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  • A Cup of Silver Linings by Karen Hawkins

    A Cup of Silver Linings by Karen Hawkins

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403875 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Cup of Silver LiningsSeries: #2 of Dove Pond SeriesAuthor: Karen HawkinsNarrator: Angel Pean, Nancy Linari, Amanda Ronconi, Tavia GilbertFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 31 minutesRelease date: July 6, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: Discover the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series with this novel that explores the magic in the tea leaves—from New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins. Ava Dove—the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove’s Landscaping and Specialty Teas—is frantic. Just as her new tearoom is about to open, her herbal teas have gone haywire. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her anti-anxiety tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Ava is desperate for a remedy, but her search leads her into dangerous territory, as she is forced to face a dark secret she’s been hiding for over a decade. Meanwhile, successful architect Ellen Foster has arrived in Dove Pond to attend the funeral of her estranged daughter, Julie. Grieving deeply, Ellen is determined to fix up her daughter’s ramshackle house, sell it, and then sweep her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Kristen, off to a saner, calmer life. But Kristen has other plans. Desperate to stay with her friends in Dove Pond, she sets off on a quest she’s avoided her whole life—to find her absent father in the hopes of winning her freedom from the grandmother she barely knows. Together, Ava, Kristen, and Ellen embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family in a “cozy, big-hearted read” (Booklist) that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen.

  • Gudrun: Series 5-7: A Viking Epic inspired by the Icelandic Sagas by Lucy Catherine

    Gudrun: Series 5-7: A Viking Epic inspired by the Icelandic Sagas by Lucy Catherine

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/394527 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Gudrun: Series 5-7: A Viking Epic inspired by the Icelandic SagasAuthor: Lucy CatherineNarrator: Hollie Burgess, Rosie Boore, Kate Phillips, Full CastFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 49 minutesRelease date: April 8, 2021Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: Series 5-7 of the Viking epic of love, revenge and faith set in 11th-century Iceland Born into a world of otherworldly beauty yet unforgiving harshness, Icelandic heroine Gudrun must fight to forge an independent path and live according to her own rules. A tenacious survivor, she has endured much pain in her young life, from widowhood to the death of her lover, the burning of her family home, separation from her beloved daughter, Sigrid, and being cut adrift from her homeland. Now, after many years away, Gudrun sails once more into Icelandic waters, with a plan to rescue her daughter who is being brought up in the new Christian faith. But her return to the Sacred Land is not the homecoming she had hoped for, and she soon finds herself exiled again and heading for the New World, with all its new possibilities and new dangers. Meanwhile, Sigrid arrives in England to marry a man she has never met. Struggling to understand this strange new land of Saxons and Danes, she must keep her darkest secret well-hidden if she is to survive... Written by Lucy Catherine and inspired by the famous Icelandic LaxdĂŠla saga, this epic tale of love, revenge and faith stars Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders, War and Peace) as Gudrun, with Rosie Boore and Hollie Burgess as Sigrid. Written by Lucy Catherine Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko and Jessica Dromgoole Cast Gudrun - Kate Phillips Freija - Samantha Dakin Dag - Cameron Percival/Joseph Ayres Sylvia - Carolyn Pickles/Susan Jameson Volva - Carolyn Pickles Aoife - Lucy Doyle Hakon/Guard 2/Priest/King Sweyn - Michael Bertenshaw Bolli/Guard 1 - Lewis Bray Aslak - Tony Turner Sigrid - Rosie Boore/Hollie Burgess Leif - Don Gilet/Chris Pavlo Warrior - Don Gilet Frederick - Simon Scardifield Heidr - Jeannette Percival/Helen Clapp Kjartan - Luke MacGregor/Ian Dunnett Jnr The Virgin - Marilyn Nnadebe Sailors - Chris Harper and Joseph Ayre Gorm - David Hounslow Canute - Aaron Gelkoff Gunnar - Chris Pavlo Panuk - Kenny Blyth Saxon - Joseph Ayre Vali/Dane - Chris Harper Tofa - Debbie Korley Jesus - Paul Hilton Truda - Charlotte East Monk/Servant - Ian Dunnett Jnr Tobias - Hasan Dixon Abbot Bettega/John Crescentius/Pope - Roger Ringrose Nun - Emma Handy Woman/Garvinicus - Jane Whittenshaw Soldiers - Ian Dunnett Jnr and Hasan Dixon Jesson at 7 - Harry Clarke First broadcast BBC Radio 4: 3-14 December 2018 (Series 5), 20-31 May 2019 (Series 6), 1-12 March 2021 (Series 7)

