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  • George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman

    George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689496 to listen full audiobooks.Title: George Harrison: The Reluctant BeatleAuthor: Philip NormanNarrator: David HoltFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 22 minutesRelease date: October 24, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation—a rare and “absorbing biography” (Wall Street Journal) of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unparalleled access to inside sources. Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions in this “keen and lovely tribute” (Booklist, starred review). Compared to songwriting luminaries John Lennon and Paul McCartney he was considered a minor talent, yet he composed such masterpieces as “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Here Comes the Sun,” and his solo debut album All Things Must Pass appears on many lists of the 100 best rock albums ever. Modern music critics place him in the pantheon of sixties guitar gods alongside Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, and Jimmy Page. Harrison railed against the material world yet wrote the first pop song complaining about income tax. He spent years lovingly restoring his Friar Park estate as a spiritual journey, but quickly mortgaged the property to help rescue a film project that would be widely banned as sacrilegious, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Harrison could be fiercely jealous, but not only did he stay friends with Eric Clapton when Clapton fell in love with Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, the two men grew even closer after Clapton walked away with her. Unprecedented in scope and filled with numerous color photos, this rich biography captures George Harrison at his most multi-faceted: devoted friend, loyal son, master guitar player, brilliant songwriter, cocaine addict, serial philanderer, global philanthropist, student of Indian mysticism, self-deprecating comedian, and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions.

  • The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

    The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644801 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Woman in MeAuthor: Britney SpearsNarrator: Michelle WilliamsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 31 minutesRelease date: October 24, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 129 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 48Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

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  • The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

    The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640590 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Woman in MeAuthor: Britney SpearsNarrator: Michelle WilliamsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 31 minutesRelease date: October 24, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 620 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 268Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! “In Britney Spears’s memoir, she’s stronger than ever.” —The New York Times Over 2 million copies sold of the “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), “radiant” (The New York Times), “poignant” (Vogue) #1 New York Times bestseller. The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

  • Blood Queen by Anna Lea

    Blood Queen by Anna Lea

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719116 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Blood QueenAuthor: Anna LeaNarrator: Adjoa AndohFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 6 minutesRelease date: October 17, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.96 of Total 67 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 23Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Countess Elizabeth Bathory has power and wealth running through her veins. She rules her vast estates with an iron fist and fierce intelligence, protecting her family and the people who depend on her. She is devout in her faith and even tends to the sick herself. But rumours are spreading... and bodies are mounting up. Why do young servant girls die wherever the Countess goes? Is she a witch? Is she cursed? No one has seen anything with their own eyes, but tales of cruelty and murder persist, as the Countess leaves a bloody trail behind her…

  • Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up: A Novel by Alexandra Potter

    Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up: A Novel by Alexandra Potter

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655130 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up: A NovelAuthor: Alexandra PotterNarrator: Sally PhillipsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 51 minutesRelease date: September 5, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: The inspiration for NOT DEAD YET, ABC’s “Most Watched Comedy Debut in More Than Four Years” (Deadline) “The new Bridget Jones for our time.”—Telegraph “Will have you laughing whether you’re twenty, forty, or eighty.”—Heat (UK) A Zibby Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be. Meet Nell. Her life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, a sky-high real estate market forces her to rent a room in a stranger’s house, and everyone has seemingly perfect Instagram-ready lives. Starting from scratch she feels like a f**k up . . . a forty-something f**k up. Landing a job writing obituaries, Nell meets the fabulous Cricket, an 80-something widow with challenges of her own. Together they begin to help each other heal their aching hearts, cope with the loss of the lives they had planned, and push each other into new adventures and joy. With Cricket’s help, Nell is determined to turn her life around. First, though, she has a confession . . . Laugh-out-loud funny and painfully relatable, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up is a celebration of friendship and a reminder that while life doesn’t always go according to plan, it doesn’t mean you can’t find happiness.

  • The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

    The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631061 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The True Love ExperimentAuthor: Christina LaurenNarrator: Cindy Kay, Jonathan ColeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 59 minutesRelease date: May 16, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 3.86 of Total 7Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Romance Sparks fly when a romance writer and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the ultimate Hollywood love story—but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script—from the “divine” (Jodi Picoult) New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners. Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached. Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can’t-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she’s spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie? Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work but when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard pass—unless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production on The True Love Experiment begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too. “Full of big laughs, a few tears, and some seriously steamy scenes” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), The True Love Experiment is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzy’s debut in the New York Times bestselling The Soulmate Equation.

