposites to work together, Lexie must decide if Theo is going to push her out—or pull her in for the kiss of a lifetime—in this heartwarming holiday novel from the author of Always, in December and One Last Gift When Lexie learns of her father’s death, she doesn’t know how to feel; they’ve barely spoken in the last ten years. And she’s even more confused when she discovers he’s left her half of his holiday travel company, a successful niche business specializing in trips that explore the holiday traditions of cultures all over the world. Meanwhile, the other half of the company has been left to her father’s handsome but bad-tempered young executive, Theo. And the will stipulates that the two of them must find a way to run the company together for a year before they decide its fate. Lexie intends to leave once the year is over, even though, as a wanderer herself, she finds the company’s mission more compelling than she first thought. And a work trip to sizzling Spain reveals a chemistry between Lexie and Theo that is impossible to deny. There may have been some snap judgments made about each other. But mixing business and pleasure isn’t always a good idea.

  • Women's Hotel: A Novel by Daniel M. Lavery

    Women's Hotel: A Novel by Daniel M. Lavery

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