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  • Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim

    Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393930 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea ShopAuthor: Roselle LimNarrator: Nancy WuFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 13 minutesRelease date: August 4, 2020Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris. Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai. After her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa sees death for the first time. She decides that she can't truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric Aunt Evelyn shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir to California and bonjour to Paris. There, Vanessa learns more about herself and the root of her gifts and realizes one thing to be true: knowing one's destiny isn't a curse, but being unable to change it is.

  • Latitudes of Longing: A Novel by Shubhangi Swarup

    Latitudes of Longing: A Novel by Shubhangi Swarup

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393514 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Latitudes of Longing: A NovelAuthor: Shubhangi SwarupNarrator: Vikas AdamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 44 minutesRelease date: May 19, 2020Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India “A marvel of magical realism.”—O: The Oprah Magazine A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself. A young writer awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in India for this novel, Shubhangi Swarup is a storyteller of extraordinary talent and insight. Richly imaginative and wryly perceptive, Latitudes of Longing offers a soaring view of humanity: our beauty and ugliness, our capacity to harm and love one another, and our mysterious and sacred relationship with nature. Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature ‱ Shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature ‱ Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award ‱ Winner of the Sushila Devi Literature Award for the Best Book of Fiction Written by a Woman ‱ Winner of the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction

  • My Mother's House: A novel by Francesca Momplaisir

    My Mother's House: A novel by Francesca Momplaisir

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393948 to listen full audiobooks.Title: My Mother's House: A novelAuthor: Francesca MomplaisirNarrator: Janina Edwards, Karen Chilton, Dion GrahamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 23 minutesRelease date: May 12, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vulture ‱ This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality ‱ “Impossible to stop reading” —Vulture When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City’s South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a run-down house in a quickly changing community, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay—“my mother’s house”—and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and necessary legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesn’t, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness. What he can’t begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Lucien’s ultimate evil.

  • Looking Glass by Christina Henry

    Looking Glass by Christina Henry

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391256 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Looking GlassSeries: #3 of The Chronicles of AliceAuthor: Christina HenryNarrator: Jenny Sterlin, Gildart JacksonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 6 minutesRelease date: April 21, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: In four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood. Lovely Creature In the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. But someone knows her secret--someone who has a secret of his own. That secret is a butterfly that lives in a jar, a butterfly that was supposed to be gone forever, a butterfly that used to be called the Jabberwock... Girl in Amber Alice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers, but while walking blind in a snowstorm she stumbles into a house that only seems empty and abandoned... When I First Came to Town Hatcher wasn't always Hatcher. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. No matter who fought him he always won. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive... The Mercy Seat There is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and fear magic and Magicians. It is the Village of the Pure, and though Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in their path...

  • Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel: A Novel by Ruth Hogan

    Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel: A Novel by Ruth Hogan

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390761 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel: A NovelAuthor: Ruth HoganNarrator: Jane CollingwoodFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 1 minuteRelease date: April 14, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things comes a surprising and uplifting story about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and the magic of chosen family. Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words, and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her beloved father suddenly disappeared, she and her fragile, difficult mother moved into Queenie Malone’s magnificent Paradise Hotel in Brighton, with its endearing and loving family of misfits—including the exuberant and compassionate Queenie herself. But then Tilly was dealt another shattering blow when her mother sent her off to boarding school with little explanation and no warning, and she lost her beloved chosen family. Now an adult, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother’s unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only true friend is her dog, Eli. When her estranged mother dies, Tilda returns to Brighton and the home she loved best. With the help of the still-dazzling Queenie, she sets about unraveling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel, only to discover that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all
and that it’s never too late to write your own happy ending. With Ruth Hogan’s trademark quirky, clever, and life-affirming characters, Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel will dazzle readers and mesmerize them until they reach the surprising twist at the end.

