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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128396 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Vineyard: A NovelAuthor: Barbara DelinskyNarrator: Beth FowlerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 39 minutesRelease date: February 21, 2012Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky has written her most complex and emotionally rewarding novel yet: a story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dream becomes bound with the other's. To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances: exquisitely mannered, a supportive wife, and head of a successful wine-producing enterprise. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir. Olivia Jones is a dreamer, living vicariously through the old photographs she restores. She and her daughter, Tess, cling to the fantasy that a big, happy family is out there just waiting for them. When Natalie hires Olivia to help with her memoir, a summer at Natalie's vineyard by the sea seems the perfect opportunity to live out that fantasy, but all is not as it seems. As the illusion of an idyllic existence comes crashing headlong into reality, the lives of these two women, parallel in so many ways, become a powerful and moving story.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150705 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Goodnight NobodyAuthor: Jennifer WeinerNarrator: Johanna ParkerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 26 minutesRelease date: March 15, 2011Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 94 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weinerâs unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbiaâand all the surprises hidden behind its doors. For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety. When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is the most exciting thing to happen in Upchurch, Connecticut, since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though the local police chief warns her that crime-fighting's a job best left to the professionals, Kate launches an unofficial investigation -- from 8:45 to 11:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school. As Kate is drawn deeper into the murdered woman's past, she begins to uncover the secrets and lies behind Upchurch's picket-fence facade -- and considers the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between marriage and independence, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one's own.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150425 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Certain GirlsAuthor: Jennifer WeinerNarrator: Rachel Botchan, Julie DretzinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 46 minutesRelease date: March 8, 2011Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.52 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 3.1 of Total 10Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine. Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha. As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy. Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89263 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Left NeglectedAuthor: Lisa GenovaNarrator: Sarah PaulsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 14 minutesRelease date: January 4, 2011Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 13Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: From neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called âleft neglect,â she learns what truly matters most in life. Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. After a brain injury steals her awareness of everything on her left side, Sarah must retrain her mind to perceive the world as a whole. In so doing, she also learns how to pay attention to the people and parts of her life that matter most. In this powerful and poignant New York Times bestseller, Lisa Genova explores what can happen when we are forced to change our perception of everything around us. Left Neglected is an unforgettable story about finding abundance in the most difficult of circumstances, learning to pay attention to the details, and nourishing what truly matters.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92596 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Best Friends ForeverAuthor: Jennifer WeinerNarrator: James Colby, Nicole PooleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 30 minutesRelease date: January 4, 2011Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes 'a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups' (Maureen Corrigan, NPR). Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. Thatâs what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when theyâre both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her schoolâs scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parentsâ house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. Sheâs just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. 'Something horrible has happened,' Val tells Addie, 'and youâre the only one who can help.' Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. Itâs about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88328 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Rescue: A NovelAuthor: Anita ShreveNarrator: Dennis HollandFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 21 minutesRelease date: November 30, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Peter Webster pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair -- and in Sheila's troubled world. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course, and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions he has carefully been keeping at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel? A story about trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth, Rescue is a masterful portrayal of a family trying to understand its fractured past and begin again.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88374 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Box: Tales from the Dark RoomAuthor: GĂŒnter GrassNarrator: Stefan RudnickiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 54 minutesRelease date: November 10, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: âOnce upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughtersâfour, five, six, eight in numberâand finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talkâŠâ In a great literary experiment, Nobel Prize winner GĂŒnter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, and of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatoryâthey piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men, a shadowy but loving figure. There is one constant though: Marie, a family friend and photographer whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with inspiration for his novels. But her images offer much more; they reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, and grant the wishes, in visual form, of those photographed. Marieâs camera thus becomes a way for Grass to speak in the voices of his childrenâs hidden selvesâtheir dreams, their disappointments, their secret desires and fearsâand to see his own life from unexpected perspectives. Recalling J. M. Coetzeeâs Summertime and Umberto Ecoâs The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Grass at his best.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88290 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Corrections: A NovelAuthor: Jonathan FranzenNarrator: George GuidallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 22 hours 0 minutesRelease date: November 1, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing specatcularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man--or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to. Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83644 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A NovelAuthor: Fannie FlaggNarrator: Lorna RaverFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 27 minutesRelease date: October 19, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 66 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again... 'Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!' --Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird 'A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.' --The New York Times 'It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.' --Los Angeles Times 'Funny and macabre.' --The Washington Post 'Courageous and wise.' --Houston Chronicle