  • Don't Go Down There by Kiersten Modglin

    Don't Go Down There by Kiersten Modglin

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668982 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Don't Go Down ThereAuthor: Kiersten ModglinNarrator: Jesse Vilinsky, Natalie Naudus, Scott BrickFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 32 minutesRelease date: May 4, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: When Andi Edwards discovers her husband Spencer isn’t where he’s supposed to be and isn’t answering her calls or texts, a flurry of scenarios races through her mind. Is he hurt? Is he cheating? Is he dead? The truth, she soon finds out, is so much worse than she could’ve imagined. As she struggles to make sense of her new and chilling reality, she must decide whether to stand by the man she loves and help protect him or walk away and let him pay for his sins. With time running out, the secret he has locked in their basement becomes more dangerous, and the spine-chilling truth becomes clear: if she makes the wrong decision, she stands to lose much more than her marriage. When their best laid plans come back to haunt them, what will Spencer and Andi be willing to sacrifice to survive?

  • The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything: A Novel by Kara Gnodde

    The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything: A Novel by Kara Gnodde

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600977 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything: A NovelAuthor: Kara GnoddeNarrator: Pippa Bennett-WarnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 51 minutesRelease date: February 28, 2023Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: With the offbeat charm of The Rosie Project and generous warmth of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, a wry, moving debut novel about a pair of unforgettable siblings and a love triangle of sorts—one with math as its beating heart. One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2023 Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they’re bound together by the tragic death of their parents. Mathematical genius Art relies on logic, while Mimi prefers to follow her heart. When Mimi decides she needs more from life than dutifully tending to her brilliant brother, she asks for his help to find love. Art agrees, but on one condition: that she find her soulmate using a strict mathematical principle. Things seem promising, until Mimi meets Frank: a romantic, spontaneous stargazer who’s also a mathematician. Despite Mimi’s obvious affection for the quirky Frank, Art is wary of him from their very first encounter. As Art's mistrust of Frank grows, so do Mimi's feelings, and the siblings' relationship is brought to a breaking point. Something about Frank doesn't quite add up, and only Art can see it . . . The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything is a tender, intelligent and uplifting novel about brothers and sisters, true love in all its forms, and how the answers to life’s biggest questions follow a logic of their own.

  • Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

    Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602158 to listen full audiobooks.Title: DawnshardSeries: #3.5 of The Stormlight ArchiveAuthor: Brandon SandersonNarrator: Kate Reading, Michael KramerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 5 minutesRelease date: August 16, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.61 of Total 185 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 15Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: From Brandon Sanderson—author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War—comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this newest story (like Edgedancer before it) takes a deeper look at several characters in the saga, and brings them to the forefront. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn’t fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn’s pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani’s quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.

  • Thank You For Listening: A Novel by Julia Whelan

    Thank You For Listening: A Novel by Julia Whelan

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551259 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Thank You For Listening: A NovelAuthor: Julia WhelanNarrator: Julia WhelanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 15 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 235 Ratings of Narrator: 4.84 of Total 37Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan’s uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator—who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident—and her journey of self-discovery, love, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel. For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She’s found success and satisfaction from the inside of a sound booth and it allows her to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother. When she arrives in Las Vegas last-minute for a book convention, Sewanee unexpectedly spends a whirlwind night with a charming stranger. On her return home, Sewanee discovers one of the world’s most beloved romance novelists wanted her to perform her last book—with Brock McNight, the industry’s hottest, most secretive voice. Sewanee doesn’t buy what romance novels are selling—not after her own dreams were tragically cut short—and she stopped narrating them years ago. But her admiration of the late author, and the opportunity to get her grandmother more help, makes her decision for her. As Sewanee begins work on the book, resurrecting her old romance pseudonym, she and Brock forge a real connection, hidden behind the comfort of anonymity. Soon, she is dreaming again, but secrets are revealed, and the realities of life come crashing down around her once more. If she can learn to risk everything for desires she has long buried, she will discover a world of intimacy and acceptance she never believed would be hers.

  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry

    Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545340 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Book LoversAuthor: Emily HenryNarrator: Julia WhelanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 23 minutesRelease date: May 3, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 47 Ratings of Narrator: 4.13 of Total 15Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. One month. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date before they find their happy-ever-after. That's why Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her desk in the city for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina. It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into...Charlie. She's no heroine. He's no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book? Set over one sizzling August, BOOK LOVERS is the new chemistry-filled 'rivals to lovers' romcom from New York Times #1 bestseller Emily Henry WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT EMILY HENRY 'The hottest book of the summer - the pages simply sizzle!' JOSIE SILVER 'Full of banter, heat, and sexual tension. A gorgeous page-turner of a novel' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 'Full of sexual tension and tantalizing possibility.' BETH O'LEARY 'Emily Henry is my newest automatic-buy author . . . a heartfelt, funny, tender escape that you wish could last forever' JODI PICOULT 'A compulsively readable book full of sparkling wit, dazzling prose and a romance that grabbed me by the heart and wouldn't let me go.' ABBY JIMENEZ 'Funny, and seriously sizzling' BEST 'Original, sparkling bright and layered with feeling. If whipcrack banter and foggy sexual tension is your catnip, you'll adore this book' SALLY THORNE 'What an absolute flipping triumph of a novel!!! I LOVED it ' EMMA COOPER Š Emily Henry 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

  • Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron

    Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444629 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Accidentally EngagedAuthor: Farah HeronNarrator: Soneela NankaniFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 8 minutesRelease date: March 2, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: A delightful romantic comedy featuring a Muslim woman who fakes an engagement to the boy next door in the hopes of winning a couples cooking contest. When it comes to bread, Reena Manji knows exactly what she's doing. She treats her sourdough starters like (somewhat unruly) children. But when it comes to Reena's actual family—and their constant meddling in her life—well, that recipe always ends in disaster. Now Reena's parents have found her yet another potential Good Muslim Husband. This one has the body of Captain America, a delicious British accent, and lives right across the hall. He's the perfect, mouthwatering temptation . . . and completely ruined by the unwelcome side dish of parental interference. Reena refuses to marry anyone who works for her father. She won't be attracted to Nadim's sweet charm or gorgeous lopsided smile. That is, until the baking opportunity of a lifetime presents itself: a couples' cooking competition with the prize of her dreams. Reena will do anything to win—even asking Nadim to pretend they're engaged. But when it comes to love, baking your bread doesn't always mean you get to eat it too.

  • White Ivy: A Novel by Susie Yang

    White Ivy: A Novel by Susie Yang

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446911 to listen full audiobooks.Title: White Ivy: A NovelAuthor: Susie YangNarrator: Emily Woo ZellerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 51 minutesRelease date: November 3, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 45 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: “A truly addictive read” (Glamour) about how a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending in this “twisty, unputdownable, psychological thriller” (People). Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen—and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young woman, haunted by her conflicting feelings about her upbringing and her family. Back in Boston, when Ivy bumps into Sylvia Speyer, Gideon’s sister, a reconnection with Gideon seems not only inevitable—it feels like fate. Slowly, Ivy sinks her claws into Gideon and the entire Speyer clan by attending fancy dinners, and weekend getaways to the cape. But just as Ivy is about to have everything she’s ever wanted, a ghost from her past resurfaces, threatening the nearly perfect life she’s worked so hard to build. Filled with surprising twists and a nuanced exploration of class and race, White Ivy is a “highly entertaining,” (The Washington Post) “propulsive debut” (San Francisco Chronicle) that offers a glimpse into the dark side of a woman who yearns for success at any cost.

  • The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Tamara Payne, Les Payne

    The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Tamara Payne, Les Payne

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444370 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XAuthor: Tamara Payne, Les PayneNarrator: Dion GrahamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 6 minutesRelease date: October 20, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 13Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known MalcolmX—all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: totransform what would become dozens of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-beforeseen world of its protagonist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir withpurpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting Malcolm’s life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book tracesthe life of one of the twentieth century’s most politically relevant figures “from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary.” In following Malcolm X’s life from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm’s Depression-era youth, describing theinfluence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street-car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride inher children after Earl’s death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows Malcolm’s exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary. With a biographer’s unwavering determination, Payne corrects the historical record and delivers extraordinary revelations—from the unmasking of the mysterious NOI founder “Fard Muhammad,” who preceded Elijah Muhammad; to a hair-rising scene, conveyed in cinematic detail, of Malcolm and Minister Jeremiah X Shabazz’s 1961 clandestine meeting with the KKK; to a minute-by-minute account of Malcolm X’s murder at the Audubon Ballroom. Introduced by Payne’s daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father’s death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting workthat affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.

  • Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman

    Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419184 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Anxious People: A NovelAuthor: Fredrik BackmanNarrator: Marin IrelandFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 53 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 393 Ratings of Narrator: 4.51 of Total 100Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a “quirky, big-hearted novel….Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure” (People). Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. Proving once again that Backman is “a master of writing delightful, insightful, soulful, character-driven narratives” (USA TODAY), Anxious People “captures the messy essence of being human….It’s clever and affecting, as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry” (The Washington Post). This “endlessly entertaining mood-booster” (Real Simple) is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us—even in the most anxious of times.

  • The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek

    The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429016 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My LifeAuthor: Alex TrebekNarrator: Alex Trebek, Ken JenningsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 35 minutesRelease date: July 21, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 154 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 26Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career. When he debuted as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek became something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing entertainment and education into their homes five nights a week. In 2019, he made the stunning announcement that he had been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. What followed was an incredible outpouring of love and kindness. Social media was flooded with messages of support, and the Jeopardy! studio received boxes of cards and letters offering guidance, encouragement, and prayers. For more than three decades, Trebek had resisted countless appeals to write a book about his life. Yet he was moved so much by all the goodwill, he felt compelled to finally share his story. “I want people to know a little more about the person they have been cheering on for the past year,” he writes. The book combines illuminating personal anecdotes with Trebek’s thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality, and philanthropy. Trebek also addresses the questions asked most often by Jeopardy! fans, such as what prompted him to shave his signature mustache, his insights on legendary players like Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer, and his opinion of Will Ferrell’s Saturday Night Live impersonation. The book uses a novel structure inspired by Jeopardy! and features dozens of never-before-seen photos that candidly capture Trebek over the years. This wise, charming, and inspiring book is further evidence of why Trebek has long been considered one of the most beloved and respected figures in entertainment.

  • Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition by Agatha Christie

    Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition by Agatha Christie

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414913 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized EditionAuthor: Agatha ChristieNarrator: Kenneth BranaghFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 14 minutesRelease date: June 30, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 8Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Gal Gadot—coming February 11, 2022! Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries. The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.” Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems. A sweeping mystery of love, jealousy, and betrayal, Death on the Nile is one of Christie’s most legendary and timeless works. “Death on the Nile is perfect.” —The Guardian “One of her best. . . . First rate entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews DEATH ON THE NILE®, AGATHA CHRISTIE® AND POIROT® are registered trademarks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and elsewhere. All rights reserved.

  • If It Bleeds: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat by Stephen King

    If It Bleeds: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat by Stephen King

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/399562 to listen full audiobooks.Title: If It Bleeds: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, RatAuthor: Stephen KingNarrator: Danny Burstein, Steven Weber, Will PattonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 12 minutesRelease date: April 21, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 726 Ratings of Narrator: 4.46 of Total 98Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: *#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Featuring the novella “The Life of Chuck,” now a feature film adapted for the screen and directed by Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep) and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan—a Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award winner! From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King’s] mastery of the form” (The Washington Post). Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. One of King’s great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there’s plenty of it. There is also evil’s opposite, which in King’s fiction often manifests as friendship. Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. Young Craig befriends Mr. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward. “An adroit vehicle to showcase the…nature of evil” (The Boston Globe), If It Bleeds is “exactly what I wanted to read right now,” says Ruth Franklin in The New York Times Book Review.

  • My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell

    My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381699 to listen full audiobooks.Title: My Dark Vanessa: A NovelAuthor: Kate Elizabeth RussellNarrator: Grace GummerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 3 minutesRelease date: March 10, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 316 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 91Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BREAKOUT AUTHOR TO WATCH IN 2020 “Brilliant and stunning . . . an absolute must read.” – GILLIAN FLYNN “A well-constructed package of dynamite.” – STEPHEN KING A most anticipated book by The New York Times • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Marie Claire • Elle • Harper's Bazaar • Bustle • Newsweek • New York Post • Esquire • Real Simple • The Sunday Times • The Guardian ONE OF THE MOST BUZZED ABOUT DEBUTS IN YEARS AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION SOLD IN 24 TERRITORIES AND COUNTING Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer. 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed? Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself. Includes a bonus conversation with Kate Elizabeth Russell, Grace Gummer, and Jessica Williams (editor of My Dark Vanessa). This audiobook includes an episode of the Book Club Girl Podcast, featuring an interview with Kate Elizabeth Russell about My Dark Vanessa.

  • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

    Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382897 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Charlotte's WebAuthor: E. B. WhiteNarrator: Macleod Andrews, Emily Rankin, January LaVoy, Danny Campbell, Tavia Gilbert, Mark Deakins, Lincoln Hoppe, Kimberly Farr, Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne, Robin Miles, Meryl StreepFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 2 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 366 Ratings of Narrator: 4.48 of Total 25Genres: Top NarratorsPublisher's Summary: Brought to life by Meryl Streep and a full cast, this beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is 'just about perfect.'* Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spider web tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. Includes an appreciation written and read by Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet, the cover artist of this edition and author/illustrator of Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White. Narrated by Meryl Streep featuring: January LaVoy as CHARLOTTE Kirby Heyborne as WILBUR MacLeod Andrews as TEMPLETON with additional performances by: Mark Bramhall as LURVY Scott Brick as THE MINISTER Cassandra Campbell as EDITH ZUCKERMAN Danny Campbell as HOMER ZUCKERMAN Mark Deakins as MR. ARABLE Kimberly Farr as MRS. ARABLE Tavia Gilbert as THE GOOSE Dion Graham as THE GANDER Almarie Guerra as NELLIE Johnny Heller as THE FAIR ANNOUNCER Lincoln Hoppe as AVERY Raymond Lee as THE BABY SPIDER Robin Miles as THE OLD SHEEP Adenrele Ojo as ARANEA Ray Porter as UNCLE THE PIG Emily Rankin as FERN John Rubinstein as DR. DORIAN Bahni Turpin as THE LAMB Julia Whelan as JOY *New York Times

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