  • The Ancestor: A Novel by Danielle Trussoni

    The Ancestor: A Novel by Danielle Trussoni

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387249 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Ancestor: A NovelAuthor: Danielle TrussoniNarrator: Heather MastersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 2 minutesRelease date: April 7, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: From the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of the Angelology series comes a bewitching gothic novel of suspense that plunges readers into a world of dark family secrets, the mysteries of human genetics, and the burden of family inheritance. It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta ”Bert” Monte receives a letter addressed to “Countess Alberta Montebianco” at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she’s inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. While Bert is more than a little skeptical, the mystery of her aristocratic family’s past, and the chance to escape her stressful life for a luxury holiday in Italy, is too good to pass up. At first, her inheritance seems like a dream come true: a champagne-drenched trip on a private jet to Turin, Italy; lawyers with lists of artwork and jewels bequeathed to Bert; a helicopter ride to an ancestral castle nestled in the Italian Alps below Mont Blanc; a portrait gallery of ancestors Bert never knew existed; and a cellar of expensive vintage wine for Bert to drink. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of ancestral treasures, but in her very genes.

  • [Spanish] - La Estrella del Bosque by Roberto Mendaza

    [Spanish] - La Estrella del Bosque by Roberto Mendaza

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383638 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Spanish] - La Estrella del BosqueAuthor: Roberto MendazaNarrator: Pablo LĂłpezFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 24 minutesRelease date: March 23, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: Salir del fuego para caer en las brasas. En mitad de un panorama violento y desolador, Elisa se ve obligada a abandonar su Navarra natal en un intento desesperado para evitar sufrir los desmanes del bando vencedor del conflicto bĂ©lico. Sin embargo, en su huĂ­da es poco a poco arrinconada por el caos de y el horror de la segunda guerra mundial y de los campos de concentraciĂłn alemanes. Despojada de sĂ­ misma y abrumada por el dolor y la añoranza de la vida que ha dejado atrĂĄs, Elisa se ve obligada a madurar prematuramente y a despedirse de la niña que un dia fue. Lo que aĂșn no sabe es que el dolor y la pĂ©rdida, incluso en las situaciones mĂĄs hostiles, traerĂĄn a su vida la resiliencia, las ganas de seguir adelante y, sin previo aviso, tambiĂ©n el amor. - Nacido en Logroño (España) en 1971, Roberto Mendaza compagina su profesiĂłn en el Hospital de San Pedro con su pasiĂłn por la escritura. Lector apasionado y consagrado, su interĂ©s se centra particularmente en la novela histĂłrica de las Ă©pocas de Roma y de la segunda guerra mundial, las cuales son una gran fuente de inspiraciĂłn en su corta pero prometedora obra.

  • The American FiancĂ©e by Eric Dupont

    The American Fiancée by Eric Dupont

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395349 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The American FiancĂ©eAuthor: Eric DupontNarrator: Jean BrassardFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 26 hours 3 minutesRelease date: February 20, 2020Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: In this extraordinary breakout novel – a rich, devastatingly humorous epic of one unforgettable family – award-winning author Eric Dupont illuminates the magic of stories, the bonds of family, and the twists of fate and fortune to transform our lives. A new translation of Eric Dupont’s La fiancĂ©e amĂ©ricaine Over the course of the twentieth century, three generations of the Lamontagnes will weather love, passion, jealousy, revenge and death. Their complicated family dynamic as dramatic as Puccini’s legendary opera, Tosca – will propel their rise, and fall, and take them around the world . . . until they finally confront the secrets of their complicated pasts. Born on Christmas, Louis Lamontagne, the family’s patriarch, is a larger-than-life lothario and raconteur who inherits his mother’s teal eyes and his father’s brutish good looks and whose charms travel beyond Quebec, across the state of New York where he wins at county fairs as a larger-than-life strongman, and even in Europe, where he is deployed for the US Army during World War II. We meet his daughter, Madeleine, who opens a successful chain of diners using the recipes from her grandmother, the original American FiancĂ©e, and vows never to return to her hometown. And we end with her son Gabriel, another ladies’ man in the family, who falls in love with a woman he follows to Berlin and discovers unexpected connections there to the Lamontagne family that re-frame the entire course of the events in the book. An unholy marriage of John Irving and Gary Shteyngart with the irresistible whimsy of Elizabeth McCracken, The American FiancĂ©e is a big, bold, wildly ambitious novel that introduces a dynamic new voice to contemporary literature.