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Good Daughters: A NovelAuthor: Joyce MaynardNarrator: Rebecca Tuttle, Joyce Maynard, Jeff WoodmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 59 minutesRelease date: October 12, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: âA story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformedâ âLuanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners âJoyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story youâll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.â â Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynardâs already distinguished writing career.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83516 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Brave: A NovelAuthor: Nicholas EvansNarrator: Michael EmersonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 52 minutesRelease date: October 12, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life. His parents are old and remote and the boarding school they've sent him to bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. The only comfort he gets is from his fantasy world of Cowboys and Indians. But when his sister Diane, a rising star of stage and screen, falls in love with one of his idols, the suave TV cowboy Ray Montane, Tom's life is transformed. They move to Hollywood and all his dreams seem to have come true. Soon, however, the sinister side of Tinseltown casts its shadow and a shocking act of violence changes their lives forever. What happened all those years ago remains a secret that corrodes Tom's life and wrecks his marriage. Only when his estranged son, a US Marine, is charged with murder do the events resurface, forcing him to confront his demons. As he struggles to save his son's life, he will learn the true meaning of bravery. Powerfully written and intensely moving, The Brave traces the legacy of violence behind the myth of the American West and explores our quest for love and identity, the fallibility of heroes and the devastating effects of family secrets.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83365 to listen full audiobooks.Title: To the End of the LandAuthor: David GrossmanNarrator: Arthur MoreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 26 hours 20 minutesRelease date: September 21, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: From one of Israelâs most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family lifeâthe greatest human dramaâand the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Oferâs release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the ânotifiersâ who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few daysâ leave being offered by their commanderâa chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a âwar and peaceâ rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. Grossmanâs rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83335 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Room: A NovelAuthor: Emma DonoghueNarrator: Michal Friedman, Robert Petkoff, Ellen Archer, Suzanne TorenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 0 minutesRelease date: September 13, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 191 Ratings of Narrator: 3.88 of Total 34Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating â a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83250 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Widower's TaleAuthor: Julia GlassNarrator: Mark BramhallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 50 minutesRelease date: September 7, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can he remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious joy of falling in love. One relationship Percy treasures is the bond with his oldest grandchild, Robert, a premed student at Harvard. Robert has long assumed he will follow in the footsteps of his mother, a prominent physician, but he begins to question his ambitions when confronted by a charismatic roommate who preachesâand begins to practiceâan extreme form of ecological activism, targeting Bostonâs most affluent suburbs. Meanwhile, two other men become fatefully involved with Percy and Robert: Ira, a gay teacher at the preschool, and Celestino, a Guatemalan gardener who works for Percyâs neighbor, each one striving to overcome a sense of personal exile. Choices made by all four men, as well as by the women around them, collide forcefully on one lovely spring evening, upending everyoneâs lives, but none more radically than Percyâs. With equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale about the loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a very particular family. Yet again, she plumbs the human heart brilliantly, dramatically, and movingly.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83089 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Wicked IntentionsSeries: #1 of Maiden LaneAuthor: Elizabeth HoytNarrator: Ashford McNabFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 0 minutesRelease date: August 1, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author who Lisa Kleypas hails as 'too good to be true' comes the first book in her beloved Maiden Lane series. A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . . Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . . A WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST . . . Caire makes a simple offer-in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London's high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control-one that may well destroy them both. A BARGAIN NEITHER COULD REFUSE
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83107 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fly Away Home: A NovelAuthor: Jennifer WeinerNarrator: Judith LightFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 30 minutesRelease date: July 13, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: From one of the nationâs most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house. When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politicianâs wifeâher hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffsâ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieveâa husband, a young son, the perfect homeâand yet sheâs trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ERâs exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richardâs extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be. Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82951 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Red Hook RoadAuthor: Ayelet WaldmanNarrator: Kimberly FarrFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 22 minutesRelease date: July 13, 2010Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: As lyrical as a sonata, Ayelet Waldmanâs follow-up novel to Love and Other Impossible Pursuits explores the aftermath of a family tragedy. Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers, Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ways in which their lives are unraveled and stitched together by misfortune, by good intentions and failure, and by love and calamity. A marriage collapses under the strain of a daughterâs death; two bereaved siblings find comfort in one another; and an adopted young girl breathes new life into her family with her prodigious talent for the violin. As she writes with obvious affection for these unforgettable characters, Ayelet Waldman skillfully interweaves lifeâs finer pleasuresâmusic and literatureâwith the more mundane joys of living. Within these resonant pages, a vase filled with wildflowers or a cold beer on a hot summer day serve as constant reminders that itâs often the little things that make life so precious.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82968 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Island: A NovelAuthor: Elin HilderbrandNarrator: Denice HicksFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 0 minutesRelease date: July 6, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: This âdeliciously addictiveâ (Kirkus) beach read from Elin Hilderbrand follows a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fills an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement. It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery storeâa place without distractions where they can escape their troubles. But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/62134 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Mr. PeanutAuthor: Adam RossNarrator: Mark DeakinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 56 minutesRelease date: June 22, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still canât imagine a remotely happy life without herâyet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. The detectives investigating Aliceâs suspicious death have plenty of personal experience with conjugal enigmas: Ward Hastroll is happily married until his wife inexplicably becomes voluntarily and militantly bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to the intricacies of marital guilt and innocence, having decades before been convicted and then exonerated of the brutal murder of his wife. Still, these men are in the business of figuring things out, even as Pepinâs role in Aliceâs death grows ever more confounding when they link him to a highly unusual hit man called Mobius. Like the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games David designs for a living, these complex, interlocking dramas are structurally and emotionally intense, subtle, and intriguing; they brilliantly explore the warring impulses of affection and hatred, and pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone fully, completely? Are murder and marriage two sides of the same coin, each endlessly recycling into the other? And what, in the end, is the truth about love? Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heartâand a first novel of the highest order.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/82846 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation NovelSeries: #7 of Lowcountry TalesAuthor: Dorothea Benton FrankNarrator: Robin MilesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 13 minutesRelease date: June 15, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4Genres: DramaPublisher's Summary: âFrankâŠwrites with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprangâŠ.[Her] stuff is never escapist fluffâitâs the real deal.â âAtlanta Journal-Constitution Return to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frankâs beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frankâs warmth and humor. The much-beloved New York Times bestselling author follows the recent success of Return to Sullivans Island, Bulls Island, and Land of Mango Sunsets with a tale rich in atmosphere and unforgettable scenes of Southern life, once again placing her at the dais, alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Pat Conroy, and other masters of contemporary Southern fiction.
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