  • Wonder by Christina C. Jones

    Wonder by Christina C. Jones

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392479 to listen full audiobooks.Title: WonderAuthor: Christina C. JonesNarrator: Sean Crisden, Wesleigh SiobhanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 46 minutesRelease date: February 11, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: It all came down to me. The one who followed the rules, never went looking for trouble—I kept to myself. I just wanted to take care of my family. To not constantly look over my shoulder, worried about the things that went bump in the night. I just wanted to survive. But that wasn't meant to be. As luck—or fate, or something—would have it, the trouble found me. I followed a rabbit through the wreckage of a half-ruined world to get back what was mine, and wound up at the end of it. In Wonderland. But there's nothing magical about it. Contains mature themes.

  • The American Fiancee: A Novel by Eric Dupont

    The American Fiancee: A Novel by Eric Dupont

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387250 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The American Fiancee: A NovelAuthor: Eric DupontNarrator: Jean BrassardFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 26 hours 7 minutesRelease date: February 11, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: In this extraordinary breakout novel—a rich, devastatingly humorous epic of one unforgettable family—award-winning author Eric Dupont illuminates the magic of stories, the bonds of family, and the twists of fate and fortune to transform our lives. Over the course of the twentieth century, three generations of the Lamontagnes will weather love, passion, jealousy, revenge, and death. Their complicated family dynamic—as dramatic as Puccini’s legendary opera, Tosca—will propel their rise, and fall, and take them around the world . . . until they finally confront the secrets of their complicated pasts. Born on Christmas, Louis Lamontagne, the family’s patriarch, is a larger-than-life lothario and raconteur who inherits his mother’s teal eyes and his father’s brutish good looks and whose charms travel beyond Quebec, across the state of New York where he wins at county fairs as a larger-than-life strongman, and even in Europe, where he is deployed for the US Army during World War II. We meet his daughter, Madeleine, who opens a successful chain of diners using the recipes from her grandmother, the original American FiancĂ©e, and vows never to return to her hometown. And we end with her son Gabriel, another ladies' man in the family, who falls in love with a woman he follows to Berlin and discovers unexpected connections there to the Lamontagne family that re-frame the entire course of the events in the book. An unholy marriage of John Irving and Gary Shteyngart with the irresistible whimsy of Elizabeth McCracken, The American FiancĂ©e is a big, bold, wildly ambitious novel that introduces a dynamic new voice to contemporary literature.

  • Daughter from the Dark: A Novel by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

    Daughter from the Dark: A Novel by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386274 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Daughter from the Dark: A NovelAuthor: Marina & Sergey DyachenkoNarrator: Adam VernerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 0 minutesRelease date: February 11, 2020Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra—a ''dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics'' (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)—return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. A game of cat-and-mouse has begun. Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she’ll leave him—and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.

  • Daughter from the Dark by Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko

    Daughter from the Dark by Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/389596 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Daughter from the DarkAuthor: Sergey Dyachenko, Marina DyachenkoNarrator: Adam VernerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 0 minutesRelease date: February 6, 2020Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. A game of cat-and-mouse has begun. Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she'll leave him – and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.

  • Follow Me To Ground: A Novel by Sue Rainsford

    Follow Me To Ground: A Novel by Sue Rainsford

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391193 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Follow Me To Ground: A NovelAuthor: Sue RainsfordNarrator: Jamael Westman, Crystal Clarke, Amy Finegan, Kate Handford, Francine Brody, Adam SimsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 21 minutesRelease date: January 21, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: One of Literary Hub’s Favorite Books of the Year “Seethingly assured
like all the best horror, [Follow Me to Ground] is an impressive balancing act between judicious withholding and unnerving reveals.” —The Guardian A “legitimately frightening” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal. “You’ve never encountered a father-daughter story like Rainsford’s slim debut” (Entertainment Weekly). Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson—and they quickly strike up an affair. Soon, Ada is torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her lover, and eventually she comes to a decision that will forever change Samson, the town, and the Ground itself. “Visceral in its descriptions
this unworldly story is a well-crafted and eerie exploration of desire
beautifully intoxicating” (Shelf Awareness). In Ada, award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the secrets of the body. “A triumph of imagination and myth-bending
equal parts beauty and horror [Follow Me to Ground is] unlike anything you will read this year” (TĂ©a Obreht).

  • Fabulous: Stories by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

    Fabulous: Stories by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387262 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fabulous: StoriesAuthor: Lucy Hughes-HallettNarrator: John Hopkins, Lucy Hughes-HallettFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 40 minutesRelease date: January 14, 2020Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: From the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe), comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times. It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable. Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she’ll ever find love. They’re ordinary people, preoccupied, as we all are now, by the deficiencies of the health service, by criminal gangs and homelessness, by the pitfalls of dating in the age of #metoo. All of their stories, though, are inspired by ones drawn from Graeco-Roman myth, from the Bible or from folk-lore. The ancients invented myths to express what they didn’t understand. These witty fables, elegantly written and full of sharp-eyed observation of modern life, are also visionary explorations of potent mysteries and strange passions, charged with the hallucinatory beauty and horror of their originals.

  • Followers by Megan Angelo

    Followers by Megan Angelo

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/389599 to listen full audiobooks.Title: FollowersAuthor: Megan AngeloNarrator: Jayme MattlerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 31 minutesRelease date: January 9, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: ‘An eerie masterpiece’ Christina Dalcher ‘Think Black Mirror with a comic twist’ OK! When everyone is watching you can run, but you can’t hide
 2051. Marlow and her mother, Floss, have been handpicked to live their lives on camera, in the closed community of Constellation. Unlike her mother, who adores the spotlight, Marlow hates having her every move judged by a national audience. But she isn’t brave enough to escape until she discovers a shattering secret about her birth. Now she must unravel the truth around her own history in a terrifying race against time
 An explosive and unsettling novel set in the near-future, perfect for fans of Station Eleven, Black Mirror, The Circle and Friend Request.

  • Dragon Haven: Volume Two of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

    Dragon Haven: Volume Two of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/397981 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Dragon Haven: Volume Two of the Rain Wilds ChroniclesSeries: #2 of Rain Wilds ChroniclesAuthor: Robin HobbNarrator: Anne FlosnikFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 41 minutesRelease date: January 7, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: “A full master of the epic fantasy.” —Tulsa World One of the world’s most acclaimed fantasists, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to the world of her popular “Tawny Man” trilogy with Dragon Haven—the second book, following Dragon Keeper (“Imaginative, literate, and compassionate from first page to last” —Booklist) in an epic adventure about the resurgence of dragons in a world that both needs and fears them. Hobb, whose Soldier Son Trilogy (Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic) has won raves from critics, fans, and peers alike, returns to the Rain Wilds with Dragon Haven, and readers of Raymond Feist, Terry Brooks, and Lois McMaster Bujold will eagerly follow.

  • Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

    Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/397980 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds ChroniclesSeries: #1 of Rain Wilds ChroniclesAuthor: Robin HobbNarrator: Anne FlosnikFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 20 hours 33 minutesRelease date: January 7, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.31 of Total 13Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at sea—to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampage—or die along the river’s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons’ uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader’s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make its way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild River—an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.

  • Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

    Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382626 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Come Tumbling DownSeries: #5 of Wayward ChildrenAuthor: Seanan McGuireNarrator: Seanan McGuireFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 52 minutesRelease date: January 7, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Fairy Tales & FolklorePublisher's Summary: The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones. When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister—whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice—back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome. Eleanor West's 'No Quests' rule is about to be broken. Again. The Wayward Children Series Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky Book 4: In an Absent Dream Book 5: Come Tumbling Down

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